papers on ixml for XML Prague and Balisage?

If we wish to promote ixml, I think we should try to make a good showing
at both Prague and Balisage; I think that means more than one
presentation, if possible.  The deadlines for each are coming soon; can
we talk about who is planning to offer what by way of a paper?

I confess that for historical reasons I am thinking mostly about
Balisage - and things are complicated slightly by that conference's
history of being skeptical about papers that have already been submitted
elsewhere: those planning to offer papers both to Prague and to Balisage
will be wise to think of two different emphases, so it's not "the same
paper".

Given that people have been making comments in public along the lines of
"why is invisible XML so invisible?", I think that what we most need are

  - reports of user-ready processors (not proof-of-concept
    implementations but ones people can use)

  - reports from first attempts to build applications (real or toy ones)
    using these user-ready processors
  
  - descriptions of the infrastructure we can make available to users of
    ixml (specifically: pre-defined grammars for every notation we can
    think of -- is there other infrastructure we can offer?)

Other ixml-related topics may be helpful as well.

So I hope that both Norm and Steven are planning to report on and
demonstrate their processors.

I also hope that someone can think of an interesting application that
can use ixml and can be built using either Norm's or Steven's processor;
if no one is working on one now, perhaps some of the rest of us should
throw our hat over the wall and build a demonstration app.  Ideas?

And finally, I think it might be helpful to offer a group talk; my notes
to myself read:

    Report from the invisible-XML community group: status of ixml spec,
    implementations, and infrastructure

    A report on work in the W3C Community Group for ixml: spec changes,
    implementation landscape, test suite, collection of grammars.
    Demos.

Are people willing to collaborate on such a group talk?

Michael



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