Timing Suggestions for the Instructor

ChapterTiming Suggestions
HousekeepingYou must never skip your housekeeping but, as always, roar through it because people are anxious to "get started".
ResourcesThis has valuable stuff in it, but they won't appreciate it until they begin to have a sense of what's important and what docs and tools they'll need. Save it for a moment in which you get a question that demands resources such as these.
1Finish Chapter 1 by lunchtime. Point out that in under two hours they have actually learned XML!
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3Get at least halfway through Chapter 3 (schemas) by the end of Day 1. Start Day 2 with a review of well-formedness.
4This is the hardest chapter due to the unusual syntax of XSLT and the unfamiliar nature of declarative languages.
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6 The lab and the discussion of XML server architecture in Chapter 6 will answer a number of questions that are likely to come up. Be prepared to skip ahead to these topics if you're inclined to give thorough answers at the time these questions are asked.