This XML Fundamentals training introduces you to the basics of XML. In this 2 day hands on course, you will learn the central XML technologies, including writing well formed and valid XML, creating DTDs and XML Schema documents and using XPath and XQuery.
Objectives
- Learn the basics of XML and create well-formed and valid XML documents
- Learn about XML namespaces
- Create document type definitions (DTDs) to validate XML documents
- Create XML schema documents (XSDs) to validate XML documents
- Learn to use the XPath language, XPath expressions, and XPath functions to find and select nodes in XML documents
- Discover the support for XML offered in various Oracle products such as Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle XML DB
- Use JDeveloper to view, create, and edit XML and other XML-related documents
- Use JDeveloper to test XPath expressions and to create and execute XQuery files
- Use Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) Transformations (XSLT) to transform one XML document into another XML document
- Use the XQuery XML query language, which is built on XPath expressions, to query, generate, and transform XML content
- Learn about the XML features in the Oracle database and explain the architecture of the Oracle XML DB components and the benefits of such components
- Describe the Oracle XML DB support for XQuery
Topics
- Introduction
- Introducing the XML Documents
- Validating XML with a Document Type Definitions (DTDs)
- Modularizing XML with Namespaces
- Validating XML Documents
- Navigating XML Documents by Using Xpath
- Transforming XML by Using XSL Transformations
- Working with XQuery
- Introduction to Oracle XML DB