TAT01 – Using Data Conversion Techniques to Create Robust XML
(Room 28/29)
(for: executives and business implementers)

Dale Waldt, Principal, D. Waldt, Inc, USA
This tutorial explores different data conversion and enhancement techniques, systems, and services. Information design, enhancement, and management processes are explored. Methods for choosing the right techniques to meet business objectives and provide data usable in the required XML environment is explored. The attendee is able to plan an effective data capture, conversion or enhancement project.
Prerequisites: None
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TAT02 – Creating XML (Room 32/33)
(for: executives and business implementers)

Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology, SoftQuad Software, Canada
There are many ways of getting your data into XML. The most obvious are conversion and native XML authoring. This tutorial discusses the choices you have, and how they depend on the sort of process and data you have.
Prerequisites: A basic knowledge of XML.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TAT03 – WebCGM™ – and Intelligent Graphics in Web Environments
(Room 20)
(for: business and technical implementers)

Dieter Weidenbrück, CEO, ITEDO Software, Germany
WebCGM™, a W3C Recommendation since January, 1999, is a major step forward for Intranet and Internet document graphics, a composite vector/raster format with good HTML and XML integration facilities. CGM, an ISO standard since 1987, has long been a requirement in mission-critical technical document applications. This tutorial includes abstract, conceptual, and practical, hands-on parts. The instructor presents and discusses basic content and structure of a CGM, its applicability and domain, critical real-world interoperability issues and solutions, relationship to other Web content formats (XML, HTML, and the emerging SVG), and work in progress (e.g., CGM DOM) to improve the integration of CGM and WebCGM™ in XML environments. Attendees receive practical experience – how to actually work with WebCGM™, from some real-world Web graphics problems which are posed and solved during the tutorial, using available tools to generate, integrate, and maintain WebCGM™ technical graphics within a realistic, but fictitious Web scenario. A WebCGM™ interoperability demonstration is included.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of web technologies and standards, such as HTML.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TBT01 – Business Process Management, Enterprise Integration and Organizational Agility (Room 22)
(for: executives and business implementors)

Ishmael Ghalimi, CEO, Intalio and chair BPMI.org, USA; Howard Smith, CTO, Computer Sciences Corporation, Europe, United Kingdom; Doug Neal, CSC Research Services
The CEO is soon to be provided with, quite literally, an automagical "make it so" button. Developments in Business Process Management, mirroring the evolution of Database Management Systems, will allow us to standardise the design, deployment and management of strategic business processes that span multiple enterprise applications, corporate departments, and business partners, both behind the firewall and over the Internet. This tutorial shows how directly executable business models and forthcoming Business Process Management Systems (BPMS) massively simplify the multifaceted many-to-many Systems Integration challenge the majority of Global 5000 companies are facing and provides a fascinating glimpse into the future design of truly agile, knowledge aware, global businesses.
Prerequisites: None
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TBT02 – It's Tagged – Now What? (Room32/33)
(for: executives and business implementers)

Michael P. Cvetan, Training Manager, Progressive Information Technologies, USA
This tutorial looks at case studies in three verticle markets to give the audiance an understanding of the prerequisites, problems, processes, and possibilties of designing an editorial and workflow environment for tagged content in a database.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of XML, SGML, etc.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TBT03 – Getting Inside SVG: What Web Content Creators and Software Developers Should Know (Room 20)
(for: business and technical implementers)

Jon Ferraiolo, Senior Computer Scientist, Advanced Technology Group, Adobe Systems Incorporated, USA
Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) is the emerging W3C standard for rich 2D graphics to be used in Web browsers. Web content creators and software developers benefit from this in-depth technical session on SVG and its relationships to other Web standards. Topics include: relationship to other standards, such as XML, XHTML, DOM and CSS, comparison with features in PostScript and PDF, DOM and scripting, animation and interactivity, template objects, color-managed display and printing, internationalized text support, fonts, client-side filter effects, accessibility, metadata, embedded private data, and extensibility.
Prerequisites: General knowledge of XML.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TBT04 – Distributed XML Content Creation: Enabling Non-XML Users to Create and Edit Content (Room 28/29)
(for: technical implementers)

