XHTML Programming Part 2: Advanced Topics

Audience

The intended audience for this course includes Technical Managers Help Desk/Support Application Developers System Analysts Software Engineers and Web Developers. Students are expected to have an understanding of basic Internet/Intranet and Website concepts. In addition the student should have taken the first part of this series (86044).

Objective

• Identify the benefits and rules of XML.
• How to create well formed and valid XML documents and XML styling.
• Identify the benefits and elements of metadata and RDF.
• Identify Document Object Model JavaScript and Dynamic XHTML.
• Identify how Java and CGI can be used to add interactivity to XHTML pages.

Topics Include

Unit 1: XML

• Identify the benefits of using XML.
• Select the code segment that correctly declares the components of an XML document.
• Complete the code for making an XML document valid by selecting the correct code.
• Identify the code segment to relate a CSS to an XML document.

Unit 2: Metadata

• Identify the benefits of metadata.
• Select the code segment that correctly uses metadata elements.
• Identify the features of RDF.
• Select the code segment that declares RDF in XML.

Unit 3: Dynamic XHTML

• Identify the features of the DOM.
• Identify the hierarchy of the elements in a tree structure.
• Match the different levels of the DOM with the situations in which they are used.
• Identify the benefits of using JavaScript.
• Identify appropriate JavaScript objects.
• Identify appropriate JavaScript methods.
• Identify appropriate JavaScript events.
• Identify the code segment that follows JavaScript syntax rules.
• Identify the appropriate type of JavaScript variables.
• Identify the code segment that uses the appropriate JavaScript construct.
• Identify the appropriate JavaScript function.
• Identify the features of dynamic XHTML supported by a specific browser.
• Identify the code segment to set the dynamic styles of the elements on a Web page.
• Identify the code to add dynamic content to a Web page.
• Identify the code to create dynamic tables on a Web page.

Unit 4: Enhancing Interactivity in XHTML

• Identify the features of Java.
• Identify the code to create simple Java applications.
• Identify the code to create a Java applet for displaying an image.
• Identify the code segment for embedding a Java applet to create an interactive XHTML page.
• Identify the features of CGI.
• Identify the output headers to be specified in a CGI script.
• Sequence the steps to process data in CGI.
• Identify the code segment that uses the correct Perl construct.
• Identify the CGI code segment used to add interactivity to an XHTML page.

Duration

7

Minimum Requirements

The CDROM version of this course requires:

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).
• At least a double speed CDROM drive.
• An MPC compliant sound card with attached speakers or headphones is recommended (Currently only the CDROM version supports audio).

• At least a 486DX 33Mhz CPU.
• Microsoft Windows 3.1 or higher and a Microsoft compatible mouse.
• At least 8MB RAM and 22MB available hard disk space or file server space.
• At least VGA graphics capability with a minimum 512K video RAM (1MB video RAM recommended).

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