Palestinian Non-Governmental Organisations caught between Reality and Challenges

Non-governmental Organisations (NGOs) have not only gained more and more relevance in the development process of Near Eastern developing societies, but they have also raised an increasing scholarly interest. The traditional civil society in the Middle East, which used to be in charge of the tribe or large families, has been altered by new groups, which are organized around new social structures, interests and goals. The number of NGOs has experienced a swift increase in number and size, and the extent of some renders them important players in the social welfare sector, both at the national and global levels. The expansion and the increasing role of NGOs worldwide since the end of the 1970s as actors in socio-economic development and in the formulation of public policies has had great influence around the globe. However, this new function is not automatically the outcome of independent activity; but rather the result of ramified relationships between the national and international environment.

Einführung in XML

Das hier frei verfügbare Skript und die Sammlung an Klausuren mit Musterlösungen aus den Jahren 2006 bis 2015 geht auf die gleichnamige Vorlesung im Bachelorstudiengang Informatik an der Universität Kassel zurück, die von Prof. Dr. Wegner und ab 2012 von Dr. Schweinsberg angeboten wurde. Behandelt werden die Grundlagen der eXtensible Markup Language, die sich als Datenaustauschsprache etabliert hat. Im Gegensatz zu HTML erlaubt sie die semantische Anreicherung von Dokumenten. In der Vorlesung wird die Entwicklung von XML-basierten Sprachen sowie die Transformierung von XML-Dokumenten mittels Stylesheets (eXtensible Stylesheet Language XSL) behandelt. Ebenfalls werden die DOM-Schnittstelle (Document Object Model) und SAX (Simple API for XML) vorgestellt.