Computer Information Science American River College
Courses

CISW 442: Web Publishing with XML

Units: 3.00
Prerequisite: CISW 300 (Web Publishing) with a grade of "C" or better
Hours: 36 hours lecture, 54 hours laboratory
Description: This course describes how to create well-formed and valid Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents, which are later used in conjunction with Extensible Style Sheet Language (XSL) to produce Web pages and other result documents. Topics include formatting XML documents with Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Document Type Definitions (DTD), XML Namespaces and Schemas, XPATH, and Extensible Style Sheet Language Transforms (XSLT).

Section 3: Learning Outcomes and Objectives

Upon completion of this course, the student will be able to:

  • investigate existing XML technology solutions to solve real-world problems.
  • create documents using XML.
  • evaluate XML documents for well-formedness, and validity.
  • formulate a Document Type Definition or XML Schema for a specific document content and structure.
  • apply Extensible Style Sheet Transformations to produce Web pages or other result documents.
Certificates requiring this course: