Balisage 2022 ProgramThe Balisage 2022 program includes papers that discuss: ^ > All-XSLT manuscript collation ^ > Readability of markup languages ^ > Invisible XML: exploiting implicit structure in non-XML input XSLT 4.0 ^ > Long-term preservation using static HTML ^ > Getting XML tables and SVG charts out of Excel ^ > Using XProc and XSLT to migrate early Docbook into new modular HTML Metadata by and for creators ^ > Adapting markup vocabularies ^ > Using BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite) for government documents ^ > Comparing OASIS CALS tables ^ > Designing languages for extensibility and forward compatibility ^ > Serverless searching with XSLT and JavaScript ^ > New XSLT function librariesBalisage 2022: The Markup ConferenceBS2022_9fd14b88-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.Markup PractitionersBalisage ~ where serious markup practitioners and theoreticians meet every summer. If you are happy to be the person in your project who understands the angle brackets and stuff, then you are a markup geek and Balisage is the place for you. Even if you are NOT a markup geek, if you find it instructive to spend time with them now and then, you will enjoy Balisage.Balisage PeoplePeople involved with Balisage ~ The people making Balisage include markup theoreticians and practitioners, data modelers, designers, architects, and both aficionados and deep thinkers. We work as software developers, system architects, academics, integrators, librarians, data miners, lexicographers, archivists, document managers, standards developers, programmers, and publishers.Balisage Conference CommitteeB. Tommie UsdinChair | Mulberry Technologies ~ B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML for textual documents. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs the Balisage conference. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books, magazines, and journals, and both web- and media-based electronic publications. She is co-chair of the NISO Z39-96, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Working Group and a member of the BITS Working Group and the NISO STS Standing Committee. You can read more about her at http://www.mulberrytech.com/people/usdin/index.html.Deborah A. LapeyreMulberry Technologies ~ Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre is a Senior Consultant for Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in helping their clients toward better publishing through XML, XSLT, and Schematron solutions. She works with Tommie Usdin as architects and Secretariat for JATS (ANSI NISO Z39.96-2019 Journal Article Tag Suite) and BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite). She teaches hands-on XML, XSLT, DTD and schema construction, and Schematron courses as well as numerous technical and business-level introductions to XML and JATS. Debbie has been working with XML and XSLT since their inception and with SGML since 1984 (before SGML was finalized as an ISO standard). In a previous life, she wrote code for systems that put ink on paper and used, taught, and documented a proprietary generic markup system named “SAMANTHA”. Hobbies, besides Balisage, include pumpkin carving parties.James David MasonCo-Chair | James David Mason, originally trained as a mediaevalist and linguist, became a writer, systems developer, and manufacturing engineer at U.S. Department of Energy facilities in Oak Ridge since the late 1970s. In 1981, he joined the ISO’s work on standards for document management and interchange. He chaired ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34, which is responsible for SGML, DSSSL, Topic Maps, and related standards, for more than 20 years. Dr. Mason has been a frequent writer and speaker on standards and their applications. For his work on SGML, Dr. Mason has received the Gutenberg Award from Printing Industries of America and the Tekkie Award from GCA. He recently retired from working on information systems to support manufacturing and documentation at DOE’s Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.C. M. Sperberg-McQueenCo-Chair | Black Mesa Technologies ~ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Technologies LLC, a consultancy specializing in the use of descriptive markup to help memory institutions preserve cultural heritage information. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) 1.1 specification.Norman WalshCo-Chair | Saxonica ~ Norm Tovey-Walsh is currently a senior software developer at Saxonica Ltd, working out of his home in Swansea Wales. Previously, he was employed by MarkLogic Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Arbortext, and O’Reilly Media (then O’Reilly & Associates).Balisage Advisory BoardSyd BaumanNortheastern UniversityJeff BeckNational Library of MedicineDavid J BirnbaumUniversity of PittsburghJon BosakRobin CoverOASISSteve DeRoseIndependent ConsultantBob DuCharmeCCRiPatrick DurusauEric FreeseTopQuadrantEduardo GutentagG. Ken HolmanCrane SoftwrightsSam HuntingMichael KaySaxonicaDavid A. LeeNexstra, IncChris LilleyWorld Wide Web ConsortiumYves MarcouxUniversité de MontréalSean McGrathPropylonMary McRaeOrbis TechnologiesSteven R. NewcombCoolheads ConsultingWendell PiezPiez Consulting Services ~ Wendell Piez has been a markup advocate, systems developer, and Balisage presenter since early days.Ari NordströmCreative Words ~ Ari Nordström is an independent markup geek based in Göteborg, Sweden. He has provided angled brackets to many organisations and companies across a number of borders over the years, some of which deliver the rule of law, help dairy farmers make a living, and assist in servicing commercial aircraft. And others are just for fun. ^ Ari is the proud owner and head projectionist of Western Sweden’s last functioning 35/70mm cinema, situated in his garage, which should explain why he once wrote a paper on automating commercial cinemas using XML.Liam QuinDelightful ComputingAllen H. RenearUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ~ Allen Renear is a faculty member in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He served as dean of the School from 2012 to 2019 and is currently in the Office of the Provost as a Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives. Prior to coming to Illinois, he was Director of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University. Renear was an “Observer” at X3V1.TG8 during the finalization of ISO8879 and has never recovered. He has served on several early TEI committees, was the American Philosophical Association’s delegate on the first TEI Advisory Board, was involved in various roles in the Brown University (now Northeastern University) Womens Writers Project, and was the first Chair of the Open eBook Publication Structure Working Group (OEBPS, now ePUB/IDPF). He has been coming to Balisage (and its predecessors) for longer than he can remember. His academic specialties are data curation, scientific communication, and the conceptual foundations of information systems.Bruce RosenblumIneraJeni TennisonJeni Tennison ConsultingHenry S. ThompsonUniversity of EdinburghFabio VitaliUniversity of BolognaLauren WoodGood, practical theories_9fd14da4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00To document and share the agenda for the Balisage 2022 conference._9fd14eda-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Dress RehearsalHelp