In June Mulberry Technologies, Inc. is offering a wide variety of
XML-related classes:
- XML Basics June 4-6
- Introduction to Schematron, June 7
- XSLT/XPath Basics, June 11-13
- Introduction to XSL-FO, June 14
and hosting two classes offered by Black Mesa Technologies:
- Introduction to XForms, June 8-9
- XQuery for Documents, June 15-16
To register for the Mulberry classes call 301/315-9631 or send email
to info(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
To register for the Black Mesa Technologies classes call 505/747-4224 or
send email to info(_at_)blackmesatech(_dot_)com.
A bit more about these classes:
- XML Basics June 4-6
http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/c-basics-xml.html
Intended for people who have an interest in textual documents, such
as writers, editors, and programmers with HTML or typesetting
experience, this class focuses on use of XML with text. By the end
of the class, participants will have created a valid XML document,
corrected well-formedness and validity errors, written a DTD, and
will understand the differences between XML DTDs, the W3C XML Schema,
and RELAX NG (although none of the schema languages are covered in depth).
- Introduction to Schematron, June 7
http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/c-schematron-intro.html
Schematron is a tool for finding things out about XML documents. It is
used to check things that may be valid but that are often incorrect and
to report on the status of a document or document collection. Participants
learn to use Schematron to identify both the presence and absence of data
and patterns, and are introduced to some of the more complex things one
can write with Schematron. In addition, participants learn enough XPath to
get started with Schematron.
- XSLT/XPath Basics, June 11-13
http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/c-intro-xslt.html
XSLT, the non-procedural language for transforming XML into other data
formats,
and XPath, its companion specification for identifying parts of XML
documents,
are widely used to convert XML data into other data formats, including:
display
forms such as HTML, database load formats, and XML according to other DTDs.
This
class teaches the principles and practice of XSLT/XPath. Centered around the
abstract data model of XML, students learn to create and prioritize
templates;
use expressions, patterns, and functions to select nodes and create output;
and create elements, attributes, processing instructions, and comments in
their
output.
- Introduction to XSL-FO, June 14
http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/c-intro-xslfo.html
XSL-FO (Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects) is a
non-procedural
language for formatting XML documents for page presentation. This course
introduces the principles and practice of using formatting objects.
Participants
learn how to put content into page regions and format it, and how to define
page
regions such as headers, footers, and margins. We discuss XSL-FO’s
relationship to
XSLT as participants process XML through XSLT first to XSL-FO and then from
XSL-FO
to pages.
- Introduction to XForms, June 8-9
http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/06/xforms/
This course introduces XForms as a technology for building
special-purpose XML editors with focused functionality and
correspondingly simple user interfaces. XForms is built on the
model / view / controller idiom, in which the 'model' is a set of
XML documents, the 'view' is specified using XHTML and XForms
widgets, and the 'controller' takes the form of declarative links
between widgets and elements or attributes in the XML documents.
- XQuery for Documents, June 15-16
http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/06/xquery/
This course introduces XQuery as a flexible language for working
with natural-language documents (books, prose, verse, drama,
correspondence, historical documents, articles, legislation, etc.)
encoded in XML. The focus is on the application of XQuery to
textual material with complex and variable structure, as opposed to
the typically simpler, more regular structures of data-oriented
XML. The course will cover XPath location paths, atomic values,
sequences of values, the XDM data model, FLWOR expressions,
function declarations, regular expressions and string manipulation,
collections, and the full-text extensions to XQuery.
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B. Tommie Usdin
mailto:btusdin(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com
17 West Jefferson Street Phone: 301/315-9631
Suite 207 Direct Line: 301/315-9634
Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285
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