Balisage 2023 Index
Title: Accumulators in XSLT and XSpec
Contributors
Amanda Galtman
Summary excerpt: Accumulators in XSLT 3, while not necessarily an everyday staple of XSLT code bases, can provide … [more]
Title: Adventures in Single-Sourcing XQuery and XSLT
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: This is a case study of a project to make a fairly substantial collection of XQuery function … [more]
Title: Ambiguity in iXML
Contributors
Norm Tovey-Walsh (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Humans are really good at resolving ambiguities. Our senses are trained for it: is that pattern of … [more]
Title: Artificial Intelligence with XForms
Contributors
John J. Chelsom (Seven Informatics Ltd) (Fordham University)
Summary excerpt: Classical AI techniques: Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, forward and backward chaining inference … [more]
Title: Auto-Markup BenchMark: towards an industry-standard benchmark for evaluating automatic document markup
Contributors
Paul Prescod (Document Minds)
Ben Feuer (New York University)
Andrii Hladkyi
Sean Paulk (Western Tidewater Community Services Board)
Arjun Prasad (BITS-Pilani, Hyderabad campus)
Summary excerpt: Recent large language models (LLMs) such as GPT, Bard and Claude have achieved impressive progress … [more]
Title: A Wonderful Historie of Intertextual Networks: Or, How Not to Index Your Data
Contributors
Ash Clark
Summary excerpt: In 2022, the Women Writers Project (WWP) published Women Writers: Intertextual Networks (WWIN), an … [more]
Title: Building Applications with Generative AI
Contributors
M. Joel Dubinko
Summary excerpt: Application builders are oft sought and seldom realized. An ideal application builder allows domain … [more]
Title: Declarative markup in the time of "AI"
Contributors
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (TEI Technical Council) (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Summary excerpt: Can large language models, working with tokenized text, effectively compare strings and accurately … [more]
Title: Hypergraphs, Escaping the Surly Bounds of Syntax
Contributors
Patrick Durusau
Summary excerpt: Claus Huitfeldt responded to one of the many variants of What is a Text Really:Finally, and most … [more]
Title: Keyboarding Frege’s concept writing
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Gottlob Frege’s 1879 book Begriffsschrift (Concept Writing) poses a number of problems for the … [more]
Title: Knock Down This Wall
Contributors
C. M. Sperberg-McQueen (Black Mesa Technologies LLC)
Summary excerpt: Life can be comfortable inside a walled garden. But if we wish to engage with the world, we need to … [more]
Title: Privately Automating Common, Uncommon, and Surprising Markup Tasks using AI Large Language Models
Contributors
Uche Ogbuji
Summary excerpt: Generative AI is everywhere, from DALL-E for image generation to ChatGPT for language tasks. The … [more]
Title: Processing Lax XML Element Trees
Contributors
Phil Fearon (DeltaXML)
Gursheen Kaur (DeltaXML)
Summary excerpt: When processing HTML tables within XML documents, we generally find the lax element schema for the … [more]
Title: Pulling All Production Processes Together with an XML-First System
Contributors
Mark Gross (Data Conversion Laboratory)
Charles O’Connor (Aries Systems)
Summary excerpt: Creating a seamless centralized workflow that starts with XML has long been the siren song of … [more]
Title: QT4 CG: Status Update
Contributors
Christian Grün (BaseX GmbH)
Summary excerpt: Balisage 2023 included a short-subject Open Microphone session, during which conference attendees … [more]
Title: Retractions and Corrections at Scholars Portal Journals
Contributors
Jessica Hymers (OCUL Scholars Portal)
Qinqin Lin (OCUL Scholars Portal)
Summary excerpt: Scholars Portal Journals, a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), is an … [more]
Title: Schema-Aware Conversion of XML to JSON
Contributors
Michael Kay (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: A W3C Community Group has been formed to develop proposed specifications for 4.0 versions of XSLT … [more]
Title: Serializing the Locator Format of the United States Government Publishing Office as XML
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki
Summary excerpt: The United States Government Publishing Office makes significant use of so-called locators, a … [more]
Title: The Dream of a CMS
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: An XML-first content management system — XML technologies handling XML content in an XML database — … [more]
Title: The Future Begins Tomorrow: Succession Planning for XML Infrastructure Resources
Contributors
Jeffrey Beck (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health )
Summary excerpt: Much of the world’s scholarship, including most of the world’s scientific, technical, engineering … [more]
Title: The Secret Garden
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: We in the markup community have built ourselves a beautiful and ever-improving place to work. We … [more]
Title: The SGML/XML Approach to Document Processing: [an incomplete] History of Criticisms and Challenges
Contributors
Allen H. Renear (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Summary excerpt: Like all SGML/XML enthusiasts I have spent considerable energy responding to objections to the … [more]
Title: Turning a Battleship: Migrating ServiceNow Documentation to Use DITA Keys
Contributors
Eliot Kimber (ServiceNow)
Summary excerpt: Describes the analysis, design, planning, and data processing ServiceNow used to migrate all of its … [more]
Title: Unveiling Linguistic Harmony: Asserting Interlingual Synchronicity in Documents
Contributors
Geert Bormans (C-Moria BV)
Srikanth Venkata Subramanian (Cognizone BV)
Summary excerpt: Publishing texts in multiple languages always involves issues of coordination of both content and … [more]