XML Foundation (3 days)

LXM-03: Fixed price XML training delivered on your site at any UK location.

A highly practical starter training course for developers who will be both transforming XML data with XSLT, and creating XML data models with XML Schema. It creates a sound understanding of the XML data format, working with namespaces, using XPath to extract data from XML trees and gives an essential kick start to working with both XSLT and Schema documents. On completion, a comprehensive set of course notes, examples, tutor and attendee scripts are provided on a free USB pen drive to take away.

Suggested Prerequisites

No previous XML experience is assumed. On completion, a comprehensive set of course notes, examples, tutor and attendee scripts are provided on a free USB pen drive to take away.

The XML Core

• XML and the Well Formedness Rules
• Checking for Well Formedness
• Creating and Editing XML
• Unicode Explained
• Using Unicode to Access Special Characters
• Understanding and Working with Namespaces
• Real World HTML and XHTML Implications
• Some XML Processing Scenarios (eg Browser/Server)

Accessing XML Data with XPath

• The XML Document as a Tree
• The Nodes of the Tree Explained
• The Importance of Context in XPath
• Simple Data Extractions
• Selecting Nodes, Elements and Textual Content
• How to Access Attributes
• The Basics of Filtering with XPath Predicates

XSLT Basics

• Outputting to XML, HTML and Text
• The Simplified Style Sheet Format
• Using the Root Template to Begin Processing
• Using xsl:value-of and xsl:for-each
• The Implications of White Space
• Dealing with Special Characters (re HTML in particular)

XML Schema Essentials

• XML Schema Explained
• Schema and DTDs in Perspective
• Schema Validation, Tools and Processors
• Creating a Simple Schema Document
• Working with Namespaces
• About Data Modelling with Schema
• Using the W3C Standard Data Types
• How to Create Custom Data Types

Training Courses:

• SQL
• Transact SQL
• Oracle SQL
• IBM DB2
• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• XML
• XSLT
• XSL-FO
• XML Schema
• VBScript

Training Customers:

Yes We Can !

We can deliver our SQL training and XML training on your site anywhere in the UK:

London Birmingham West London the Midlands Manchester the East Midlands South London Glasgow Leeds North London Scotland Central London Wales the West Midlands Bath Bedford Bournemouth Bradford Brighton East London Bristol Camberley Cambridge Canary Wharf Cheltenham Coventry Derby Docklands Dorking Durham Ealing Eastbourne Eastleigh Exeter Felixstowe Feltham Gloucester Derbyshire Godalming Gravesend Guildford Halifax Harlow Harrogate Harrow Harwich Hatfield Hertford Hounslow Huddersfield Huntingdon Ipswich Kingston Leamington Spa Leicester Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Liverpool Loughborough Maidenhead Maidstone Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newhaven Newmarket Newport Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oxford Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Richmond the City of London Rugby Runcorn St Albans St Helens Salford Salisbury Sheffield Shrewsbury Slough Southampton Southend Southport Stafford Staines Stevenage Stockport Stoke Stourbridge Stratford Stroud Sunderland Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tamworth Telford Tilbury Uxbridge Wakefield Wandsworth Warrington Warwick Watford Wellingborough West Byfleet Weybridge Whitehaven Wigan Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Workington Worthing Yeovil York Cardiff Swansea Wrexham Belfast Aberdeen Dundee Edinburgh Stirling Livingston Perth Inverness Cumbernauld Kirkcaldy Hamilton Stirling Grangemouth Douglas Guernsey Jersey

Contact us

For SQL training and XML training requirements in London, Midlands, Scotland, Wales and across the UK, contact:

London enquiries:

Lumia Development
2nd Floor
145-157 St John St
London
EC1V 4PY
0207 608 5009

UK-wide enquiries:

Lumia Development
Parkfield House
Park St
Stafford
ST17 4AL
01785 223253