Is Invisible XML Ready for College Students?

Trying iXML and XProc on a Music Analysis Project in an Undergraduate Text Analysis course

Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025

Michael Simons and Elisa Beshero-Bondar

Penn State Erie, The Behrend College

The Context: DIGIT 210

(Large Scale Text Analysis) @ Penn State Behrend

• Usually the "regex and python course" 
• Usually XML technologies pushed a bit to the margins 
  • comes after the Text Encoding course with heavy emphasis on schemas and XSLT

• This year, we wanted an "XML-forward" approach!

  • why. . . (you may ask)

The Battle Testers for DIGIT 210!

Greta Van Zeppelin Project and the Chord Charts!

Evaluating the possibilities: MEI, MusicXML, ChordPro(!)

iXML and XProc

Was it worth it?