Balisage 2009 Index
Title: Agile Business Objects Management Application for Electronic Records Archive Transfer Process
Contributors
Quyen L. Nguyen (National Archives and Records Administration, Systems Engineering Division of ERA Program Management Office )
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: In order to continue to fulfill its mission in the information technology age, the National … [more]
Title: Akara — Spicy bean fritters and an XML data services platform
Contributors
Uche Ogbuji (Zepheira)
Summary excerpt: Akara is an open-source XML/Web mashup platform supporting XML processing in an environment of … [more]
Title: An XML user steps into, and escapes from, XPath quicksand
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures University of Pittsburgh )
Summary excerpt: Until recently, the admirable and impressive eXist XML database sometimes failed to optimize … [more]
Title: A practical introduction to EXPath
Contributors
Florent Georges (fgeorges.org)
Summary excerpt: For some time now the demand for standardized extensions within the core XML technologies … [more]
Title: A toolkit for multi-dimensional markup
Contributors
Maik Stührenberg
Daniel Jettka
Summary excerpt: In this paper we describe the extended standoff approach defined by XStandoff (the successor of the … [more]
Title: Automatic XML Namespaces
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin (W3C)
Summary excerpt: XML, originally called Web SGML, was designed as a subset of SGML suitable for use on the World … [more]
Title: Documenting and Implementing Guidelines with Schematron
Contributors
Joshua Lubell
Summary excerpt: Data exchange specifications must be broad and general in order to achieve acceptance, yet they … [more]
Title: Documents Cannot Be Edited
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
Karen M. Wickett (Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign )
Summary excerpt: Most definitions of document current in the document processing and digital publishing communities, … [more]
Title: Efficient scripting
Contributors
David A. Lee (Epocrates, Inc.)
Norman Walsh (Mark Logic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: The efficiency and performance of individual XML operations such as parsing, processing (XSLT … [more]
Title: Engineering Document Applications — From UML Models to XML Schemas
Contributors
Dennis Pagano (Chair for Applied Software Engineering, Technische Universität München )
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Engineering Publishing Technology Group, Technische Universität München )
Summary excerpt: Modeling is a pivotal activity in the engineering of software systems; it is the key method to deal … [more]
Title: Formal and informal meaning from documents through skeleton sentences
Contributors
Yves Marcoux (Université de Montréal, Canada)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen, Norway)
Summary excerpt: In [Sperberg-McQueen et al. 2000a], Sperberg-McQueen et al. describe a framework in which the … [more]
Title: Graciously handling a level of change in a complex specification
Contributors
Charlie McCay (Ramsey Systems Ltd)
Michael Odling-Smee (XML Solutions Ltd)
Joseph Waller (XML Solutions Ltd)
Ann Wrightson (Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales))
Summary excerpt: The concept of a flexible and yet also breakable interface is central to successful configuration … [more]
Title: Hardware and software trade-offs in the IBM DataPower XML XG4 processor card
Contributors
Richard Salz (IBM Academy)
Heather Achilles (IBM Academy)
David Maze (IBM Academy)
Summary excerpt: This presentation will discuss some of the hardware and software trade-offs in the IBM DataPower … [more]
Title: hData — A Simple XML Framework for Health Data Exchange
Contributors
Gerald Beuchelt (The MITRE Corporation)
Robert Dingwell (The MITRE Corporation)
Andrew Gregorowicz (The MITRE Corporation)
Harry Sleeper (The MITRE Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Health data interoperability issues limit the expected benefits of Electronic Health Record (EHR) … [more]
Title: How to Play XML: Markup Technologies as Nomic Game
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: What is a game? A definition is famously difficult. Wittgenstein, for example, after having … [more]
Title: Investigating the streamability of XProc pipelines
Contributors
Norman Walsh (Mark Logic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: XProc: An XML Pipeline Language is a specification being developed by the W3C for describing a … [more]
Title: Managing XML references through the XRM vocabulary
Contributors
Jean-Yves Vion-Dury (Xerox Research Centre Europe)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents a general purpose method (called XRM for XML References Management) to express … [more]
Title: Markup Meaning and Mereology
Contributors
Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen, Norway)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Yves Marcoux (Université a Montréal, Canada)
Summary excerpt: When marking up a document we chop it up into elements. Elements are parts of the document, some of … [more]
Title: Memory management in streaming: Buffering, lookahead, or none. Which to choose?