people get logged in to Whova_9fd1522c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea007-31-11:00Conference AttendeesSunday 11:00 - 12:00 EDT | Dress Rehearsal & Social Time | Balisage is using the Whova Conference Portal, which is unfamiliar to some attendees and has changed since some of us used it last year at Balisage. In order to provide an opportunity for us all to figure out how the portal works, we will do a “Dress Rehearsal” on the Sunday before the conference. The Dress Rehearsal will start with some social time including coaching to help people get logged in to Whova, a bit of conference-lite content including Q&As, and some small group social time._9fd15402-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Electronic Verse EngineerCapture verse, with some annotation capability_9fd15538-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea007-31-12:00Wendell PiezWendell Piez has been a markup advocate, systems developer, and Balisage presenter since early days.Sunday 12:00 - 12:15 EDT (+ Q&A 12:15 - 12:25) | Suppose you want to publish an anthology, with TEI or BITS, for example. Part of the workflow is going to be capturing verse. Electronic Verse Engineer is a Markdown-like interface for capturing verse (as opposed to unstructured paragraphs), with some annotation capability. It can capture prose, if that’s what you have. You type and it makes XML for you. It is meant to be a building block in an Anthology Builder application, to publish your anthology. (I hear that Anthology Building is going to be the next craze—when it happens, you heard it from me.)_9fd157c2-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Akoma NtosoShow an alternative approach to customization of Akoma Ntoso for some common use cases using Schematron_9fd1598e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea007-31-12:30Geert BormansC-Moria BVSunday 12:30 - 12:45 EDT (+ Q&A 12:45 - 12:55) | Customisation of Akoma Ntoso using Schematron ~ Akoma Ntoso, an Oasis Open standard for legal documents, is gaining popularity. Since the standard aims to cover a wide variety of legislative and parliamentary traditions, it is fairly broad and generic. Projects usualy start by customisation of the standard to a local tradition. Such a customisation is usualy achieved by generating a so called subschema through publicaly available tooling. This presentation shows an alternative approach for some common use cases using Schematron instead._9fd15b0a-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Social TimeChat with other conference attendees_9fd15e70-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea007-31-13:00Conference AttendeesSunday 13:00 - 13:30 EDT | Small Group Social Time ~ There will be several social spaces available throughout Balisage. This is a good time to take a look at them and chat with other conference attendees._9fd16046-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Welcome_9fd16262-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-10:00Monday 10:00 - 10:15 EDT | Welcome to Balisage 2022 ~ Conference logistics, tips for attendees, and other getting started messages._9fd16622-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Destructive ConsistencyMeet people where they are_9fd16802-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-10:15B. Tommie UsdinMulberry Technologies ~ B. Tommie Usdin is President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consultancy specializing in XML for textual documents. Ms. Usdin has been working with SGML since 1985 and has been a supporter of XML since 1996. She chairs the Balisage conference. Ms. Usdin has developed DTDs, Schemas, and XML/SGML application frameworks for applications in government and industry. Projects include reference materials in medicine, science, engineering, and law; semiconductor documentation; historical and archival materials. Distribution formats have included print books, magazines, and journals, and both web- and media-based electronic publications. She is co-chair of the NISO Z39-96, JATS: Journal Article Tag Suite Working Group and a member of the BITS Working Group and the NISO STS Standing Committee. You can read more about her at http://www.mulberrytech.com/people/usdin/index.html.Monday 10:15 - 10:45 EDT Session in Conference Portal | Destructive Consistency ~ It seems to be in the nature of people drawn to discussions of markup, that is, people likely to be at Balisage, that we value consistency. We want both our physical and virtual worlds to make sense and we expect consistency. We chafe when forced to drive on the “wrong” side of the road. We want the names used in our markup vocabularies to be formed in consistent ways—either use CamelCase or don’t, for example. We want things that are parallel to be handled in parallel ways. This feels comfortable to us, and we think we are doing good by pushing the world toward our comfort zone. This, it seems to me, is one of the reasons that explicit markup has not taken the world by storm. We are not meeting people where they are; we are trying to change where they are. Worse, we are (deliberately? frequently?) blind to their styles and desires. This just plain doesn’t work! Our obsession with consistency is destructive._9fd1694c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00XSLT & CollationAutomate the preparation, collation, and correction of electronic editions_9fd16bfe-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-11:00Elisa E. Beshero-BondarPenn State Erie, The Behrend College ~ Elisa Beshero-Bondar explores and teaches document data modeling with the XML family of languages. She serves on the TEI Technical Council and is the founder and organizer of the Digital Mitford project and its usually annual coding school. She experiments with visualizing data from complex document structures like epic poems and with computer-assisted collation of differently encoded editions of Frankenstein. Her ongoing adventures with markup technologies are documented on her development site at newtfire.org.Monday 11:00 - 11:30 EDT (+ Q&A 11:30 - 11:45) | Correcting Collation Problems with XSLT ~ The word by word, comma by comma, and sometimes tag by tag comparison of manuscripts and editions (called “collation”) is notoriously tedious and error-prone. But computer-aided collation is like a power loom that inevitably tangles up threads caught in the machinery. We need new tooling to help us unsnarl the threads. ^ To this point, we aligned variant passages in the Frankenstein Variorum project using a Python script to feed collateX. Now we are experimenting with the Text Alignment Network’s tandiff XSLT to handle the string comparison completely with XPath and XSLT. How far can we take XSLT and Schematron in automating the preparation, collation, and correction of electronic editions?