Balisage Paper: Diagramming XML

Exploring Concepts, Constraints and Affordances

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015
August 11 - 14, 2015

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Slides and Materials

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Bray, Tim, Paoli, Jean, Sperberg-McQueen, C. M., Maler, Eve and Yergeau, François, Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Fifth Edition), W3C, 1998; the latest version is always online at http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/

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Cairo, Alberto, The Functional Art: An introduction to information graphics and visualization, New Riders, 2013. A useful book with significant amounts of discussion and examples used to illustrate points rather than being chosen primarily (or only) for aesthetic reasons.

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Le Hors, Arnaud, et al., Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core Specification, W3C, 2004; available online at http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/.

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Lima, Manuel, The Book of Trees: Visualizing Branches of Knowledge, Princeton Architectural Press, New York, 2013. Includes both an historical perspective and clear descriptions of a number of ways of displaying trees based on a simple category system.

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Meirelles, Isabel, Design for Information, Rockport, 2013. Many examples and some principles,such as figure/ground, influenced by graphic design.

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Owen, Scott, ed. HyperViz - Teaching Scientific Visualization Using Hypermedia (A project of the ACM SIGGRAPH Education Committee, the National Science Foundation (DUE-9752398), (DUE 9816443) and the Hypermedia and Visualization Laboratory, Georgia State University); see article Definitions and Rationale for Visualization, last updated October 1999. http://www.siggraph.org/education/materials/HyperVis/hypervis.htm.

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Robinson, Peter. What text really is not, and why editors have to learn to swim, in Literary and Linguistic Computing, Vol 24, No. 1 (2009). doi:https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqn030. Originally written in 1997.

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Thomas, Stephen A., Data Visualization with JavaScript, No Starch Press, 2015. Although the coverate of trees and tree-like structures is limited, this book makes few assumptions about the background of the reader and is particularly helpful for those people less confident with the JavaScript language.

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Walsh, Norman, Burglund, Anders, and Snelson, John, XQuery and XPath Data Model 3.0, W3C, 014; available online at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-datamodel-30/.

Author's keywords for this paper:
diagrams; visualization; schemas