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{{Short description|British programmer (born 1964)}}

{{for multi|the entrepreneur and computer scientist born in 1944|James H. Clark|other people named James Clark|James Clark (disambiguation){{!}}James Clark}}

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|[[XSLT]]

|[[XPath]]

|[[Regular Language description for XML|TREX]]

|[[TREX]]

|[[RELAX NG]]

|[[Ballerina (programming language)|Ballerina]]

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===Work on XML ===

Clark served as technical lead of the [[working group]] that developed XML—notably contributing the self-closing, [[XML#Key terminology|empty element]] tag syntax, and the name XML. His contributions to XML are cited in dozens of books on the subject.{{factcitation needed|date=September 2020}} Clark is the author or co-author of a number of influential specifications and implementations, including:

* [[DSSSL]]: An [[SGML]] transformation and styling language.

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* [[XSLT]]: XSL Transformations, a part of the XSL family. He was the editor of the XSLT 1.0 specification.

* [[XPath]]: Path language for addressing XML documents; used by XSLT but also as a free-standing language. He was the editor of the XPath 1.0 specification.

* [[Regular Language description for XML|TREX]]: Tree [[Regular Expression|regular experession]]s for XML (TREX) is a schema language for [[XML]].<ref name="Jones2002">{{cite book |last1=Jones |first1=Christopher A. |last2=Drake |first2=Fred L. |last3=JrDrake |first3=Fred L. DrakeJr. |title=Python and XML |date=2002 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=9780596001285 |page=21 |language=en}}</ref> TREX has been merged with [[Regular Language description for XML|RELAX]] to create [[RELAX NG]].<ref name="Jones2002" /><ref name="Cover2001">{{cite web |last1=Cover |first1=Robin |title=Tree Regular Expressions for XML (TREX) |url=http://xml.coverpages.org/trex.html |website=xml.coverpages.org |access-date=6 March 2019}}</ref>

* [[RELAX NG]]: an XML Schema language, with both an explicit XML syntax and a compact syntax. Clark was critical of the [[XML Schema (W3C)]] language (also known as XSD)<ref name="schema-wars">{{cite web|title=Schema Wars: XML Schema vs. RELAX NG|url=http://webreference.com/xml/column59/index-2.html|access-date=11 May 2019|website=webreference.com|archive-date=4 March 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304043049/http://webreference.com/xml/column59/index-2.html|url-status=dead}}</ref> and developed RELAX NG in response

* Jing: An implementation of RELAX NG.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relaxng.org/jclark/jing.html|title=Jing|website=relaxng.org}}</ref>

* Clark Notation: A way to express an XML Name in a compact way<ref>{{cite web|first=James|last=Clark|title=XML Namespaces|url=http://www.jclark.com/xml/xmlns.htm|website=jclark.com|access-date=17 September 2015}}</ref>

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* Chantra: An [[Open-source software|open source]] Thai project with programs for Windows, like the [[OpenCD]] project.

* Suriyan GNU/Linux: AnA user-friendly "instant server" system for small and medium-sized companies<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.suriyan.org/|title=Default OaO Sedo Frameset|website=suriyan.org}}</ref> not to be confused with SIPA's new, unrelated project with a similar name, Suriyan Linux Live CD.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://suriyan.in.th/|title=Suriyan Linux Live CD|date=11 February 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211194451/http://suriyan.in.th/|archive-date=11 February 2008}}</ref>.''

==References==

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[[Category:British expatriates in Thailand]]

[[Category:Sainsbury family]]

{{UK-compu-bio-stub}}