Balisage: The Markup Conference covers a variety of markup-related topics: how to create it; what it means; hierarchies and overlap; modeling; taxonomies; transformation; query, searching, and retrieval; presentation and accessibility. XML, XSL, XSD, XQuery, RDF, UBL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, SVG, MathML, OWL, TexMECS, RNG, and a lot more. It's an XML Conference. It's a conference about XSD, XQuery, XSLT, RDF, UBL, SGML, LMNL, XSL-FO, XTM, SVG, MathML, OWL, TexMECS, RNG, and other things that may or may not yet be associated with such acronyms.
Montréal in August has always been the place and time for serious markup geeks to meet. Balisage 2011 and the pre-conference International Symposium on XML Document Interchange continue that tradition.
OASIS members are eligible for a 20% discount on registration for both Balisage and the International Symposium on XML Document Interchange. Please send questions to info@balisage.net.