Contributors
Mohamed Zergaoui (Innovimax)
Summary excerpt: Although the ideal approach to streaming is to process markup events as soon as they are … [more]
Title: Merging Multi-Version Texts: a General Solution to the Overlap Problem
Contributors
Desmond Schmidt (Information Security Institute, Queensland University of Technology)
Summary excerpt: Multi-Version Documents or MVDs, as described in Schmidt and Colomb (Schm09), provide a simple … [more]
Title: Methodology for the construction of multi-structured documents
Contributors
Pierre-Edouard Portier (Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69621)
Sylvie Calabretto (Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LIRIS, UMR5205, F-69621)
Summary excerpt: We present the multi-structured documents problem and offer an overview of existing solutions. We … [more]
Title: Open data and the XML community
Contributors
Kurt Cagle
Summary excerpt: The world of XML is changing. Large super schemas like OOXML, XBRL, NIEMs, HL7, and so on, push the … [more]
Title: Parallel Bit Stream Technology as a Foundation for XML Parsing Performance
Contributors
Rob Cameron (Simon Fraser University)
Ken Herdy (Simon Fraser University )
Ehsan Amiri (Simon Fraser University)
Summary excerpt: By first transforming the octets (bytes) of XML texts into eight parallel bit streams, the SIMD … [more]
Title: Performance of XML-based applications: a case-study
Contributors
James A. Robinson (Stanford University HighWire Press)
Summary excerpt: HighWire Press is the online publishing operation of the Stanford University Libraries, and … [more]
Title: Prying Apart Semantics and Implementation
Contributors
Bruce Todd Bauman (U.S. Department of Defense)
Summary excerpt: Central to interoperability is a shared conceptualization of the domain or universe of discourse … [more]
Title: Sometimes a question of scale
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Reflections on size, scale, scaleability, and … [more]
Title: Standards considered harmful
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Standards and shared specifications allow us to share data, build general purpose tools, and … [more]
Title: TEI Feature Structures as a Representation Format for Multiple Annotation and Generic XML Documents
Contributors
Jens Stegmann (Bielefeld University)
Andreas Witt (Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim)
Summary excerpt: Feature structures are mathematical entities (rooted labeled directed acyclic graphs) that can be … [more]
Title: Test Assertions on steroids for XML artifacts
Contributors
Jacques Durand (Fujitsu America, Inc.)
Stephen Green (Document Engineering Services)
Serm Kulvatunyou (Oracle)
Tom Rutt (Fujitsu America, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Testing of XML material – either XML-native business documents, or XML-formatted inputs from … [more]
Title: The Graphic Visualization of XML Documents
Contributors
Zoe Borovsky (University of California, Los Angeles)
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Lewis R. Lancaster (University of California, Berkeley)
James A. Danowski (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Summary excerpt: We propose to show how graphic visualizations of deeply encoded XML documents allow Humanities … [more]
Title: The XML Chip at 6 Years
Contributors
Michael Leventhal ( LSI Corporation )
Eric Lemoine ( LSI Corporation )
Summary excerpt: The XML chip is now more than six years old. The diffusion of this technology has been very … [more]
Title: TNTBase: Versioned Storage for XML
Contributors
Vyacheslav Zholudev (Jacobs University Bremen) (DFKI Bremen)
Michael Kohlhase (Jacobs University Bremen) (DFKI Bremen)
Summary excerpt: Version control systems like CVS and Subversion have transformed collaboration workflows in … [more]
Title: Towards markup support for full GODDAGs and beyond: the EARMARK approach
Contributors
Angelo Di Iorio (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Silvio Peroni (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science, University of Bologna)
Summary excerpt: One of the most evident tenets of the literature on overlapping markup is that the philosophy of … [more]
Title: Visual Designers: Those XML tools with no angle bracket at all!
Contributors
Jean Michel Cau (Innovimax)
Mohamed Zergaoui (Innovimax)
Summary excerpt: Is the future of XML planned to be without XML? Visual tools are everywhere and XProc might be the … [more]
Title: Why writers don't use XML
Contributors
Peter Flynn (University College Cork)
Summary excerpt: XML, LaTeX, and other structured-document systems are used daily by those experienced in computing, … [more]
Title: XML best practices: panel discussion
Contributors
David Chesnutt (University of South Carolina)
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.)
Laura Kelly (U.S. National Library of Medicine)
Mary McRae (OASIS)
Summary excerpt: Who doesn't want to do things well? Who doesn't want to stand on the shoulders of giants? Who … [more]
Title: XML in the Browser: the Next Decade
Contributors
R. Alexander Milowski (Appolux, Inc)
Summary excerpt: At the 1999 XTech conference in San Jose, Netscape demonstrated their web browser natively … [more]
Title: XSAQCT: XML Queryable Compressor
Contributors
Tomasz Müldner (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University)
Christopher Fry (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University)
Jan Krzysztof Miziołek (Computing Services Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition in Poland and East-Central Europe, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland )
Scott Durno (Jodrey School of Computer Science, Acadia University)
Summary excerpt: Recently, there has been a growing interest in queryable XML compressors, which can be used to … [more]
Title: You Pull, I’ll Push: on the Polarity of Pipelines
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica Limited)
Summary excerpt: Pipelines provide an excellent way of structuring XML applications, simplifying complex processing … [more]