Crane Softwrights Ltd. is a consultancy delivering Computer Systems Analysis and training services worldwide since April 1997. We focus primarily in structured text processing related to the Web-based Extensible Markup Language (W3C XML) family of Recommendations and the international Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML - ISO 8879:1986) family of Standards. We specialize in the structuring of and processing of information, in particular training and deploying the use of the W3C XSL/XSL-FO, XSLT, XPath and XQuery set of Recommendations and OASIS Universal Business Language (UBL) artefacts and systems for electronic commerce and transportation.
1. Announcements
XSLT/XPath Training video:
At the 2008 Balisage Conference Crane announced its new Video Training Series. The first title in the series is Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath Video, published 2008-08-08, and now available in DVD-ROM format for personal use or licensed for online real-time private delivery on an Intranet:
Upcoming publicly-attended training courses:
Internet lectures - two free over-the-Internet lectures (please see the Internet lecture page for details) with very limited attendance
Thursday March 4, 2010 17:00UTC - Introduction to the Universal Business Language
Thursday March 4, 2010 18:00UTC - Introduction to Code List Implementation
Prague, CZ - March 15-19, 2010 Register early! Limited class size!
- syllabus: XSLT/XPath 1.0 & 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Hands-on Training - 5 days - March 15-19, 2010
- instructor: G. Ken Holman
- venue information - Residence Retezová, Prague
- pricing/registration now open - Only 3 seats remain available - prices increase February 15, 2010
- held in conjunction with XML Prague 2010
- delivered in partnership with Mark Logic Corporation training services
- registration/cost information (note there is a 10% discount when sending more than one student) (register before the early-bird date of February 14, 2010 for the reduced fare; )
San Carlos, CA, USA - April 26-30, 2010
- syllabus: XSLT/XPath 1.0 & 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Hands-on Training - 5 days - April 26-30, 2010
- instructor: G. Ken Holman
- venue information - Mark Logic Corporation headquarters
- pricing/registration now open - prices increase April 5, 2010
- delivered in partnership with Mark Logic Corporation training services
- registration/cost information (note there is a 10% discount when sending more than one student) (register before the early-bird date of April 5, 2010 for the reduced fare; )
New "expressions of interest" for candidate upcoming training
We are considering new deliveries, please let us know your interest.
For years we have tried to anticipate what courses to offer for public subscription that would be of interest to registrants. We've decided to try turning that around and asking you to tell us which courses you would be interested in registering for.
We have booked time aside in our calendar for publicly-subscribed training, and we have identified venues where we would deliver certain classes. But we haven't yet committed to the expense of reserving the venue and making the travel arrangements. To do so, we need a reasonable certainty of having enough students register and pay to attend. The sooner you tell us of your interest in a class, the sooner we will know to formally open up registration for the class and make the financial obligations associated with doing so.
If you are interested in having us travel to your area of the world to teach publicly-subscribed courses for organizations in your geographical area, we would be pleased to discuss the opportunity with you. We have detailed our requirements and if a delivery is feasible we will post an announcement for a candidate course to establish the amount of local interest. We have had the privilege to have taught in many cities around the world.
New! For a limited time we are offering to deliver at no charge any of our one-hour lectures "over the net" to user groups around the world. We use Skype for audio and Yugma for screen sharing. Our ability to do this is of course subject to our busy travel schedule. Please see the list of lectures for details.
U.S. Government employees: - free access to your prepaid XSL book licenses
2. Services we provide
- Transform writing
- you need it; we write it!
- Transform mentoring
- you write it; we review and comment on it!
- Training delivery
- we teach it; you learn it!
- Training licensing
- we write it; you teach it!
- Book and training video sales
- we write it; you learn it!
- XML consulting
- you need help; we are here to help you!
3. Recommended reading
Who would have thought the interlinked web of information we use today, and the problems and shortcomings of how we are obliged to use it today by those who publish the information we need, was prophetically described in July 1945 by Vannevar Bush in the article titled As We May Think? This is a very interesting article, not only for its prophecy, but for its recommendations. To paraphrase the editor's assessment of Dr. Bush's conclusion of the article: "The perfection of instruments that give access to and command over the inherited knowledge of the ages should be the first objective of our scientists."
For the lighter side of SGML and XML, Joe English's NOT the comp.text.sgml FAQ is a fun read, and I think that Sean McGrath is absolutely brilliant with his DeXiderata and Lord of the Schemas: Part 1 as the funniest collections of observations regarding the XML community and technology.
The following are articles/papers that have been published by Crane:
- Global large-scale stylesheet deployment case study
- Simple Worldwide Aggregation Using XSLT
- XSL-FO in the Real World
- What is XSL-FO? - 2002-03-20 XML.com
- Experiments using XSLT with Topic Maps - 2000-12 XML'2000
- What is XSLT? - 2000-08-16 XML.com
- Vive la différence! (proposed for XML.com)
- What's the Big Deal With XSL? - 1999-04-22 XML.com
Ken has also contributed (though only in a small part so far) to the collection of SGML/XML songs.
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