Industrial XML

• Review of structured languages: SGML, HTML, XML and XHTML. The issues. Why XML is indispensable ?
• XML advantages and disadvantages.
• Overview: XML editors, technologies, SAX, DOM, JAXB...

XML parsers

• Market offers. The role of parsers.
• API parsers. Java (JAXP), .Net, Flash parsers.
• Ajax and reading data in HTML pages.

Validating documents

• Structure and components of an XML document.
• A well-structured document and a valid document.
• Validation models. Syntax and use.
• DTD. XML Schema. XSD schemas: structure, data typing, composition tools. Modelling. Implementation.
• Namespaces. Role, integrating, sharing, creating them.

XSLT transformation

• Challenges of the XSLT language on XML transformation. Constructing trees, re-structuring, generating multi-formats: XHT

Publishing documents

• Raw display via the navigators.
• Formatting with CSS style sheets.
• XHTML's role in accessibility. Technical hints.
• XPATH for navigating in XML data.
• XSL-T. Transforming data into web formats.
• The XSL-FO language for object formatting. Conversion to paper-type formats PDF, RTF, etc.

Message and XML exchanges

• DOM and the standardised programming interface.
• Applications servers: architecture in .NET and JEE.
• Flash: FLEX, XML exchanges and Web services.
• Transferring and serialising messages: Rest, XML-RPC, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI. Defining Web Services.

XML and databases

• Storing XML documents. RDBMS to native XML databases. XML interrogation languages: XPath, XQuery, XLink, XPointer, SQL e

Security of XML exchanges

• The different security protocols: HTTPS, XML Signature (Xml Dsig): digital signature, XML encryption, XML access control

Graphics interfaces and office system

• Microsoft's XAML language. SMIL: Web animations. XForms, InfoPath: electronic form. Blogs and RSS, ATOM. SVG: vector sta