Q: XML Publisher Training for Customer

Hi,
I am working with a customer who is just starting to use XML Publisher. They claim there isn't a lot of training available to them on the product. Do you know of any customer facing training, material, etc that I can send to them?
Thanks!
Jennifer

Well Oracle Univsersity has course material available since last year and has promised to offer a class before October / Oracle World.
Otherwise I think there is actually quite a bit of material out there:
- The user guide is 400 pages - with MANY examples.
- The XML Publisher Desktop comes with a tutorial and 3 flash demos.
- We have a BLOG and this discussion forum
- We are based on XSL and XSL-FO - you can find good books from WROX and O'Reilly
on XSLT and XSL-FO
- We ship with numerous samples.
Yes, there could be more training material - and I hope we get the Oracle Univerisity
Training soon, but it could be far worse ;) Tim and Leslie did an awesome job creating
all this documentation with a small contribution from me. (Well you can blame me for the Word Template Builder online help).
Klaus

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