XML Tutorial

June 18, 1999
Jacco van Ossenbruggen
CWI Amsterdam

Course material will be mainly in English, presentations will be given in Dutch (unless we receive explicit preferences for English).

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Program

Registration and coffee 9.30 - 10.00

Morning session: 10.00 - 12.30

• Introduction
  • What XML is and what it is not
  • What XML can do and what it cannot
  • Why we need XML when we already have HTML
  • Why we need XML when we already have SGML
• Typical XML applications
• Concepts and Syntax: XML by Example
• Related specifications: The rest of the XML family
• Stylesheets for XML (by Bert Bos, W3C)

Lunch 12.30 - 13.30

Afternoon session 13.30 - 16:00

• HTML as XML (by Steven Pemberton, Chair HTML WG, W3C)
• XML in an industrial environment
  • Wim van Halteren (Elsevier, Director Electronic Products)
  • Frank van Harmelen (AIdministrator)
• Conclusions and Discussion

Borrel 16.00 - ...