EPITA International Masters

Master of Software Engineering

Material for the course on XML Technologies

Jean-François Perrot

1. 1st Session :  Trees : from XML Files to Java Objects
   

   1. Course overview

   2. Basic notions

   3. Namespaces

2. 2nd Session : XML validation
   

   1. Introduction to XML Schemas
      

   2. XML Schemas with Namespaces

      with an excursus on Java Configuration Files

   3. XML Schema validation by parser

3. 3rd Session : RelaxNG & XPath

   1. An alternative proposal : Relax-NG

   2. XPath

   3. XPath with Namespaces

4. 4th Session : XML Transforms -1

   1. Introduction to DocBook

   2. Introduction to XSLT

   3. Example transform

      • source data : Names & Marks in RDF format + gender info (<epita:gn> tag)
        
      • result : the same contents organised in a different way + additional info (number  of boys & girls, average marks for both genders)
        ordering by "merit"
        
      • stylesheet : illustrating the basic techniques explained in the Introduction
        
      
      

5. 5th Session : XML Transforms -2 : application to DocBook
   

   1. Example : generating TOC from DocBook
      

   2. Operational specification of the Project
      
      
   3. Additional XSLT techniques
   
   

6. 6th Session : Project

   • Further technical details on DocBook structure
     
     
   • A note on validating DocBook documents
     
     
   • How to use the fop script
     
     
   • Afterthoughts :
     
     1. A DocBook Cookbook
     2. Of Fonts and FOP