Balisage Paper: DTD (document type definition) declarations exposed in XSLT

Parsing DTD files in XSLT to expose the definitions they contain

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2024
July 29 - August 2, 2024

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Slides and Materials

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Alfred Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman, Principles of Compiler Design (the Green Dragon Book), Addison-Wesley, 1977. There is also the Dragon Book, Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, by the same authors with others; there are many newer references on parsing, but these ones have nice covers.

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Quin, Liam, Diagramming XML: Exploring Concepts, Constraints and Affordances, presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015, Washington, DC, August 11 - 14, 2015. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2015. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 15 (2015). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol15.Quin01. This work was one of the motivations for the work in the current paper.

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Quin, Liam, Analytical XSLT, presented at XML Prague 2020, February 13 - 15, 2020. In XML Prague 2020 Conference Proceedings, pp. 219-230. A paper on a tool to analyze two very similar DTDs and write XSLT to transform documents from one to the other; it was the other motivation for this work, besides diagramming.

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Rendgen, Sandra, History of Information Graphics, Taschen, 2021 (XXL Edition). This is very large and heavy, but has a wider scope than books by Manual Lima and others referenced in the Diagramming XML paper.