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Mon 16 Nov 2009
14:15 - 17:00

Venue: Balfour Macintosh Room

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Web Authoring: XML Introduction (Level 3)
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Mon 16 Nov 2009

Description

This course will introduce XML (the Extensible Markup Language). The course will cover the use of XHTML 1.0 which is a reformulation of HTML 4.01 in XML. The course will also introduce and use XSL (the eXtensible Markup Language).

Prerequisites

Those attending should have a working knowledge of HTML e.g. having attended the intermediate-level HTML course and, ideally, have created their own pages.

Sessions

Number of sessions: 1

# Date Time Venue Trainer
1 Mon 16 Nov 2009   14:15 - 17:00 14:15 - 17:00 Balfour Macintosh Room Richard Stibbs
Topics covered
  • The eXtensible Markup Language (XML)
  • What it is and what is it for
  • XHTML as an example of XML
  • The eXtensible StylesheetLanguage (XSL) as an alternative to CSS
  • Syntax of XML
  • Syntax of XSL
  • The use of the eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformation using TestXSLT
  • The use of Tidy for syntax checking and conversion of HTML 4.01 to XHTML
Format

Presentations, demonstrations and practicals

System requirements

Internet Explorer and Firefox on PWF Windows

Notes

The "XML Technology Overview" course covers the topic from a different, more academic perspective.

Duration

One half day session

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