November 16, 2005

Announce: XSL training and no-charge UBL to PDF formatting announced at XML'2005 (XSL List)

While this is obviously more suited for the announcements section of this site, given that the main feed has been pretty much all I have had time to keep up with on any sort of regular basis (something that will change... just not right now.) I figured why stick it all the way to the back of the site when I can fill a bit of the void that exists even on the main feed post's. Besides, given the fact that this is from Mr. G. Ken Holman himself it seems only fitting to bring whatever it is he has to say, offer, or otherwise promote to the very front of the line, as this is a spot that he has obviously MORE than earned...

As such, I will let his post to XSL-List earlier this morning take it from here(BTW... If you need XSL-FO, XSL-T, and/or overall XML training for you and/or your employees and you simply want the very best there is in North America, you basically have two choices: G. Ken Holman and Craine Softwrights and Mulberry Technologies. There are some other good ones as well, and bringing consultants into the picture theres definitely a few more folks I would need to add to the list (see the main page of this site for just such a list) but in regards to training? There's know one like these guys. When you've been working with XML-like markup languages since the early days of SGML like both of these folks have, it would a bit difficult to try and suggest otherwise:

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In a XML'2005 poster in Atlanta today, Crane Softwrights Ltd. announced the availability of commercial-grade publishing of UBL instances to PDF format with freely-downloadable components[1].

Using digitally-signed XSL-FO stylesheet manifests, users of the Universal Business Language 1.0 vocabulary[2] can use the Crane UBL XSLT/XSL-FO stylesheets unchanged to produce quality PDF renderings from UBL XML document instances using the Java-based Ibex Signature Edition XSL-FO processor. There are no charges to download and use these components to produce UN Layout Key renderings of instances of UBL's eight document types.

Also announced is the scheduling of publicly-subscribed XSL training[3] in Denver Colorado the week of March 13-17, 2006: 3 days hands-on XSLT followed by 2 days hands-on XSL-FO. Discounts are available for early registration and for attending both sessions.

Please let me know if you should have any questions on either of these announcements.

. . . . . . . Ken

[1] Follow the "Free resources" link in the home page noted below.

[2] The OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) defines a generic XML interchange format for business documents. UBL is designed to provide a universally understood and recognized commercial syntax for legally binding business documents and to operate within a standard business framework such as ISO 15000 (ebXML) to provide a complete, standards-based infrastructure that can extend the benefits of existing EDI systems to businesses of all sizes. UBL is freely available to everyone without legal encumbrance or licensing fees.

[3] Follow the event links in the "Announcements" section on the home page noted below.

cc: UBL-dev, UBL TC, XML Dev, XSL List, Yahoo-XSL-FO, XML-L, XML-Doc

p.s. sorry for the duplicates to subscribers of multiple lists

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