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James Clark (programmer)

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XML, Open source

Name
  
James Clark


Role
  
IT/Software Developer

Known for
  
XML

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Institutions
  
Thai Open Source Software Center SIPA (Software Industry Promotion Agency, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology) WSO2

Alma mater
  
Charterhouse Merton College, Oxford

Notable awards
  
In 2001, awarded the first XML Cup

Education
  
Merton College, Oxford, Charterhouse School

James Clark () is the author of groff and expat, and has done much work with open-source software and XML.

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Born in London and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since , and is now a permanent resident. He owns a company called Thai Open Source Software Center, which provides him a legal framework for his open-source activities.

For the GNU project, he wrote groff, as well as an XML editing mode for GNU Emacs.

James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working Group that developed XML—notably contributing the self-closing, empty-element tag syntax (for example: "<tagname/>"), and the name XML. His contributions to XML are cited in dozens of books on the subject.

James is the author or co-author of a number of influential specifications and implementations, including:

DSSSL
An SGML transformation and styling language.
Expat
An open-source XML parser.
XSLT
XSL Transformations, a part of the XSL family.
TREX
An XML Schema language.
RELAX NG
An XML Schema language, with both an explicit XML syntax and a compact syntax.
Jing
An implementation of RELAX NG.
Clark Notation
A way to express an XML Name in a compact way

He is listed as part of the Working Group that developed the Java Streaming API for XML (StAX) JSR 173 at the JCP.

Work at SIPA

From until late , Clark worked for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), to promote open source technologies and open standards in the country. This work included pushing the Thai localization of OpenOffice.org office suite and the Mozilla Firefox Web browser, along with other open source software packages.

Other projects at SIPA include:

  • Chantra: An open source Thai project with programs for Windows. Like the OpenCD project.
  • Suriyan GNU/Linux: An extremely user-friendly "instant server" system for small and medium-sized companies (not to be confused with SIPA's new, unrelated project with a similar name, Suriyan Linux Live CD).

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    James Clark (programmer) Wikipedia
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