Web Development with XML: Design and Application

The workshop will run from 9 AM until 5 PM each day. Each day will be divided into four 90-minute sessions, with an ample lunch break and two shorter breaks between sessions. There will be a 15-minute wrap-up session at the end of each day for general Q&A.

Below is our tentative schedule for the five workshop days. Please bear in mind that we will adjust the schedule to best match the experience and expectations of the participants. What follows will give you a rough sense of how each day will break down, and of the general topics we hope to cover in the workshop.

9:00 - 10:30

• Introductions
• Overview of the Workshop
• Basics: What is XML?
  • XML in relation to SGML and HTML
  • Rules of well-formedness
• Introduction to NoteTab
• Working with XML

10:45 - 12:15

• Document Modeling
• Document Type Definitions (DTDs)

[Break for lunch]

1:30 - 3:00

• Parsing and Validating XML Documents

3:15 - 4:45

• Document Modeling Continued:
  XML Entities & a quit glance at XML Schemas & Namespaces

4:45 - 5:00

• Day 1 Wrap-up

9:00 - 10:30

• Transforming XML:
  XSLT and XPath

10:45 - 12:15

• Practicum:
  Transforming and Displaying Text Documents

[Break for lunch]

1:30 - 3:00

• Further Adventures with XSLT

3:15 - 4:45

• Practicum: Further Transformations

4:45 - 5:00

• Day 2 Wrap-up

9:00 - 10:30

• XSL Formatting Objects (XSL:FO): The Other Half of XSL

10:45 - 12:15

• XSL:FO, con't.

[Break for lunch]

1:30 - 3:00

• Applications:
  Using XML in libraries

3:15 - 4:45

• Practicum:
  Searching XML documents

4:45 - 5:00

• Day 3 Wrap-up

9:00 - 10:30

• XMLbase design
• UNIX Tools

10:45 - 12:15

• PERL fundamentals

[Break for lunch]

1:30 - 3:00

• PERL fundamentals

3:15 - 4:45

• Practicum: Writing a PERL script

4:45 - 5:00

• Day 4 Wrap-up

9:00 - 12:15

• Group Projects: Building an XML Application

[Break for lunch]

1:30 - 4:00

• Group Projects (continued)

4:15 - 5:00

• Workshop Wrap-up