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

Indicate your interest here

Prague, CZ - March 15-19, 2010 Register early! Limited class size!

San Carlos, CA, USA - April 26-30, 2010

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.

Please tell us ASAP if you would register for any of our candidate upcoming deliveries we are considering. Click here for the summary list and interest form. Note for some overlapping dates we are suggesting different topics and different class lengths. Tell us all of the choices you would consider 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:

Ken has also contributed (though only in a small part so far) to the collection of SGML/XML songs.

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