[xsl] Balisage 2009 Program Announced

[B Tommie Usdin <btusdin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Balisage 2009 Program Announced

[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE]

Rockville, Maryland.  The organizing committee has released the
program for "Balisage 2009: The Markup
Conference" to be held in Montreal from 11 to 14
August, 2009.

The program can be found in two forms:
   Schedule at a Glance: http://www.balisage.net/2009/At-A-Glance.html
   Detailed program: http://www.balisage.net/2009/Program.html

Topics include: design of tools for writing XML
and ways to hide XML from authors; XML processing
pipelines; encoding multiple versions of
documents, theory of document versioning, and
change management in a complex XML environment;
creating XSD schemas from UML; linking,
namespaces, vocabularies, and a variety of
XML-related specifications including Schematron,
XSLT, XPath, & XForms and a host of others.
Several slots have been left open for
late-breaking news.

Speakers from business and government include representatives of:
Appolux, Mark Logic, Saxonica, National Archives
and Records Adminstration, Mulberry Technologies,
Electronic Commerce Connection, Black Mesa
Technologies, Ramsey Systems, XML Solutions,
Informing Healthcare (NHS Wales), Xerox Research
Centre Europe, National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Fujitsu America, Document
Engineering Services, and Oracle.

Speakers from the academic world include people from:
Universiti de Montrial, W3C, University of
Bergen, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign, Bielefeld University,
Technische Universitdt M|nchen, Institute for the
German Language (Mannheim), University of
Bologna, University of Applied Sciences Potsdam,
Jacobs University Bremen , Universiti de Lyon ,
Queensland University of Technology, Acadia
University, University of Warsaw, and University
College Cork.

Balisage 2009: The Markup Conference is produced by Mulberry
Technologies, Inc. of Rockville, Maryland (http://www.mulberrytech.com/),

sponsored by Mark Logic (http://www.marklogic.com),

and co-sponsored by:

   - the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/)
   - the XML Guild (http://xmlguild.org/)
   - W3 Quebec (http://www.w3qc.org/)
   - OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured
     Information Standards, http://www.oasis-open.org/)
   - the TEI Consortium (http://www.tei-c.org/)
   - the Philadelphia XML Users Group (http://www.xmlphilly.org/)
   - the DC XML Users Group (http://www.eccnet.com/xmlug/)


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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2009          mailto:info@xxxxxxxxxxxx
August 11-14, 2009                             http://www.balisage.net
Processing XML Efficiently: August 10, 2009           Montreal, Canada
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