Call for papers: https://balisage.net/index.html
Information representation is about more than HTML and JSON...
Balisage is the most theoretical of the markup conferences (Nothing is more practical than a good theory). And this is the last.
No! While that tree stands, our scholar-gypsy is not gone! as Vaughan Williams quoted Matthew Arnold.
Don’t miss your last chance! to speak, to listen, to learn, to teach, to be.
PIs for HTML?. TIL, by way of Mastodon, that there’s a proposal for adding processing instructions to HTML. #HTML #XML #MarkupMonday
A bit late for #markupmonday but here we go :)
The schedule and registration for JATSCon can be found at https://niso.plus/niso-plus-2026-baltimore/jats-con-2026-schedule/
JATS is the Journal Article Tag Set, an XML vocabulary used for interchange and archiving of journals.
Two markup/XML conferences announced today
XML Prague - https://www.xmlprague.cz/ in... er... Prague... and
26th annual meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) https://tei2026.tei-c.org/ in Vancouver.
Don’t forget also Balisage - https://www.balisage.net/
#MarkupMonday #TEI #tei2026 #XML #XMLPrague #XML_Prague #conference #balisage #markup #digitalHumanities #techDoc
Albums and XML. A side quest to improve the tagging of my music library. #XML #MarkupMonday #Music
XQuery & XPath users, watch out - i spent a day debugging!
Turns out in BaseX & i think XPath 4 (upcoming), `else` clauses are optional.
This is unexpected in an expression language -
`let $name := if ($p) then get-name($p)
return some-func($name)`
is the same as
`let $name := if ($p) then get-name($p) else ( )
return some-func($name)`
but in a multi-screen if/then/else it’s more likely you just forgot the else() or mismatched some parens.
Belated #MarkupMonday
Today I learned that the proper way in XPath to test a value declared as xs:boolean (so with valid values ‘true’ and ‘false’) is using xs:boolean($value)
NineML version 3.3.5. New version, same as the old version, but with the deck chairs moved around a bit. #XML #InvisibleXML #NineML #MarkupMonday
DocBook spring cleaning. I dunno if it’s really spring yet, but I’ve tidied up a few DocBook-related websites. #DocBook #MarkupMonday
Work continues on XPath 4, XQuery 4, XSLT 4 - see https://qt4cg.org/ - but the focus has shifted to “getting it finished”i think. Although i wasn’t able to be as active as i wanted (and had a meeting conflict) i did write some proposals, some accepted and some not.
If you have concerns, now is teh time to voice them. Or sooner 🙂
#markupMonday #XML #XSLT #XSLT4 #XQuery #XQuery4 #XPath #XPath4
EXProc rebooted. A bonus MarkupMonday post, the EXProc reboot has been deployed. And shipped starting in XML Calabash 3.0.34, just after Christmas. #XProc #MarkupMonday
XML Resolver 6.0.{last}?. Is it ready yet? #XML #XMLResolver #Java #CSharp #MarkupMonday
The curious case of the code. The behavior of some versions of some browsers on some platforms changed in the last week or so. But when I dug in, it just got weird. #HTML #MarkupMonday #screenshot
Have you heard of Invisible XML?
With it you create a grammar that describes the structure of a plain text document so it can be handled with XML tools. Very apropos.
Turns out there's a javascript implementation of the parser (Grammix), which runs in a browser. Very exciting!
The blog post shows an EPUB created with markdown and textile grammars and a single ixml parser.
#ixml #markupmonday #seedhtml #epub
https://blog.stewarthaines.com/2025/12/invisible-xml-to-epub-3.html
call for proposals for Invisible XML Symposium ends today - https://invisiblexml.org/events/symposium2026/#cfp
#invisibleXML generates an XML structure (or an in-memory tree) by parsing using a grammar.
Wrote down what I learned so far and open questions in this new doc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/16QNavHjds1OdkKsfqLYx6EF0ohA-Qh_dZc8OK9TFrQk/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.z1r9lwho309s
…in case you are interested in seeing where I am and what are my next steps, and maybe have new ideas. Thanks in advance! The doc is free to comment, or you can always ping me here.
EDIT: Please do not tag/bother Tim Berners-Lee. Angle brackets happened many years before he started working on HTML.
Sneak peek. I’ve put up a preview of what I’m thinking about for a rebooted exproc.org website. #XProc #MarkupMonday
@mwichary https://www.w3c.it/talks/2012/lpw/historySGML.html has a few pointers.
I don't think Sharon or Anders need pointers to jog their memory 🤣 but if they do, i certainly don’t want to suggest it 😉 However, maybe if you post it somewhere - maybe for #MarkupMonday ! - i'll share it with others & see what we can find out.
As it happens i have a letter from Jim Mason on my desk :) but not about angle brackets.
For now i'll ask Debbie Lapeyre; she was chair of gencode.
More accurate locations. When it all goes wrong, can I tell you where? #XML #MarkupMonday #XMLCalabash
DocBook xslTNG-gradle. Introducing a Gradle plugin for transforming DocBook documents with the xslTNG stylesheets. #DocBook #MarkupMonday #Gradle
