COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 1

Lecture 1: Basic XML & HTML5 Lecture slides and exercises for reading and writing basic XML (without DTDs).

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 2

Lecture 1: DTDs and XML Structure Verification Lecture slides and exercises for validating XML with DTDs.

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 3

Lecture 3: DOM and XPath Lecture slides and exercises for using DOM and XPath to access material within an XML database or document.

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 5

Lecture 5: XLink and XPointer Lecture slides and exercises for using XLink and XPointer to link to and control material within an XML database or document.

COMP3016 Web Technology - Strand "XML" Lecture 6

Lecture 6: RDF and Metadata Lecture slides and exercises for using RDF to describe Web resources

XML revision

Discussions around the kind of decisions that people should make in their exam questions

Platforms, Languages and Packaging

This lecture outlines the decisions which need to be made early in a software project regrading the management of a professional sustainable software product or website. This lecture looks at the many different platforms and languages that can be used on these and outlines the differences between interpreted and "native" languages. We also outline the importance of using revision control systems properly and how these are essential for both distribution and supporting of software. Finally this lecture describes how to build a package for the Debian Linux platform.

Basic HTML & XML

Lecture 1: Basic XML & HTML5 Lecture slides and exercises for reading and writing basic XML and HTML