Balisage 2026 Preliminary Program published
May 26, 2026
Submitted by Joel Kalvesmaki.
The program for the annual markup geekfest in August is now available*: https://balisage.net/2026/Program.html
Full information at: https://balisage.net
Balisage 2026 will be:
- all virtual, live, technical, and interactive
- 3 – 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 world’s 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, there’s 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