Richard (Rick) Alan Jelliffe (born 1960) is an Australian programmer and standards activist (

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), particularly associated with web standards,

markup languages A markup language is a text-encoding system which specifies the structure and formatting of a document and potentially the relationships among its parts. Markup can control the display of a document or enrich its content to facilitate automated p ...

internationalization Internationalization or Internationalisation is the process of increasing involvement of enterprises in international markets, although there is no agreed definition of internationalization. Internationalization is a crucial strategy not only for ...

and schema languages. He is the founder and Chief Technical Officer of Topologi Pty. Ltd, an XML tools vendor in

Sydney Sydney is the capital city of the States and territories of Australia, state of New South Wales and the List of cities in Australia by population, most populous city in Australia. Located on Australia's east coast, the metropolis surrounds Syd ...

. He has a degree in economics from the

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Career

Jelliffe is the inventor of the

Schematron Schematron is a rule-based validation language for making assertions about the presence or absence of patterns in XML trees. It is a structural schema language expressed in XML using a small number of elements and XPath languages. In many implem ...

schema language; its core idea of using

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to state constraints has been widely adopted and adapted. He is the editor of the ISO International Standard 19757-3 ''

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– Part 3: Path Based Rule Languages (Schematron).'' In 1999 to 2001, Jelliffe worked at

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat ...

, 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 the

Dealings with Microsoft

In January 2007,

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" technical evangelist" Doug Mahugh asked Jelliffe to correct

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articles about some of the standardization efforts in which he was involved, including Ecma Office Open XML and

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, 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. The controversial decision by

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to include Jelliffe on its delegation to the vote at the

on standardisation of

Ecma International Ecma International () is a Nonprofit organization, nonprofit standards organization for information and communication systems. It acquired its current name in 1994, when the European Computer Manufacturers Association (ECMA) changed its name to ...

Office Open XML Office Open XML (also informally known as OOXML) is a zipped, XML-based file format developed by Microsoft for representing spreadsheets, charts, presentations and word processing documents. Ecma International standardized the initial version ...

document format was widely criticised. Some considered Jelliffe too close to Microsoft to be impartial.

Works

* ''The XML & SGML Cookbook: Recipes for Structured Information'',

Charles Goldfarb Charles F. Goldfarb, (born November 26, 1939) is known as the father of Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML) and grandfather of HTML and the World Wide Web. He co-invented the concept of markup languages. In 1969 Charles Goldfarb, leading ...

Series on Structured Information Management, 1998, Prentice Hal, . * Editor, ''ISO/IEC International Standard 19757-3

– Part 3: Path Based Rule Languages (

)''.

References

External links

schematron.com

Chinese XML Now!

Topologi
{{DEFAULTSORT:Jelliffe, Rick Place of birth missing (living people) Australian computer programmers 1960 births Living people University of Sydney alumni