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Quote: XML Fundamentals - A standards based course on XML

Authored by: Dan Sullivan
Duration: 4h 50m
Level: Intermediate
Released: 5/11/2012

This course covers the fundamentals of XML and is based on the XML Recommendation and the Namespaces in XML Recommendation. If covers the features and capabilities of XML using the standards it is based on and examples.

Dan Sullivan : Dan is an independent consultant, author, and speaker. He likes data; pointy data, rectangular data, even data just lying around on the floor. He is a co-author of the book "A Developers Guide to SQL Server 2005". His articles have been published in MSDN Magazine and SQL Server Magazine and he has spoken at WinDev, Microsoft events, as well as to various developer groups.

XML Fundamentals Course Overview 00:06:53

Overview 06:53


Following Examples 00:13:45

Overview 01:01
Following Specifications 01:42
Using XMLSpy 04:52
Using AltovaXML 02:53
Using Visual Studio 03:17


What is XML 00:39:45

Overview 09:46
XML 11:30
Data Model 18:29


XML Structure 00:32:46

General Structure 03:55
XML Processor 11:05
Processing the Logical and Physical Structure 10:27
Physical Structure 05:19
Summary 02:00


Document Type Definition and Parsed Entities 00:25:37

Overview 04:38
DTD Format 05:17
Entity Precedence 03:08
General Entities and Replacements 06:08
External Entities and Encoding 04:51
Summary 01:35


Content and Markup 00:25:19

Overview 04:22
Character Entities and and Types 07:10
Element Content 04:03
Attributes and Normal Forms 05:42
Other Content and Summary 04:02


Element Declarations 00:25:49

Overview and Processing 04:29
Validation 03:36
Type Definition 04:25
Content 04:58
Validation Testing 07:36
Summary 00:45


Attribute Declarations 00:25:33

Overview 04:10
Metadata and multiple declarations 05:07
Enumerated values and entities 05:53
Identifiers 05:59
Normalization and partial DTD's 04:24

Parameter Entities 00:12:00

Overview 03:22
Representing non-XML data 05:30
Using parameter entities 03:08


Namespaces in XML 00:36:51

Overview 02:47
Qualified Names 05:30
Processing Namespaces 10:51
Namespace Prefixes 03:43
Scope and Usage 14:00


Languages and XML 00:26:20

Overview 07:13
Processing xml:lang 05:47
.NET support of xml:lang 06:19
XSLT support of xml:lang 07:01


Whitespace, Comments and Processing Instructions 00:20:10

Overview 06:12
Managing Whitespace 07:11
Comments and Processing Instructions 06:47