Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
ISSN 1947-2609
Volume 30: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025
ISBN-13 978-1-935958-26-0
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025
Washington, DC
August 4 - 8, 2025
Balisage is a peer-reviewed conference designed to meet the needs of markup theoreticians and practitioners who are pushing the boundaries of the field. It’s all about the markup: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility; making systems that make markup dance (or dance faster to a different tune in a smaller space) — in short, changing the world and the web through the power of markup.
Balisage 2025 offers developer and implementor insights, case studies, and new ideas in markup, including:
- maintainable XSLT conversions
- processing overlap and discontinuity with a new type of markup language/processor
- introducing undergraduates to Invisible XML
- why the Semantic Web failed
- versioning in XML for a content management system
- Schematron as an interface to XSLT
- processing XQuery using custom module URI resolvers
- using XML in prompts to avoid LLM hallucinations
- processing historical narrative recipes in a modern style
- native Python support for XML
Sponsors
Gold Sponsor
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Docugami is a Seattle-area document engineering startup that transforms how businesses create
and manage document information for greater productivity, compliance, and insight
using breakthrough artificial intelligence. Founded in March 2018 by former senior
engineering leaders from Microsoft, Docugami harnesses a wide range of artificial
intelligence techniques, including natural language processing, image recognition,
declarative markup, LLM’s, Agentic technology and other approaches, to unlock document
info and radically improve how documents enhance business processes, rather than slowing
them down with tedious manual labor and disconnected data.
Silver Sponsors
Antenna House, Inc. was founded in August of 1984 in Tokyo, Japan, as a software company, focused on
data usability. Antenna House, Inc. has led the data conversion sector in Japan since
that time. The company currently operates out of four international locations and
welcomes new partners from around the globe. For information on the full line of Antenna
House XML Products, visit www.AntennaHouse.com.
Saxonica implements the core XML processing technologies (XPath, XSLT, XQuery, and XSD), for
both the open-source community and commercial
customers, on a wide variety of platforms including Java, C#, C, Python, PHP, and
JavaScript. We strive to achieve 100% standards conformance combined with usability,
extensibility, and high performance. Over time we have become the recognized leader
in the field, while remaining small and (we hope) approachable. We‘re proud to have
among our users not only multinational banks, publishers, and government agencies,
but also the innovative researchers whom we get to meet at Balisage.
Sponsors
le-tex publishing services was founded in 1999 in Leipzig (“L.E.”) with a focus on scientific typesetting (“TeX”).
Over the years, other services such as production editing, copy editing, data conversion,
and XML consultancy have been added. Customers include Springer Nature, Wiley, DIN,
C.H.Beck, Suhrkamp, and several academic open access publishers. le-tex is an advocate
of open standards and open source software, as demonstrated by the conversion and
validation framework transpect.io that is based on XProc, XSLT, Relax NG, and Schematron. It converts from/to docx,
IDML, EPUB, TEI, DocBook, JATS, HTML, and other formats; and it is released under
a liberal BSD license.
Oxygen provides a comprehensive suite of XML authoring, developing, publishing, and collaboration
tools. The solutions support all the main XML-based technologies, with a particular
focus on DITA, and are designed for a wide range of users, from non-technical contributors
to XML experts.
Oxygen XML Editor, the flagship product, is an all-in-one solution for XML authoring, publishing, and development. Other tools in the suite include XML Developer for all XML development needs, XML Author and XML Web Author for authoring, Content Fusion for collaboration, and publishing tools such as PDF Chemistry and WebHelp. Additionally, Oxygen Feedback allows commenting, while Oxygen Publishing Engine and Scripting enables automation.
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