ITC550 Advanced SGML and XML (8)
Prerequisite: (ITC129 or ITC429) and (ITC130 or ITC4%%)
Enrolment Restriction: Enrolment by students from courses other than Master of Information Systems and Master of Information Technology requires special approval from the subject convenor.
This subject examines the formats and structures used for holding documents and data and introduces SGML and XML as internationally recognised, non-proprietary standard markup meta languages, which can be used to define and validate those structures. The subject includes developing custom markup languages using the SGML and XML, the development of document definitions and conforming instances, and the processing of both legacy data and markup data under software control.