Balisage Paper: Flattening and unflattening XML markup: a Zen garden of XSLT and other tools

David J. Birnbaum; Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar; C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

doi:10.4242/BalisageVol21.Birnbaum01

Balisage Paper: Flattening and unflattening XML markup: a Zen garden of XSLT and other tools

David J. Birnbaum, Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen

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Abstract

From time to time, it may be necessary or expedient to flatten our XML documents by replacing the start- and end-tags of conventional XML content elements with empty place-marker elements (variously known as milestone elements or as Trojan horse markup). When we do, we will often wish, later, to restore the content elements we flattened. The purpose of this late-breaking presentation is to present a survey of ways to perform the task of unflattening or of raising: restoring a conventional XML element structure of content elements from a flattened XML document instance (or part of one), and comparing different solutions to see what we can learn from them.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Balisage
Subtitle of host publication	The Markup Conference 2018
Publisher	Mulberry Tecnologies, Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)	9781935958185
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol21.Birnbaum01
State	Published - 2018
Event	Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018 - Washington, United States Duration: Jul 31 2018 → Aug 3 2018

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Name	Balisage Series on Markup Technologies
Volume	21
ISSN (Print)	1947-2609

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Conference	Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	Washington
Period	7/31/18 → 8/3/18

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Birnbaum, DJ, Beshero-Bondar, EE & Sperberg-McQueen, CM 2018, Balisage Paper: Flattening and unflattening XML markup: a Zen garden of XSLT and other tools. in Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 21, Mulberry Tecnologies, Inc., Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018, Washington, United States, 7/31/18. https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol21.Birnbaum01

Balisage Paper: Flattening and unflattening XML markup: a Zen garden of XSLT and other tools. / Birnbaum, David J.; Beshero-Bondar, Elisa E.; Sperberg-McQueen, C. M.
Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2018. Mulberry Tecnologies, Inc., 2018. (Balisage Series on Markup Technologies; Vol. 21).

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