Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
ISSN 1947-2609
Volume 31: Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026
ISBN-13 978-1-935958-27-7
Balisage: The Markup Conference 2026
Washington, DC
August 3 - 7, 2026
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 2026 offers developer and implementor insights, case studies, and new ideas in markup, including:
- designing a Notation with Invisible XML
- enhancing SVG diagramming with Attribute Value Templates (AVTs)
- examining the Distributed Text Services 1.0 specification
- implementing complex validation in XProc
- Schematron Batch Fixes
- integrating Small Language Models with XML technologies in academic digital humanities work
- extending the TEI Processing Model to describe digital edition interactions
- maintaining vast SGML document libraries with modern processing tools
- efficient development of TEI rendering web applications
- declarative AI pipelines for Biblical and linguistic scholarship
- music notation markup languages
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.
Typefi is the world’s only single-source automated publishing platform that fully integrates
print, online and mobile production in a seamless end-to-end automated workflow. Built
on Adobe InDesign Server, Typefi eliminates the need for DITA-OT/XSL-FO and enables
you to create high-quality outputs from your XML content up to 80% faster — even for
highly complex content. Use Typefi to publish in your choice of 30+ outputs including
XML, HTML, EPUB, InDesign, and perfectly designed PDFs for print and online. Separate
content creation from layout and fully automate production of all your print and digital
outputs with Typefi.
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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