bikleXMLtutorial.htm
06-24-2002 Bikle
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Bikle XML Tutorial

This tutorial is designed to get you up to speed with basic XML
technology in the least amount of time.  Most of the XML educational
material on the internet was written for XML developers.  This tutorial
is aimed at a technical person like a UNIX System Administrator or an
Oracle DBA.

The need for XML education is pressing.  At the urls below you will find
that XML is becoming prevalent:

http://www.sun.com/xml
http://www.oracle.com/xml

When the time arrives for you to deal with XML technology, you will
probably be doing some or all of these activities:

-Authoring 
This is easy; simple authoring could be learned in 15 minutes.

-Validation 
This comes in two flavors: DTD and XML Schema.
Simple DTD validation could be learned in 30 to 60 minutes.
Simple validation using  XML Schema could be learned in an hour or three.

-Searching
Simple searching using XPath could be learned in 15 minutes.

-Transformation
This is the most challenging (and interesting) part of XML technology.
Simple transformation could be learned in under 3 hours.

I present some demonstrations below.

Authoring:
d1.htm

More Authoring:
d2.htm

DTD validation:
d3.htm

Validation using  XML Schema:
d4.htm

Transformation:
d5.htm

Here is another demo which contains less discussion but which pulls
together most of the ideas in the first demo.

demo2:
demo2/bikREADME.htm