_9fd16dd4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Invisible XMLProvide an update on the status of Invisible XML_9fd16f28-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-12:00Tomos HillmanEvolved Binary ~ Tom Hillman has worked as an XML practitioner and consultant for fifteen years, doing everything from documentation to IT support and administration to workflows for digital publishing to conference organization to XML database management and consultancy.John LumleyA Cambridge engineer by background, John Lumley created the AI group at Cambridge Consultants in the early 1980s and then joined HPLabs Bristol as one of its founding members. He worked there for 25 years, managing and contributing in a variety of software/systems fields, latterly specialising in XSLT-based document engineering, in which he subsequently gained a PhD in early retirement. Rarely happier than when writing XSLT to write XSLT to write XSLT, he spent the next several years helping develop the Saxon XSLT processor for Saxonica, including developing the XSLT-based XSLT compiler now used in Saxon-JS. Now in proper retirement for a couple of years, he still likes to “potter” with XSLT and is currently working on a Javascript-based processor for InvisibleXML to attach to Saxon-JS.Steven PembertonCWI ~ Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with CWI, Amsterdam. His research is in interaction, and how the underlying software architecture can support users. ^ He co-designed the ABC programming language that formed the basis for Python and was one of the first handful of people on the open internet in Europe, when the CWI set it up in 1988. Involved with the Web from the beginning, he organised two workshops at the first Web Conference in 1994. For the best part of a decade he chaired the W3C HTML working group, and has co-authored many web standards, including HTML, XHTML, CSS, XForms, and RDFa. He now chairs the W3C XForms and Invisible Markup groups. In 2022 he was awarded the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award. More details at http://www.cwi.nl/~steven.C. M. Sperberg-McQueenBlack Mesa Technologies LLC ~ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Technologies LLC, a consultancy specializing in the use of descriptive markup to help memory institutions preserve cultural heritage information. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) 1.1 specification.Bethan Tovey-WalshSwansea University ~ Bethan Tovey-Walsh is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Welsh at Swansea University, doing research on code-switching and lexical borrowing in Welsh-English bilinguals and working on the CorCenCC modern Welsh corpus project.Norm Tovey-WalshSaxonica ~ Norm Tovey-Walsh is currently a senior software developer at Saxonica Ltd, working out of his home in Swansea Wales. Previously, he was employed by MarkLogic Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Arbortext, and O’Reilly Media (then O’Reilly & Associates).Monday 12:00 - 12:30 EDT (+ Q&A 12:30 - 12:45) | Invisible XML Coming into Focus? ~ Invisible XML has had a long incubation process, but in the last year things have heated up. A W3C Community Group has been formed; the specification has been improved and is on the verge of publication, with implementations on the way. Infrastructure in preparation includes a test suite to improve interoperability of implementations, tutorial materials, and collections of sample Invisible XML grammars._9fd171f8-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00OxygenProvide an overview of new Oxygen XML tools_9fd173ec-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-13:30George BinaSyncro Soft ~ George Bina is one of the founders of Syncro Soft, the company that develops Oxygen XML suite of XML editing, authoring, development, publishing, and collaboration tools. He has more than 20 years of experience in working with XML and related technologies, bringing many innovative ideas to reality and contributing to XML-related open-source projects.Monday 13:30 - 14:00 EDT | Sponsor Presentation: Oxygen ~ The Oxygen XML set of tools evolved over time and they now include visual authoring, publishing, review and collaboration, support for automation, and a powerful SDK in addition to the core XML editing and development. During this presentation, we will provide an overview of these tools, as well as highlight the most important recent additions to each tool, such as concurrent XML editing and JSON support._9fd1755e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Indexing & QueryingBuild search indexes offline with XSLT and query them using JavaScript in the browser_9fd178e2-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-14:00Joey TakedaSimon Fraser University ~ Joey Takeda is a Digital Humanities Developer at Simon Fraser University’s Digital Humanities Innovation Lab. He holds an MA in English Literature from the University of British Columbia. He currently serves as Technical Editor for the Winnifred Eaton Archive and is a member of TEI By Example’s International Advisory Committee.Martin HolmesUniversity of Victoria ~ Martin Holmes is a programmer in the University of Victoria Humanities Computing and Media Centre. He served on the TEI Technical Council from 2010 to 2015 and was managing editor of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative from 2013 to 2015. He is lead programmer on several large DH projects, including The Map of Early Modern London and Digital Victorian Periodical Poetry.Monday 14:00 - 14:30 EDT (+ Q&A 14:30 - 14:45) | Serverless Searching with XSLT and JavaScript ~ Paper books may go out of print, but they do not cease to function after a few years. Web-based digital editions, by contrast, have often been tied to particular software systems and vanished entirely when that software became obsolete. How can this be avoided? ^ For many digital humanities projects, “serverless” is the answer: sites that are purely static on the server side. But digital editions also require sophisticated search capabilities with stemming, wildcards, and filters tuned to the contents of the edition itself. To meet this need, staticSearch builds search indexes offline with XSLT and queries them using JavaScript in the browser. This straightforward, serverless approach is not without interesting and challenging problems of its own._9fd17aea-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00JATSGuide users toward a new, backwards incompatible version of JATS_9fd17c5c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-15:00Jeff BeckNational Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health ~ Jeff Beck is the Program Head for Literature at the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the US National Library of Medicine. He has been involved in the PubMed Central project since it began in 2000. He has been working in print and then electronic journal publishing since the early 1990s. Currently he is co-chair of the NISO Z39.96 JATS Standing Committee and is a BELS-certified Editor in the Life Sciences.Monday 15:00 - 15:30 EDT (+ Q&A 15:30 - 15:45) | JATS Superhighway: Onramp to a Backward-incompatible Version ~ Tag sets change over time. Tag set designers manage a complex system where everything is connected to everything else and new user requirements continue to surface. Tag set users manage complex systems to create, manage, and archive documents. Users strongly resist backward-incompatible change, so as JATS has grown we have made compromises in the design to meet new requirements while maintaining backward-compatability. We think it is time to consolidate redundant models, remove deprecated items, and generally reduce confusion. Can we guide users towards a new, backwards incompatible version in a way that they'll find palatable? ^ We have a plan. We're going to extend the JATS 1.x schema so that it contains the new, 2.0 models in addition to