Tutorials

This page points to a number of tutorials all called "XXX for the Impatient", where XXX is the name of an XML technology or an XML vocabulary. A careful reading of any of the following tutorials should not take more than half an hour. After this, the reader should be able to use right away the XML technology or XML vocabulary explained in the tutorial.

XQuery Full-Text for the impatient
A quick introduction to XQuery and XPath Full Text 1.0. PDF. DocBook 4 source.

XQuery Update for the Impatient
A quick introduction to the XQuery Update Facility. PDF. DocBook 5 source.

MathML Presentation Markup for the Impatient
A short tutorial about MathML 2.0 Presentation Markup. Everything you need to learn to add equations to your DocBook, DITA or XHTML documents. PDF (created using FOP 0.95 + JEuclid 3.1.3). DocBook 5 source (created using XMLmind XML Editor Professional Edition 4.2.1 + its MathML add-on).

All the tutorials are licensed under the Creative Commons License, which means that everyone is welcome to distribute, modify, translate, etc, any of them.