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Here are the slides and 2 freely available books for an excellent course covering XML, named Next Generation Electronic Publishing in XML and Related Language. This course course is taught at Brandeis University.

This course starts with a high-level overview of XML technology and its application.  During this overview, fundamental concepts of XML and the reasons of why XML is important are introduced.  The application areas of XML include XML as document format and how XML is currently being used in the Web. During the first half of this course,  the grammatical and syntactical aspects of  XML and other related technologies such as DTD, XML Schema, XSL, XSLT, XPath, Namespaces, Internationalization, XLink, and XPointer are going to be covered in detail.   Once these are dealt with, the course gets into programming aspects of XML which includes parsing and transformation. The choice of  programming language for XML programming in this class is Java programming language even though for most part those folks who have some programming experience in C and C++ can still follow.  As for parsing, both SAX and DOM are going to be covered.  Also, the core Java APIs for XML that are currently being defined via Java Community Processs(JCP) are going to be introduced.  They are JAXP (Java API for XML Parsing), JAXB(Java API for XML databinding), and JAXM (Java API for XML messaging).

Slides for University XML Course

• Overview of XML  technologies
• XML Fundamentals
• XML fundamentals
• XML Schema
• Namespaces
• Internationalization
• Xlink and XPointer
• XPath
• XSL, XSLT
• XML as a Document Format, TEI, DocBook
• XML on the Web, XHTML
• CSS
• XML Programming (in Java)
• SAX - concept and APIs
• DOM - concept and APIs
• JAXP - concept and APIs
• JAXB  - mostly concept since the APIs are not published yet
• JAXM  - mostly concept since APIs are not published yet
• XML in Enterprise Application
• XML with JSP/Servlet
• XML and Messaging Service, JMS
• XML and database
• XSLT Compiler
• XML in e-Commerce (Web Services)
• WebServices Introduction
• SOAP, W3C XP , XML-RPC
• UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)
• WSDL (Web Services Description Language)
• ebXML (Electronic Business XML)
• J2EE and WebServices
• XML Tools

2 of  the 3 recommended books for this course are available from google searches, and java.sun.com offers 2 free chapters for the 3rd one.

• look for "XML Bible in PDF Format" on this google search result page, near the top of the page.
• look for "XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition" on this google search result page, near the bottom of the page
• Here are 2 free chapters for "Java and XML":
• Chapter 3, "Parsing XML," details the parsing lifecycle and demonstrates the events that can be caught by SAX.
• Chapter 9, "Web Publishing Frameworks," looks at web-publishing framework, why it matters to you, and how to choose a good one.

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