the old models. Then we'll make an "Onramp" subset of 1.x that has the deprecated items removed. Documents valid against the onramp subset of 1.x will also be valid against 2.0._9fd1818e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00DiscussionDiscuss subjects of interest to the markup community_9fd18454-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-1-16:00TBDDiscussion Leader(s) to be AnnouncedMonday 16:00 - 17:00 EDT | Birds of a Feather Discussion(s) ~ Balisage participants will choose topics we want to discuss and discussion leaders to keep the conversation on topic. These topics may be inspired by conference presentations or may be other subjects of interest to the markup community. Specific topics and discussion leaders will be announced during Balisage._9fd185e4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Excel, CALS & SVGApply an XSLT function library to extract CALS tables and SVG diagrams to make Excel data more easily accessible_9fd192c8-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-10:00Gayanthika UdeshaniTypefi ~ Gayanthika Udeshani is an Associate Architect at Typefi, where she leads the XSLT team and provide supports for other software solutions as well. ^ She holds a MSC in Software Architect from the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. She has over 11 years of experience as a developer and she has started working at Typefi since 2018.Tuesday 10:00 - 10:30 EDT (+ Q&A 10:30 - 10:45) | Getting Useful XML out of Microsoft Excel ~ Many users create and maintain useful data in Excel spreadsheets. Besides the tables themselves, there are also charts and graphs derived from them. Powerful Java tools exist to extract this data, but they can be difficult to configure. An XSLT function library to extract CALS tables and SVG diagrams makes Excel data more easily accessible._9fd19502-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00EbooksProvide multiple levels of access and preservation to scholarly packages of Ebooks_9fd19688-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-11:00Ravit H. DavidUniversity of Toronto ~ Ravit H. David (she/her) serves as the Distinctive Collections Librarian at Scholars Portal, Univ. of Toronto Libraries. In her current position, Ravit focuses on developing Gov. Info content, Accessible service (ACE), OA and Archive-It collections. Ravit is keen on all aspects of digital access, from policy and copyright to metadata best practices for discoverability.Ontario Council of University LibrariesTuesday 11:00 - 11:30 EDT (+ Q&A 11:30 - 11:45) | BITS for Government Information? ~ Scholars Portal, a service of the Ontario Council of University Libraries, provides multiple levels of access and preservation to scholarly packages of Ebooks. We have created an in-house custom modification of the Book Interchange Tag Suite (BITS, a sister vocabulary to the Journal Article Tag Suite, JATS) to describe EBooks. A recent strategic decision to host government information has posed several challenges with our BITS modification and required a new in-house schema to accommodate specific metadata requirements posed by the somehow different nature of govinfo content. We’ll look at some of these challenges, then examine ways BITS can accommodate metadata that isn’t necessarily standard Ebook metadata._9fd199a8-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Invisible XMLTreat non-XML documents as if they were XML_9fd19bce-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-12:00Tomos HillmanEvolved BinaryC. M. Sperberg-McQueenBlack Mesa Technologies LLC ~ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Technologies LLC, a consultancy specializing in the use of descriptive markup to help memory institutions preserve cultural heritage information. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) 1.1 specification.Bethan Tovey-WalshSwansea University ~ Bethan Tovey-Walsh is a PhD student in Applied Linguistics and Welsh at Swansea University, doing research on code-switching and lexical borrowing in Welsh-English bilinguals and working on the CorCenCC modern Welsh corpus project.Norm Tovey-WalshSaxonicaTuesday 12:00 - 12:30 EDT (+ Q&A 12:30 - 12:45) | Designing for Change: Pragmas as an Extensibility Mechanism for Invisible XML ~ Invisible XML (ixml) is a method for treating non-XML documents as if they were XML. A specification for Invisible XML is under committee development. But no technology foresees all of its use cases, especially in 1.0. How can ixml allow experimentation, and channel experimentation in useful ways, to allow ideas to be expressed in ixml grammars that go beyond what is foreseen, without compromising interoperability or the value of strict conformance to the specification? ^ Many programming languages (C, JavaScript, Pascal, XQuery, etc.) address this question with pragmas. A pragma is a semi-formal way to instruct a processor/compiler/interpreter how it should operate. Typical pragmas extend a specification but are not a part of it. We propose pragmas as an optional add-on to ixml to allow implementation of non-standardized functionality in a way that does not interfere with standard ixml processing. We describe our general framework for pragmas, some specific pragmas (to illustrate how pragmas can be used), and a few pragmatic implementations._9fd19d68-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00_9fd1a18c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Docugami_9fd1a3c6-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-13:30Jean PaoliDocugami ~ Jean Paoli is the Founder of Docugami Inc., a startup that uses AI to transform the unique document business processes of individual companies, making frontline users more efficient while giving COOs better compliance and insights — inspired by his deep belief that openness and interoperability raises all boats. He was formerly President of Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc., and one of the co-creators of the XML 1.0 standard with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Throughout his career, Jean has worked in startups: before Microsoft, with Inria, the renowned French research Labs (Gipsi S.A. and Grif S.A.); and within Microsoft creating four new startups: XML, InfoPath, opening the Office formats and MS OpenTech (Microsoft’s open source subsidiary). The startups he built created breakthrough platform technologies used today by millions. He is the recipient of multiple industry awards for his work on XML, semi-structured data, the convergence of documents and data and openness at large. In addition to core technical design, Jean takes deep care at building healthy ecosystems at worldwide scale. He is credited as one of the key leaders responsible for shifting in a fundamental way, under the guidance of the CEO, Microsoft’s strategy to embrace and love open source.Tuesday 13:30 - 14:00 EDT | Sponsor Presentation: Docugami_9fd1a56a-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Markup-Related SpecificationsProvide updates on markup-related specifications_9fd1a902-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-14:00Patrick DurusauRobert WheelerASMEDavid MausDavid Maus is Head of Research & Development at the State and University Library Hamburg. He is the lead developer and maintainer of SchXslt, an XSLT-based Schematron processor.Norm Tovey-WalshNorm Tovey-Walsh is currently