Advanced Schemas

Overview/Description
To enhance schemas with user-defined datatypes and namespaces

Target Audience
Existing application and web developers wishing to attain competency in the use of advanced XML techniques; systems analysts and systems designers needing a thorough knowledge of XML for the development of web-enabled applications.

Prerequisites
familiarity with XML syntax; knowledge of the basic XML document model (prolog, body, epilog); an understanding of the importance of well-formedness in XML; an understanding of XML parsing and processing; prior experience with programming and markup languages. In addition, prior experience of stylesheet formatting (e.g. CSS) would be an advantage.

Expected Duration (hours)
2.3

Lesson Objectives

Advanced Schemas

derive from simple and complex types.

refine datatype derivation using substitution, abstract types, and final types.

use regular expressions with the pattern facet to validate instance data.

create user-defined types.

recognize how to declare and use namespaces.

recognize how to implement namespace qualification.

identify how to use mechanisms to reuse schemas.

use namespaces and multiple schemas.