Education
Merton College.
Merton College.
Born in London and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since 1995, 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. Foreign the GNU project, he wrote groff, as well as an eXtensible Markup Language editing mode for GNU Emacs.
James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working Group that developed eXtensible Markup Language—notably contributing the self-closing, empty-element tag syntax (for example: "<tagname/>"), and the name eXtensible Markup Language. His contributions to eXtensible Markup Language 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 eXtensible Markup Language parser.
XSLT
XSL Transformations, a part of the XSL family. TREX
An eXtensible Markup Language Schema language.
RELAX National Guard
An eXtensible Markup Language Schema language, with both an explicit eXtensible Markup Language syntax and a compact syntax.
Jing
An implementation of RELAX National Guard. Clark Notation
A way to express an eXtensible Markup Language Name in a compact way
He is listed as part of the Working Group that developed the Java Streaming API for eXtensible Markup Language (StAX) Japan Synthetic Rubber Corporation 173 at the JCP.
From November 2004 until late 2006, 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 Civil Defense).