a senior software developer at Saxonica Ltd, working out of his home in Swansea Wales. Previously, he was employed by MarkLogic Corporation, Sun Microsystems, Arbortext, and O’Reilly Media (then O’Reilly & Associates).TBDothers to be namedTuesday 14:00 - 14:30 EDT | Updates on Active Markup-Related Specifications ~ We rely on specifications to make our markup tools and projects sing. Those specifications continue to evolve to meet changing needs, even if (thankfully?) they are not changing as quickly now as they were a decade or two ago.XSLTFill gaps in functionality in XSLT_9fd1ac0e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00XSLT 4 is a revised version of the XSLT 3.0 Recommendation. The changes are relatively minor usability enhancements. There are no changes to the data model or processing model. Instead, the specification attempts to fill a number of gaps in functionality resulting from feedback from XSLT 3.0 users.SchematronDiscuss the current state of Schematron_9fd1adbc-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00The Schematron story is complicated. As of the 2020 version, ISO Schematron is behind a paywall and inactive. Schematron use is growing, as is the list of wished-for improvements to the Schematron specification. This update will discuss the current state of Schematron.OpenDocumentFormatDiscuss changes in ODF_9fd1b10e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00OpenDocumentFormat (ODF), an XML format for office suite software, was formally approved by ISO/IEC in 2005. But like sharks, ODF had to continue to move or die. Much has happened since 2005 and even more changes are planned for the future! Much has happened since 2005 and even more changes are planned for the future! ODF 1.4 is now in preparation.Standards Tag SuiteProvide a common XML format that developers, publishers, and distributors of standards_9fd1b35c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Standards DevelopersStandards PublishersStandards DistributorsNISO Z39.102/NISO STS (Standards Tag Suite) provides a common XML format that developers, publishers, and distributors of standards, including national standards bodies, regional and international standards bodies, and standards development organizations, can use to publish and exchange full-text content and metadata of standards. STS is based on ANSI/NISO Z39.96 JATS (the Journal Article Tag Suite). NISO STS 1.1 is ready for balloting.SaxonJSWeave the power of XML and XSLT into website generation_9fd1b50a-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-15:00Evan LenzLenz Consulting Group, Inc. and the C++ AllianceTuesday 15:00 - 15:30 EDT (+ Q&A 15:30 - 15:45) | XML in an AsciiDoc World: SaxonJS to the Rescue (LB) ~ Static website generation has long been an effective use case for XML and XSLT. Today, static site generators remain popular, but they rarely use XML. Antora is a static site generator for software documentation. It runs on Node.js and uses AsciiDoc for its source content. It has desirable features including git integration, site versioning, and pluggable modern UI bundles. However, Antora doesn't natively handle complex content generation needs. Now, thanks to SaxonJS and Antora's new extension mechanism, we can weave in the power of XML and XSLT. The docca project generates reference documentation for Boost C++ libraries via an Antora extension that invokes SaxonJS, seamlessly integrating auto-generated and manually-authored content into the result. This presentation introduces key project components (Doxygen, Antora, AsciiDoc, and SaxonJS running on Node.js) and includes sample code, a demo, and a brief discussion of other ways XML and SaxonJS might complement AsciiDoc and Antora._9fd1b866-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00_9fd1bab4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00DiscussionDiscuss subjects of interest to the markup community_9fd1bc76-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-2-16:00TBDDiscussion Leader(s) to be AnnouncedTuesday 16:00 - 16:30 EDT | Birds of a Feather Discussion(s) ~ Balisage participants will choose topics we want to discuss and discussion leaders to keep the conversation on topic. These topics may be inspired by conference presentations or may be other subjects of interest to the markup community. Specific topics and discussion leaders will be announced during Balisage._9fd1bfdc-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00DocBookConvert DocBook to HTML_9fd1c23e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-10:00Ari NordströmCreative Words ~ Ari Nordström is an independent markup geek based in Göteborg, Sweden. He has provided angled brackets to many organisations and companies across a number of borders over the years, some of which deliver the rule of law, help dairy farmers make a living, and assist in servicing commercial aircraft. And others are just for fun. ^ Ari is the proud owner and head projectionist of Western Sweden’s last functioning 35/70mm cinema, situated in his garage, which should explain why he once wrote a paper on automating commercial cinemas using XML.Jean KaplanskyJean Kaplansky is a proven and experienced Publishing Content Platform Solutions Architect with a background in working in the small, medium, and enterprise business environments across multiple industries, including Software, Hardware, Aerospace, Insurance, Scholarly Publishing, and the instructional design and publishing of education content. Jean has accomplished extensive DocBook stylesheet design and content analysis throughout her career. ^ Jean enjoys a challenge in addition to solving problems and explaining technical things to non-technical people. Jean has contributed to publishing taxonomies, schemas, authoring tools, Content Management, and Automated Publishing systems development. Jean also contributes to designing new business workflows and processes based on information architecture, knowledge management science, and best practices.Wednesday 10:00 - 10:30 EDT (+ Q&A 10:30 - 10:45) | Migrating DocBook to Uncharted Waters ~ Converting DocBook to HTML sounds like it should be straightforward. But 50 GB of DocBook data, some dating back to the SGML days and replete with interpolations specific to a proprietary publishing and content-management system, provides plenty of, um, opportunities for creative conversion approaches and has taught us a number of valuable lessons. Using pipelines of many XSLT transformations matched to individual problems is a basic strategy for conversion, but many other tools, some not even designed for DocBook, have become parts of the pipeline as well. We are lucky to have such a vibrant and supportive XML community to help when code alone isn’t enough._9fd1c40a-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Open MicGive 2 to 10 minutes presentations on any topic_9fd1c824-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-11:00Conference ParticipantsWednesday 11:00 - 12:15 EDT | Open Mic: Anything Goes ~ Open Microphone. Balisage participants are invited to give 2 to 10 minutes presentations on any topic (within the limits of the conference Code of Conduct). If more people ask to present than we have time for the conference chair will select speakers._9fd1ca90-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00TypefiDemonstrate how to produce print, mobile and online