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Seminar - XML and Web Services Overview

Seminar overview:

This seminar provides a high-level overview of XML and important associated technologies including Web Services. The main topics cover: XML syntax and structure, validation using DTD and XML Schema, XSLT for XML document transformation and presentation, XSL-Formatting Objects for production of print-oriented output, Web Service technologies SOAP, WSDL, UDDI. The seminar explains how XML is used for both document and data driven applications.

Who should attend:

Managers, architects, project managers, team leaders.

Seminar objectives:

• to understand nature and background of XML
• to introduce XML-related technologies
• to introduce validation technologies: DTD & XML Schema
• to introduce processing and transformation technologies: DOM, SAX, XSLT
• to gain an awareness of some of XML applications and vocabularies
• to introduce Web Services, Service Oriented Architecture, WSDL and UDDI
• to gain an awareness of the most widely used XML tools

Prerequisites:

An appreciation of the Internet and WWW.

Duration:

0.5 day

Seminar contents:

• Introduction
• History, Standards, Organizations, Background
• XML Syntax and Document Structure
• Document Validation - DTD & XML Schema
• Standard Implementations - Vocabularies
• Document Validation - XML Schema
• XSL, XSLT XSL-FO - Declarative Transformation
• Parsing XML: DOM & SAX
• Overview of Tools & Utilities
• Web Services, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI
• XML Based Technologies

On successful completion of this seminar:

Attendees will be able to appreciate the wide range of uses, positioning, processing and transformations of XML, and be introduced to the most significant XML associated technologies.

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