Amanda Galtman, whose book on the XSpec testing framework will be published by XML Press this fall, will be presenting at this year’s Balisage conference (August 3-7, 2026). Balisage brings together pretty much every serious markup expert in the world. After 18 years, this will be the last Balisage conference, but they are going out with a strong program that includes XML Press author Amanda Galtman.
Amanda’s talk, titled XSpec for XProc, and XProc for XSLT, will be held on Monday, August 3 2026 at 2pm EDT (6pm GMT). Here is the abstract for her talk:
“XProc 3 is an actively developed pipeline language that excels at processing documents. XSpec is an automated testing framework that supports testing code written in XSLT, XQuery, and Schematron—and now XProc as well. This paper demonstrates a test suite for XProc using the XSpec vocabulary. We’ll also see a little of how the XSLT and XProc processors work together, as the test execution process jumps from XSLT to XProc and back. A feature of XML Calabash (and upcoming in MorganaXProc-III) enables XSpec to invoke the behavior of an XProc step from an XPath expression. You can use that feature yourself, in your XSpec test suites or in other projects.”
Balisage is all virtual this year, and it is a bargain. $250 for 5 days of talks from the leading experts in the markup world, and you can sign up for individual days if you can’t make it to the full conference. Register at the Balisage registration page.
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