James Clark (programmer)


James Clark is the author of groff and expat, and has done much work with open-source software and XML.
Born in London and educated at Charterhouse and Merton College, Oxford, Clark has lived in Bangkok, Thailand since , 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.
For the GNU project, he wrote groff, as well as an XML editing mode for GNU Emacs.

XML-related work

James Clark served as Technical Lead of the Working 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.
James is the author or co-author of a number of influential specifications and implementations, including:
;DSSSL
;Expat
;XSLT
;XPath
;TREX
;RELAX NG
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;Clark Notation
He is listed as part of the Working Group that developed the Java Streaming API for XML JSR 173 at the JCP.

Work at SIPA

From until late , Clark worked for Thailand's Software Industry Promotion Agency, 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: