IHC97, XML Developers Day, Tutorials
Subject: IHC97, XML Developers Day, Tutorials
Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 12:54:19 -0400
From: melledge@printing.org
Newsgroup: comp.text.sgml
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PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT --- WATCH FOR FURTHER DETAILS!
GCA presents......
THE 4th INTERNATIONAL HYTIME CONFERENCE
TUTORIALS
XML DEVELOPER+S DAY
August 19-20, 1997
Le Centre Sheraton Hotel
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
IHC+97 -- 4th International HyTime Conference
Conference Chair: Steve Newcomb, President, TechnoTeacher, Inc.
HyTime is one of the SGML family of ISO standards for information
representation and interchange. HyTime is the only internationally
standard way to represent hypermedia documents, and, with its object
structure modeling capabilities, which undergird the "grove" paradigm
used in SGML (including XML) and DSSSL, it is unarguably the most
general, abstract, and advanced way to use SGML, and to re-use
information of all kinds in every way.
This conference brings together HyTime users, prospective HyTime
users, systems vendors, systems integrators, applications developers,
consultants, and researchers to compare notes, share lore, ask
questions, and develop answers. These annual GCA-sponsored
conferences on HyTime are unique opportunities for everyone who wants
to explore the cutting edge of practical hypermedia information
interchange.
For questions and more information on attending the conference, please
contact the GCA at 100 Daingerfield Road, 4th Floor, Alexandria, Virginia
22314-2228 (Telephone: +1 703 519 8160, Fax: +1 703 548 2867
or visit GCA's Web site at http://www.gca.org.
A technical conference for XML developers will be held Thursday,
August 21, in Montreal, Canada. The event will immediately follow
four days of tutorials and the IHC+97 sessions.
XML DEVELOPERS DAY
Chair: Jon Bosak, Sun Microsystems
XML Developers Day is a single-track event devoted entirely to
technical reports on the latest developments in XML implementation.
If you are engaged in the development of any software that works with
XML -- converters, parsers, servers, clients, or XML-based vertical
applications -- here is your chance to share your work with an
audience that can understand and appreciate it. The XML specification
includes a subset of DSSSL, so implementors of DSSSL tools that work
with XML are invited to report on their efforts as well. Vendors of
commercial tools can participate, but they must confine their
presentations to the technical aspects of current XML products in
development. Table space will be made available for the distribution
of product announcements and commercial literature.
If you would like to give a report at this event, please send a
paragraph or two describing your presentation, based on a conservative
estimate of the status of your project as it will stand on August 21,
to Marion Elledge of the GCA (melledge@printing.org). Also include a
description of the audio-visual equipment you will need for your
presentation.
Since we want up-to-the-minute reports on activities in progress,
there will be no published proceedings, and therefore you need not
submit your entire presentation in advance. But please try to make
your forecasted description as accurate as possible so that the
conference organizers can choose the most interesting and relevant
submissions. Demonstrations of running software will be given special
consideration. The deadline for submissions is July 1, 1997.
Tutorials -- Sunday and Monday, August 17-18
Eliot Kimber's HyTime Course*
Introduction To XML
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL
*All HyTime beginners are urged to attend this course. It will provide the
understandings needed to participate fully in the conference.
Eliot Kimber+s HyTime Course
Instructor: Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting Engineer, Highland Consulting
In this tutorial, Mr. Kimber introduces the key concepts in HyTime,
including hyperlinking, addressing, architectures, groves, and property sets
while also providing practical instruction on how to declare
HyTime-conforming element types and create HyTime documents. The sessions
include many working demonstrations using a variety of HyTime tools, all of
which students may take with them at the end of the course.
Introduction to Extensible Markup Language (XML)
Instructor: Tim Bray, co-editor of XML, Principal, Textuality
XML, the Extensible Markup Language, is a true subset of SGML designed for
use on the Internet. It supports all the structural and validation features
expected from SGML. The name emphasizes the key features expected from SGML.
The name emphasizes the key features as it will be seen by an HTML user --
the ability to define new tags and attributes.
This tutorial reviews the XML specification to to bottom. Attendees go away
with a complete understanding of the XML specification at a level sufficient
enough to construct a parser, as well as the motivation for all aspects of
the design.
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL
Instructor: Ken Holman, Crane Softwrights Ltd.
"Practical Formatting Using DSSSL" introduces the concepts and formatting
basics of the Document Style Semantics and Specification Language using the
publicly available James' Awesome DSSSL Engine program. The course combines
the use of lectures and hands-on exercises to convey the material.
Attendees are invited to bring a Windows'95- or Windows'NT-equipped
personal computer for the practical exercises. The objectives of the
course are to understand the role of the DSSSL standard and the utility of
the JADE application, to successfully write DSSSL programs and to
efficiently navigate the available documentation and resources.
Pre-requisites:
Attendees must have knowledge of SGML concepts and syntax, as this is not
covered explicitly in the course. To participate in the hands-on exercises
using JADE, they must have either Windows'95 or Windows'NT. Attendees will
be informed of a number of resources that are freely available from the
Internet that are required, though copies will be made available at the
course. It does help to have some computer programming experience to do the
exercises, though this is not mandatory as non-programmers are given
complete solutions to research in place of deriving the exercise solutions
on their own.
HyTime/DSSSL/XML Developers:
Time will be alloted during the week for demonstration of existing products
or products in development to support HyTime, XML, and DSSSL. If you are
interested in participating, please contact Marion Elledge at GCA.
Telephone: +1 703/519-8193 or email: melledge@gca.org.
Hotel Information
Le Centre Sheraton Hotel is located at 1201, Boulevard Rene Levesque Quest
in Montreal, Quebec. GCA has negotiated a conference room rate of $130
single/ $160 double Canadian dollars. These rates are exclusive of
provincial and federal sales taxes.
For reservations, call the hotel directly at (514) 878-2000, Fax (514)
878-8214 and identify yourself as a GCA/HyTime/XML attendee. The cut-off
date for reservations is July 25. After that date, reservations are on a
space/rate availability.
Registration Information
To Register
Contact:
Graphic Communications Association
100 Daingerfield Road
Alexandria, VA 22314-2888 USA
Phone: +1 703/519-8160 or in the US call 1-800-SGML-GCA
FAX: +1 703/548-2867 with credit card information
Web site: www.gca.org
IHC+97/Tutorial/XML Developers Registration
IHC+97 Fees:
GCA Nonmember: $645
GCA Member: $505
Tutorials:
Eliot Kimbers Hytime Course Fees (two-day course):
Sunday-Monday, August 17-18
GCA Nonmember $735
GCA Member $560
XML Tutorial (one-day course):
Monday, August 18
GCA Nonmember $375
GCA Member $280
Practical Formatting Using DSSSL (one-day course):
Monday, August 18
GCA Nonmember $375
GCA Member $280
XML Developers Day
GCA Nonmember $325
GCA Member $200
DISCOUNT: Take 10% off total fees if you register for any tutorial, IHC+97,
and the XML Developers Day.
THIS EVENT IS CO-SPONSORED BY GCA AND SGML OPEN