content faster_9fd1cc66-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-12:15Damien GibbsTypefi ~ Damian is a Solutions Consultant at Typefi where he works with organisations to automate publishing processes. He works across a number of diverse organsisations with varying types of XML and non-XML content to design and build publishing automation workflows. He started out as an apprentice typesetter over 20 years ago with a leading South African educational publisher and from the start always sought out digital technologies to support publishing.Wednesday 12:15 - 12:45 EDT | Sponsor Presentation: Typefi ~ Typefi will demonstrate how to produce print, mobile and online content faster using single-source publishing platform in a seamless end-to-end automated workflow._9fd1d2ec-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00HTML & WordIntroduce Antenna House’s newest products, HTML on Word and Word API_9fd1d56c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-13:30Mike MillerAntenna HouseWednesday 13:30 - 14:00 EDT | Sponsor Presentation: Antenna House ~ Antenna House offers way more than XSL-FO and CSS Formatters. This presentation will introduce you to Antenna House’s newest products, HTML on Word and Word API. HTML on Word converts an MS Word file to clean HTML that somebody can style with CSS to produce web pages or print. Word API is a server-side library that provides for data-merge, unlink, document comparison, and inspect of MS Word documents. Both products rely on the MS Word files being DOCX. Neither requires MS Word. DOCX is the tie-in to XML.HTMLConvert MS Word files to HTML for styling with CSS to produce web pages or print_9fd1d756-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00APIProvides for data-merge, unlink, document comparison, and inspect of MS Word documents_9fd1dada-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Human ReadabilityCompare the effect of different markup techniques on the readability of the resulting data files_9fd1dd50-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-14:00Michael Robert GrykDepartment of Molecular Biology and Biophysics, UCONN Health ~ Dr. Michael R. Gryk is Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Biophysics at UCONN Health. At UCONN, Michael co-leads a technical research and discovery component of the NMRbox BTRR Center, the mission of which is to foster the computational reproducibility and scientific data re-use of bioNMR data. Michael is also the associate director of the BioMagResBank, the international repository for bioNMR research data. He is also a doctoral student at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where his broad research interests are in provenance, workflows, digital curation and preservation, reproducibility, and scientific data re-use. Michael is also a participant of the W3C Invisible Markup group.Wednesday 14:00 - 14:30 EDT (+ Q&A 14:30 - 14:45) | Human Readability of Data Files ~ “It’s human readable” has not only been an assertion but also a stated requirement for SGML and XML since those projects began. But what constitutes readability, and what does readability imply about the use of any markup technique? Some kinds of data can be marked up in more than one syntax—XML, JSON, and STAR for example. We can compare the effect of different markup techniques on the readability of the resulting data files. There’s plenty to discuss, from the concept of readability itself to the design choices required when converting from one markup technology to another._9fd1df30-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Markup Category TerminologyElucidate what markup is intended to accomplish_9fd1e2c8-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-15:00Allen H. RenearSchool of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign ~ Allen Renear is a faculty member in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He served as dean of the School from 2012 to 2019 and is currently in the Office of the Provost as a Special Advisor for Strategic Initiatives. Prior to coming to Illinois, he was Director of the Scholarly Technology Group at Brown University. Renear was an “Observer” at X3V1.TG8 during the finalization of ISO8879 and has never recovered. He has served on several early TEI committees, was the American Philosophical Association’s delegate on the first TEI Advisory Board, was involved in various roles in the Brown University (now Northeastern University) Womens Writers Project, and was the first Chair of the Open eBook Publication Structure Working Group (OEBPS, now ePUB/IDPF). He has been coming to Balisage (and its predecessors) for longer than he can remember. His academic specialties are data curation, scientific communication, and the conceptual foundations of information systems.Steven J. DeRoseIndependent Consultant ~ Steve DeRose is a computational linguist who works mainly in document structured document systems, NLP, and hypertext. He holds degrees in Computer Science and Linguistics and a Ph.D. in Computational Linguistics from Brown University. ^ He co-founded Electronic Book Technologies in 1989 to build the first SGML browser and retrieval system, “DynaText“, and has been deeply involved in document standards including XML, TEI, XPath, XPointer, EAD, Open eBook, OSIS, HyTime, and others. He has served as adjunct faculty in Computer Science at Brown University and Calvin University, and written many papers and patents, and two books. He is presently Head of Linguistics at Docugami, a Seattle-based startup solving business document problems using AI.Wednesday 15:00 - 5:30 EDT (+ Q&A 15:30 - 15:45) | Markup Category Terminology over the Years: a First Look (LB) ~ We’ve been doing the “markup” thing for more than half a century, since the beginnings of computerized text processing. In that time we’ve put a lot of adjectives in front of “markup” that reflect how we think of and apply the markup. These qualifiers have tended to fall into two categories, those that suggest what will happen, particularly in presentation, as a result of the application of markup to a string of data and those that reflect what we think about the data itself. Beginning with broad terms, like “generic” we have made many attempts to elucidate what our our markup is intended to accomplish: “conceptual”, “declarative”,“logical”, “structural”, and “semantic” have all had their times in the spotlight. What do the changing fashions in terminology say about our data and about what we, the practitioners, think about our work?