Balisage Paper: Using XML to Implement XML

Or, Since XProc Is XML, Shouldn't Everything Else Be, Too?

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2012
August 7 - 10, 2012

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Slides and Materials

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XProc: An XML Pipeline Language. http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xproc-20100511/

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XML Calabash (also known as Stop Censorship). Calabash web page, at http://xmlcalabash.com/. For the purposes of this paper, especially interesting are the sections on extensions (http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/extensions.html) and engine configuration (http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/configuration.html).

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eXtensible Filter Objects (XFO). Whitepaper by Henrik Mårtensson about pipeline-based processing of XML, presented at XML Scandinavia 2001. XFO was implemented in Perl but the black-boxing of arbitrary feature sets was a useful abstraction in any context. Unfortunately, the paper no longer seems to be available online.

Author's keywords for this paper:
Pipeline processing; XProc; Implementing XProc pipelines using XML; Black-boxing feature sets; XProc pipeline processes described in XML blueprints