XML and Web Technologies

5 ECTS credits
125 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4016907ENR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Impossible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Taught in

English

Partnership Agreement

Under agreement for exchange of courses

Faculty

Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences

Department

Computer Science

External partners

Université libre de Bruxelles

Educational team

Dimitris Sacharidis (course titular)

Activities and contact hours

24 contact hours Lecture
12 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
24 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

Writing HTML & XML Documents
Querying using XPath
An Introduction to Efficient XPath Processing
Querying using XQuery
XML Schema Languages: DTDs
XML Schema Languages: XSDs
XML Programming using SAX and DOM
Transforming XML documents using XSLT
RDF and SPARQL
RDF Schema and OWL

Course material

Handbook (Recommended) : An Introduction to XML and Web Technologies, Anders Møller and Michael I. Schwartzbach, Addison-Wesley, 9780321269669, 2006
Digital course material (Recommended) : Course notes

Additional info

Teaching method is a cocktail of lectures, demonstrations, machine exercises, and project work.

Learning Outcomes

Algemene competenties

The advent of the World Wide Web has given rise to a myriad of technologies and techniques for exchanging Data on the Web, including technologies like XML, DTD, XML Schema, XPath, XSLT, DOM, SAX, RDF, OWL, …

In this course we untangle and study this spaghetti of Web Technologies. Our first objective in this respect is to obtain a foundational and formal understanding of the theory underlying these technologies. Our second objective is to understand in what scenarios a certain technology is applicable, and how they should be applied in that case.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 70% of the final mark.
SELF Practical Assignment determines 30% of the final mark.

Within the Written Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

examen with a relative weight of 14 which comprises 70% of the final mark.

Within the SELF Practical Assignment category, the following assignments need to be completed:

Project with a relative weight of 6 which comprises 30% of the final mark.

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final mark is composed of the marks obtained for the project work and written exam

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context