Title:
Introduction to XML (aka XML For
Webmasters)
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Tutorial
Presenter: Steve Ball, Chief Technical Officer, Zveno, Steve.Ball@zveno.com
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Outline: XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is the W3C's
approach to a standard representation for structured information.
The language is applicable to a wide range of applications,
from Web pages to data exchange to other protocols and standards,
such as RDF, SMIL and SVG.
This tutorial introduces the XML syntax, including an overview
of Document Type Definitions and XML Schemas. Design issues
involved in creating XML-based applications, such as websites,
are covered. Other related standards are also briefly introduced,
such as XLink, XPath, XPointer and XSL.
Biography: Steve Ball is Chief Technical Officer at Australia-based
Zveno.
He is the author of Web Tcl Complete (McGraw-Hill), several
magazine articles and numerous research papers. Steve has also
developed and manages a number of Open Source software projects,
including the XSLT Standard Library, TclXML, TclDOM, TclXSLT,
the waX Me Lyrical XML editor and the Plume Web browser.
Since 1997 Steve has been involved in XML standards and in developing
best practises for engineering XSL stylesheets and designing
XML documents. He has been an XML consultant for several organisations,
including the ABC, State and Federal Government Departments
and has been training Web authors and developers in all XML
related topics, such as XML, XSL, XML Schemas, SVG and DocBook.
Previously Steve was a researcher at the Australian National
University, and the Advanced Computational Systems Co-Operative
Research Centre. Steve is a member of USENIX.
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