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James Clark | |
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| Born | James Jackson Clark (1964-02-23)23 February 1964 (age 61) |
| Education | Charterhouse School |
| Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) |
| Known for | |
| Spouse | Joy Chanpen |
| Children | 1 |
| Relatives |
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| Family | Sainsbury family |
| Awards | XML Cup (2001)[1] |
| Scientific career | |
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| Institutions | Thai Open Source Software Center SIPA WSO2[2] |
| Website | www |
James Clark (born) is a software engineer and creator of variousopen-source software includinggroff,expat and severalXML specifications.[1][3][4][5]
Clark was born inLondon and educated atCharterhouse School andMerton College, Oxford where he studiedMathematics andPhilosophy.[1]
Clark has lived inBangkok,Thailand since, and is permanent Thai resident. He owns a company called Thai Open Source Software Center, which provides him a legal framework for his open-source activities. Clark is the author and creator ofgroff, as well as an XML editing mode forGNU Emacs.
Clark served as technical lead of theworking group that developed XML—notably contributing the self-closing,empty element tag syntax, and the name XML. His contributions to XML are cited in dozens of books on the subject.[citation needed] Clark is the author or co-author of a number of influential specifications and implementations, including:
Clark is listed as a member of the working group that developed theJavaStream processing API for XML (StAX) JSR 173 at the JCP.[11]
From until late, Clark worked for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency (SIPA), to promoteopen source technologies andopen standards in the country. This work included pushing the Thailocalization ofOpenOffice.org office suite and theMozilla Firefox web browser, along with other open source software packages.
Other projects at SIPA include:
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