Jean Paoli
Encyclopedia
Jean Paoli was one of the inventors of XML
. Along with Tim Bray
and Michael Sperberg-McQueen
, Paoli co-edited the XML 1.0 recommendation for the World Wide Web Consortium
starting in 1997 and until at least 2008.
Paoli moved from Paris to join Microsoft in 1996, where he worked on the Channel Definition Format for Internet Explorer 4.0, advocated for the original Microsoft Office XML formats
, and promoted Office Open XML. Along with Adriana Neagu
and others he was a co-inventor of InfoPath and is named on its patented way of authoring XML using DHTML views and XSLT
.
XML
Extensible Markup Language is a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. It is defined in the XML 1.0 Specification produced by the W3C, and several other related specifications, all gratis open standards....
. Along with Tim Bray
Tim Bray
Timothy William Bray is a Canadian software developer and entrepreneur. He co-founded Open Text Corporation and Antarctica Systems. Bray was Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems from early 2004 to early 2010. Since then he has served as a Developer Advocate at Google, focusing on...
and Michael Sperberg-McQueen
Michael Sperberg-McQueen
C. M. "Michael" Sperberg-McQueen is an American markup specialist. He was co-editor of the Extensible Markup Language 1.0 spec , and chair of the XML Schema working group....
, Paoli co-edited the XML 1.0 recommendation for the World Wide Web Consortium
World Wide Web Consortium
The World Wide Web Consortium is the main international standards organization for the World Wide Web .Founded and headed by Tim Berners-Lee, the consortium is made up of member organizations which maintain full-time staff for the purpose of working together in the development of standards for the...
starting in 1997 and until at least 2008.
Paoli moved from Paris to join Microsoft in 1996, where he worked on the Channel Definition Format for Internet Explorer 4.0, advocated for the original Microsoft Office XML formats
Microsoft Office XML formats
The Microsoft Office XML formats are XML-based document formats introduced in versions of Microsoft Office prior to Office 2007...
, and promoted Office Open XML. Along with Adriana Neagu
Adriana Neagu
Adriana Neagu is a Romanian-born American entrepreneur and software architect. Since July 2009 she has been president and CEO of Formotus, Inc., a start-up company she co-founded in 2005 specializing in cross-platform mobile application development and cloud computing...
and others he was a co-inventor of InfoPath and is named on its patented way of authoring XML using DHTML views and XSLT
XSLT
XSLT is a declarative, XML-based language used for the transformation of XML documents. The original document is not changed; rather, a new document is created based on the content of an existing one. The new document may be serialized by the processor in standard XML syntax or in another format,...
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