As a common tool for Web development, and a universal medium for information storage and exchange, XML is a key technology for those entering a wide variety of technology professions.

This workshop will focus on two major areas of XML. First, it will cover the basic syntactic rules that make up an XML document and include concepts such as elements, attributes, entities and namespaces. Second, it will cover validation of XML documents using a Document Type Definition (DTD).

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Participants will:

• understand the syntactic rules of XML
• author an XML document
• create an XML Document Type Definition
• validate XML using a Document Type Definition
• incorporate namespaces into XML documents

The following workshops are suggested prerequisites to this workshop:

• XHTML: Structure & Description

Participants should already be able to:

• how to create a well formed XHTML document
• how to use XHTML markup tags to format data