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<h1 style="vertical-align:middle"><img align="middle" valign="middle" style="vertical-align:middle" border="0" src="../images/XML.jpg"> Extensible Markup Language</h1>
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	<p><P>The Extensible Markup Language is a language designed for the definition of document structures, and the production of structured documents. It can be used to define application-specific representations that are easy to process and transform, facilitating the interchange of information between different systems and components.</P>
<H4>Frequency</H4><P>This subject has been discontinued; no further courses are planned. It has been replaced by <A href="./STR.html">Structured Data (STR)</A>.</P></p>
<h4>Objectives</h4>
<p><p>At the end of the course, students will understand how data is structured and described in eXtensible Markup Language (XML), and be able to</p>
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<li> design an XML document for a variety of applications; </li>
<li> create Schema documents to validate XML documents; </li>
<li> query an XML document using XPath; </li>
<li> write and apply user-defined functions to an XML document;</li>
<li> transform an XML description into other language   representations, such as Text, HTML or alternative XML representations;</li>
<li> apply the essential XML technologies to common software   problems.</li>
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<h4>Contents</h4>
<p><dl> <dt><span>Introduction</span></dt> <dd> motivation for XML, representing data in XML.</dd> <dt><span>XML Schemas</span></dt> <dd> defining the structure and content of a document; a   type system for XML.</dd> <dt><span>XSLT</span></dt> <dd> translating XML documents to various multimedia formats;   functional programming in XSL.</dd> <dt><span>XPath</span></dt> <dd> locating XML content within an XML document.</dd> <dt><span>XML in context</span></dt> <dd> bibliography databases, domain specific languages.</dd> </dl></p>
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