_9fd1e53e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00DiscussionDiscuss subjects of interest to the markup community_9fd1e73c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-3-16:00TBDDiscussion Leader(s) to be AnnouncedWednesday 16:00 - 16:45 EDT | Birds of a Feather Discussion(s) ~ Balisage participants will choose topics we want to discuss and discussion leaders to keep the conversation on topic. These topics may be inspired by conference presentations or may be other subjects of interest to the markup community. Specific topics and discussion leaders will be announced during Balisage._9fd1eade-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00XSLT & JSON Extend XSLT to make JSON transformations as easy as XML transformations_9fd1edf4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-10:00Michael KaySaxonicaThursday 10:00 - 10:30 EDT (+ Q&A 10:30 - 10:45) | XSLT Extensions for JSON Processing ~ XSLT 3.0 contains basic facilities for transforming JSON as well as XML. But looking at actual use cases, it’s clear that some things are a lot harder than they need to be. How could we extend XSLT to make JSON transformations as easy as XML transformations, using the same rule-based tree-walking paradigm? Some of these extensions are already implemented in current Saxon releases, so we are starting to get user feedback._9fd1effc-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00XQuery & DITACapture and report the results of applying Schematron validation to DITA documents_9fd1f3b2-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-11:00Eliot KimberServiceNow ~ Eliot Kimber is an XML practitioner currently working for ServiceNow. He has been involved with SGML and XML for more than 30 years. Eliot has contributed to a number of standards, including SGML, HyTime, XML, XSLT, DSSSL, and DITA. While Eliot’s focus has been managing large scale hyperdocuments for authoring and delivery, most of his day-to-day work involves producing online and paged (or pageable) media from XML documents. Eliot maintains a number of open-source projects including DITA for Publishers, The Wordinator, and the DITA Community collection of DITA-related tools and other aids. Eliot is author of DITA for Practitioners, Vol 1: Architecture and Technology, from XML Press. When not trying to retire the technical debt in his various open-source projects, Eliot lives with his family in Austin, Texas, where he practices Aikido and bakes bread.Thursday 11:00 - 11:30 EDT (+ Q&A 11:30 - 11:45) | Project Mirabel: XQuery-Based Documentation Reporting and Exploration System ~ Project Mirabel is a multi-function XQuery-based system for capturing and reporting on the results of applying Schematron validation to DITA documents. Mirabel has experienced a very 'organic' development, growing (all within the span of three weeks!) from a simple reporting utility into a multi-function platform for general reporting and exploration over large and complex sets of DITA content that represent non-trivial hyperdocuments. Whew!_9fd1f678-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Biblical LinguisticsIntegrate across datasets that were not designed to be used together_9fd1f93e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-12:00Jonathan RobieIn the XML world, Jonathan Robie is best known as one of the inventors of XQuery and an editor of W3C XQuery specifications from the the first Working Drafts through XQuery 3.1. In the Bible translation community, Jonathan works with Clear Bible on linguistic datasets related to biblical Greek and Hebrew. Previously, he worked for SIL International as Program Manager for the Paratext ecosystem, used by over 9,000 Bible translators in over 300 translation organizations worldwide. He is also co-chair of the Copenhagen Alliance for Open Biblical Resources and chair for Distributed Text Services, an API for TEI document repositories. ^ In a long and varied career, Jonathan has served as Chair of the API Governance Board at EMC’s Enterprise Content Division, a member of the AMQP enterprise messaging team at Red Hat, and the architect of XML database systems at Software AG, Progress Software, Texcel Incorporated, and POET Software.Thursday 12:00 - 12:30 EDT (+ Q&A 12:30 - 12:45) | Biblical Linguistics in the GitHub Jungle (LB) ~ A great deal of Biblical analysis is available on GitHub under open licenses, including well-established reference systems for the verses in a Bible and the words used in the original languages. But data integration is still problematic since there are different traditions, with different sets of books and different ways of dividing up individual books. Even a concept as simple as "what is a word" becomes complicated, since linguists employ a range of different criteria, which are not uniformly applicable across contexts and languages. ^ Clear Bible Inc. develops software for Bible translators based on machine learning and natural language processing. We create and curate linguistic datasets for biblical Hebrew and Greek and align translations to the original Hebrew and Greek words. This alignment allows images, maps, articles, and other resources to be associated with the text. To make all of this possible, we have had to discover ways to integrate across datasets that were not designed to be used together. Challenges? Yes. Solutions? Some._9fd1fd12-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Balisage BardExercise literary creativity with original poems, short stories, jokes, songs, photos, recipes, trivia questions, and other masterpieces_9fd1ffc4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-13:00Lynne PriceGamemasterThursday 13:00 - 14:00 EDT | Balisage Bard ~ Once again, Balisage Bard gives you the opportunity to exercise your literary creativity with original poems, short stories, jokes, songs, photos, recipes, trivia questions, and other masterpieces. Subject matter must be related to Balisage—possibilities include markup, papers presented this or previous years, virtual conferences, attendees’ interests (whether or not pertinent to markup), and so forth. Read your effort, play it on video, or show photos or text during the game session. Translations of works in languages other than English are not required but will be appreciated. There is a two-minute time limit per presentation. Sign up by entering your name in the Bard chat room. Presentation sequence at the gamemaster’s discretion. One submission per person/team unless there is time for more at the end. And listen closely. Vote for your favorite three works after the last presentation. Who will be the 2022 Balisage Poet Laureate?_9fd201e0-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00TEISupport international and multilingual texts_9fd205b4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-14:00Hugh CaylessDuke UniversityThursday 14:00 - 14:30 EDT (+ Q&A 14:30 - 14:45) | On Translating the TEI (LB) ~ Few tagsets are more robustly committed to supporting international and multilingual texts than the TEI. It seems only fitting that the TEI Guidelines, the principal documentation of the TEI, written in the TEI, should be available in a wide variety of languages. Several attempts have been made, but the practical difficulties of keeping translations up-to-date has caused them to languish. In 2020, the TEI Consortium and Duke University received a grant to begin reviving the TEI’s internationalization project. We hope the addition of a browser-based GUI for translating the TEI Specification pages into target languages will help make this ambitious project a success._9fd20870-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00MetadataLearn lessons about the creation and management of metadata in creative processes_9fd20a96-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-15:00Mary HolstegeMary Holstege spent decades developing software in Silicon Valley, in and around markup technologies and information extraction. She has most recently been pursuing artistic endeavours. She holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University in Computer Science, for a thesis on document representation.Thursday 15:00 - 15:30 EDT (+ Q&A 15:30 - 15:45) | Metadata for Creators ~ Metadata