Balisage 2021 Index
Title: A Linked-Data Method to Organize an XML Database for Mathematics Education
Contributors
Alan Edward Bickel (Big Ideas Learning, LLC / Larson Texts, Inc.)
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Tim Larson (Big Ideas Learning, LLC / Larson Texts, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents work in progress to support fine-grained semantic relationships between … [more]
Title: Ariadne's thread
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Ariadne is a query language intended to be powerful enough to allow domain experts to find … [more]
Title: Attempts to modernize XML conversion at PubMed Central
Contributors
Martin Latterner (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. )
Dax Bamberger (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. )
Kelly Peters (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. )
Jeffrey D. Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA. )
Summary excerpt: PubMed Central® (PMC) is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal … [more]
Title: Call me Pastichemael
Contributors
Tony Graham (Antenna House, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Moby-Dick by Herman Melville is frequently used as the example document for EPUB and CSS … [more]
Title: Catastrophic complexity
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Eventually, things reach their … [more]
Title: Client-side XSLT, Validation, and Data Security
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: Client-side XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations) or CSX is often used in scenarios … [more]
Title: Converting an SGML/XML Hybrid to TEI-XML: The Case of the Internet Shakespeare Editions
Contributors
Janelle Jenstad (University of Victoria)
Tracey El Hajj (University of Victoria)
Summary excerpt: In late 2018, the Internet Shakespeare Editions (ISE) software experienced catastrophic code … [more]
Title: CSS Within: An application of the principle of locality of reference to CSS and XSLT
Contributors
Liam Quin (Delightful Computing)
Summary excerpt: An important principle of writing, and of programming in particular, is that one should be able to … [more]
Title: Deconstructing the STAR File Format
Contributors
Michael R. Gryk (Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UCONN Health (US)) (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (US))
Summary excerpt: The STAR (Self-defining Text Archival and Retrieval) file format for electronic data transfer and … [more]
Title: Deferred Well-Formedness and Validity
Contributors
Patrick Durusau
Summary excerpt: This proposal emerges out of conversations about introducting collaborative editing into … [more]
Title: Element order is always important in XML, except when it isn't
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
Summary excerpt: "Which came first," begins an old joke. But the more interesting question might be, "does it even … [more]
Title: Encoding semantic relationships in literary texts
Contributors
Fotini Koidaki (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Katerina Tiktopoulou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Summary excerpt: Encoding meaningful semantic relationships in literary texts is almost as difficult as defining and … [more]
Title: Fast Bulk String Matching
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: XQuery developers deserve to have access to libraries of implementations of useful algorithms, just … [more]
Title: How long is my SVG <text> element?
Contributors
David J. Birnbaum (University of Pittsburgh)
Charlie Taylor (University of Pittsburgh)
Summary excerpt: SVG layout requires that the developer be in control of the dimensions of the objects that must be … [more]
Title: Hyper, Multi, or Single? Thinking about Text in Graphs and Trees
Contributors
Elli Bleeker (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
Bram Buitendijk (Digital Infrastructure Department, Humanities Cluster, Royal Netherlands Academy for Arts and Sciences )
Summary excerpt: This paper explores the potential of combining the Text-As-Graph (TAG) and the XML data models. It … [more]
Title: Interactivity Three Ways
Contributors
Norman Walsh (Saxonica)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies)
Summary excerpt: One of the most obvious differences between documents physically printed on pages of paper and … [more]
Title: Introducing Citation Structures
Contributors
Hugh Cayless
Thibault Clérice
Jonathan Robie
Summary excerpt: Text Encoding Initiative documents are notoriously heterogeneous in structure, since the Guidelines … [more]
Title: JATS Blue Lite
Contributors
Gerrit Imsieke
Nina Linn Reinhardt
Summary excerpt: A JATS customization with a restricted vocabulary that is suitable for publishing metadata has been … [more]
Title: Presentational Markup: What’s going on?
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: We explore some theoretical questions concerning the renditional features common in textual … [more]
Title: Printing recipes
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: In an earlier paper [Flynn 2020] I described the implementation of an XML/XSLT system (now named ℞, … [more]
Title: Scriptural Markup in the Bible Translation Community
Contributors
Jonathan Robie (Clear Bible, Inc)
Summary excerpt: At XML conferences, most discussion of scriptural markup revolves around formats like OSIS and … [more]
Title: Semantics and the Web
Contributors
Simon St.Laurent (LinkedIn Learning)
Summary excerpt: In the late 1990s, multiple groups had plans to transform the technology world, and especially the … [more]
Title: Serving IIIF and DTS APIs specifications from TEI data via XQuery with support from a SPARQL Endpoint
Contributors
Pietro Maria Liuzzo (Universität Hamburg)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents two modules, one serving the IIIF presentation API, and another the three … [more]
Title: String Comparison in XSLT with tan:diff()
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki
Summary excerpt: Classical models of string comparison have been difficult to implement in XSLT, in part because … [more]
Title: Structural Invariants in XForms
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: XForms is a declarative XML-based programming language for writing applications for the web and … [more]
Title: The (unspoken) XML gotcha
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: XML is a platform-neutral way to exchange, share, and manipulate information. But what persuades … [more]
Title: The adventures of an early adopter
Contributors
Geert Bormans
Summary excerpt: This paper is a case study about bringing the entire Swiss legislation (Classified Compilation) … [more]
Title: The Model Made Me Do It! A Cautionary Tale from a Security Control Baseline Tool Developer
Contributors
Joshua Lubell (National Institute of Standards and Technology)
Summary excerpt: Even the best written specifications can be complicated documents to read and understand. Normative … [more]
Title: Topic-based SGML? Really?
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: Topic-based technical documentation is all the rage these days, made popular by DITA and others. … [more]
Title: Visualizing Musical Transformations
Contributors
Evan Lenz (Lenz Consulting Group, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Musical transformations can be useful for analysis and learning. Using Bach's Prelude in C (BWV … [more]
Title: ZenoString: A Data Structure for Processing XML Strings
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: This paper describes a novel data structure for the representation of Unicode strings, designed to … [more]