Practical Transformation Using XSLT and XPath

Feedback for 2001 May 2

After a three-day XSLT course, students filled in standard evaluation forms. From these forms, I have extracted notes on the best and worst aspects of the course.

Links to feedback for some other recent courses can be found on the training page.

Best	Worst
The slides are well done.
The flow is good and logical. I like the hands-on exercises to reinforce what I've learned from the lecture. The instructions for the lab are much clearer than the previous Intro to XML and XML in C++ courses I've taken.	A bigger whiteboard is required.
Charlie is enthusiastic, smart, funny, interesting and very knowledgeable about the course and its information.	Difficult to zero in on the most important items sometimes, becuase there was so much info. Also, sometimes I zoned out.
Charlie is an excellent instructor, with in-depth knowledge of the material presented and good communication skills. The sample files and distributed documentation were sufficient for the course presented. Overall, a very good educational experience.
Hands-on labs.	Some of the lectures were a little dry, but it is dry material. :) Order of slides. The don't allow you to find information easily (when doing the exercises). Some good examples would be great. Develop a more interactive approach to keep everyone tuned in. Having internet connectivity is annoying when others are doing things not pertaining to the class. Same applies to being on-site: off-site would provide fewer distractions.
This is an excellent course on XSLT and XPath. I’ve learned a lot from it (like why we do not have something like x=x+10) even though I have been using it in an often basis since August 1998. I believe the books and the exercise material will be my good xslt/xpath companion in my future work. We are using our in-house xslt/xpath processor in our development, which only implemented a limited subset of the standard, so most of the three-day course are new to us. We do not expect to learn everything in a 3-day course but we have certainly got the whole picture of the current status and content of 1.1 XSLT/Xpath. I am sure this course will help us a lot in my future work. I wish I could have had the course long before now. Thank you very much for the excellent lecture!