Training
Stilo OmniMark XML Programming

Duration: 3 days
Description: This course introduces programmers to Stilo's OmniMark XML parser to parse, process and convert XML and content-based applications. Topics covered include:

• XML parsing with OmniMark
  • The streaming model
  • Event-driven programming (vs procedural programming)
  • Nested execution vs tree-building
  • XML parser features
• Advanced XML processing
  • Managing multiple outputs
  • Attributes manipulation
  • Multiple parsing (XML, SGML...)
  • Entities and libraries
  • Comments, processing instructions
  • Unicode
• Advanced OmniMark concepts
  • Reorganizing the data, creating table of content, links: referents
  • Multiple processing depending on context: groups
  • Data manipulation and pattern matching: translate rules
  • Controlling XML flow: Catch and Throw
  • Processing XML errors in a customized fashion
  • XML and database systems
• Content processing
  • Pattern matching
  • Built-in and custom character classes
  • Regular expressions
  • Pattern variables
  • Localized pattern matching: do scan, repeat scan...
  • Nested pattern matching
  • Context sensitive text processing

Format: The course consists of lectures/demonstrations by the instructor punctuated by hands-on exercises by the attendees.

Comments: Attendees should have previous programming experience with languages such as Perl, Visual Basic, C/C++, or Java; a working knowledge of XML or SGML; and familiarity with relational databases.