Outline:

Unit 1:XML basics

Topic A: Introduction to XML
Topic B: The evolution of XML
Topic C: Benefits of XML

Unit 2: XML components

Topic A: Defining an XML document
Topic B: Document components

Unit 3: Document type definitions (DTDs)

Topic A: Document modeling and DTDs
Topic B:Declarations
Topic C: Document analysis and testing

Unit 4: Schema

Topic A: XML Schema
Topic B: Schema description and components
Topic C: Creating a schema

Unit 5: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Topic A: CSS and XML
Topic B: CSS styles

Unit 6: XML transformations

Topic A: Transforming XML documents
Topic B: Data transformation

Unit 7: Linking in XML

Topic A: XML Linking Language
Topic B: Creating links with XLink
Topic C: Validating XLinks
Topic D: XML Pointer (XPointer)

Unit 8: XML APIs

Topic A: Introduction to XML APIs
Topic B: DOM interfaces and objects
Topic C: Sax versus DOM

Unit 9: XML data binding basics

Topic A: Data binding fundamentals
Topic B: Integrating XML data sources
Topic C: Data source objects

Appendix A: XML authoring tools

Topic A: XML editors
Topic B: Integrated development environments

Appendix B: Introduction to XHTML

Topic A: Understanding XHTML
Topic B: XHTML variants and DTDs
Topic C: XHTML utilities