Volume 10, Issue 25; 23 Jun 2026Exploring the intersection of ambiguity and serialization in iXML. A, uh, tagging Tuesday post. I’ve missed a few markup Mondays. I’ve been…busy. I’ll try to catch up. This post is about ambiguity in iXML and…
Volume 10, Issue 24; 25 May 2026That was a short-lived experiment, alas. Back in January, I created new DocBook mailing lists. Now, Dreamhost have announced that they are discontinuing support for mailing lists. Come June the lists at lists…
Microblog posting from 14 May 2026 at 18:40:15 +01:00. A productive meeting, followed by a reward. Please provide your name and email address. Your email address will not be displayed and I won’t spam you, I promise. Your name and a link to…
Volume 10, Issue 23; 04 May 2026Announcing a new Gradle plugin for XProc that supports both XML Calabash and MorganaXProc-III. This is a bonus Markup Monday post because I’m one behind (the 20th of April blew past me without so much as a wa…
Volume 10, Issue 22; 04 May 2026Closing in on 6.1, this release exercises the new build infrastructure, mitigates a couple of Microsoft CVEs in the C# resolver, and adds support for “new” HTTP status codes in the Java resolver. I anticipate…
Volume 10, Issue 21; 27 Apr 2026The DocBook xslTNG Stylesheets version 2.8.0 have better (and faster) CALS table processing. Inspired by Frank Steimke, I’ve refactored the way CALS table processing works in the DocBook xslTNG Stylesheets ve…
Volume 10, Issue 20; 15 Apr 2026Another shout out to Michael Coletta, this time for getting the xml-dev archives back online! As far as I can tell, the actual xml-dev mailing list is still out of commission, but the xml-dev archives are bac…
Volume 10, Issue 19; 13 Apr 2026I’m pleased to report that the archives of the DocBook mailing lists at OASIS have been restored. A special shout of thanks to Michael Coletta for getting the archives back online: https://lists-archive.oasis…
Volume 10, Issue 18; 06 Apr 2026Updated XProc schemas. There are a few small bugs in the RELAX NG schemas for XProc 3.1. Several atomic steps are missing (p:encode, p:invisible-xml, p:message, and p:send-mail) and the attributes attribute i…
Volume 10, Issue 17; 31 Mar 2026Occasionally, I observe issues opened on the XSLT 1.0 stylesheets. That makes me uncomfortable, because I don’t think anyone is ever going to fix them. The first commit in the git repository for the XSLT 1.0
Volume 10, Issue 16; 27 Mar 2026In the course of porting a project from (several) GitHub repositories to a (single) Codeberg repository, I found that I wanted to be able to migrate the issues. So I wrote a script to do that. A note up front…
Volume 10, Issue 15; 23 Mar 2026I’ve updated the website, the content distribution site, the Maven packages, the documentation, and published the releases. I’m still on holiday so this is a bit of a low-effort #MarkupMonday post. A few days…