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INFO-H-509 : XML and Web Technologies
If you are a VUB studetn following this course, please register by filling in
this online form by February 22 at the latest. It allows the course responsibles to contact you when that is needed.
The evolution of the World Wide Web has seen an explosion of data
communication technologies, protocols, and standards such as XML,
DTDs, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, DOM, SAX, RDF, OWL, … . In this
course we decipher this alphabet soup of web technologies. The global
goal is to obtain both a fundamental insight into the formal theory
behind these technologies as well working knowledge of how they are
used in practice.
The main course objectives and developed competences, as well as the examination modalities are summarized in the course plan (general course information document).
Course responsible:
Stijn Vansummeren (Bâtiment U, étage 4, local UB4.125, Campus Solbosch)
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Organisation
The course is taught in the second semester and comprises 5 crédits ECTS
The course's syllabus consists of (1) the course notes distributed on this web site and (2) the book by A. Moller and M. Schwartzbach,
An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies. Addison-Wesley, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0-321-26966-9
Attention! The lecture slides are only made available for the convenience of the students but do not suffice as syllabus! Please be sure to aquire a copy of the book!
Evaluation is by written exam (closed book) and project work.
COURSE PLAN
Lecture 1: Introduction and Web Architecture
In this first lecture (slides) we (1) overview the content and objectives of the course and (2) discuss the history of the Web and its overall architecture (URIs, resources, representations). In particular we have looked at the working of the HTTP protocol and gave a very brief overview of HTML and CSS.
Required reading:
Lecture 2: XML, XPath, and JSON
Lecture 2 has introduced XML and XPath in depth.
Required reading:
Practical Sessions
References
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T. Berners-Lee, J. Hendler, and O. Lassila.
The Semantic Web. Scientific American, 2001.
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