- From: C. M. Sperberg-McQueen <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
- Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:12:53 -0600
- To: www-ql@w3.org
- Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
[Subscribers to this list may be interested in the XQuery course mentioned below. Apologies to those who see multiple copies of this announcement.] Black Mesa Technologies is pleased to announce two hands-on introductory courses, one on XForms and one on XQuery, to take place in November 2012, in Rockville, Maryland. INTRODUCTION TO XFORMS FOR XML USERS 8-9 November 2012, 9:30 - 5:30 http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/11/xforms/ XForms allows you to develop vocabulary- and task-specific editors which require less training and provide better task-specific support than full XML editors; domain experts can thus examine and modify XML encoding mor easily, and routine tasks can be performed more quickly and reliably. 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 13-14 November 2012, 9:30 - 5:30 http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/11/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XQuery as a flexible language for working with natural-language documents (books, prose, verse, drama, correspondence, historical documents, articles, legislation, etc.)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. LOGISTICS The courses will be held on the dates indicated, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. at Mulberry Technologies, Inc. 17 West Jefferson St., Suite 207 Rockville, MD 20850 For other logistical information, see http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/11/xforms http://www.blackmesatech.com/2012/11/xquery Thanks to Mulberry Technologies for hosting the courses. REGISTRATION / INFO To reserve a space, to register, or to ask for more information, please send email to info@blackmesatech.com or call us at 505/747-4224. FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS [If you'd like to receive announcements of future courses (etc.) by email, go to http://lists.blackmesatech.com/blackmesatech-announce-l/ to sign up for the Black Mesa Technologies announcement list.] -- **************************************************************** * C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Black Mesa Technologies LLC * http://www.blackmesatech.com * http://cmsmcq.com/mib * http://balisage.net ****************************************************************
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