MAT01 – Creating and Viewing XML Documents (Room 21)
(for: executives and business implementers)

Vladimir A. Geroimenko, Senior Lecturer and Larissa M. Geroimenko, Part-Time Lecturer, School of Computing, University of Plymouth, United Kingdom
This course provides a non-technical and visually-rich overview of the entire process of designing, creating and rendering a simple e-commerce application (from creating UML ontologies and XML schemas to rendering with Flash, HTML, Java and WAP/WML).
Prerequisites: None
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MAT02 – The W3C Document Object Model, Part 1 Theory (Room 13/14)
(for: technical implementers)

Philippe P. Le Hégaret, DOM Activity Lead, W3C, USA
The W3C Document Object Model is an industry initiative to allow access and manipulation of XML documents. This tutorial gives participants an introduction to the DOM, showing how the DOM aims to make it easy for users to manipulate their XML contents.
Prerequisites: Participants should have a basic understanding of XML and programming, including an understanding of an application programming interface.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MAT03 – Introduction to XML Schemas (Hall 10)
(for: technical implementers)

Ulrike Schäfer, IT Consultant, INFOTAKT information design, Germany
Compared to DTDs, XML schemas provide enhanced possibilities in defining information structures. This tutorial gives an introduction to the W3C XML schema language and demonstrates in example scenarios how XML schemas can be used for information modeling.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of XML and/or SGML and DTDs.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MAT04 – Integrating XML Signature and XML Encryption into Your Applications (Room 19)
(for: technical implementers)

Ed Simon, XML Security Architect, Entrust Technologies, Canada
How does one integrate the emerging XML Security technologies into applications and XML-based systems? Come and gain hands-on experience in XML Signature and XML Encryption with a co-author of both these specifications.
Prerequisites: Basic familiarity with XML, XSLT, and DOM.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None required. However, delegates who have a laptop with a Java programming environment installed, an XML-capable browser such as Internet Explorer 5.5, Xalan2 (from xml.apache.org), and vqServer (from www.vqsoft.com) will be able to directly run the demo programs that will be presented.

MAT05 – Linking Technologies at Work (Room 22)
(for: technical implementers)

Eric van der Vlist, CEO, Dyomedea, France
This tutorial explores some of the many ways to deal with the definition of links between nodes. The linking techniques covered will include containment, application links, DTD or XML Schema ID references, RDF and simple and extended XLinks.
Prerequisites: This tutorial will be beneficial for XML developers and designers having a first hand knowledge of XML technologies (XML 1.0, Namespaces in XML 1.0).
Delegate Technical Requirements: A PC/with XML Spy and MSXML 3.0 installed, not mandatory.

MAT06 – Industrial Data (EXPRESS) and XML Technologies (Room 32/33)
(for: technical implementers)

Kjell A. Bengtsson, SVP Marketing and Sales and Jorulv Rangnes, President, EPM Technology, Norway
This tutorial introduces the delegates to building XML implementations based on EXPRESS (ISO 10303-11) Data models for the Industrial and Engineering community. The workshop introduces projects world-wide.
Prerequisites: Programming and/or experience with data models.
Delegate Technical Requirements: May download material at : http://www.epmtech.jotne.com/learn/index.html

MBT01 – The Document Object Model, Part 2 Hands-On (Room 13/14)
(for: technical implementers)

Philippe P. Le Hégaret, DOM Activity Lead, W3C, USA
No purely theoretical course can replace the hands-on experience this introduction to the W3C DOM provides. Led by the W3C DOM WG Chair, this tutorial is an opportunity to find out how the DOM really works in today's XML products.
Prerequisites: Participants should have a basic understanding of XML and programming, including an understanding of an application programming interface.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MBT02 – Controlling Information Structures with Schemas and XSLT
(Hall 10)
(for: technical implementers)

Ulrike Schäfer, IT Consultant, INFOTAKT information design, Germany
Schema languages such as XML Schema, RELAX, and others provide enhanced possibilities to control information structures. XSLT can be used to add even more, context sensitive rules. This tutorial shows how to combine schemas and XSLT for this purpose.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of XML and/or SGML and DTDs
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MBT03 – Using the W3C XML Query Language (Room 19)
(for: technical implementers)

Jonathan W. Robie, R&D Fellow, Software AG, USA
This is a hands-on tutorial for the W3C XML Query language. As each feature is introduced, participants are able to then write queries that use them, and execute those queries on a running prototype implementation.
Prerequisites: None
Delegate Technical Requirements: If possible, participants should bring a laptop computer with a CD-ROM drive, so that they can install the software. Those who can not do should be able to look on with other participants.

