Summer 2008		Room		Time		Instructor: Howard Rosenbaum		Office: 011B@SLIS		Office Hours:
		SLIS 002		9:00-4:00 PM F, S, Su		hrosenba@indiana.edu		Telephone: 812 855 3250		11:00-1:00 PM T, Th

		Assignments

For this workshop, you will:

• Create a well-formed and valid document using an XML markup language that you will create during the workshop. The document will include
• At least one comment;
• At least fifteen elements with character data;
• At least five elements with element content;
• At least one entity; and
• At least two attributes

This assignment will be worth 10% of the final grade and will be viewed by the instructor on the afternoon of Day 3. The URL of the document will be sent to the instructor

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• Create a valid DTD that will be used as the rule set for the document you have created. This DTD will include:
• A clear hiearchy of at least fifteen elements;
• Specification of the entities and attributes used in the XML document;
• Character data; and
• At least one comment.

You will make your external XML DTD file available for inspection

Create a valid schema that will also be used as the rule set for the document that you have created. This schema will include:

• A clear hiearchy of at least fifteen elements;
• Some combination of simple and complex type elements;
• At least one custom simple type element with limiting attributes; and
• At least hree different complex type elements with limiting attributes.

You will make your external XML Schema file available for inspection

This assignment will be worth 10% of the final grade and will be viewed by the instructor on the afternoon of Day 3. The URLs of the DTD and Schema will be sent to the instructor

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• Add links to the document you have created using Xlink and Xpointer markup. These links will include:
• At least one "simple" or unidirectional link;
• At least one annotated link
• At least one extended link group

You will add these links to your XML document

This assignment will be worth 5% of the final grade and will be viewed by the instructor on the afternoon of Day 3.

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• Create two style sheets for your XML document.

  First, create an XSLT style sheet for your XML document. This style sheet will include:

• At least five templates
• Markup for the document using HTML tags

This style sheet will be linked to the XML file.

Create a CSS style sheet for your XML document. This style sheet will include:

• At least five selectors controlling presentation and positioning

This style sheet will also be linked to the XML file.

This assignment will be worth 10% of the final grade and will be viewed by the instructor on the afternoon of Day 3. The URLs of these style sheets will be sent to the instructor

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• Create three original XML documents, a DTD that defines their components, a schema that defines their components, and an XSLT style sheet that controls their appearance. Use of a satyle sheet is optional for this assignment. Your documents will combine all of the elements that we have used in the workshop. These documents, the DTD, and their style sheet(s) must be

• Well-formed;
• Valid; and
• Have appropriate linking and navigation among the content documents

This assignment will be worth 60% of the final grade and is due on Monday, June 2. You will send the URLs for all the pages to the instructor.

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