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Fantastic grade for TMA 2 – hooray!

admin — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:18:14 +0000

I got 94% for TMA 2 – one of my best grades ever! I thought it was really hard, especially developing the XML Schema. But I guess I must have kept on at it enough and made some lucky deductions about what things meant. Also, when I made references to the security considerations covered at the beginning of Block 2, those seemed to be well received.

I’m still not entirely clear on how DOM, SAX and XSLT relate to each other, but hopefully that will become clearer later as I do more of the practical work.

I think in this section of the course I have really benefitted from having just completed the certificate in Web Applications Development beforehand – it covers some similar ground, though from more of a technical development perspective and with different programming languages and technologies.

Useful links for TMA 2: XML, XML Schema, DOM, SAX, XSLT and Security

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:25:38 +0000

Got my TMA in – I thought parts of this were quite hard and / or confusing, but these are the links that I found helpful:

Adler, S., R. Cochrane, J.F. Morar, A. Spector. (2006) Technical context and cultural consequences of XML. IBM Systems Journal, Vol 45, No. 2, 2006.

Adobe Systems Incorporated (2008). Adobe XMP: Adding intelligence to media [online]. http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ (Accessed 24 June, 2008).

Digimarc (copyrighted 1995-2008) Digital Image Watermarking and Copyright Protection [online] https://www.digimarc.com/comm/images.asp (accessed 26 June, 2008)

Digimarc (2005-2008) MyPictureMarc | How it Works | MarcSpider Image Tracking – Track Your Images Online [online] https://www.digimarc.com/mypicturemarc/how-it-works/default2.asp (accessed 26 June, 2008)

Digital Image Submission Criteria (DISC), a Working Group of IDEAlliance Inc (2001-2008). DISC XMP Custom Panels [online]. http://www.disc-info.org/resources/xmp.asp (Accessed 24 June, 2008).

Friedl, S (2007) SQL Injection attacks by example [online] http://www.unixwiz.net/techtips/sql-injection.html (Accessed 26 June, 2008).

Getty Images (1999-2008) More Search options [online] http://www.gettyimages.com/Search/AdvancedSearch.aspx (Accessed 26 June, 2008).

Holzner, S. (2003) Real World XML. New Riders Press.

Keith, J (2005) DOM Scripting. Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model. Friends of Ed

Mertz, D (2001) XML Matters: Transcending the Limits of DOM, SAX and XSLT [IBM, online] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/x-matters14.html (Accessed 26 June, 2008).

Ogbuji, U (2004) Principles of XML design: When to use elements versus attributes. IBM developerWorks [online] http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-eleatt.html (accessed 26 June, 2008)

Rosewell, J (2008) T320 E-business technologies: foundations and practice. Block 2 Part 8: Processing XML. Open University.

W3C DOM Working Group (2003) Document Object Model FAQ [online] http://www.w3.org/DOM/faq.html (Accessed 26 June, 2008).

Wikipedia (2008) Document Object Model [online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Object_Model (Accessed 27 June, 2008).

Wikipedia (2008) Simple API for XML [online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_API_for_XML (Accessed 26 June, 2008).

Wikipedia (2008) XML [online] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XML (Accessed 27 June, 2008).

Xfront (xml-dev list group) (2008) XML Schemas: Best Practices [online] http://www.xfront.com/BestPracticesHomepage.html (accessed 26 June, 2008)

Zeldman, J (2003) Designing with Web Standards. New Riders, Indianapolis.

Some useful XML links for Block 2

admin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:10:06 +0000

Here are some useful links for Block 2, mostly about XML, XML Schema, XSLT etc, including a free book to download.

The CoverPages: Online resource for markup language technologies

ebXML: Enabling & Global Electronic Market

Free XML book to download: Essential XML Quick Reference: A Programmer’s Reference to XML, XPath, XSLT, XML Schema, SOAP, and More

Getty Images: Advanced search options

OASIS: Advancing open standards for the global information society

OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL)

Schematron

Ten Risks of PKI: What You’re Not Being Told About Public Key Infrastructure

W3C: Extensible Markup Language (XML)

W3C: Annotated XML Specification

W3C XML Schema Requirements

W3C XML Schema Part 0: Primer Second Edition

W3Schools: XML Schema list element

Wikipedia: List of XML markup languages

Wikipedia: Metadata

XML.org

XML Common Business Library

XSLT Reference