MBT04 – Processing XML with Perl (Room 22)
(for: technical implementers)

Michel V. Rodriguez, Consultant, Perl & XML, France
This tutorial describes, using numerous code examples, the most useful Perl modules for generating and processing XML.
Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of Perl and XML.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MBT05 – Web Services for Java Programmers (Room 32/33)
(for: technical implementers)

Mark Colan, e-business evangelist and Doug Tidwell, Web Services Evangelist, IBM Corporation, USA
Are you ready to start programming Web Services applications? This workshop provides technical depth on all aspects of using Java to write Web Services applications: SOAP, UDDI, and WSDL.
Prerequisites: Experience in Java programming, basic understanding of XML.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MCT01 – Making Knowledge Management Work with XML, XLink, Topic Maps, and AI (Hall 8)
(for: executives and business implementers)

H. Holger Rath, Director of Consulting, empolis Content Management GmbH; Ralph Traphöner, Director Research & Consulting, empolis Knowledge Management GmbH, Germany
Enterprise Knowledge Management deals with knowledge about products, processes, people. The tutorial presents KM methodologies, discusses use of XML, XLink, and Topic Maps in KM, introduces practical AI approaches, and describes a general system architecture.
Prerequisites: A basic understanding of XML may help, but is not necessary.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MCT02 – NewsML and PRISM – XML in the News (Room 28/29)
(for: business implementers)

Daniel Rivers-Moore, Director of New Technologies and Jay Cousins, Consultant/Analyst, RivCom, United Kingdom
This tutorial describes the conceptual basis and practical applications of NewsML and PRISM, key standards for the news and publishing industries.
Prerequisites: The tone of the tutorial will be rigorous, but non-technical. Clear thinking will be required but grappling with syntax and coding will not.
Delegate Technical Requirements: None

MCT03 – XML and Related Standards at Work (Room 15/16)
(for: business implementers)

Paul Hermans, CEO, Pro Text, Belgium
In this tutorial we bring most of the web standards to life. Delegates learn: to build an XML file; to combine elements with other elements using namespaces; to display the XML using CSS and XSLT; to modify the XML by using the DOM; and to add advanced hypertext facilities using XLink and RDF.
Prerequisites: None - this is an introductory level course.
Delegate Technical Requirements: A computer with IE 5 installed.

MCT04 – Dynamic Web Publishing with XML and XSL (Hall 4)
(for: business implementers)

Benjamin Jung, CEO and John McKeown, CTO, deepX Ltd., Ireland
This tutorial provides an introduction to the relevant technologies for publishing XML content electronically (e.g. on the Web). In particular, it focuses on using XSL Transformations (XSLT) to transform XML documents for publication.
Prerequisites: Delegates attending this workshop should have a basic knowledge of HTML. An understanding of XML would also be beneficial, but is not essential.
Delegate Technical Requirements: Each delegate should bring a laptop with a CD-ROM drive and a maximum of 25MB of free hard disk space. A Web browser with a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) is also required. If necessary, this may be installed during the tutorial using prepared CD-ROMs.

MCT05 – Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath (Room 11/12)
(for: business implementers)

G. Ken Holman, CTO, Crane Softwrights Ltd., Canada
The instructor provides hands-on exposure to the Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath) W3C Recommendations used for transforming instances of XML into other vocabularies.
Prerequisites: Knowledge of XML constructs and syntax; knowledge of operating system command-line environment to do the exercises.
Delegate Technical Requirements: A laptop with floppy disk or CD-ROM drive

MCT06 – What Do Topic Maps Mean? (Hall 9)
(for: technical implementers)

Michel Biezunski, Consultant, InfoLoom, France; Steven R Newcomb, Consultant, Coolheads Consulting, USA
Topic Maps take three basic forms: (1) Interchangeable source code, in the form of XML or SGML documents, (2) Topic Map Graphs (somewhat like DOM trees, but with different node classes), and (3) Formatted instances of finding aid resources (such as indexes and glossaries). Accurate transformations among these three forms require a deep understanding of the exact significance of topic map constructs. This first-time-ever workshop provides deep insights into these transformations, and thus into the essential nature of topic map information; it also touches on the increasingly intimate relationship between topic maps and RDF.
Prerequisites: Working knowledge of XML and/or Web applications
Delegate Technical Requirements: None