Balisage Paper: Could authors really write in XML one day?

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2013
August 6 - 9, 2013

The materials listed below were provided by the speaker as supplements to a presentation at Balisage. These materials may include the slides or visuals used in the presentation; supplementary material, such as code samples or a demonstration application; and/or the paper accompanying the presentation (if it has not been provided in XML). These materials have been zipped for easy download and are identified by a brief description of the contents. The materials themselves are untouched, that is, they have not been tested or edited by Balisage: The Markup Conference or by Mulberry Technologies, Inc. As such, they are included on this website AS IS, i.e., as provided by the speaker, with no warranties, express or otherwise, made by Balisage or Mulberry.

Slides and Materials

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Ebel, Hans Friedrich; Bliefert, Claus; and Russey, William E. The Art of Scientific Writing: From Student Reports to Professional Publications in Chemistry and Related Fields. Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2nd ed. 2005. ISBN 9783527298297.

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Flynn, Peter. Formatting Information. Special issue of TUGboat 23:2, 2002. TeX Users Group, Portland, OR. http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/info/beginlatex/, §8.2.5, p.158.

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Flynn, Peter. If XML is so easy, how come it’s so hard?: The usability of editing software for structured documents. Presented at the Extreme Markup Languages Conference 2006, Montréal, Canada, August 7–11, 2006. http://research.ucc.ie/articles/extreme06

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Flynn, Peter. Why writers don't use XML: The usability of editing software for structured documents. Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009, Montréal, Canada, August 11–14, 2009. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 3 (2009). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol3.Flynn01.

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Geers, Frederik. User-friendly structured document editing: removing barriers for author acceptance. Masters Thesis, Content and Knowledge Engineering, University of Utrecht.

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Joloboff, Vania. Document Representation: Concepts and standards. In Andre, J; Furuta, R; and Quint, V: Structured Documents, CUP, Cambridge UK, 1989, pp.75–105.

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McLeish, Sheri; McNabb, Kyle; Tsang, Keith. Breaking Up Is Hard To Do: The Microsoft Word Love Story. Forrester Research Inc, Cambridge MA, Report 46409, December 2008. http://www.forrester.com/home?docid=46409#/Breaking+Up+Is+Hard+To+Do+The+Microsoft+Word+Love+Story/fulltext/-/E-RES46409

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Piez, Wendell and Usdin, Tommie. Separating Mapping from Coding in Transformation Tasks. Presented at the XML Conference, Boston, MA, December 3–5, 2007.

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Reid, Brian. Scribe: A Document Specification Language and its Compiler. PhD Thesis, Carnegie-Mellon University, 1980.

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Schultz, Michael. Microsoft Office Is Right at Home. Microsoft Corporation, 8 Jan 2009. http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/2009/jan09/01-08cesofficeqaschultz.aspx

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Snyder, Carolyn. Paper Prototyping. Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier Science), San Francisco, 2003. ISBN 1558608702.