can be more than an external description, especially in markup systems where the line between data and metadata is especially blurry. Signature metadata allows a creator to assert authorship of a work and communicate with the audience. Process metadata captures key details, serves as an integral part of project record-keeping, and can even play a crucial role in the creation of resources. When metadata is used creatively and managed actively, new opportunities become visible. Important lessons can be learned about the creation and management of metadata in a creative process. With beautiful pictures._9fd20e9c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00DiscussionDiscuss subjects of interest to the markup community_9fd21176-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-4-16:00TBDDiscussion Leader(s) to be AnnouncedThursday 16:00 - 16:45 EDT | Birds of a Feather Discussion(s) ~ Balisage participants will choose topics we want to discuss and discussion leaders to keep the conversation on topic. These topics may be inspired by conference presentations or may be other subjects of interest to the markup community. Specific topics and discussion leaders will be announced during Balisage._9fd213b0-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00CALS TablesClearly representat changes in CALS tables_9fd21874-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-5-10:00Robin La FontaineDeltaXML ~ Robin La Fontaine is the founder and CEO of DeltaXML. His background includes computer aided design software, and he has been addressing the challenges and opportunities associated with information change for many years. DeltaXML tools are now providing critical comparison and merge support for corporate and commercial publishing systems around the world, and are integrated into content management, financial, and network management applications supplied by major players. Robin studied Engineering Science at Worcester College, Oxford, and Computer Science at the University of Hertford. He is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He has three adult children, four grandchildren, and never finds quite enough time for walking, gardening and woodworking.John FrancisDeltaXMLFriday 10:00 - 10:30 EDT (+ Q&A 10:30 - 10:45) | The Impossible Task of Comparing CALS Tables ~ Finding out what has changed in a CALS table is remarkably complicated. Some variant of the CALS standard is often used to represent tabular data in XML, but it permits considerable flexibility in the form of headers, footers, and spans. Additional complexity arises when authors use empty columns for layout or use column or row spans specified in unusual ways, or when applications simply do not follow the standard. In practice, comparing CALS tables directly is impossible. But maybe that’s OK if all we need is a clear representation of the changes. And if we can represent them in a CALS table!_9fd21b4e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00String ComparisonCompare three or more strings_9fd21de2-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-5-11:00Joel KalvesmakiFounder and director of the Text Alignment Network (TAN), Joel Kalvesmaki is an XML developer for the Government Publishing Office and a scholar in early Christian studies. Those two worlds intersect in TAN and the Guide to Evagrius Ponticus, an authoritative online reference work on the fourth-century monk-theologian.Friday 11:00 - 11:30 EDT (+ Q&A 11:30 - 11:45) | Multiple String Comparison in XSLT ~ Introducing tan:collate(), an XSLT function for comparing three or more strings. The tan:collate() function was written primarily for use with textual criticism, and therefore operates under the assumption that the input strings are descended from a common archetype, which the user wishes the output to respect (prefer) as much as possible. The function considers pairwise approaches that build the guide tree incrementally, as well as a staggered-sample approach that leverages the binary-comparison function tan:diff() to detect the ‘superskeleton’ of the strings. The tan:collate() function has been released as part of an open-source function library enabling developers to incorporate text comparison directly into XML applications._9fd222c4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00Excel DocumentsMerge multiple Excel documents into a single XML document_9fd225bc-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-5-12:00Geert BormansC-Moria BV ~ Geert Bormans has long been an angle-bracket jack-of-all-trades. He loves the beauty of a well-architected solution or a pure and simplified process. Geert makes a living as an independent consultant, through his company C-Moria BV, providing XML or Linked Open Data solutions, mainly to the publishing industry. He does so with a broad geographical flexibility. ^ Geert likes an interesting challenge, easily found when having two teenage daughters. However, he prefers the challenges to involve alpine ground, six strings, or markup.Friday 12:00 - 12:30 EDT (+ Q&A 12:30 - 12:45) | Excel to Excel using XML, really? (LB) ~ Merging several Excel documents, from different sources with different forms, into a single XML document that has to satisfy externally specified reporting requirements is a somewhat daunting prospect. You might imagine that a tool like Python (and Pandas) would be the appropriate place to start. But we were able to develop a solution using the XML stack in less time than was forecast for the Python-based solution. We use a single XProc 3.0 pipeline to merge the Excel files and produce both the required XML format and Excel files for internal use. We believe our success depended largely on the fact that the project design enabled precise, filtered, early feedback which reduced the number of iterations required to create the critical deliverable. In addition to ingesting and providing final data in the user’s preferred format (Excel) we were able to provide intermediate files, change tracking, and process documents in Excel._9fd229d6-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00InconsistencyConsider when consistency is foolish and when it is wise_9fd22fa8-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-5-13:30C. M. Sperberg-McQueenBlack Mesa Technologies ~ C. M. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder of Black Mesa Technologies LLC, a consultancy specializing in the use of descriptive markup to help memory institutions preserve cultural heritage information. He co-edited the XML 1.0 specification, the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative, and the XML Schema Definition Language (XSDL) 1.1 specification.Friday 13:30 - 4:15 EDT | Constructive Inconsistency ~ A foolish consistency, said Emerson, is the hobgoblin of little minds. But how can we know when consistency is foolish and when it is wise?_9fd232b4-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea00FeedbackProvide feedback on the Balisage 2022 conference_9fd2350c-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea008-5-14:30Friday 14:30 - 15:00 EDT | Feedback ~ What did you like at Balisage 2022? What could have been better? What changes would you suggest for future Balisage conferences? Tell us what you think._9fd2394e-0ab2-11ed-9d06-eab70d83ea002022-07-312022-08-052022-07-23https://www.balisage.net/2022/Program.htmlOwenAmburOwen.Ambur@verizon.net