SDL XPP (XML Professional Publisher)

A broad range of courses designed to support and enhance the use of the SDL XML Professional Publisher (XPP) solution.

SDL offers a broad range of courses on SDL XML Professional Publisher including styles, tables, macros and more. For additional details or to inquire about scheduling a class, please contact Traci Carmona at tcarmona@sdl.com.

X101 – XPP ESSENTIALS

Prerequisite: None
Course Outline: This fundamentals course is intended for all XPP users and style developers, and is beneficial to programmers, managers and system administrators whose workflow involves XPP. This course is a prerequisite for all other XPP courses.
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X102 – INTERMEDIATE STYLES

Prerequisite: X101 – XPP Essentials
Course Outline: This three-day class is designed for XPP users who will be creating or modifying styles. You will create a comprehensive style that will automate page layouts, typography, H&J parameters, vertical justification and other formatting components. You will also learn how to manage styles for reuse in other documents. This course involves a comprehensive review of all style sheets that make up a style “bundle.”
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X103 – TABULAR ESSENTIALS

Prerequisite: X101 – XPP Essentials
Course Outline: In Tabular Essentials, you will learn how to create and modify tables, apply standard tabular styles, and override the styles on a table-by-table basis. You will also learn how to analyze and create tabular styles for efficient tabular production. This two-day course incorporates the CALS table model as well as XPP tables.
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X201 – XPP MACRO LANGUAGE

Prerequisite: X101 – XPP Essentials, X102 Intermediate Styles, 3 months hands on development in XPP
Course Outline: This four-day class is the next step for style developers who have completed Intermediate Styles and have had time to apply these skills to actual publications. You will expand your use and knowledge of XPP-delivered macros, and learn how to write increasingly complex macros to achieve formatting tasks. You will also learn how to manage customized macros for reuse among publications.
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X221 - FONTS

Prerequisite: X101 – XPP Essentials, and experience using SDL XPP
Course Outline: If you plan to frequently add fonts to your system, especially pi fonts, this course is for you! This two-day on-site class provides an overview of how an XPP division uses a font. It covers several components of an XPP font environment including font libraries, font width files and other related font specs, font width tests, download tables and encoding tables. You will install text fonts and non-text (pi) fonts using the font utilities Font Copy and BuildFAST. You will also learn how to integrate a pi font into the overall font environment so that it may be easily accessed using alternate keyboards or character entities. The class includes tips and techniques for troubleshooting font problems.
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X231 - CITI

Prerequisite: X101 – XPP Essentials recommended, knowledge of transformation tool (XyChange, XSLT, Perl.)
Course Outline: The CITI option automatically creates tables of contents, indexes, and lists of tables and illustrations. The class length is 2 or 3 days – determined by the project scope, and is delivered on-site. In this class, you will learn how to identify and extract information from a document to build a table of contents or index. This course combines instruction with a live development project that involves analyzing requirements, creating a style format and starting development of your TOC or index – possibly incorporating transformation – using the CITI process.
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X241 - XYPERL

Prerequisite: X101 XPP Essentials recommended, X102 Intermediate Styles, X201 Macro Language, at least three months style development experience. For XyPerl only class, experience in Perl development is required.
Course Outline: XyPerl is a must-have skill for today's XPP style developer. XyPerl allows you to solve many composition problems that were difficult or even impossible to solve before. We are offering the course in two combinations: Two days of basic Perl training followed by two days of XyPerl training, intended for those who do not have Perl programming experience; or two days of XyPerl only for those who already know Perl.
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