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| fields = [[XML]]<br>[[Open-source software]]
| workplaces = Thai Open Source Software Center <br>SIPA<br />[[WSO2]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://wso2.com/about/board/|title=WSO2|website=wso2.com|title=WSO2 Team|author=Anon|year=2020}}</ref>
 
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'''James Clark''' (born <time datetime="1964-02-23">23 February 1964</time>) is a software engineer and creator of various [[open-source software]] including [[Groff (software)|groff]], [[Expat (library)|expat]], variousand [[open-source software]] andseveral [[XML]] specifications.<ref name=bio>[{{cite web|url=http://www.jclark.com/bio.htm|title=James Biography], at his own homepage,Clark Biography|first=James|last=Clark|year=2020|website=jclark.com|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200724032845/http://www.jclark.com/bio.htm|archivedate=2020-07-24}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://blog.jclark.com/|title=James Clark's Random Thoughts|first=James|last=Clark|website=blog.jclark.com|year=2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020224025029/http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=862/ddj0107e/|title=A Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML|date=24 February 2002|website=web.archive.org}}</ref><ref name=twitter>{{twitter}}</ref>
==Education and early life==
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===Work on XML ===
Clark served as technical lead of the [[working group]] that developed XML&mdash;notably contributing the self-closing, [[empty element]] tag syntax, and the name XML.<ref>{{cite web | title = The History of XML | website = totalxml.net | url = http://www.totalxml.net/history-xml.php | access-date = 4 November 2009 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190425163205/http://www.totalxml.net/history-xml.php | archive-date = 25 April 2019 | url-status = dead }}</ref> His contributions to XML are cited in dozens of books on the subject.{{fact|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.
;[[DSSSL]]
* [[Expat (library)|Expat]]: An open-source XML [[Parsing|parser]].
:An [[SGML]] transformation and styling language.
* [[XSLT]]: XSL Transformations, a part of the XSL family. He was the editor of the XSLT 1.0 specification.
;[[Expat (library)|Expat]]
* [[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.
:An open-source XML parser.
* [[TREX]]: Tree [[Regular ExpressionsExpression|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=Jr |first3=Fred L. Drake |title=Python and XML |date=2002 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=9780596001285 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPfQnxnw_NMC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22TREX%22+xml+-wikipedia&source=bl&ots=C5troKOC1f&sig=ACfU3U1yolkJi-TYSrKgxdAPN90SoFWf8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD3qj3n-3gAhWEKn0KHWLJA4wQ6AEwCXoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22TREX%22%20xml%20-wikipedia&f=false |accessdate=6 March 2019 |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 |accessdate=6 March 2019}}</ref>
;[[XSLT]]
* [[RELAX NG]]:An an XML Schema language, with both an explicit XML syntax and a compact syntax. Clark was highly 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|accessdate=11 May 2019|website=webreference.com}}</ref> and developed RELAX NG in response
:XSL Transformations, a part of the XSL family. He was the editor of the XSLT 1.0 specification.
* Jing: An implementation of RELAX NG.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://relaxng.org/jclark/jing.html|title=Jing|website=relaxng.org}}</ref>
;[[XPath]]
* 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=James Clark's Home Pagejclark.com|accessdate=17 September 2015}}</ref>
: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.
* [[Ballerina (programming language)|Ballerina]]: Ballerina is an open source general-purpose programming language for application programmers.
;[[TREX]]
:Tree Regular Expressions 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=Jr |first3=Fred L. Drake |title=Python and XML |date=2002 |publisher="O'Reilly Media, Inc." |isbn=9780596001285 |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bPfQnxnw_NMC&pg=PA21&lpg=PA21&dq=%22TREX%22+xml+-wikipedia&source=bl&ots=C5troKOC1f&sig=ACfU3U1yolkJi-TYSrKgxdAPN90SoFWf8w&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjD3qj3n-3gAhWEKn0KHWLJA4wQ6AEwCXoECAQQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22TREX%22%20xml%20-wikipedia&f=false |accessdate=6 March 2019 |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 |accessdate=6 March 2019}}</ref>
;[[RELAX NG]]
:An XML Schema language, with both an explicit XML syntax and a compact syntax. Clark was highly 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|accessdate=11 May 2019}}</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=James Clark's Home Page|accessdate=17 September 2015}}</ref>
;[[Ballerina (programming language)|Ballerina]]
:Ballerina is an open source general-purpose programming language for application programmers.
Clark is listed as a member of the working group that developed the [[Java (programming language)|Java]] [[Stream processing]] API for XML ([[StAX]]) JSR 173 at the JCP.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=173|title=The Java Community Process(SM) Program - JSRs: Java Specification Requests - detail JSR# 173|website=jcp.org}}</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 An 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=www.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=https://web.archive.org/web/20080211194451/http://suriyan.in.th/|title=Suriyan Linux Live CD|date=11 February 2008|website=web.archive.org}}</ref>.''
 
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