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Rick Jelliffe | |
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 Jelliffe in 2007 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 65–66) |
| Other names | Rick |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Occupations | Programmer, activist |
| Title | CFO |
| Website | topologi |
Richard (Rick) Alan Jelliffe (born 1960) is an Australian programmer and standards activist (ISO,W3C,IETF), particularly associated withweb standards,markup languages,internationalization andschema languages. He is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Topologi Pty. Ltd, an XML tools vendor inSydney. He has a degree in economics from theUniversity of Sydney.
Jelliffe is the inventor of theSchematron schema language; its core idea of usingXPath to state constraints has been widely adopted and adapted. He is the editor of the ISO International Standard 19757-3Document Schema Definition Languages – Part 3: Path Based Rule Languages (Schematron).
In 1999 to 2001, Jelliffe worked atAcademia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. The Chinese XML Now! website provides Chinese and English information and test files on XML. Jelliffe has also made an English/Chinese multilingual typesetting system used to publish PRC trade laws. He has been an invited expert on Internationalization to theW3C.
In January 2007,Microsoft "technical evangelist"Doug Mahugh asked Jelliffe to correctEnglish Wikipedia articles about some of the standardization efforts in which he was involved, includingEcma Office Open XML andOpenDocument, suggesting that Microsoft could pay him for the time he spent editing English Wikipedia. Jelliffe commented on the offer in his blog and this led to international press coverage.[1][2][3]
The controversial decision byStandards Australia to include Jelliffe on its delegation to the vote at theISO on standardisation ofEcma International'sOffice Open XML document format was widely criticised. Some considered Jelliffe too close to Microsoft to be impartial.[4][5]
