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Friday, November 18 | Full Day Tutorials

9:00 am - 5:30 pm

Roll Your Own Web Service: A Behind the Screens look at SOAP, HTTP, and other Components
Instructor(s): Devan Shepherd, CEO & Chief Technical Officer, XMaLpha Technologies, USA
Learn to build a Web Service from scratch. Discover how SOAP relates to other XML vocabularies (e.g. WSDL and UDDI) and integrates with transport protocols, such as HTTP. Take-away working-code examples of SOAP clients and servers to explore on your own.

Pre-Requisites: A basic awareness of well-formed XML syntax and validation enforced using DTDs and XML Schemata is recommended.
Technology Requirements: Attendees will be given a website address that they can use to access the files tools, utilities, and workshops presented in the tutorial.


XML Design Considerations using W3C XML Schema
Instructor(s): Priscilla Walmsley, Managing Director, Datypic, USA
This tutorial will weigh the many alternatives for designing XML documents and their schemas. It will present common, reusable design patterns for XML data, and recommendations on issues such as namespace use, modularity, extensibility and versioning.

Pre-Requisites: assumes detailed knowledge of XML, Namespaces and W3C XML Schema
Technology Requirements: None


XML Development Jump Start for Engineers!
Instructor(s): Dale Waldt, Senior Consultant, aXtive minds, USA
Quickly jump start your developers with just enough on XML, Schema, XSLT, XPath, and other XML processing technology. Walk out a proficient ML developer!

Pre-Requisites: Some exposure to HTML and markup helpful.
Technology Requirements: CD will be provided to attendees who wish to follow along with exercise demonstrations, but a laptop is not required.