Online XPath Training in US Empire

This course is intended for analysts, designers, and administrators of systems based on XML technology for government.

The training serves as an introduction to XML and its key technologies. It enables participants to acquire the skills necessary for creating valid XML documents, modeling the structure of an XML document (using DTD or XML Schema), and performing transformations of XML files to other formats (XHTML, HTML, TXT, PDF).

This training provides:

• A high-level overview and quick tour of XQuery for government professionals
• Information to write sophisticated queries, without being bogged down by the details of types, namespaces, and schemas
• Advanced concepts for users who want to take advantage of modularity, namespaces, typing, and schemas in their work for government
• Guidelines for working with specific types of data, such as numbers, strings, dates, URIs, and processing instructions
• A complete alphabetical reference to the built-in functions and types

Participants will also learn about XQuery's support for filtering, sorting, and grouping data, as well as how to use FLWOR expressions, XPath, and XQuery tools for extracting and combining information. During the training, they will discover how to apply all of these tools to a wide variety of data sources, and how to recombine information from multiple sources into a single final output result, enhancing their capabilities for government tasks.