Biography |
Rick Jelliffe has hundreds of hours of technical teaching experience, from industry to university. He has been involved in SGML and XML publishing since the late 80s when he co-wrote one of the first mini-SGML processing systems in Japan. He has been Australian delegate to ISO SC34 Office and Document Processing, and an invited expert on internationalisation to the W3C. He has participated in the development of major standards for XML: ISO SGML, W3C XML, W3C XML Namespaces, W3C XML Schemas, W3C XHTML Modularization, IETF MIME Content Types for XML, ISO DSDL, ISO Schematron. He is the author of The XML & SGML Cookbook: Recipes for Structured Information (1998), ISO 19757-3 Rule-based Validation and numerous technical articles. He lead the Chinese XML Now! project at Academia Sinica in Taiwan from 1999. His blog is carried by O'Reilly publishers and syndicated to several sites.
Rick is the CTO of Topologi, a Sydney company that creates tools for XML editing and XML governance. He also regularly consults for Allette Systems for government, military and commercial projects. He is an experienced Java and XSLT programmer, and has produced large websites as well as printed matter. |