XML Technology in E-Commerce

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XML Technology in E-Commerce

• 232055
• Klaas van den Berg Ivan Kurtev
• 2000/2001 trimester 3

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Course Organisation

• Website http//trese.cs.utwente.nl/courses/xtec/
• Textbook Deitel et al. XML How to Program,
  Prentice Hall, 2001
• Tools XML-Spy 30 days trial version, renewable
• Examination
• Essay (1/2) Oral Examination (1/2)
• Presentation (1/3) Essay (1/3) Oral
  Examination (1/3)
• Essay and Presentation can be per one or two
  students
• Essay / Presentation topic has to be approved
• Oral Examination is individual
• June 26, June 28, July 3, July 5 (ca 30 minutes)

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Why XML ?

• Interaction between three disciplines
• e.g. in E-Commerce

Web Data presentation Data interchange
Databases Data management Data structure
OO-Technology Data processing
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Why XML ?

• Extensible Markup Language
• Goal of course Understand role of XML

Web Data presentation Data interchange
Databases Data management Data structure
XML
OO-Technology Data processing
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Why XML ?

• XML is just a notation for trees,
• a poor-mans BNF (Wadler)

Web Data presentation Data interchange
Databases Data management Data structure
XML
OO-Technology Data processing
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Course Topics

• Metamodeling XML, Well-formedness
• Validation DTDs, Schemas
• Representation DOM, SAX, Java
• Searching/Linking XPath, XLink, XPointer
• Transformation XSLT, XSL-FO
• Data Binding XML-Java

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Other

• List of participants
• check data
• Moving target
• versions of standards / software
• Experimental course
• feedback / comments / questions