EML
Paul Spencer is an active member of the OASIS Technical Committee, and developed the XML Schemas for EML and the means of customising the schemas for various types of elections. He also developed the customisations for UK public election pilots and for the online electoral registers (CORE) project.
Clients
- Cabinet Office e-Government Unit
- Department for Constitutional Affairs
- Department for Education and Skills
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Learning and Skills Council
- Microsoft
- Ministry of Defence
- National Westminster Bank
- NHS Information Authority
- NHS in Scotland
- Office of Government Commerce
- Office of the Deputy Prime Minister
- Office of the e-Envoy
- Open University
- SchlumbergerSema
- Scottish Executive
Papers
- From Spreadsheet to Schema
- A Technical Standard for e-Voting
- Combining OASIS Standards to Create a Repository and Assembly Mechanism for XML Schema Components
- The Election Markup Language
- e-Government in the UK
- Developing e-GIF Compliant XML Systems For Government
- e-Government in the UK
- XML: the relevance to e-government
- Using XML in Government
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
- e-Gov and XML Government Advanced Technology
- Delivering New Electronic Services in the Public Sector
Books
- XML for the Web
- Professional XSL
- Beginning XML
- Professional XML Design and Implementation
Hands-on XML Within the e-GIF |
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The UK e-Government Interoperability Framework (e-GIF) mandates XML as the primary standard for data integration and data management for all public sector systems. It is therefore vital for all those involved in UK public sector ICT to have an understanding both of XML and of the way it is used in the public sector. With the e-GIF accreditation and certification schemes, this is becoming even more important. This course helps provide that understanding through a combination of lectures and hands-on practice in a small class and counts towards the learners' competence points within the e-GIF SkillsTracker.
Pre-requisites: This is a technical course and assumes some technical knowledge. Familiarity with either HTML or XML is useful.
Who should attend
This course is aimed at Project managers and implementers within the public sector and suppliers to the public sector.
What you will learn
This is very much a "hands-on" course. As well as learning about XML, namespaces in XML, schemas, XPath and stylesheets, you will practice using all of these. Various modules are available for the fourth day and new modules can be developed (often free of charge). Typically, three are chosen, but fewer can be used and more exercises undertaken earlier in the course.
Typical Course Outline:
Day 1
- Welcome and Introductions
- Introduction to XML
- Namespaces in XML
- Introducing e-GIF and the Role of XML
Day 2
- Introduction to XML Schema
- More XML Schema
- XML Schema data types
Day 3
- Schema modularisation and namespaces
- XPath v1.0
- XSLT v1.0 Basics
Day 4
Select from:- Advanced XSLT v1.0
- XPath v2.0
- XSLT v2.0
- Schema guidelines and QA
- ISO Schematron
- Digital signatures
- Introduction to Web Services
- Using XML with Microsoft Access 2003
- Some XML Public Sector Case Studies
- Discussion and Close
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