News
Toward the establishment of an international organization for XML
At Balisage 2026, more than 30 participants resolved to sponsor a public meeting, to create …
25 August 2026 Read
Expat 2.8.3 released, fixes vulnerability CVE-2026-72522
For readers new to Expat:
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat …
11 August 2026 Read
libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
For readers new to Expat:
libexpat is a fast streaming XML parser. Alongside libxml2, Expat …
10 August 2026 Read
Balisage 2026 preliminary proceedings now available
The pre-conference edition of the Balisage 2026 Proceedings is now available:
https://www.balisage.net/Proceedings/vol31/contents.html
After the …
30 July 2026 Read
The Future of Markup: A Balisage Conversation
At the last Balisage conference, we wish to focus not on our past but our …
21 July 2026 Read
Elemental 6.11.0 and 7.7.0 have been released
We are delighted to announce that Elemental versions 6.11.0 and 7.7.0 have just been released. …
17 July 2026 Read
Articles
How to Evaluate Your XSLT Editor
Gerben Abbink Gerben Abbink gives us some tips on evaluating XSLT 3 editors.31 December 2025 Read
Writing Invisible XML Grammars
Norm Tovey-Walsh Norm Tovey-Walsh gives us an updated tour of the syntax of Invisible XML documents and how to write (and debug) …16 December 2025 Read
Invisible XML
Norm Tovey-Walsh Norm Tovey-Walsh introduces Invisible XML, a language for describing the implicit structure of data, and a set of technologies for …2 December 2025 Read
The XML-First vs JSON-First Dilemma: A Content Engineer’s Architectural Guide for Modern Publishing Workflows
Vasu Chakkera Vasu Chakkera discusses the relative merits of XML-first and JSON-first architectures for publishing21 November 2025 Read
XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation
Vasu Chakkera Vasu Chakkera gives a summary of some of the varied enterprise uses for XSLT19 July 2025 Read