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.
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Crane Softwrights Ltd. is a founding member of the http://goUBL.com commercial ecosystem for the support of UBL technology and UBL-based services and products. |
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Find Crane Softwrights Ltd. on the Tradeshift social business network. Crane offers commercial training and free resources related to Tradeshift. |
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Crane's Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath Video was published Oct, 31, 2011 on udemy: "The Academy of You" and offers five free hours of online video instruction, plus 19 hours of paid content covering our 5-day in-depth hands-on comprehensive training class. |
Advance notice: While maintaining our current charging rates for training and consulting in Canada and the United States, we are scheduled to significantly increase our international rates April 1, 2012. This reflects the fall in value of the Euro and the increase in our costs of doing business outside of North America. All work completely negotiated before April 1, 2012, regardless of delivery date, will be billed at the current 2011-2012 rates. We revisit rates every April 1.
1. Announcements
XSLT/XPath Training video now available on DVD-ROM and online:
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 in DVD-ROM format and 2011-10-31 online on udemy: "The Academy of You":
"Try and Buy PDF Book" policy now in place
All four of Crane's PDF book titles can now be downloaded for complete review at no charge according to our "Try and Buy PDF Book" policy that obliges users to either buy their downloaded copy or delete it. Registered purchasers have posting privileges on Crane's Book Buyer Forums where questions about the books are answered by the author.
Instructor-led classroom training is available for all four titles, either directly by the author hosted anywhere around the world, or by a training organization that licenses the materials for their own deliveries.
New training classes announced
Practical Use of oXygen XML is a collection of instructor-led hands-on classes guiding the student in the operation of the oXygen XML editor and author tools.
Tradeshift API Sandbox Quick-start establishes a working implementation on the student's computer of the Tradeshift Application Programming Interface (API) through the course of a three-hour one-on-one over-the-Internet hands-on class.
Internet lectures
We periodically offer free over-the-Internet lectures and will announce them here.
Upcoming publicly-attended instructor-led training courses:
At this time there are no other candidate or confirmed publicly-subscribed sessions. Please contact us if we can help you with a private delivery of training. See our summary of available course deliveries for the selection of titles from which you can choose.
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.
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.
U.S. Government employees: - free access to your two 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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