To: Attendees of Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath

Any XSLT processor supporting the W3C XSLT vocabulary is acceptable for working the exercises in the "Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath" course. The Saxon processor is brought to the course by the instructor, but if you wish to obtain the software in advance of the course the following is needed (if you don't already have a copy):

1) Attendees wanting to work in raw Java need the following two items:

1a) - a Java environment

http://www.java.sun.com/products/jdk/1.1/jre/index.html

1b) - Java-based Saxon (full Java executables, over 2Mb download)

http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/

2) Attendees working in a Windows environment wanting to work from the
command line:

2a) - latest Microsoft Java Virtual Machine

http://www.microsoft.com/java/vm/dl_vm32.htm

2b) - Instant Saxon (Windows executable, about 300Kb download)

http://users.iclway.co.uk/mhkay/saxon/

3) Attendees working in a Windows environment wanting to use MSXML3 with IE5:

3a) - latest IE5 MSXML3 driver (about 650kb download)

http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/webtechnology/xml/msxml.asp

3b) - MSXML technology FAQ

http://www.netcrucible.com/xslt/msxml-faq.htm

Note that all course exercises will be supplied at the venue and are copyrighted and only for use by the attendees.

Please see http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/schedule.htm#ptux for a link to the syllabus of the material.

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