barefootliam<p><a href="https://floss.social/tags/Balisage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Balisage</span></a> = <a href="https://www.balisage.net/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">balisage.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> - seems to be going strong; it’s a conference about the theory behind, and practice of, document markup, especially <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XML</span></a> and related technologies such as <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XProc" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XProc</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XSLT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XSLT</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XQuery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XQuery</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/Schematron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Schematron</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/RelaxNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RelaxNG</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/XPath" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XPath</span></a> <a href="https://floss.social/tags/TextEncodingInitiative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TextEncodingInitiative</span></a> and many more.</p><p>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.</p>