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
>
>
>
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