XML for Content Authoring
Overview
Markup Language (XML) is becoming one of the most popular industry formats for document publishing. It is a platform-independent and vendor neutral solution that is being rapidly incorporated into next-generation document, web, and e-business application strategies. Creating structured XML documents provide many of benefits to content-heavy organizations. XML content can be assembled, personalized, and delivered automatically, on demand, with the help of an XML content management system. These XML documents are used as a single source medium to dynamically generate multiple kinds of output including PDF, HTML, EPUB, etc. There are many benefits of using XML in document production. These could include increased productivity, cost savings from content reuse, increased consistency, lower translation costs, improvements in usability and quality. As such, XML skills are in huge demand.
XML for Content Authoring provides a comprehensive understanding of XML. It is a 12-week online course that covers all aspects of XML including processes, methods, Document Type Definitions (DTD), XML schemas, Extensible Stylesheet Language Tranformations (XSLT), and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).
The course content is suitable for beginners and those who are familiar with XML but want to gain a more formal and structured grounding in the subject.