XML Schema

Bascom Bridge’s XML Schema training course gives the student who knows the fundamentals of XML a detailed introduction to the XML Schema standard for defining document type information.

XML TRAINING OBJECTIVES

All students will learn to:

• Declare simple-type and complex-type elements
• Derive custom types
• Declare attributes
• Annotate schemas
• Understand namespaces
• Work with multiple XML schema documents

XML TRAINING PREREQUISITES

Prior knowledge of XML.

XML TRAINING MATERIALS

More than 250 pages of comprehensive courseware and a copy of Definitive XML Schema.

SOFTWARE NEEDED FOR EACH PC:

• A validating XML editor of your choice. We’d be delighted to advise you on selecting the appropriate tool.
• For classes delivered online, all participants need either dual monitors or a separate device logged into the online session so that they can do their work on one screen and watch the instructor on the other. A separate computer connected to a projector or large screen TV would be another way for students to see the instructor’s screen simultaneously with working on their own.

XML TRAINING OUTLINE

• Introduction
• XML Schema Basics
  • The purpose of XML schema
  • The power of XML schema
  • A first look: A Simple schema
  • Validating an XML instance document
• Simple-Type Elements
  • Overview
  • Built-in simple types
  • User-derived simple types
  • Specifying element type locally
  • Nonatomic types
  • Declaring global simple-type elements
• Complex-Type Elements
  • Overview
  • Content models
  • Complex model groups
  • Occurrence constraints
  • Declaring global complex-type elements
  • Mixed content
  • Defining complex types globally
• Attributes
  • Overview
  • Empty elements
  • Adding attributes to elements with complex content
  • Adding attributes to elements with simple content
  • Restricting attribute values
  • Default and fixed values
  • Requiring attributes
• Reusing Schema Components
  • Overview
  • Element groups
  • Attribute groups
  • Extending complex types
• Tying It All Together
  • Creating and reusing XML schemas
• Annotating XML Schemas
  • Overview
  • Annotating a schema
  • Transforming an XML schema for documentation
• Namespaces
  • Overview
  • Purpose of Namespaces
  • Target Namespaces
  • Default Namespaces
  • Locally declared elements and attributes
  • Qualified locals
  • The XMLSchema-instance Namespace
  • Using multiple Namespaces
• Conclusion