>I am scheduled to give a lecture on XML usage next wednesday evening (Sep 6) in the UT VFP chat room. I started to put together an outline this weekend and quickly came to the realization that the material that I wanted to cover wouldn't fit into one or even two sessions. I think that more benefit might be gained by breaking the lecture into three parts, possibly on three consecutive evenings (5th, 6th, 7th) :
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>Using the MS XML parser
>XSL transformation
>Practical XML usage
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>I wanted to get a feel for who might be interested in attending all three, or who might be turned off by too much time spent. If there is not enough interest in breaking this into 3 sessions, I will contain the lecture to one session, and host sort of a guided Q&A.
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>Input?

Three parts sounds nice. The problem that could occur here. Is it going to be too many things to learn in such a short period (three days). I don't know a thing about XML. Will those sessions be aimed at beginning or intermediate?

And like Nadya asked. Is there something to learn or to know before?

If there is something to know, for example a book to read. Please give us enough time to do it (if possible).

I guess that you want to have questions for that chat session. Here's my contribution.

Why would I want to use XML?
What will XML give me that I'm not able to do at this moment?
What tools do I need (preferably free to begin with) to make it work?