The Summer XML Conference presentations were carefully selected to be highly technical, marketing fluff free, and presented by real users and technology experts.  Presentations are set up in 3 tracks, with keynotes each day.  Here is what you can expect. 

• Keynote: Survivor: XML (Leigh W. White, Allscripts)
• Introduction to XSLT Concepts (Debbie Lapeyre, Mulberry Technologies)
• Introduction to DITA (Kristen James Eberlein, IBM)
• Ex-XHTML HTML (Doug Schepers, W3C)

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Thanks to Robert Anderson (Feature Request ID: 2698921) you can now add attributes to the body tag in HTML output.

I wanted to use the http://code.google.com/p/google-code-prettify/ code highlighter and was able to get the script calls in using args.hdf/hdr, and use outputclass=prettyprint into the codeblock tag. The last thing was to modify the body tag to run the script when the page loaded. I modified the XSL to make it conditional, so it didn't modify the tag on pages that didn't actually need the script:

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The XML conference I'm producing covers many aspects of XML.  The audience is always varied, with engineers, gurus, newbies, managers, tech comm folks, IT folks, and others coming to learn and network.

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Today I got the word that an article I wrote is available on IBM's DeveloperWorks. 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-publish/