XML: an introduction, take 2

Today marked the second time I’ve taught my INtro to XML class. Of course, a significant amount of the material was different from the first time since the first time through is always a dry run and you know that you’ll need to make changes after the fact. This time through went much smoother including the material I’d added. Day two still ended about an hour earlier than planned but I’m not sure what else I can add to extend the class that will only take up an hour. I could make the data file we create on day one more detailed in order to extend the manipulation of that dayda on day two, but that might extend the first day’s material into day to and splitting an individual topic over two days would not work very well for the students. I’m thinking about it but I’m not sure what to do.

Junt in case any of you are familiar with XML here’s a basic outline of the class to far. Any ideas will be appreciated.

  • Day one, morning: Intro to XML concepts and creation of an XML data file
  • Day one, afternoon: Writing an XML Schema document to validate out data file against
  • Day two, morning: Writing an XSLT document to transform our data file into XHTML for Web presentation
  • Day two, afternoon: Writing an XSLT document to transform our data file into another XML language (MARC-XML)
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