The program for the annual markup geekfest in August is now available*:
https://balisage.net/2026/Program.html
Full information at: https://balisage.net <https://balisage.net/>

Balisage 2026 will be:
all virtual, live, technical, and interactive
3 b 7 August 2026
the last Balisage conference

Balisage brings together markup developers, document architects, librarians,
archivists, XML practitioners, XSLT and XQuery programmers, implementers of
XSLT and XQuery engines and other markup-related software, JSON users,
standards writers, academics, industrial researchers, government and NGO
staff,  practitioners, and consultants: the worldbs greatest concentration
of markup theorists.Discussion at Balisage is open, candid, and unashamedly
technical. Topics will include:
the future of markup
XML
XSLT
ixml
XProc
ebooks
TEI
XSpec
ixml-like processing
AI assisted markup pipelines
Topic Maps
indexes
processing models
SGML
XPath
validation
markup of overlap
XQuery
music notation
Distributed Text Services (DTS)
schemas
OOXML
EPUB
SVG
pipelines
text encoding
but wait, therebs more.

*This is not the complete conference program; we have saved space for
late-breaking news. Schedule times and days are subject to change.

Balisage 2026 Program: https://www.balisage.net/2026/Program.html
About Balisage:  https://www.balisage.net/
Registration: https://balisage.net/registration.html
Call for Late-breaking News: https://www.balisage.net/latebreaking-call.html

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