XML - eXtensible Markup Language

1. Why XML? - the Web today: problems with HTML
   1. A brief history of HTML - logical structure vs. physical layout
   2. Example - a recipe collection in HTML
2. The ideas behind XML - a universal data format
   1. Example - recipe collection in XML
3. The conceptual view of an XML document - XML documents as labeled trees
4. The concrete view of an XML document - XML documents as text with markup tags
   1. Other meta-information - processing instructions, etc.
5. A larger example - an article XML document
   1. Part I - some snippets
   2. Part II - more snippets
   3. Part III - even more snippets
6. A note on DTDs - Document Type Definitions
7. Applications of XML - XHTML, CML, OMF, XPML, ...
8. DOM and SAX - standard application programming interfaces
9. Tools - parsers, editors, browsers, ...
10. From SGML to SML - a word on doc-heads and development
11. Technologies building on top of XML - linking, etc.
12. Conclusion - what to remember
13. Links to more information