DAMMIT! Again.....

[anotheranon]

Well, the USDA just cancelled next week's XML class. Again, low enrollment.

This is the 2nd class at 2 different training centers to cancel their XML classes due to lack of enrollment. I thought XML was supposed to be the new hot thing? Or maybe everyone else is clever enough to teach themselves. I have looked at this stuff and maybe I'm just not a natural programmer but I have real doubts about my ability to grasp all of this on my own.

They offered to transfer my payment to the next class coming up... in late February. Thanks but no thanks...assuming I can find an XML class that doesn't dry up I should try and take it sooner than that. And if a future session also got cancelled that would mean that my money would be tied up just that much longer.....

Comments

[geekchick]

Writing DTDs doesn't require you to be a "natural programmer", I think you'd pick it up just fine. They look incredibly intimidating, but once you know what it is that you're looking at it's not all that bad. Once you get into templates and transformations and such it gets a little more complicated, but still not all *that* bad. Did you look at the HTML Writer's Guild online class? In the meantime, maybe pick up a copy of "The XML Bible" and scan through it, it's designed as an introductory text rather than a reference for people who already know XML.

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

I may well pick up the book and look at the HTML Writer's Guild class. Dan also mentioned something about some XML instructional videos he had tucked away (??). Thanks for the vote of confidence - I will need it!