Only 1 day for an intro TEI workshop is certainly doable, but short changes things a bit, IMHO. I haven't a clue what kind of audience we expect for workshops in Japan. But my instinct is that getting someone who is not already TEI-literate up to speed enough that the rest of the conference makes sense in 1 day is a tall order.[1] Perhaps an XPath workshop, as Elisa suggests, is a better idea. (Of course there is nothing stopping us from proposing both.) Notes ----- [1] Especially if there are language barriers, which there were somewhat last time we were in Japan. Communication went well in English -- I can only count and say a 1/2-dozen nouns in Japanese, none of which are "element" or "attribute" :-) -- but was often slower than with a group of native English speakers.
Syd, you are correct that I am teaching an intro workshop based on the WWP curriculum soon, so I'd be happy to reprise it in Japan. Is there some boilerplate language that we could used to get the proposal started?