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Courses are regularly scheduled in Paris and Leuven, as well as at various locations throughout North America.

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OmniMark in Depth

Course Objectives

This course is for OmniMark programmers who want to deepen their understanding of the OmniMark language and learn more sophisticated techniques for developing OmniMark applications. The course will cover OmniMark's streaming-based approach to programming and examine key OmniMark features and techniques in depth.

Course Length

Two days.

Course Description

Through discussions and demonstrations, attendees will learn the streaming programming model and explore OmniMark programming techniques. Where earlier OmniMark courses aim to get you writing specific kinds of applications as quickly as possible, this course aims to deepen your knowledge of OmniMark and the streaming approach to programming. This course will enable you to create OmniMark programs of greater sophistication and depth. The following concepts will be covered:

The OmniMark approach

• The streaming model
• The many ways of getting input
• The many ways of redirecting output
• Context sensitive programming
• Resolving nested forward references

Special OmniMark techniques

• Continued scanning
• Nested pattern matching
• Pattern matching functions
• Catch & Throw
• Flow control techniques
• Error and exception handling
• Structured document processing (XML/SGML)
• Queues, lists, stacks, and associative arrays

Optimizing OmniMark programs

• OmniMark programming style
• Writing maintainable OmniMark programs
• Optimizing OmniMark programs

Demonstrations

The instructor will demonstrate OmniMark programming techniques using the OmniMark Studio. Attendees will be provided with a set of code examples so that they can re-use concepts and programs and adapt them to their own needs.

Prerequisites

One of the following OmniMark courses:

• XML and Content Processing with OmniMark
• CGI Programming with OmniMark
• Network and Database Programming with OmniMark

Logistics

• The Seminar is conducted in English by highly qualified, professional OmniMark instructors and all documentation is in English.
• You will learn through a mix of classroom lectures, demonstrations, and question and answer sessions.
• Electronic course materials containing code used during the demonstrations will be made available for PC platforms.

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