<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><div><div>I am a recent graduate of the Masters' Program in Information
Management and Systems at the University of California, Berkeley. One
of my emphases at Berkeley was in XML, but, with everything else I had
to do, I didn't have time to look into XSLT as deeply as I wanted.<br>
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Then, just last month, I had the opportunity to take a course in XSLT,
XQuery, and XSL-FO offered by Crane Softwrights, Ltd. It was a great
course, and I now feel vastly more at home in XSLT, and very well
acquainted with XQuery and FO, which I didn't know at all going into
the course. The course consisted of five 8-hour days on XSLT and
XQuery and three on FO, and covered the entire W3C recommendations. <br>
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The instructor was G. Ken Holman, principal of Crane Softwrights and a
world-class expert in XML. Ken was a member of the committee that
developed XML and a founding chairman of both the XML Conformance
Committee and the XSLT/XPath Conformance Committee. He is co-editor of
the OASIS UBL 2.0 specification and chairman of the OASIS Code List
Representation Technical Committee.<br>
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At the end of the eight days, I told Ken how much I liked the course
and that I thought a lot of my classmates in the San Francisco Bay Area
would be interested in taking it over the summer. After talking it
over, we decided it was worth a try to set something up for July or
August. We also thought it would be great if the course had a mixture
of full-time students and XML users from workplaces. <br>
The course would be conducted at a hotel in the area, such as the
Embassy Suites in Walnut Creek. Ease of access by public
transportation, such as BART, would be a requirement. Based on the
results of the survey and success in finding corporate participants,
I'll follow up with another posting as quickly as possible. <br>
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At this early stage the dates have not yet been selected and will be
determined based on the feedback from a survey soliciting interest.
You'll find the survey at<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7DK2sxNiXHTSQQXvtJZtcw_3d_3d">http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7DK2sxNiXHTSQQXvtJZtcw_3d_3d</a></span><br>
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The cost is expected to be approximately US$500-US$550 per day (the
lesser price for former customers, early registration and multiple
seats).<br>
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These are the most in-depth configurations of Crane's XSL and XQuery
training classes, covering the use of every element, every attribute,
every keyword and every function of both XSLT/XPath 1.0 and 2.0 and
XQuery 1.0, and every formatting object of XSL-FO 1.0 and 1.1 with more
detail and more exercises than other available configurations of
Crane's material.<br>
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Use the links that follow to view the course syllabi:<br>
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Practical Transformation Using XSLT, XQuery and XPath (5 days):<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/ptuxq/ptuxqsyl.htm">http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/ptuxq/ptuxqsyl.htm</a></span><br>
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Practical Formatting Using XSL-FO (3 days):<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/pfux/pfuxsyl.htm">http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/pfux/pfuxsyl.htm</a></span><br>
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The venue for the courses is to be determined, but will be in the Berkeley/Walnut Creek area, California<br>
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For those who are unfamiliar with Ken Holman's extensive credentials, here's a link to his bio:<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.htm">http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/bio/gkholman.htm</a></span><br>
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For those who still cannot make it to the new class, we have extended
the free worldwide shipping of our hyperlinked interactive 24-hour XSLT
DVD-ROM video product:<br>
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<a target="_blank" href="http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/ptux/ptux-video.htm">http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training/ptux/ptux-video.htm</a></span><br>
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If you are interested in having Crane Softwrights teach publicly or
privately in any area of the world, please contact Ken directly <br>
(gkholman at CraneSoftwrights.com).<br>
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If you are interested in this July/August training, be quick to select your preferred dates before we lock in.<br>
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Thanks!<br>
-Jim Miller, MIMS, UC Berkeley School of Information, Class of '09</div></div></div></body></html>