Rick Jelliffe
Richard Alan Jelliffe | |
|---|---|
 Rick Jelliffe on 26 July 2007 | |
| Born | 1960 (age 63–64) |
| Nationality | Australian |
| Other names | Rick |
| Citizenship | Australian |
| Education | University of Sydney |
| Occupation(s) | Programmer, activist |
| Title | CFO |
| Website | http://www.topologi.com |
Richard (Rick) Alan Jelliffe (born 1960) is an Australian programmer and standards activist (
Sydney. He has a degree in economics from the University of Sydney
.
Career
Jelliffe is the inventor of the Schematron schema language; its core idea of using XPath to state constraints has been widely adopted and adapted. He is the editor of the ISO International Standard 19757-3 Document Schema Definition Languages - Part 3: Path Based Rule Languages (Schematron).
In 1999-2001 Jelliffe worked at
W3C
.
Dealings with Microsoft
In January 2007,
technical evangelist" Doug Mahugh asked Jelliffe to correct English Wikipedia articles about some of the standardization efforts in which he was involved, including Ecma Office Open XML and OpenDocument, 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.[1][2][3]
The controversial decision by Standards Australia to include Jelliffe on its delegation to the vote at the ISO on standardisation of Ecma International's Office Open XML document format was widely criticised. Some considered Jelliffe too close to Microsoft to be impartial.[4][5]
Works
- The XML & SGML Cookbook: Recipes for Structured Information, ISBN 0-13-614223-0.
- Editor, ISO/IEC International Standard 19757-3 Document Schema Definition Languages - Part 3: Path Based Rule Languages (Schematron).
References
- ^ Jelliffe, Rick (22 January 2007). "An interesting offer: get paid to contribute to Wikipedia". www.oreillynet.com.
- ^ Elsworth, Catherine (27 January 2007). "Microsoft under fire in Wiki edit war". The Daily Telegraph.
- ^ Bergstein, Brian (23 January 2007). "Microsoft offers cash for Wikipedia edit". NBC News. Retrieved 1 February 2007.
- ^ Gedda, Rodney (20 February 2008). "Microsoft developer joins Aussie OOXML standards delegation". Australia: Computerworld. Archived from the original on 22 November 2008. Retrieved 31 March 2008.
- ^ "Australian Delegation to the ISO/IEC DIS29500 Ballot Resolution Meeting" (PDF). Australia.
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