Training

• Practical Introduction to DITA
• Introduction to OmniMark
• Advanced OmniMark Programming
• XML Best Practices
• Content Engineering Workshop
• XML Schema Modeling

XML Schema Modeling

The course is offered as a module of a project training program for organizations who want to know how to capture business requirements into an XML information model.

Course Outline

This intensive 2-day course is designed to introduce the participants to the techniques of XML Schema modeling and is an essential guide to XML schema languages. The course is designed to guide the delegate through the different specifications and illustrate, through exercises, the process of schema development and validation. Popular and common tools will be used to build XML schema instances and validate XML document instances. Roughly the two most common ways to describe an information model are: XML Document Type Definitions and W3C XML Schema. Both techniques, also called schema languages, will be treated on an intermediate level, giving the participants the background to understand the pros and cons of each of them, how to use them and when to best use one over the other. In this module a special emphasis is put on:

• How to set up an information analysis process
• Techniques to gather requirements such as Information Analysis Workshop
• Tools and techniques to capture and visualize modeling requirements into an XML model
• Information modeling best practices
• Modeling and information reuse
• Specifying a model in schema languages: DTD and W3C XML Schema
• Other schema languages: RELAX NG, UML
• An overview on industry standard schemas
• When to use one schema language over the other

Objectives

After the course, the participants will know:

• The difference between traditional data-modeling and XML modeling
• What is involved in an XML Information Analysis phase
• Why modeling is important
• What steps to take to build a good XML information model
• The XML Schema and DTD specifications
• How to create W3C XML Schemas instances from scratch and from DTDs
• How to document schemas so that other people understand their structure
• How to use tools to validate documents to schemas
• How to author documents according to schemas
• How to use tools to build schemas from scratch
• How to assess the strengths and weaknesses of available schema languages

Who Should Attend

The course is aimed at IT and business professionals who already have a sound understanding of XML and require a deeper insight into the capabilities of XML modeling to capture the business and information requirements. The people who should attend include:

• IT Project managers
• IT managers
• Content managers
• Web portal designers
• Information Management consultants
• Enterprise architects
• Senior Application Developers

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