581290-5 Processing of Structured Documents, Material

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Exam

In the exam, you are given a syntax reference sheet. Check here to see what it contains: [HTML] [PostScript]

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Lecture notes (also available in the course folder on the 4th floor)

1. Lecture 21.1. (Describing structure with grammars) [PostScript (6 slides/page)][PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

2. Lecture 23.1. (XML Data models) [PostScript (6 slides/page)][PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

3. Lecture 28.1. and 30.1. (XML Namespaces, XML Schema) [PostScript (6 slides/page)][PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

   Lectures on XML Schema based largely on the XML Schema Part 0: Primer (see a link below). If you have the book "Bradley: The XML Companion", its Chapters 14 and 15 may also be helpful.

   XML Schema example

4. Lecture 30.1. and 4.2. (XML Schema) [PostScript (6 slides/page)][PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

   Example of qualified/unqualified names in instance documents

5. Lecture 6.2. (SAX, DOM) [PostScript (6 slides/page)] [PDF] [PowerPoint]

   SAX example     DOM example

   Usage:

   1. separate the Java code and the XML document
   2. set the classpath: copy the file setup_xerces and give a command: source setup_xerces.
   3. compile: javac <name of the java source file>
   4. run: java <name of the .class file>

6. Lecture 11.2. (Web Services, WSDL, UDDI, SOAP) [PostScript (6 slides/page)] [PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

   WSDL example

   SOAP example

7. Lecture 13.2. (XPath) [PostScript (6 slides/page)] [PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

   XPath class exercise

8. Lecture 18.2. (XQuery) [PostScript (6 slides/page)] [PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint]

   Sample documents

   XQuery demo

9. Lecture 20.2. (XLink and RDF) [PostScript (6 slides/page)] [PDF (6 slides/page)] [PowerPoint)

   Example of XLink link

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Resources

• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)

• XML

  • W3C XML page

  • XML 1.0 Specification (2nd edition)

  • Happy Birthday, XML! (XML Turns Five on Monday 10 February 2003) by Dave Hollander and C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

• XML Information Set (W3C Recommendation 24 Oct 2001)

• XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 Data Model (W3C Working Draft 15 Nov 2002)

  • Example

• XML Schema

  • W3C XML Schema pages

  • XML Schema Part 0: Primer

  • XML Schemas: Best practices (The MITRE Corporation and the xml-dev list group)

• DOM

• SAX

• Web Services

  • Web Services Description Language (WSDL) Version 1.2

  • SOAP Version 1.2 Part 0: Primer

  • XML Protocol Usage Scenarios

  • ebXML

• XPath   (XPath 2.0)

• XML Query

  • XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language

  • XML Query Use Cases

• XSL

  • W3C XSL pages

  • XSLT 1.0 Specification

  • Examples of XSLT transformations

• XLink

  • W3C XLink pages

  • XLink 1.0 Specification (Recommendation)

  • Example of XLink link

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