Balisage 2020 Index
Title: Accessibility Metadata Statements
Contributors
Madeleine Rothberg (The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family National Center for Accessible Media at WGBH)
Summary excerpt: Accessibility metadata statements let publishers describe the accessibility features of their … [more]
Title: A Document-based View of the Risk Management Framework
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: Cybersecurity professionals know the Risk Management Framework (RMF) as a rigorous yet flexible … [more]
Title: A New \u: Extending XPath Regular Expressions for Unicode
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki
Summary excerpt: Regular expressions from one programming language or environment to the next differ in details. The … [more]
Title: An XML infrastructure
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Spell checking has both practical and theoretical significance. The practical connections seem … [more]
Title: Asynchronous XSLT
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica (Reading, UK))
Summary excerpt: This paper describes a proposal for language extensions to XSLT 3.0, and to the XDM data model, to … [more]
Title: Converting typesetting codes to structured XML
Contributors
Patrick Andries (Xcential Corporation)
Lauren Wood (Xcential Corporation) (Textuality Services, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Before XML, the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO) created complex typography using … [more]
Title: Cooking up something new
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: This is a report on an experiment to see if XML and the disaggregation of ingredient metadata could … [more]
Title: Creating Class Attributes with XSLT (Making Stylesheets Extensible)
Contributors
Gerrit Imsieke
Summary excerpt: When going from one XML application, such as JATS, to another, perhaps HTML, the stylesheet author … [more]
Title: Data Structures in XQuery
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: Complex algorithms need data structures that can be updatedupdated effectively. Here are some … [more]
Title: Disabled by Default: how markup can support best practice in accessibility
Contributors
Bethan Siân Tovey-Walsh
Summary excerpt: Accessibility is not a single, straightforward concept. For a particular user, the accessibility of … [more]
Title: Document similarity
Contributors
Claus Huitfeldt (University of Bergen)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: In recent years, development of tools and methods for measuring document similarity has become a … [more]
Title: Experiences from declarative markup to improve the accessibility of HTML
Contributors
Vincenzo Rubano (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna)
Fabio Vitali (Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna)
Summary excerpt: Producing accessible content for the Web is a rather complex task. Standards, rules and principles … [more]
Title: Fault tolerance, error tolerance, diversity tolerance
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: How to react when things are not as we expect them to … [more]
Title: Four Basic Building Principles (Patterns) for XML Schemas
Contributors
Anne Brüggemann-Klein (Technical University of Munich (TUM))
Summary excerpt: Practitioners have long identified four distinct patterns for construction of XSD schemas, known by … [more]
Title: High-Quality Microsoft Word documents from XML: The Wordinator
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (Contrext, LLC)
Summary excerpt: Many products make XML from Microsoft Word, but consider the reverse: making Word versions of your … [more]
Title: How Suite it is: Declarative XForms Submission Testing
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: Submission, the process of sending data to a server and dealing with the response, is probably the … [more]
Title: Improving Accessibility of an XML-based Conference Proceedings Web Site
Contributors
Liam Quin (Delightful Computing)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes ongoing work to make the Web site containing the proceedings for the Balisage … [more]
Title: Marking up microrevisions with major implications: Non-linear text in TAG
Contributors
Elli Bleeker (Research and Development Group, Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences )
Bram Buitendijk (Research and Development Group, Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences )
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Research and Development Group, Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences )
Summary excerpt: The article discusses how micro-level textual variation can be expressed in an idiomatic manner … [more]
Title: Pipelined XSLT Transformations
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: This paper is a commercial for pipelined XSLT transformations, hoping to convince the reader to … [more]
Title: Saxon-JS Meets XSpec Unit Testing
Contributors
Amanda Galtman (MathWorks)
Summary excerpt: Unit testing helps you develop and maintain high quality software, and the XSpec tool provides unit … [more]
Title: Syntax-From-Doc
Contributors
C. Edward Porter
Summary excerpt: Producing syntax highlighting, code completion, and context-aware code documentation in IDEs is … [more]
Title: Systems security assurance as (micro) publishing
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: Markup technologies are very general purpose, as reflects their generality of conception. They … [more]
Title: Text Encoding and Processing as a University Writing Intensive Course
Contributors
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, the Behrend College)
Summary excerpt: Can learning markup languages and coding constitute a writing intensive experience for university … [more]
Title: Toward a function library for statistical plotting with XSLT and SVG
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh (US) )
Summary excerpt: Computational textual humanities research often makes use of descriptive statistics and graphic … [more]
Title: Welcome to Balisage 2020
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2020 is both totally new and comfortably familiar. Balisage regulars will recognize many … [more]
Title: What is a diagram, really?
Contributors
Steven DeRose (Docugami, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Models for XML documents often focus on text documents, but XML is used for many other kinds of … [more]
Title: XML for Art: A Case Study
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: Generative art applies a touch of randomness or chaos to algorithms to generate works of art. The … [more]
Title: XSLT 3.0 on ordinary prose
Contributors
Norman Walsh
Summary excerpt: You work with text and documents for a living, and XSLT 3.0 comes out. You hear it’s great and … [more]