This tutorial teaches participants to author XML documents, and read and design simple DTDs. Pre-existing knowledge of HTML is essential.

The tutorial covers:

• XML Concepts
  • Markup and data structures with XML
  • XML syntax
  • Well-formedness, validity and schema-validity
  • Normalization
• XML Logical Structure
  • Elements
  • Attributes
  • Design issues
  • Comments
  • CDATA sections
  • Processing instructions
• XML Documents
  • Parts of an XML document
  • Document prologue
  • Document epilogue
• XML Physical Structure
  • Entities
  • Character entities
  • Internal general entities
  • Parameter entities
• DTD Concepts
  • Document Type Definition
• DTD Details
  • Markup declarations
  • Element declarations
  • Attribute list declarations
  • Entity declarations