The general purpose of the course is to provide students a general set of knowledge, skills and abilities in relation to the markup languages used for the communication, search, dissemination and exchange of information on the Internet and especially on the Web. This will serve to address the acquisition of knowledge and skills in other tools and services that rely on this basic technology.

Markup languages, particularly XML and the set of its related specifications, are the lingua franca of the Web who provides interoperability among applications that handle the very diverse collections of both structured data and text documents. This course treats these topics, especially in its application to text documents, and aims to provide also basic knowledge that allows to approach, in other courses, the study of various XML-based standards. The course treat HTML as a specific markup language, and CSS as a style sheet language. The basic contents are: LESSON 1. Markup basics Semantics and presentation: markup languages and style sheet languages. LESSON 2. Markup Metalanguages: SGML and XML LESSON 3. Markup syntax of SGML and XML. LESSON 4. HTML and CSS HTML and its relationship with SGML and XML. HTML 4 and XHTML 1. HTML 5. General structure and basic block and online elements. HTML: Links, images and other digital objects. Lists and tables. New structures in HTML 5. Publication on the Web. Introduction to style sheet languages. CSS Syntax. Selectors Style properties Integration with HTML and XML. LESSON 5. Creation of specific languages for specific types of documents: the DTD and XSD schema models and their respective syntaxes LESSON 6. Identification and selection of components of a document treated with XML: XPath. LESSON 7. Transforming XML documents: XSLT. LESSON 8. Overview of other accompanying XML standards. LESSON 9. Markup languages of special interest in the field of library and information science. LESSON 10. XML Software

- Acquisition of theoretical knowledge (total 3 ECTS) through class attendance, study of learning materials prepared by the professor, tutorials, specialized readings and discussions, participation in forums and onsite or online tutorships. It relates to the competencies 1 to 3, 7 and 10. - Acquisition of practical skills and abilities (total 3 ECTS) through several practical works about HTML markup and addition of style properties with CSS, about XML markup, modeling document into a DTD o XML Schema, and transforming XML documents with XSLT+XPath; and a final group work that includes all subjects treated in the course. All this work during the classroom time and out of it, with subsequent control of the teacher. They relate to the competencies 4 to 6, 8 and 9. -The student can look up the schedule of tutorship sessions in the Aula Global space for the course. In addition to the tutorship at the times and places officially set for the course, students can apply for other outside these hours and to be held in person or online.