Balisage 2025 Index
Title: (Re)building the TEI Website: A Bit of History and New Directions
Contributors
Hugh Cayless
Summary excerpt: The Text Encoding Initiative has had a web presence for almost thirty years. It's instructive to … [more]
Title: All of us: thoughts on technology and community in the words of Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Contributors
Bethan Tovey-Walsh ()
Summary excerpt: Balisage is a gathering of people who are interested in, and users of, markup in many forms. We … [more]
Title: A schema language and parser for next-generation markup languages
Contributors
Ronald Haentjens Dekker (DH Lab, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands)
David J. Birnbaum (Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
Bram Buitendijk (Digital Infrastructure, KNAW Humanities Cluster)
Joris J. van Zundert (Computational Literary Studies, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands )
Summary excerpt: This report explores strategies for grammar-based parsing and processing of next-generation markup … [more]
Title: Designing for fidelity and usability in transforming legacy journal article XML to JATS
Contributors
Vincent M. Lizzi (Taylor & Francis)
Summary excerpt: Taylor & Francis is working to develop a transformation process to convert a large archive of … [more]
Title: Discussions Fuel a Conference; Questions Fuel Discussion
Contributors
B. Tommie Usdin (Mulberry Technologies, Inc.)
Summary excerpt: Conferences are events at which people converse. That is, people talk with each other, learn from … [more]
Title: From iXML to XSpec
Contributors
Sheila E. Thomson ()
Summary excerpt: In the autumn of 2024, I attended the XML Summer School and persuaded (it wasn’t difficult) Stephen … [more]
Title: How I Stopped Worrying & Learned to Love AI
Contributors
Dale Waldt
Title: I Know Why The Semantic Web Failed
Contributors
Patrick Durusau
Summary excerpt: Proposed: The Non-Oxford/Non-Webster Dictionary, Patrick Durusau, Editor, shall invent new means of … [more]
Title: Implementing Version Handling in Yet Another CMS
Contributors
Ari Nordström
Summary excerpt: Just Another CMS, JACMS for short, is the evolution and current iteration of the author’s … [more]
Title: Is Invisible XML Ready for College Students?
Contributors
Michael Roy Simons (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar (TEI Technical Council) (Penn State Erie, The Behrend College)
Summary excerpt: Is Invisible XML ready for teaching university undergraduates? Is it a good idea to try this? This … [more]
Title: JNodes: a New Model for Navigating JSON Trees
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: Language Identification for Program Code in Documents
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: This paper proposes a simple approach to labelling the language of programming code embedded in … [more]
Title: Leveraging markup to process narrative recipes
Contributors
Peter Flynn
Summary excerpt: In earlier papers [Flynn 2020a, Flynn 2021] I described the implementation of ‘℞’ (pronounced … [more]
Title: Pipe cleaner: ensuring the correctness of XProc pipelines
Contributors
Norm Tovey-Walsh
Summary excerpt: As users begin to explore using XProc 3.x pipelines, and migrate existing 1.0 pipelines to 3.x … [more]
Title: Preprocessing XQuery using Custom Module URI Resolvers
Contributors
Mary Holstege
Summary excerpt: This paper explores using module URI resolvers to modify the source module at resolution time. The … [more]
Title: Ragnarok: An Experimental XML environment
Contributors
Steven J. DeRose ()
Summary excerpt: XML has a highly reliable, consistent, widely-supported ecosystem. Python is enormously popular … [more]
Title: SaxonJS 3 coding improvements
Contributors
Debbie Lockett (Saxonica)
Summary excerpt: Many of the new SaxonJS 3 features have been developed in response to issues that were originally … [more]
Title: Schematron as XSLT Interface, and Advanced Validation Models
Contributors
Joel Kalvesmaki
Summary excerpt: Schematron (ISO/IEC 19757-3:2008, 2016, 2020) is widely enjoyed as perhaps the most expressive and … [more]
Title: The Book of Doublends Jined: Parsing Finnegans Wake with ixml
Contributors
Steven Pemberton (CWI, Amsterdam)
Summary excerpt: Finnegans Wake by James Joyce is probably the hardest book to read in the English language. A … [more]
Title: The infospace, Foxpath, ixml
Contributors
Hans-Jürgen Rennau
Hauke Brandes
Summary excerpt: Foxpath, short for folder XPath, is an expression language that enables XPath-like addressing of … [more]
Title: Writing Maintainable XSLT Conversions
Contributors
Liam Quin
Summary excerpt: The paper compares several ways to structure a transformation consisting of a sequence of steps … [more]