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Day one
Introduction
XML, XHTML and HTML
Why use XML?
The Document Object model
Modelling XML documents
Well-formed and valid documents
Basic rules of XML
Elements, Attributes and Values
XML declaration
The Root Element
Adding comments
Default entities
Displaying tags as text
Namespaces
Document Type Definition (DTD)
Internal DTD
External DTD
Personal external DTD
Public external DTD
Occurrence operators
XInclude (NEW)
Including XML documents within XML
Fallbacks
Parsing include files
XML sitemaps (NEW)
What are XML sitemaps
SEO benefits of XML sitemaps
Building XML sitemaps
Day two
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Push vs Pull technology
RSS readers
Transforming your RSS
Browsers and RSS transformation
An overview of XML schema
Simple and complex types
Schema namespaces
Target location
Simple schema
Simple schema location
Annotating schemas
Validating with schemas
Introduction to XSLT
Source tree
Style sheet
Result tree
Parsers
Template rules
Literals
Xpath
Building templates
Looping through your XML document
Formatting your template
Template match
Value-of select
Extracting attributes
Formatting tables
Sorting
Microsoft Excel and XML support (NEW)
Editing XML files with Excel
Creating schemas for Excel XML
Importing XML into Excel
Exporting XML from excel
Questions and answers
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