Assignment # 6

Learning Goals

• Develop hands-on experience with an XML document.
• Understand how to create and modify a DTD.

Project

This assignment is part of Project#1.

Assignment

Develop a DTD that captures all the information in a typical response to the Sun registration form (e-mail, name, topics of interest, etc.). Your program should accomplish the following:

• Develop a DTD that is able to describe an XML document containing all the items in a response to the form.
• Create an XML document that contains the data in a typical response and that is consistent (i.e., valid) with your DTD.
• Submit both files, the DTD and the XML file, to your TA.

Hints:

1. You should group related items together. For example, first name and last name might both be children of a name element.
2. It will be easier if you use an XML editor for this assignment. Two suitable editors are XML Spy and EditiX.
3. If you need to look up the syntax for your DTD, you can access Chapter 3 in the XML in a Nutshell book, located within Safari books on-line.
4. Another great reference for this assignment is the XSLT 2.0 Chapter available on-line. This chapter discusses strategies for designing an XML document that can later be converted into a Web page (as you will do in this project). In particular, Section 3.6 of the chapter refers to the issues in representing image URLs.