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Schema Language Comparison

 Wood, Lauren  , Director, Product Technology ,   SoftQuad Software ,    Vancouver    British Columbia    Canada 

Email: lauren@softquad.com

Biography

Lauren Wood is Director of Product Technology at SoftQuad Software Inc. She plays a major part in the design of SoftQuad's tools for XML-based e-commerce and e-publishing, as well as representing SoftQuad on several technical committees.

Lauren was until recently Chair of the W3C Document Object Model Working Group and has also been an active member of the CSS and Formatting Properties Working Group, the XML Working Group, and the XSL Working Group, as well as the original HTML Working Group. She holds a Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Cowan, John , Senior Internet Systems Developer ,  Reuters Health Information,    New York    New York    U.S.A. 

Email: jcowan@reutershealth.com

Biography

Walsh, Norman ,  ,   Sun Microsystems, Inc. ,     Massachusetts    U.S.A. 

Email: Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM

Biography

Norman Walsh is a Staff Engineer in the XML Technology Center at Sun Microsystems Inc. Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts, including the XML Schema and XSL Working Groups of the W3C, and the OASIS DocBook Technical Committee, which he chairs. He is also the principal author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly & Associates.

Walmsley, Patricia ,  ,  Vitria,     

Email: pwalmsley@vitria.com

Biography

Robertsson, Eddie ,  ,  ,     Australia 

Email: eddie@allette.com.au

Biography

Norton, Francis ,  ,  ,    

Email: francis@redrice.com

Biography

Usdin, Tommie , President ,   Mulberry Technologies, Inc. ,    Rockville    Maryland    U.S.A. 

Email: btusdin@mulberrytech.com

Biography

See http://www.mulberrytech.com/people/usdin/index.html

Lapeyre, Debbie , Vice President ,   Mulberry Technologies, Inc. ,    Rockville    Maryland    U.S.A. 

Email: dalapeyre@mulberrytech.com

Biography

Deborah A. Lapeyre is Vice President of Mulberry Technologies, Inc., an XML and SGML consultancy specializing in facilitated information/document analysis, DTD and schema construction, XML and XSL startup consulting. design, and training. She has been working with XML since its inception and with SGML since before the flood. Debbie leads information analysis teams, develops XML architectures, constructs and modifies modular DTD suites and W3C XML schemas, performs formal evaluations of DTDs and schemas written by others, and prepares detailed business and process recommendation reports. She has developed and taught classes including XML literacy, DTD syntax and construction, XSLT transformations, the differences between XML and SGML, the business implications of XML, and XML for print production.

de Rose, Steve , Chief Scientist, Adjunct Assoc. Professor ,  Brown University Scholarly Technology Group,     Maryland    U.S.A. 

Email: Steven_DeRose@Brown.edu

Biography

See http://www.stg.brown.edu/staff/sjd.html

 Clark, James  ,  ,   Thai Open Source Software Center ,    Bangkok     Thailand 

Email: jjc@jclark.com

Biography

James Clark has been involved with SGML and XML for more than 10 years, both in contributing to standards and in creating open source software. James was technical lead of the XML WG during the creation of the XML 1.0 Recommendation. He was editor of the XPath and XSLT Recommendations. He was the main author of the DSSSL (ISO 10179) standard. Currently, he is chair of the OASIS RELAX NG TC and editor of the RELAX NG specification. The open source software that James has written includes SGML parsers (sgmls and SP), a DSSSL implementation (Jade), XML parsers (expat and XP), an XPath/XSLT processor (XT) and a RELAX NG validator (Jing). Prior to his involvement with SGML and XML, James wrote the GNU groff typesetting system. James read Mathematics and Philosophy at Merton College, Oxford, where he obtained First Class Honours. James lives in Thailand, where he runs the Thai Open Source Software Center.

Makoto, Murata ,  ,  ,  Tokyo    Japan 

Email: mura034@attglobal.net

Biography

Jelliffe, Rick ,  ,  ,     Australia 

Email: ricko@allette.com.au

Biography

 Thompson, Henry  , Reader ,   University of Edinburgh ,    Edinburgh    Scotland    United Kingdom 

Email: ht@cogsci.ed.ac.uk

Biography

Henry S. Thompson is Reader in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science in the Division of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, based in the Language Technology Group of the Human Communication Research Centre, and Managing Director of Markup Technology Ltd. He was a member of the SGML Working Group of the World Wide Web Consortium which designed XML, is the author of the XED, the first free XML instance editor and co-author of the LT XML toolkit and is currently a member of the XSL and XML Schema Working Groups of the W3C. He currently holds a World Wide Web Consortium Fellowship, and is lead editor of the Structures part of the XML Schema W3C Recommendation, for which he co-wrote the first publicly available implementation, XSV. He has presented many papers and tutorials on SGML, DSSSL, XML, XSL and XML Schemas in both industrial and public settings over the last five years.

Gudgin, Martin ,  ,  DevelopMentor,     

Email: marting@develop.com

Biography

See http://www.develop.com/marting/

Abstract

This session bring together experts in four different schema languages, so that you can learn the strengths and weaknesses, and when each schema language is likely to be most useful. Schema language experts in four languages were asked to participate and they formed four teams, one each for W3C Schemas, Schematron, RELAX NG and DTDs. Each team created schemas for a set of document types (also created by the teams). At the Town Hall meeting, two analysts will report on the schemas, and then the open discussion will begin! Attendees will be able to ask questions of the team members and the analysts. Note that not all team members from all teams are able to attend the session, although all participated in the design of the schemas.



Town Hall

As Town Hall meetings are open discussion forums, there are no proceedings for them.

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