[jats-list] [ANN] Classes on XML, Schematron, XSLT, XSL-FO, and BITS

Subject: [jats-list] [ANN] Classes on XML, Schematron, XSLT, XSL-FO, and BITS
From: Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 17:46:55 -0500
Mulberry is pleased to announce classes and seminars on several XML-related
topics:


- BITS  JATS for Books, 2-hour free seminar, November 29, 2012

- XML Basics, December 3-5, 2012
- Introduction to Schematron, December 6, 2012
- BITS  JATS for Books, 2-hour free seminar, December 18, 2012

- XML Basics, February 4-6, 2013
- Introduction to Schematron, February 7, 2013
- XSLT/XPath Basics, February 11-13, 2013
- Introduction to XSL-FO, February 14, 2013

- XML Basics, May 6-8, 2013
- Introduction to Schematron, May 9, 2013
- XSLT/XPath Basics, May 12-14, 2013



To register for any of these Mulberry classes call 301/315-9631 or send email
to info@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


A bit more about these events:

- BITS  JATS for Books; an introduction to BITS
http://www.mulberrytech.com/services/classes/s-BITS.html
The National Library of Medicine has just announced the public
availability of a new XML model: BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite). BITS
was designed to meet the needs of publishers who are using JATS for journal
articles and want to process their books in similar XML. The JATS (Journal
Archiving Tag Suite) has been widely adopted for the XML encoding and
interchange of journal articles, and has recently become an ANSI/NISO
Standard (ANSI/NISO Z39.96-2012). The JATS models work well for much of
the body of books, but there are significant differences between journal
articles and books, which the new BITS model accommodates.


- XML Basics
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
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
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
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-FOs relationship to XSLT as participants process XML
through XSLT first to XSL-FO and then from XSL-FO to pages.



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B. Tommie Usdin                        mailto:btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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