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This course teaches how to implement XML-based solutions to solve the integration issues faced by developers today. The focus is on using XML along with SAX, SOAP, and DOM to create distributed applications. This course also includes topics on maximizing XML performance and XHTML.

Entire course includes...

• 3 CDs or videos
• Over 4 hours of instruction
• Over 400 pages of courseware on CD-ROM
• Step-by-step hands-on-labs
• Sample code

Developing Solutions with XML

Session 1 (90 min)

Programming XML: Simple API for XML (SAX)

• A Parsing Alternative to DOM
• The SAX Content Handler
• Extracting XML Content
• XML Output with the MXXML Writer Object
• Handling Parsing Errors
• DOM vs. SAX: Which Is Better?

XML and Web Services: SOAP 2.0

• A Brief History of Remote Procedure Calls
• Introducing SOAP
• Programming Raw SOAP
• Microsoft’s SOAP Toolkit 2.0
• Programming SOAP with the Microsoft Toolkit

Session 2 (93 min)

XML on the Client: Internet Explorer Applications

• Where Should XML Be Processed?
• XML Data Islands
• XML Data Source Object
• Storing Local State
• Security Considerations

XML on the Server

• Why Use XML on the Server?
• Using the ServerXMLHTTP and XMLHTTPRequest Objects

Session 3 (82 min)

XML in Distributed Applications

• Building Distributed Applications with XML
• Moving Data Around a Distributed Application
• A Distributed Example

Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML)

• The Future of HTML is Built on XML
• Introducing XHTML
• The Rigid XHTML Syntax
• XHTML Extensions Under Development

Maximizing XML Performance

• XML Performance
• XML DOM Performance
• DOM vs. SAX

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Your instructor, Martin Schaeferle, has taught IT professionals nationwide to develop applications using Visual Basic, Microsoft® SQL Server, ASP, and XML. Martin is a featured speaker at Microsoft® Tech-Ed and the Microsoft® NCD Channel Summit. He specializes in developing Visual Basic database applications, COM-based components, and ASP-based Web sites.

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