Balisage 2016 Index
Title: A catalog of Functional Programming idioms in XQuery 3.1
Contributors
James Fuller (MarkLogic)
Summary excerpt: A wild rummage through the treasure chests of the highest towers and deepest vaults of Functional … [more]
Title: A MicroXPath for MicroXML (AKA A New, Simpler Way of Looking at XML Data Content)
Contributors
Uche Ogbuji (Zepheira LLC)
Summary excerpt: There has always been tension in the development, and in the community reception of the XML stack … [more]
Title: Approximate CSS Styling in XSLT
Contributors
John Lumley (jωL Research) (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: This paper discusses transforming a CSS stylesheet into an XSLT transform that projects an … [more]
Title: Case Study: Applying an Agile Development Methodology to XML Schema Construction
Contributors
Dianne Kennedy (IDEAlliance)
Summary excerpt: To assure brand integrity, brands such as Coca-Cola and Proctor & Gamble, assisted by third party … [more]
Title: Creatures of a season
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Thoughts about permanence, longevity, and … [more]
Title: Discerning the Intellectual Focus of Annotations
Contributors
Jacob Jett
Timothy W. Cole
David Dubin
Allen H. Renear
Summary excerpt: Much attention has been given to strategies for anchoring annotations in digital documents, but … [more]
Title: Extracting Funder and Grant Metadata from Journal Articles
Contributors
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Tammy Bilitzky (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Richard Thorne (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Summary excerpt: Scientific, Technical, and Medical (STM) journal articles are an explosively growing data source … [more]
Title: focheck XSL-FO Validation Framework
Contributors
Tony Graham (Antenna House, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: XSL-FO documents are typically generated by an XSLT transform and thus rarely edited by hand. … [more]
Title: FOXpath - an expression language for selecting files and folders
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau (Traveltainment GmbH)
Summary excerpt: A new expression language (FOXpath, short for folder XPath) enables XPath-like addressing of files … [more]
Title: Framing the Problem
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: The maturity of the XML technology stack has made it easier now than it has ever been to construct … [more]
Title: From GitHub to GitHub with XProc: An approach to automate documentation for an open source project with XProc and the GitHub Web API
Contributors
Martin Kraetke (le-tex publishing services)
Summary excerpt: For all too many developers, documentation comes last. The move from Subversion to Git provided the … [more]
Title: Graceful Tag Set Extension
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Deborah A. Lapeyre (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Laura Randall (NCBI/NLM/NIH)
Jeffrey Beck (NCBI/NLM/NIH)
Summary excerpt: Tag Sets, or XML Vocabularies, are often created from other Tag Sets or Vocabularies. Users expect … [more]
Title: Hidden Markup – The Digital Work Environment of the "Digital Dictionary of Surnames in Germany"
Contributors
Franziska Horn (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Jörg Hambuch (Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz)
Sandra Reker (Technische Universität Darmstadt)
Summary excerpt: This paper will report on Onodi, the digital work environment developed for the project Digital … [more]
Title: Integrating Top-down and Bottom-up Cybersecurity Guidance using XML
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes a markup-based approach for synthesizing disparate information sources and … [more]
Title: Marking up and marking down
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Summary excerpt: Markup provides a means of annotating a text such that its important characteristics are readily … [more]
Title: Message Format Persistence in Large Enterprise Systems
Contributors
Damon Feldman (MarkLogic Corporation)
Summary excerpt: It is more efficient to store messages as-is or with minimal modification than it is to develop a … [more]
Title: Meta(data)morphosis
Contributors
Ashley M. Clark
Sarah Connell
Summary excerpt: This article offers a case study in the creation and metamorphosis of a corpus of transcriptions … [more]
Title: Moving toward common vocabularies and interoperable data
Contributors
Todd Carpenter (National Information Standards Organization (NISO))
Summary excerpt: The maturity and stability achieved by a standard like XML, far from being an impediment to … [more]
Title: Representing Overlapping Hierarchy as Change in XML
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
Summary excerpt: Changes in an XML document may effect not only element and attribute content but, more … [more]
Title: Saxon-JS: XSLT 3.0 in the Browser
Contributors
Debbie Lockett (Saxonica)
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: In this paper, we introduce Saxon-JS, an XSLT 3.0 run-time written in pure JavaScript. We've … [more]
Title: SGML in the Age of XML
Contributors
Betty Harvey (Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Today (2016!), there are organizations, especially in the military, who have SGML documents and/or … [more]
Title: The Hard Edges of Soft Hyphens
Contributors
Syd Bauman (Northeastern University / Library / CDS / WWP)
Summary excerpt: At the WWP, end-of-line hyphens used by the typesetter to indicate I ran out of room, so the rest … [more]
Title: The Kiln XML Publishing Framework
Contributors
Paul Caton (King's College, London)
Miguel Vieira (King's College, London)
Summary excerpt: Kiln, previously known as xMod, is an open source multi-platform framework for building and … [more]
Title: The Mystical Principles of XSLT
Contributors
Evan Lenz (Lenz Consulting Group, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: The mature XSLT developer has an inner seeing about how a stylesheet works that can seem almost … [more]
Title: The Ugly Duckling No More
Contributors
Autumn Cuellar (Quark Software)
Jason Aiken (Quark Software)
Summary excerpt: DITA is growing in popularity as a document standard and is now being used across a range of … [more]
Title: The XML Expert's Path to Web Applications
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Summary excerpt: Web applications offer a golden opportunity for domain experts who work with XML documents to … [more]
Title: Tracking Toys (and Documents)
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: This paper is about naming and tracking documents. It's about identifying changes to them, and … [more]
Title: Trials of the Late Roman Republic
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: The Trials of the Late Roman Republic (TLRR) project is building an XML database with information … [more]
Title: Web-Based Job Aids Using RESTXQ and JavaScript for Authors of XML Documents
Contributors
Amanda Galtman (MathWorks)
Summary excerpt: Using XML as the source format for authoring technical publications creates opportunities to … [more]
Title: XML in the air - How TTML can change the workflows for broadcast subtitles
Contributors
Andreas Tai (Institut für Rundfunktechnik, Munich)
Summary excerpt: Although broadcast TV subtitles are well established, digital production workflows are changing. … [more]
Title: XQuery is not (just) a query language: Web application development with XQuery
Contributors
Gregory Murray (Princeton Theological Seminary)
Summary excerpt: XQuery is widely known as a query language for XML, but it’s also a full-fledged, functional … [more]
Title: XSLT as a Modern, Powerful Static Website Generator
Contributors
Martin Kraetke (le-tex publishing services GmbH)
Gerrit Imsieke (le-tex publishing services GmbH)
Summary excerpt: In scientific, technical, and medical (STM) publishing, XML is a common data format for typeset … [more]