Day 1

Thursday – Friday – Saturday

Schedule for Thursday

How unconference day will be organized

In both morning and afternoon there will be two 1.5 hour long slots separated by coffee break. Sessions will be running in three parallel rooms. Lunch will be provided for attendees with a full-pass.

Program of respective sessions is completely in hands of session organizer. So any queries about particular session should be directed to the session organizer.

Location

The first conference day takes place in the same venue as the main conference. However it is situated in the different building. It is best to use campus entry from the Italská street. You can see entrance and explore area using Google Streetview.

Just use entrance from Italská street and continue straight inside building until you reach atrium. Then use stairs to go one floor up and then look around for rooms RB210, RB211 and RB212 (alternatively you can use elevators on the left side and go to the floor marked as 2 on the control panel).

Session details

Saxonica User Group Meeting

organized by Norman Tovey-Walsh

Saxonica will introduce the team, talk about current and possible future projects, and perhaps demonstrate some interesting features. Then there will Q&A about XPath, XSLT, Saxonica involvement in the XQuery and XSLT Extensions Community Group developing the 4.0 specifications, and anything else that the group wants to discuss.

Schematron Users Meetup

organized by Tony Graham and Andrew Sales

Schematron is a language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML documents. It is widely used as an adjunct or an alternative to grammar-based validation of XML documents using a DTD, W3C XML Schema, or RELAX NG.

If you don’t know Schematron, this session will give you the introduction that you need to understand why other people are using it and why it features in conference presentations. If you already know Schematron, this session will bring you up to date with the current state of the Schematron standard and software as well as show you ways that other people are using Schematron, possibly in ways that you haven’t thought of yet.

XQuery and XML Databases Unconference

organized by Adam Retter

A series of small, light, and enjoyable talks from across the XQuery and XML Databases spectrum. Hopefully also with some time on the day for people to raise topics and questions in an unconference style and discuss anything XQuery and/or XMLDB related.

Jennifer Ramirez-Betancur (ZBMED) – Learning XQuery One Dish at a Time
Liam Quin (Delightful Computing) – Some Experiences Gained in XQuery
Younes Bahloul (Evolved Binary) – Can it Run Doom?
Dr. Omar Hammoud (ETH Zurich) – RumbleDB: JSONiq on Apache Iceberg
Dr. Nico Verwer (Rakensi) – The Link eXtractor, a Largish XQuery Application
Adam Retter (Evolved Binary) – Elemental in XProc / AI Policy in Open Source
Prof. John Chelsom (Seven Informatics) – cityEHR in Ukraine

XSL-FO, CSS and Paged Output hosted by Antenna House

organized by Tony Graham and Alex Chritchfield

Producing formatted pages is still important to many of us. The intent of the Antenna
House Unconference session will be to again share developments and experiences in
producing paged media and to discuss topics of interest.

This 90-minute Unconference session will be a session of two halves: we’ll talk with you about the state of Antenna House software, including what’s new with Antenna House Formatter V7.5, and you can talk with us and with your peers about challenges that you’ve faced or features that you’d like to see. Once again, this is an opportunity to brainstorm with the assembled about a challenge you’re facing and are trying to solve.

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Oxygen XML Users Meetup

organized by George Bina

The oXygen users meetup is a great opportunity to meet oXygen developers as well as other oXygen users. The various sessions we host cover both how oXygen supports you for XML development and XML authoring, presented by our developers and we always try to also invite some of our users to share their experience.
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eXist-db Users Meetup and Workshop

organized by Duncan Paterson

After three years in the making, the beta release of eXist v7 introduces many under-the-hood improvements and new features. We invite users to discuss the list of changes, the future roadmap, and what this means for their applications.

During the workshop, we will explore eXist’s new hybrid search capabilities in detail. Participants will have the opportunity to experiment with different methods of creating and storing embeddings, interacting with various language models, and performing vector queries using Lucene 10’s vector search capabilities via XQuery.

XProc Users Meetup

organized by Erik Siegel, Achim Berndzen, Norman Tovey-Walsh and Gerrit Imsieke

XProc is an XML based programming language for describing pipelines: documents flowing through chains of smaller tasks (conversions, validations, splits, merges, etc.). It allows you to do wonderful and complicated processing in a relatively simple way. Ideal for things like publishing toolchains, domain specific language processing, complicated conversion processes, etc. There are (currently two) processors available.

On the first day of the conference the XProc committee organises the annual XProc user meeting. Time to come together, see each other again, exchange war stories, and talk about the latest developments.

We’re always looking for people that like to share some of their experiences and insights concerning XProc there. Therefore, if you would like to do a (short) presentation about something XProc related, or want to share some insights, or discuss something, let us know. Send a mail to Erik and he’ll put you on the list.