• A Whirlwind Introduction to XML
• Agenda
• Setting the Stage
• A Brief History of Time
• The Document World: Pre-History
• The Document World: The Age of Empires
• The Document World: Pre-Industrial Canada (SGML)
• The Document World: Come the Revolution (HTML)
• XML was conceived of as:
• What XML 1.0 was Intended to Accomplish
• Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch...Application Integration
• Application World: Roll-your-own Binary Protocol
• Application World: Distributed Frameworks
• Application World: The Rube Goldberg Device
• Summary: The problem with the solutions we have is...
• When Worlds Collide
• XML: Best of Both Worlds
• XML: What it is
• XML: What it is Not
• The Modern Age (still a work in progress)
• Alphabet Soup
• XML: The Big Picture
• Basic Structure
• Abstract Data Model
• Data Types and Rich Validation
• Linking
• Transformation and Rendering
• APIs
• Query
• Messaging
• "Semantics"
• Special Vocabularies, So What?
• Diving Deeper into the X-Zone
• Who's Driving the Bus?
• Aside: The Path to W3C Recommendation
• XML 1.0: W3C Recommendation
• XML Text
• Elements
• Attributes
• DTDs: Validation for XML 1.0
• XML Namespaces: W3C Recommendation
• XML Infoset: in Last Call
• XML Schemas: W3C Recommendation (very soon!)
• Important design points
• Schema Processing Model
• Key Design Areas
• Simple Types
• Complex types
• XLink: Proposed Recommendation
• XSL
• XSLT: W3C Recommendation
• XSL Formatting Objects: W3C Candidate Recommendation
• DOM: W3C Recommendation
• SAX
• XML Query
• XML Protocols
• RDF
• Higher-level Vocabularies
• Crystal Ball
• Looking for More?

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