[Israel.pm] June's Meeting -- Talks Needed!

[Shlomi Fish]

On Thursday 31 May 2007, Yona Shlomo wrote:
> I can do a talk about
>
> XPath, XSLT and XQuery
>
> * What is the purpose for each of them
> * What is common amoung the three
> * What is the difference between the three
> * What's new in XPath 2.0, XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0
> * State of the art support in these technologies for Perl
>
> I need at least one week heads-up, in order to prepare a 60-90 minute talk.
>
> Anyone interested? Please speak up.

I'd love to hear a talk about these, even though I already know what XSLT and 
XPath are, and have worked with them extensively (and think I know what 
XQuery is).

Note that I've attended Zach Kessin's talk about XSLT in one of the YAPCes and 
back then was heavily disappointed. I wanted to learn XSLT through it and 
instead Zach only gave the motivation, some super-basics and referred us to 
O'Reilly's XSLT Cookbook. Afterwards, I learned XSLT using 
http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/ and 
http://www.zvon.org/xxl/XSLTutorial/Books/Book1/index.html , but was still 
heavily disappointed from the presentation.

It's hard for me to tell you what the expectations of the crowd would be, but 
it would be useful to actually teach something and show some examples more 
than have a motivation talk.

I may as well spill the beans and say that I'm now working on an OSDClub in 
Tel Aviv University which I decided to merge with the Tel Aviv Linux Club (or 
Telux). So we can give hosting for the Perl mongers meeting every month 
(first Sunday of each month or so or perhaps a different day) at Tel Aviv 
University, as long as many presentations there (like this one) won't be 
strictly about Perl, and the meetings won't be too long.

TAU is more accessible than F5 with much better public transportation and lots 
of parking. I still think it's a good idea to keep this mailing list and the 
Telux mailing list as separate entities, but I think that having 
OSDClub+Telux+Perl-IL under one umbrella would be a good idea.

So what do you say?

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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