This two day class teaches the basic concepts of XML. This course is appropriate for technical writers, publication department managers, and information technology personnel who are considering migrating to XML-based publishing. Students will learn how XML can improve and transform conventional publishing processes.
Familiarity with HTML. Some familiarity with programming languages is helpful, but not required.
Alan Houser is a principal partner with Group Wellesley, a Pittsburgh, PA-based company that provides authoring, content management, and workflow consulting services. Hourse is co-author of XML Weekend Crash Course, published by John Wiley and Sons in 2001
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This three-day course completely covers the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath) Recommendations of the World Wide Web Consortium. XSLT and XPath are used together for transforming XML documents to other formats or vocabularies (e.g. XML to XML, XML to HTML, XML to WML, XML to text, etc.). Every element, attribute, and function of XSLT and XPath are covered. Students will design and develop XSLT scripts during hands-on exercise sessions.