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On Wed, 2011-03-09 at 18:03 +0100, Abel Braaksma wrote: > I'd be interested to know what the coverage of the XSLT community will > be in either of these conferences and the interest from an XSLT/XPath > point of view. I will attend XML Prague and I'm contemplating on > attending the Balisage as well, but am uncertain of the surplus value of > visiting them both. Are they complementary, or is there a large overlap, > generally speaking? In a way, it seems that the Balisage is the "larger > brother" of XML Prague. They have a very different feel I think (last year was the first time I was at XML Prague). Balisage explores a lot more theoretical and philosophical issues, and perhaps XML Prague is a little more down to earth :) Which is not to say Balisage is not practical (there's nothing so practical as a good theory, they say) nor that there are no philosophers in Bohemia. However, they are both fabulous. At Balisage last year a number of people were sitting at tables with copies of Mike Kay's book on XSLT and XPath 2 (I think someone asked Mike to sign a copy), and the Good Doctor gave a presentation on streaming XSLT with Saxon, processing multiple gigabytes of XML, I think from openstreetmaps, in XSLT. Of course, I urge you to go to both conferences, to bathe in attributes and to clothe yourself in elements, to breathe the relig... er... I mean, they're both really good and full of positive energy. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ The barefoot typographer
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