Balisage 2022 Index
Title: Adventures in Correcting XML Collation Problems with Python and XSLT
Contributors
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Summary excerpt: The process of instructing a computer to compare texts, known as computer-aided collation, might … [more]
Title: Biblical Scholarship in the GitHub Jungle
Contributors
Jonathan Robie (Clear Bible, Inc)
Summary excerpt: Clear Bible's MACULA project is a major data integration challenge. Clear creates freely licensed … [more]
Title: BITS for Government Information?
Contributors
Ravit H. David (Scholars Portal, University of Toronto Libraries)
Summary excerpt: Scholars Portal, a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries, provides multiple levels … [more]
Title: Constructive Inconsistency
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: A foolish consistency, said Emerson, is the hobgoblin of little minds. But how can we know when … [more]
Title: Customisation of Akoma Ntoso using Schematron
Contributors
Geert Bormans (C-Moria BV)
Summary excerpt: Akoma Ntoso, an Oasis Open standard for legal documents, is gaining popularity. Since the standard … [more]
Title: Designing for change
Contributors
Tomos Hillman (eXpertML Ltd)
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Bethan Tovey-Walsh (Swansea University)
Norm Tovey-Walsh (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Invisible XML (ixml) is a method for treating non-XML documents as if they were XML. The 1.0 … [more]
Title: Destructive Consistency
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies)
Summary excerpt: It seems to be in the nature of people drawn to discussions of markup, that is, people likely to be … [more]
Title: Electronic Verse Engineer
Contributors
Wendell Piez
Summary excerpt: Suppose you want to publish an anthology, with TEI or BITS, for example. Part of the workflow is … [more]
Title: Excel to Excel using XML, really?
Contributors
Geert Bormans (C-Moria BV)
Summary excerpt: Merging several Excel documents, from different sources with different forms, into a single XML … [more]
Title: Getting Useful XML out of Microsoft Excel
Contributors
Gayanthika Udeshani (Typefi Systems Pty Ltd)
Summary excerpt: This paper presents a solution that transforms a Microsoft Excel Open XML Spreadsheet (XLSX) file … [more]
Title: Human Readability of Data Files
Contributors
Michael Robert Gryk (Department of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UCONN Health (US)) (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (US))
Summary excerpt: In this era of big data and FAIR data, data formats must be machine interpretable. XML, among other … [more]
Title: Invisible XML coming into focus
Contributors
Tomos Hillman (eXpertML Ltd)
John Lumley
Steven Pemberton (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI))
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Bethan Tovey-Walsh (Swansea University)
Norm Tovey-Walsh (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Invisible XML has had a long incubation process, but in the last year things have heated up. A W3C … [more]
Title: JATS Superhighway
Contributors
Jeffrey Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20894, USA )
Summary excerpt: Tag sets change over time. Tag set designers manage a complex system where everything is connected … [more]
Title: Markup Category Terminology over the Years: a First Look
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
Steven J. DeRose (Independent Consultant)
Summary excerpt: We’ve been doing the markup thing for more than half a century, since the beginnings of … [more]
Title: Metadata for Creators
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: Metadata is generally viewed from a third-party perspective, standing aside from both the creator … [more]
Title: Migrating DocBook to Uncharted Waters
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Jean Kaplansky
Summary excerpt: Kaplan North America (KNA) is migrating all XML source content across business lines to a new … [more]
Title: Multiple String Comparison in XSLT with tan:collate()
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki
Summary excerpt: In this article I introduce tan:collate(), an XSLT function for comparing three or more strings. … [more]
Title: On Translating the TEI
Contributors
Hugh Cayless (Duke University)
Summary excerpt: Few tagsets are more robustly committed to supporting international and multilingual texts than the … [more]
Title: Project Mirabel: XQuery-Based Documentation Reporting and Exploration System
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (ServiceNow)
Summary excerpt: Describes the organic development of a multi-function XQuery-based system, Project Mirabel, for … [more]
Title: Serverless Searching with XSLT and JavaScript
Contributors
Joey Takeda (Digital Humanities Innovation Lab, Simon Fraser University )
Martin Holmes (Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria )
Summary excerpt: Increasing awareness of the burdens of technical debt and the risks and costs associated with … [more]
Title: The Impossible Task of Comparing CALS Tables
Contributors
Robin La Fontaine
John Francis
Summary excerpt: Finding out what has changed in a CALS table is remarkably complicated. Some variant of the CALS … [more]
Title: XML in an AsciiDoc World: SaxonJS to the Rescue
Contributors
Evan Lenz (Lenz Consulting Group, Inc.) (C++ Alliance)
Summary excerpt: Static website generation has long been an effective use case for XML and XSLT. Today, static site … [more]
Title: XSLT Extensions for JSON Processing
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: XSLT 3.0 contains basic facilities for transforming JSON as well as XML. But looking at actual use … [more]