These skills can then be used after the course for self-study of any revisions to this standard and any formatting facets that cannot be covered in such a short course time. Many people find that the recommendations themselves are difficult to read and understand, while others find the documents outright scary. The curriculum covers the entire suite of functionality in the recommendations in order to understand how to be productive using tools in a production environment. A number of resources that are publicly available over the Internet are briefly overviewed so that the attendee can determine which materials are important to obtain and use. The hands-on exercises help cement XSLT and XPath concepts by leading the attendee to resolve basic, often initially frustrating, obstacles under the supervision of the instructor and collaboration with fellow students.
Exercises cover important concepts with simple objectives.
Attendees are invited to research completed exercise solutions without needing to derive the solutions on their own. During the course the exercises are timed to cover breaks so that students can choose to balance work time with break time should extra exercise time be required, thus reducing the chance of delaying the progress of the course material. Answers to all exercises are available to attendees. Crane Softwrights Ltd.