So we are preparing a new edition of Declarative Amsterdam, but forgot all about posting it here on X, regardless of its shine new name! Please head over to declarative.amsterdam/registration to enlist yourselves, and to declarative.amsterdam/program if you need to be convinced: 2 and 3 November

Declarative Amsterdam 2023 is approaching rapidly. Book your ticket now to take advantage of the Early Bird discount! #da2023

With Declarative Amsterdam 2023 starting in just two weeks time we should start highlighting the various presentations. Feel free to share your favorites with the world!

We will kick off the first day with an Advanced XForms tutorial by Steven Pemberton. #da2023

After lunch of Day 1 (aka November 2) of Declarative Amsterdam we will have a few State of the Art presentations #da2023

Norm Tovey-Walsh will fill us in on some of the changes in the XSLT/XPath/XQuery standards coming with version 4.0. #da2023 #qt4wg

Adam Retter will share his ideas for updates to the EXPath Pkg standard. #da2023

Steven Pemberton will tell us all about what's being developed as part of XForms 2.0 #da2023

Declarative Amsterdam I am hoping to see some SaxonJS 3 (beta?) release for the SaxonJS talk.

Michal Měchura will discuss various methods of marking up lemmas in lexicography, comparing XML, JSON and YAML, but also SGML and NVH. Join him on Day 1 of Declarative Amsterdam 2023. declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

Sven Reinck will show us how an intuitive interface can make XML schema complexities a lot easier. Join him on Day 1 of Declarative Amsterdam 2023. declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

To conclude Day 1, Nico Verwer will explore declarative diagramming with Mermaid, and its potential to analyze, refactor and possibly even generate software. Join him at Declarative Amsterdam 2023. declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

Day 2 of Declarative Amsterdam 2023 will open with a presentation by Debbie Lockett on the asynchronous handshakes in the Javascript world and how SaxonJS 3.0 will be providing them as interactive XSLT. Full program at declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

Chris Wallace will present a use case of declarative markup and XQuery for a model used to assess the biodiversity of a site and its improvement. Join him at Declarative Amsterdam 2023 declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

Steven Pemberton will show us that a Declarative code browser can be built in just 150 lines of code with ixml and XForms. Join him on Day 2 of Declarative Amsterdam 2023. Full program: declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

Manuel Meyer will take us into a live coding session using declarative Swift. He will show how Swift's versatile type system can be used to create compilable codes resembling declarative markup. Join him on Day 2 of Declarative Amsterdam 2023. #da2023

Juri Leino and Mary Holstege are joining forces to cover the world of L-systems using XQuery. Join them on the second day of Declarative Amsterdam 2023, declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

David Warren will celebrate the 50th birthday of the mother of declarative programming, Prolog, reviewing the current state of affairs. Join him on the second day of Declarative Amsterdam 2023, declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

G. Ken Holman will dive deep into some declarative techniques that he developed for XSL-FO. Join him on the second day of Declarative Amsterdam 2023, declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023

The final presentation of Declarative Amsterdam 2023, with the provocative title "The tyranny of formatting" is held by Maryann Martone. Join her at DA 2023 declarative.amsterdam/program #da2023