#Balisage = https://www.balisage.net/ - seems to be going strong; it’s a conference about the theory behind, and practice of, document markup, especially #XML and related technologies such as #XProc #XSLT #XQuery #Schematron #RelaxNG #XPath #TextEncodingInitiative and many more.

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.

»XSLT: A Precision Tool for the Future of Structured Transformation«
https://www.xml.com/articles/2025/07/19/xslt-precision-tool-future-structured-transformation/
#XSLT #XPath #XML #JSON

@ville @servo thanks Ville to let Servo supporting HTMX

If you think that XPath is awesome, you might like RFC 9535 JSONPath!

From this week's Linux Update newsletter: @mfioretti_en looks at Xidel, a data extraction tool for XML, HTML, and JSON documents https://www.linux-magazine.com/Issues/2023/276/Xidel #OpenSource #tools #Xidel #XML #HTML #JSON #data #W3C #XPath

XQuery is a declarative language for querying hierarchical data (nigh-always XML); BaseX is a truly excellent XQuery processor. OxygenXML Editor is a truly excellent starts-with-X development IDE. BUT! BaseX has not been integrated into Oxygen.

If you have any idea what I'm on about, please consider wandering by the feature request page for oXygen and asking for BaseX integration. Apparently they do count the votes when planning new features.

Look, I'm not saying #XPath / #XSLT is pleasant to use, but it still stands as a better tool for building webpages than JavaScript