Balisage Paper: Using XML to Implement XML
Or, Since XProc Is XML, Shouldn't Everything Else Be, Too?
August 7 - 10, 2012
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2012nord0128-presentation.zip: Presentation slides in Microsoft PowerPoint (pptx).
XProc: An XML
Pipeline Language.
http://www.w3.org/TR/2010/REC-xproc-20100511/
XML
Calabash (also known as Stop Censorship).
Calabash web page, at
http://xmlcalabash.com/. For the purposes of this paper, especially
interesting are the sections on extensions
(http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/extensions.html) and engine
configuration
(http://xmlcalabash.com/docs/reference/configuration.html).
eXtensible Filter
Objects (XFO).
Whitepaper by Henrik Mårtensson about pipeline-based
processing of XML, presented at XML Scandinavia 2001. XFO was implemented in Perl
but
the black-boxing of arbitrary feature sets was a useful abstraction in any context.
Unfortunately, the paper no longer seems to be available online.