Balisage 2014 Index
Title: Analysing XSLT Streamability
Contributors
John Lumley (jωL Research) (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Determining streamability of constructs in XSLT3.0 involves application of a set of rules that … [more]
Title: Document lattices:
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Yves Marcoux Yves Marcoux (École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information, Université de Montréal )
Claus Huitfeldt (Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen)
Summary excerpt: If the information conveyed by the markup in a document can be identified with the set of … [more]
Title: Extending XQuery with pattern matching over XML, HTML and JSON, and its usage for data mining
Contributors
Benito van der Zander (Institute for Theoretical Computer Science ) (Graduate School for Computing in Medicine and Life Sciences, University of Lübeck)
Summary excerpt: Pattern matching in a broad sense is a common feature of modern functional programming languages … [more]
Title: GameX — Event-Based Programming with XML Technology
Contributors
Marouane Sayih (Technische Universität München)
Martin Kuhn (Technische Universität München)
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: GameX, a student project at Technische Universität München, is a 'serious' browser game that is … [more]
Title: Hierarchies within range space
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: LMNL provides a markup syntax for annotating arbitrary ranges, irrespective of hierarchical … [more]
Title: How to survive the coming namespace winter
Contributors
R. Alexander Miłowski (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics)
Norman Walsh (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: Is XML condemned to be an orphaned syntax with a dimly lit future within the Web browser? What can … [more]
Title: Identity constraints for XML
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technische Universität München)
Mustapha Maalej (Technische Universität München)
Marouane Sayih (Technische Universität München)
Summary excerpt: Identity constraints, a fundamental database concept, are built in to XML Schema. In this paper, we … [more]
Title: In pursuit of streamable stylesheet functions in XSLT 3.0
Contributors
Abel Braaksma (Exselt, a streaming XSLT 3.0 processor) (Abrasoft Consulting) (Blog: Undermyhat.org)
Summary excerpt: With the XSLT Working Draft being in Last Call since December 2013 and the XSL Working Group … [more]
Title: JSOX: A Justly Simple Objectization for XML
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: XML can be as easy to work with as JSON. However, this has not been obvious until now. JSON is easy … [more]
Title: Markup Formats In Context
Contributors
Liam R. E. Quin
Summary excerpt: There are a number of popular text markup formats in use today. Some of these, such as JSON and … [more]
Title: MathML: Technology and practice
Contributors
Scott Dineen (Optical Society of America)
R. Alexander Miłowski (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics)
Kennett Rawson (Publishing Technology Department, IEEE)
Lauren Wood (Design Science)
Summary excerpt: A panel of users and vendors will discuss topics including authoring, web browsing, ebooks … [more]
Title: Meeting the Twin Challenges of Open Data for DATA Act compliance and Delivering next generation Industry Services
Contributors
David R. R. Webber (Oracle Public Sector)
Summary excerpt: The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) was signed into law in May, 2014. A … [more]
Title: Mending Fences and Saving Babies
Contributors
Robin Berjon (W3C)
Summary excerpt: The harshest squabbles are fraternal, and as fraternal squabbles go, the one between the proponents … [more]
Title: Methodology For Providing National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) Model Understanding to XML and NIEM Novices
Contributors
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: NIEM is a U.S. government initiative to enable the sharing of data. NIEM consists of many domains. … [more]
Title: Multilevel Versioning
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: Straight versioning systems for XML documents that produce a new version for every save, such as … [more]
Title: NIEM: Implementation experience
Contributors
Priscilla Walmsley (Datypic)
Summary excerpt: The U.S. National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) is a 6000-element XML vocabulary used by U.S. … [more]
Title: Non-Extensible Markup Language
Contributors
Domenic Denicola (Google)
Summary excerpt: XML's steady descent into obscurity has become more and more apparent over the last few years. … [more]
Title: NoXML: Extending the relevance of XPath by breaking the chains of the DOM
Contributors
David Lee (MarkLogic, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: XPath is an ingenious invention and the core strength, if not the foundation, of the success of … [more]
Title: On Teaching XQuery to Digital Humanists
Contributors
Clifford B. Anderson (Vanderbilt University)
Summary excerpt: XQuery provides an excellent means for teaching programming to digital humanists because it works … [more]
Title: Overlapproaches in documents: a definitive classification (in OWL, 2!)
Contributors
Silvio Peroni (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy )
Francesco Poggi (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy )
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy )
Summary excerpt: Several different types of overlap exist and different strategies are needed to detect them. In … [more]
Title: Practical Processing of HTML5 as XML and XML as HTML5
Contributors
Phil Fearon (DeltaXML Ltd)
Summary excerpt: Whilst the HTML5 and XML specifications share a superficially similar syntax, they have very … [more]
Title: RELAX NG and DITA: An Almost Perfect Match
Contributors
Kimber Eliot (Contrext, LLC)
Bina George (SyncroSoft)
Summary excerpt: The DITA vocabulary architecture defines a formal and controlled mechanism for configuring and … [more]
Title: Seeing things whole
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Sometimes we need to focus on the trees, or the leaves on the trees. Sometimes we need to focus on … [more]
Title: Semantics and the Internet of Things
Contributors
Kurt Cagle (Avalon Consulting, LLC)
Summary excerpt: It usually starts with a coffeemaker. The number and variety of devices now connected to the … [more]
Title: Standard Change Tracking for XML
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
Summary excerpt: XML is generally accepted as the default markup language for structured document and data … [more]
Title: The Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications
Contributors
Ardie Bausenbach (Library of Congress )
Kate Zwaard (Library of Congress )
Summary excerpt: The “Library of Congress Recommended Format Specifications” describes formats which it will collect … [more]
Title: Using XML to publish the Foreign Relations of the United States series
Contributors
Joseph Wicentowski (U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian)
Summary excerpt: The U.S. State Department’s Office of the Historian uses XML data and XML technology as a key … [more]
Title: What do we still lack?
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: Hypertext on The Web is ubiquitous; it is hyperlinking that makes it a web. The current hypertext … [more]
Title: When 57,300,000 Full Text Search Results Are Just Too Many
Contributors
Pat Case (Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress )
Summary excerpt: The Web changed the paradigm for full-text search. Searching Google for search engines returns … [more]
Title: XForms User Interfaces for Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: Small Arcane Nontrivial Datasets (SANDs) are frequently complex enough to warrant custom software … [more]
Title: XML on the Web
Contributors
R. Alexander Miłowski (University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics)
Summary excerpt: In the beginning, many presumed we would move to a world where XML documents and the applications … [more]
Title: XQuery topic tools - concept, user interface, development framework
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (Traveltainment GmbH)
Summary excerpt: This paper defines the concept of topic tools, which are command line tools providing a single … [more]