15 January: Storing data using XML with DTD

Goal

We are looking at representation, not at querying, for four models.

• Spreadsheets
• Relational model
• XML
• JSON

Lecture notes

• Stanford CS 145
  • Well-formed XML
  • DTDs
• XML used in applications
  • An OpenDocumentation spreadsheet (.ods format)
  • A Microsoft Office PowerPoint (.pptx format)
• Examples from an old UNC Asheville project

Linear reading

• Beginning XML; by Joe Fawcett, Liam R.E. Quin & Danny Ayers
  • Chapter 2: Well-Formed XML
  • Chapter 4: Data Type Definitions

On-line references

• Tutorials from W3Schools
  • Introduction to XML
  • Introduction to DTD
• Tutorials from ZVON.org
  • XML Tutorial
  • DTD Tutorial
  • Specifications from W3C — World Wide Web Consortium
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 specification
• XML Schema Part 0: Primer

Video

• Jennifer Widon for Stanford CS 145
  • Well-Formed XML
• Joe Marini at lynda.com in XML Essential Training
  • Episode 3: Basic Rules of XML
  • Episode 10: Creating Document Type Definitions