Practical Training XML
Winter Term 2026/27
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang May
- Module M.Inf.1802, 4 SWS, 6 ECTS-credits; it is graded (=benotet)
Course Description
The practical training builds upon the lecture Semistructured Data and XML.
It introduces XML application programming based on Java and on Web Services.
Prerequisites:
- Successful participation in the module
Semistructured Data and XML
or comparable
good knowledge in XML, and
- Successful participation in the "General
Programming Lab/Allgemeines Programmierpraktikum" (or an equivalent course on Programming+Java).
The training uses the concepts of the XML world:
XML, DTD, XPath, XQuery, XSLT, XLink, XML Schema, SQL/XML, XML APIs for Java (DOM, SAX, StAX, JAXB),
and Web Service infrastructure (Apache Tomcat).
Most of the course uses the geographical sample database "Mondial"
in its XML version.
- Date and Time: Mon 14-18
- Room:
IFI 2.101 (North Campus) online via StudIP->BBB
- The course takes place in groups of 3-4 persons. There are usually
5 units: XPath/XQuery, XSLT (both based on the material of the lecture),
XML and Java I (DOM/SAX/StAX), XML and Java II (JAXB and Digester), and
Web Services (with an application project).
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For every unit, there is an exercise sheet which will be discussed
with one of the supervisors, maybe also the monday slots can be used
for this.
- Every monday: Optional live online "course meetings" with BigBlueButton.
Course materials are provided as recordings, so the meetings consist
of short comments to the new topic and questions&answers and hands-on
support for the ongoing exercise sheet.
- Materials for self-studying are provided as PDF slides and as
videos (from winter term 2020/21)
- Please also read the general and technical information
about DBIS virtual teaching.
Documentation: use the slides from the
SSD/XML lecture (the full slide set can be found
here;
Sections 1-8 were the material of the lecture, the rest is intended for the
practical course) and the W3C documentation linked below. For practical
exercises, the XML software is installed in the IFI CIP Pool. Short
descriptions of the software to be used can be found here.
Prospective Time Schedule
Part I: Review of basics, concepts and languages around XML that should be known from the
XML lecture.
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Kickoff Meeting (attendance required):
Mo 2.11., 14-16 live online BBB via StudIP: Introduction, Formalities.
Matrix/Element Chat of the XML lab course.
- 2.11. cont'd: 1. Unit: Exercises to XPath, XQuery (including user-defined functions)
Slides: XPath, Slides: XQuery from the lecture.
In addition to the slides, the W3C material serves as technical documentation for the languages:
W3C XPath 3.0, W3C Recommendation, 2014.
W3C XQuery 3.0, W3C Recommendation 2014.
W3C XPath and XQuery Functions and Operators 3.0,
W3C Recommendation 2014.
Exercises: to be extended
- 10.11. optional: hands-on-meeting
-
17.11. 2. Unit: XSLT
Optional BBB-Meeting, short comments, mainly then hands-on support for XQuery Exercises
Slides: XSLT
W3C XSLT 3.0, W3C Recommendation 8 June 2017.
Exercises: to be extended
- 24.11.: Discussion of Exercise Sheet 1 (XPath/XQuery)
Part II: XML and Java
to be extended
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