Lauren Wood, Director of Product Technology, SoftQuad Software, Canada; Tim Nutman, Senior Sales Engineer, SoftQuad Software, United Kingdom
Using the XMetaL content authoring tool as its basis, this half-day tutorial looks at how the intricacies of creating XML can be masked from non-technical users. Topics covered include: creating appropriate DTDs, presenting a user interface through the use of CSS, tailoring tool-bars and menus, and building Scriptable behaviours to guide non-technical users. This tutorial is designed for technical implementers and developers involved in e-publishing, web-publishing or other XML projects that involve content creation by non-XML experts.
Prerequisites: General knowledge of XML and some knowledge of scripting.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TBT05 – Creating E-Commerce Web Sites and Applications with XML and Flash 5 ActionScript (Room 21)
(for: technical implementers)

Vladimir A. Geroimenko, Senior Lecturer and Larissa M. Geroimenko, Part-Time Lecturer, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
The tutorial provides hands-on explanations of how to read and write XML documents with ActionScript, and how to manipulate XML nodes and transform documents. The potential and benefits of Flash-based XML interfaces are discussed and demonstrated.
Prerequisites: Basic understanding of XML and JavaScript.
Delegate Technical Requirements: The attendee needs to bring a laptop computer with Macromedia Flash 5. A 30-day trial version of this software is available at www.macromedia.com

TCT01 – Practical Formatting Using XSLFO (Room 11/12)
(for: business implementers)

G. Ken Holman, CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada
The instructor provides hands-on exposure to the Extensible Stylesheet Language Formatting Objects (XSLFO) W3C Recommendation used to render XML information to print and other paginated media.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of XML, XSLT and XPath constructs and syntax; knowledge of operating system command-line environment to do the exercises.
Delegate Technical Requirements: A laptop computer with floppy disk or CD-ROM drive

TCT02 – The X Files on Java (Room 15/16)
(for: technical implementers)

Chris Loftus, Head of Training, JayDee Technology, United Kingdom
Are you afraid that you are being left out of the Java, eBusiness world? Do you want to know how Java can work with XML? This tutorial tells you how to access XML documents from Java.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of XML; understanding of programming concepts; ideally basic knowledge of Java.
Delegate Technical Requirements: If possible, delegates should bring a PC to develop software on.

TCT03 – How to Catch a Topic Map (Hall 9)
(for: technical implementers)

Steve Pepper, Founder and Chief Technology Officer and Kal Ahmed, Principal Consultant, Ontopia Ltd, United Kingdom
This tutorial concentrates on the practical issues in developing topic maps. The focus is on technical solutions to the problems of topic map creation, maintenance and connecting resources to topic maps.
Prerequisites: None
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

TCT04 – XML Schema: Hands-on Introduction to Tools and Concepts
(Hall 4)
(for: technical implementers)

Henry S. Thompson, Principal Scientist, HCRC Language Technology Group, United Kingdom
XML Schema has profound implications for how XML is used. This tutorial provides a hands-on introduction to XML Schema authoring and validating with free tools.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with XML Schema, (suggest attending one of the Monday Schema tutorials - MAT03 or MBT02). Some experience with using, authoring and/or maintaining DTDs would be helpful.
Delegate Technical Requirements: A laptop computer.

TCT05 – ASP, XML and the DOM (Room 13/14)
(for: technical implementers)

Chris Ziener, Director, Noonetime, USA
This hands-on course focuses on creating ASP (Active Server Pages) using the DOM to enable Web delivery from XML sources.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of XML and VBScript.
Delegate Technical Requirements: A laptop with IE 5.x installed and either personal web server or IIS.