Balisage Paper: DGML: Semantic XML for the Age of Document AI
Cross-document tag consistency, spatial grounding, fragment-level attestation, and browser-native readability for business documents
August 3 - 7, 2026
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Bray, Tim, Jean Paoli, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, François Yergeau, eds. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0. W3C Recommendation, 10 February 1998. https://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210.
Clark, James, Makoto Murata, eds. RELAX NG Compact Syntax. OASIS Committee Specification, 3 December 2002. https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/relax-ng/compact-20021121.html.
ECMA International. Open Packaging Conventions. ECMA-376, Part 2: Open Packaging Conventions (OPC). https://ecma-international.org/publications-and-standards/standards/ecma-376/.
Sporny, Manu, Dave Longley, Gregg Kellogg, Markus Lanthaler, Pierre-Antoine Champin, Niklas Lindström, eds. JSON-LD 1.1. W3C Recommendation, 16 July 2020. https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld11/.
Laurie, Ben, Adam Langley, Emilia Kasper. Certificate Transparency. RFC 6962, Internet Engineering Task Force, June 2013. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6962.
Wooldridge, Titus, et al. xast — XML Abstract Syntax Tree. The unified collective. https://github.com/syntax-tree/xast.
DGML Format Specification, Version 0.7. Docugami Inc. and Inveniam, 2026. https://github.com/dgml-io/dgml-spec.