Using XSLT for QA

(2-hr advanced seminar)

Your content is now in XML; perhaps it has taken considerable trouble and expense to get it into that form. Will editorial and pre-press see the pointy brackets merely as a foreign language? Or is there a way for editors and people in pre-press to capitalize on the much-vaunted advantages of XML?

All kinds of useful transformations can be designed that work with the document tagging to aid in editorial tasks, by putting automated processing at the service of (but not in the place of!) human beings.

How does this work? In this seminar we explore three different types of quality-checking uses of XSLT:

• Within a document
• In conjunction with supplementary documents
• In the context of a document collection

Prerequisites: This seminar is designed for people who are or will be involved in XML publishing.