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Chin Chee-Kai wrote, On 2008-10-03 09:41: > Jonas Mellin wrote: >> Now, one of the program directors essentially wants the students to >> write a PHP program accessing an XML source and display as HTML. He >> considers this to be sufficient for a pass. So, we have a slight >> difference in opinion of what is required to pass an XML API course. >> >> So, what is your opinion? > Agree. Just from what you described, I'd say I'm in agreement with > the writing of PHP program accessing XML source to pass an "XML API > course". Even though state-of-the art processing of XML is moving away from language-based processing based on DOM , SAX, StAX to XSLT, XQuery, XPath and their ilk? > > If the course objective is to understand and apply XML API, then > students should be examined based on the knowledge required or > expected of a graduate of the course. PHP is certainly not low-level > enough when compared with writing Java or C programs to parse XML > source. So in terms of "difficulty level", it has been reduced and > gives students time to understand the API aspects instead of nitty > gritty aspects of programming languages. > > If writing a simple program to access XML source is deemed too > difficult for the non-CS students, then perhaps the course title needs > to be changed to something like "XML Appreciation Course", where > simple exposure to XML, what it can do, pros and cons, economical > benefits and business modeling aspects could be some ingredients for > the course material. That is what I have in mind. /Jonas > > regards, > Chin Chee-Kai > > > > _______________________________________________________________________ > > XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS > to support XML implementation and development. To minimize > spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. > > [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ > Or unsubscribe: xml-dev-unsubscribe@l... > subscribe: xml-dev-subscribe@l... > List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php > -- Carpe Diem! === Jonas Mellin, Assistant Professor in Computer Science School of Humanities and Informatics, Building E-2 University of Skövde, P.O. Box 408, SE-541 28 Skövde, Sweden Phone: +46 500 448321, Fax: +46 500 448399 Email: jonas.mellin@h..., URL: http://www.his.se/melj
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