Spreading the XML paradigm around
I'm Jirka Kosek and I'm freelance consultant, lecturer, writer, university teacher, open source developer and standards maker. I have written many books and articles about XML and Web technologies and I also offer training and consulting services in this area.
I'm trying to help improve technologies by participating in the standardization process in several organizations.
I'm invited expert in W3C. I'm member of several working groups here, including XML Core WG, HTML WG, CSS WG and XSLT WG. I have served as a co-editor of several specifications.
I'm member of OASIS because my favorite DocBook document format is developed here.
I'm representing Czech Republic in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34.
I'm fan of open-source, but not of GPL license. The most known projects I contributed to are:
DocBook XSL stylesheets – the most widely used tool for converting DocBook documents into many output formats.
validator.nu – currently the best validator for HTML content. I added support for ITS 2.0 into validator.
Organizing XML Prague conference.
Teaching XML and Web technologies at University of Economics in Prague.
Email: <jirka@kosek.cz>