TE - Advanced XSLT Design
Instructor: John T. Bennett, VP, Research & Development, Parlo
This tutorial will teach students to apply advanced functionality from the XSLT 1.0 specification to create modular, extensible, and maintainable stylesheets. Specific topics to be covered: Passing parameters into a stylesheet and from one template to another within a stylesheet; Creating and using variables appropriately; Using xsl:import to create a "cascading" stylesheet hierarchy; Using xsl:attribute for dynamic attribute values in XML and HTML output; When to use for-each loops vs. a separate template; Named templates and template modes; XPath and XSLT functions: count, position, last, starts-with, translate, other string functions; generate-id, id, and key; Character encoding issues; Strategies for designing modular, extensible, and maintainable stylesheets. This tutorial will conclude with discussion of a design framework that combines the specific techniques already discussed.

Pre-requisites / Thorough understanding of XML and XSLT, experience creating simple to moderately-complex XSLT stylesheets.
Attendee Requirements / Laptop with text editor or XML/XSLT editor, XML parser that fully supports XML + Namespaces and XSLT 1.0.

HL/TE - Information (Document) Analysis for DTD and Schema Development
Instructors: Deborah A. Lapeyre, Vice President, Mulberry Technologies, Inc. and Tonya R. Gaylord, Consultant, Mulberry Technologies, Inc.
Information (Document) Analysis is key to developing XML applications, just as it is in relational databases, SGML, and other structured information environments. Analysis of text and data involves special problems. Learn ways to approach these problems during this interactive tutorial.

Pre-requisites / No knowledge of XML syntax required. Familiarity with an XML/SGML vocabulary useful, but not necessary. Memory of sixth-grade outlining helpful!

TE - Modelling Topic Maps
Instructor: Steve Pepper, CEO, Ontopia
Attend this highly interactive tutorial that will teach a design methodology for topic maps. This workshop is suitable for knowledge workers, editorial staff, and consultants.

Pre-requisites / Delegates should have an understanding of basic topic map concepts and use cases, having either attended an introductory tutorial or read "The TAO of Topic Maps".

HL/TE - Reading and Writing DTDs
Instructor: Michael R. Hahn, Principal Consultant, DMSi
This hands-on tutorial will introduce students to the rationale and techniques behind the development of Document Type Definitions (DTDs).

Prerequisites / Basic knowledge of well-formed XML documents.
Attendee requirements / Laptop computer running Windows 95/98/NT/2000

HL - So You Want to Bring XML into Your Organization...
Instructors: Elaine M. Brennan, Principal, ebxml consulting and Jay Di Silvestri, Director of Business Development, SoftQuad Professional Services
Implementing XML in your organization isn't quite as simple as saying "hey, gang, let's use XML!" This tutorial will examine the political, cultural, and, lastly, technological issues that can make or break an implementation.

HL/TE - Topic Maps for Implementers
Instructors: Steven R. Newcomb, Consultant, Coolheads Consulting and Michel Biezunski, Consultant, Infoloom
This tutorial will focus on the interpretation of the syntaxes used for Topic Maps. Various processing seenarios will be discussed. Some scenarios involved parsing Topic Maps into elementary statements that can be expressed in terms of RDF (W3C's Resource Description Framework). Others involved manipulating the most elementary units of meaning via various APIs. An understanding of these elementary features is essential to making Topic Maps interoperable with applications that use RDF and DAML + OIL.

TE - XML Schemas Best Practices
Instructor: Roger L. Costello, Lead Engineer, The MITRE Corporation
The purpose of the Best Practices tutorial will be to shed light on all sides of each schema design issue, so that a schema designer is empowered to make intelligent design decisions.

Pre-requisites / Attendees must have a working knowledge of XML Schemas! For example, you must understand element substitution, type substitution, abstract types, Chameleon schemas, etc.
Attendee Requirements / This is a hands-on course! All attendees must bring a laptop with a CD drive. The instructor will bring a CD to the class containing the course material, which you will load at the start of the class.