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<title>XML Prague 2010</title><biblioid class="uri">http://norman.walsh.name/2010/01/24/xmlprague</biblioid>
<volumenum>13</volumenum>
<issuenum>2</issuenum>
<pubdate>2010-01-24T13:27:40-05:00</pubdate>
<author>
      <personname>
<firstname>Norman</firstname>
	<surname>Walsh</surname>
</personname>
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<copyright>
      <year>2010</year>
      <holder>Norman Walsh</holder>
    </copyright>
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<para>See you at XML Prague! And a chance to plug some really
excellent training.</para>
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<para xml:id="p1">I'm delighted that my paper proposal for
<link xlink:href="http://www.xmlprague.cz/2010/">XML Prague</link>
was accepted. I'm a little less delighted that the final paper
deadline was last week, but I guess that's encouragement to finish it,
eh? (I will, I promise.)</para>

<para xml:id="p2">I'm going to speak about modular documentation in DocBook, both
about the proposal for “assemblies” being developed in the
<link xlink:href="http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=docbook">DocBook
Technical Committee</link>
and about my
<link xlink:href="http://xproc.org/">XProc</link>-based implementation.</para>

<para xml:id="p3">I mention these things for only two reasons<footnote>
<para xml:id="p4">In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out that
<link xlink:href="http://www.marklogic.com/">Mark Logic</link> is a gold
sponsor of the conference and Ken's course is being delivered in partnership
with our own
<link xlink:href="http://www.marklogic.com/services/training.html">training
services</link>. I don't think that makes me baised, but I guess I
wouldn't, would I?</para>
</footnote>: first, to recommend
that
<link xlink:href="http://www.xmlprague.cz/">XML Prague</link>
is a conference you need to go to if you're interested
in XML technologies. It's that good.</para>

<para xml:id="p5">Second, to plug
<personname>
      <firstname>G. Ken</firstname>
      <surname>Holman</surname>
    </personname>’s
<link xlink:href="http://www.cranesoftwrights.com/index.html#Crane201003CZ">XSLT/XPath
1.0 &amp; 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Hands-on Training</link> class. If you're looking
for someone to teach you XSLT and XQuery, you'd be hard pressed to do better
than Ken. And if you're interested in XML, these are technologies you
<emphasis>need</emphasis> to know.
The maximum class size is an astonishing <emphasis>six</emphasis>, so it's
practically 1:1. Yet another reason to be in Prague in March</para>

<para xml:id="p6">See you there!</para>

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