W3C XML Schema Two Years On

»Henry Thompson, »University of Edinburgh

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Abstract

W3C XML Schema became a recommendation almost exactly two years ago. On that anniversary, not only has a second edition been published, but the first public working draft of version 1.1 [will have been published] too. This talk covers the most important fixes included in the 2nd edition, particularly in the area of cleaning up the type definition hierarchy, and also introduces the major changes unveiled in the first draft of the next version.

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»W3C XML Schema.

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Biography

»Henry Thompson

»University of Edinburgh

»Edinburgh

»Scotland

Email: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Web: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/

Henry S. Thompson is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and CognitiveScience in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh,based in the Language Technology Group of the Human CommunicationResearch Centre, and Managing Director of Markup Technology Ltd.He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Californiaat Berkeley in 1980. His university education was divided betweenLinguistics and Computer Science, in which he holds an M.Sc. Whilestill at Berkeley he was affiliated with the Natural Language ResearchGroup at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, where he participated inthe GUS and KRL projects. He research interests have ranged widely,including natural language parsing, speech recognition, machinetranslation evaluation, modelling human lexical access mechanisms, thefine structure of human-human dialogue, language resource creation andarchitectures for linguistic annotation. His current research isfocussed on articulating and extending the architectures of XML.He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide WebConsortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the firstfree XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and iscurrently a member of the XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of theW3C. He currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship, and islead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3CRecommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly availableimplementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials onSGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and publicsettings over the last five years.