XML Typst. An experiment in typsetting from XML with Typst. #XML #MarkupMonday #HTML #DocBook #XProc

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/17-xml-typst

XProc tip: extracting a document. A bonus MarkupMonday post. #XProc #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/03/02-xproc

EXProc rebooted. A bonus MarkupMonday post, the EXProc reboot has been deployed. And shipped starting in XML Calabash 3.0.34, just after Christmas. #XProc #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2026/01/05-exproc

XProc meets XSpec

https://medium.com/@xspectacles/to-xproc-users-welcome-to-xspec-6448a032e2e5 #xml #xproc #xspec

Sneak peek. I’ve put up a preview of what I’m thinking about for a rebooted exproc.org website. #XProc #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/12/15-exproc

A compact syntax for XProc?. Further explorations in my long, possibly fruitless search for a compact syntax for XProc pipelines. #XML #XProc #MarkupMonday

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/11/10-xproc.txt

Did you know #XPath 3 (2016) is a Turing-complete functional and declarative language? As are #XSLT 3 (which uses XPath and #XQuery which extends it). And #XProc 3 is a data flow language that also uses XPath.

These are widely used, powerful, efficient, and super pointy.

#XMLisUseful #markupMonday

#xproc 3.0: Is it possible to set the encoding to UTF-8 when loading a document?

Concrete example: XHTML document without charset meta element. Does anyone have any idea?

#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.

Updating dependencies. I didn’t intend to spend all morning fussing with dependencies, but at least I got a weblog posting out of it. And maybe I’ve tossed some stones off the path for next time. #XProc #XMLCalabash

https://so.nwalsh.com/2025/08/02-dependencies