Enabling Technologies for Electronic Commerce -
eXtensible Markup Language (XML)

22 and 29 January 2000

Enquiry : Dr. S.W.Ng by Tel:27666221

by email: enswng@polyu.edu.hk

1. Electronic Commerce
   • Enabling Technology: ASP, JavaScript, Flash, Dreamweaver etc.
   • Database Technologies: ASP and MS Access, PHP and MySQL etc.
     
     
2. XML and SGML
• Background and History
  
  
3. XML Grammar Specification
   • Well-Formed XML Documents
   • Names, Characters, and White Spaces
   • XML Markup: Comments, entity references, character references, processing instructions, CDATA, start and end tags, empty elements
     
     
4. Document Type Definition (DTD)
   • Internal and External
   • DTDAttribute
   • Entities
   • Examples
     
     
5. Resource Description Framework (RDF), Dublin Core Metadata
   
   
6. XML Parser : Sun, IBM, and OpenXML
   
   
7. XML Resources and Applications
   • E-Commerce
   • E-Catalog
     
     
8. Hand-On Sessions
   • Developing WebPage using current technologies.
   • Developing Web applications using markup that is readable by both humans and machines - XML.
   • Developing E-Commerce applications using XML.