A new issue of Markup Languages: Theory and Practice has been published through the MIT Press, and is available in paper and electronic format. Four of the twelve contributions in Issue 3/1 are feature articles, including: (1) "The Relationship Between General and Specific DTDs: Criticizing TEI Critical Editions," by David J. Birnbaum; (2) "A Simple Property Set for Contract Architectural Forms," by Sam Hunting; (3) "Path Predicate Calculus: Towards a Logic Formalism for Multimedia XML Query Languages," by Peiya Liu, Amit Chakraborty, and Liang H. Hsu; (4) "Complexity of Context-Free Grammars with Exceptions and the Inadequacy of Grammars as Models for XML and SGML," by Romeo Rizzi. Markup Languages: Theory and Practice is published by the MIP Press and edited by B. Tommie Usdin and C.M. Sperberg-McQueen. It is a "peer-reviewed journal devoted to research, development, and practical applications of text markup for computer processing, management, manipulation, and display. Specific areas of interest include: new syntaxes for generic markup languages; refinements to existing markup languages; theory of formal languages as applied to document markup; systems for mark-up; uses of markup for printing, hypertext, electronic display, content analysis, information reuse and repurposing, search and retrieval, and interchange; shared applications of markup languages; and techniques and methodologies for developing markup languages and applications of markup languages."
Listing of contributions in MLTP issue 3/1:
- Markup's Current Imbalance [Paul Caton]
- More Than One DTD [Robin Cover]
- The Relationship Between General and Specific DTDs: Criticizing TEI Critical Editions [David J. Birnbaum]
- SGML: The Next Generation (Forecast http://xml.coverpages.org/mltpTOC31.html#1) [Arnold M. Slotnik]
- The Death of XML Editors -- And The Next-Generation Client [Jan Christian Herlitz]
- SGML: The Next Generation (Forecast http://xml.coverpages.org/mltpTOC31.html#2) [Arnold M. Slotnik]
- OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Testing [David Marston]
- SGML: An Historical Perspective [Arnold M. Slotnik]
- A Simple Property Set for Contract Architectural Forms [Sam Hunting]
- Path Predicate Calculus: Towards a Logic Formalism for Multimedia XML Query Languages [Peiya Liu, Amit Chakraborty, and Liang H. Hsu]
- Complexity of Context-Free Grammars with Exceptions and the Inadequacy of Grammars as Models for XML and SGML [Romeo Rizzi]
- Review of Building Oracle XML Applications [Lauren Wood]
