CS 352: Day 4 Class Agenda

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Agenda for Day 4

Announcements
- CS and University Announcements
Assignments
- Lab 1 on Wednesday, due Friday
Readings
Today's learning objectives
After today's class, you should be able to explain
1. Know what is meant by valid XML documents
2. Understand the reason behind validating XML documents
3. Know the two principle systems for writing schemas: DTDs and XML Schema
4. Know how to validate XML with simple DTDs
  - Understand the difference between PUBLIC versus SYSTEM DTDs
  - Know how to declare DTD elements
  - Know how to indicate cardinality of elements using *, ?, or +
  - Know how to specify sequences and choices in DTDs
5. Explain some of the limitations of DTDs
6. Be familiar with an alternative validation language: XML Schemas
  - Know how to write a basic XML Schema
  - Know to how describe simple type elements in XML Schemas
  - Know to how describe complex type elements in XML Schemas
  - Understand the scope rules in XML Schemas