#Balisage = https://www.balisage.net/ - seems to be going strong; it’s a conference about the theory behind, and practice of, document markup, especially #XML and related technologies such as #XProc #XSLT #XQuery #Schematron #RelaxNG #XPath #TextEncodingInitiative and many more.

XML was badly hurt by people applying it to everything in sight, but for what XML was designed for and is good at, there is nothing better.

Published a #Schematron #XML validation #VSCode extension. Not official or anything, just a proof-of-concept side project. I'd love some feedback if folks are interested.

official marketplace: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=datho7561.vscode-lemminx-schematron
OpenVSX: https://open-vsx.org/extension/datho7561/vscode-lemminx-schematron

Here's a sneak peek at a #PDF Quality Assessment tool I'm working on for digitisation batches , mostly based on #PyMuPDF, #pillow and #Schematron:

https://github.com/KBNLresearch/pdfquad

(Wouldn't recommend this for production yet, as it's not completely finished, and I'm still changing some things around.)

#wtfPDF

Hey #digipres nerds! What do you use to manipulate METS files?

And are you aware of any open source XML editor that can handle METS (namespaces, internal references via IDREF/IDREFS)? Bonus point if it can apply #schematron ...

I individually use Oxygen XML Editor but it became really expensive and I don't think my institution can afford as many licences it would need.

XSLT addendum - there are a few places left for an XSLT course on 4th/5th September, aimed at people who have to write or mantain XSLT stylesheets.

https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/course-xslt-introduction.html

#xslt #xml #schematron #onlineCourse #liveInstructor #xpath #learn #lotsOfHashTags #delightfulComputing

Getting ready to run an online introductory XSLT course for people writing or maintaining stylesheets.

#XSLT #XML #Schematron #XSpec #declarative #functionalProgramming #textProcessing #digitalHumanities #JATS