will focus on technical issues relating to the design, development, and deployment of a variety of markup technologies including but not limited to SGML, XML, and related standards. This conference provides a three-day forum for technical (sometimes highly technical) presentations, question and answer sessions, and informal discussions of markup, databases, query languages, schema issues, stylesheet languages and perhaps behavior sheets, and more.

Papers at Markup Technologies will address some aspect of markup from a theoretical or practical standpoint, consist of all new material, and will be detailed and rigorous.

All papers were peer reviewed to ensure high quality and technical merit.

• Teach the authors, editors, or other end users at your shop how to use SGML/XML, and need to keep one jump ahead of them
• Want facts not vendor-spin
• Are the techie-of-last-resort in your software development team and need to know how this markup stuff works in detail
• Manage a markup project and want to understand the nitty-gritty
• Believe that good markup leads to clear thinking
• Always wanted a Turing-complete markup language
• Find it easier to write a content model for a data structure than to explain it in words
• Want somebody (else) to implement the rest of DSSSL
• Care whether documents really truly have tree structure or graph structure
• Use a word processor as if it were a structured editor, or use a structured editor as your word processor of choice
• Understand that syntactically valid ­ semantically correct
• Have trees floating in your event streams
• Budget half the time and money in a documentation project for design and planning-or wish you could
• Had your thinking forever changed by forest automata
• Wonder whether an XML parser will really fit into a mobile telephone
• Believe that clear thinking leads to good markup
• Want to hear detailed technical no-holds-barred case studies
• Aspire to build the XML equivalent of 4th Normal Form
• Have developed a DTD for DTDs
• Admit to being an XML geek or an SGML snob
• Don't care whether it's "schemas" or "schemata", you want them now
• Believe that what cannot be marked up must be passed over in silence