<!-- -*- sgml -*- --> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>Using Jade for SGML transformations</title> </head> <body background="images/background.gif" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <p><font face="Geneva, Arial"><img src="images/dsssltitle.gif" alt="OpenJade" vspace="10" width="750" height="60"> </font></p> <div align="left"> <table border="0" width="780"> <tr> <td><font face="Geneva, Arial"><img src="images/space.gif" alt="" width="145" height="10"></font></td> <td><h1><font face="Arial">Contributors</font></h1> <dl> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>James Clark:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">The father of Jade. James made the first version called Jade. He was instrumental to the idea of a single set of flow objects and multiple backend formats. James carried the Jade project for several years until it became a group project and got renamed OpenJade. He is no longer participating to the OpenJade project but his spirit still and will always remain with us. He created most of the Openjade code and the SGML/XML and the RTF backends. But it is shorter to tell what he didn't do than what he did :-)</font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Matthias Clasen:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">I am an old-time LaTeX user and a scheme lover. My first jade hacking experience was trying to use dsssl to produce properly formatted indexes, realizing the need for language-dependent string sorting. That code is now part of OpenJade. Since I think that the full power of DSSSL can only be explored with a reasonably complete implementation, I am working to fill the gaps in jade's coverage of the standard.</font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Avi Kivity:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">I stumbled on Jade after attempts to format SGML documents using C++ proved too cumbersome. I was impressed by the power of DSSSL and the functional programming style, which I hadn't used before. My main interest is fully-integrated backends; that is, formatters which do the layout themselves and do not depend on external layout engines like TeX or Word. I also maintain the CVS repository and perform builds and releases. </font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Didier PH Martin:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">I encountered Jade simply by browsing to find new ways to process XML/SGML documents. I had to learn it without a book and with minimal documentation. The more I know about this environment the more I learn to appreciate it. This is why, I am a fervant advocate of DSSSL, OpenJade and work hard to provide to members of the OpenJade community, a rich environment, an adequate documentation, a future to this language.</font> <p><font face="Arial">After more than 20 years in the computer business, I still enjoy creating and learning. As a canadian member of the ISO Document Description and Processing Languages comittee, my goal is to make a DSSSL-2 possible reality. </font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Peter Nilsson:</strong></font></dt> <dd>The man behind braifo.</dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Sebastian Ratz:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">You have a question about Tex? Sebastian is the right guy to answer to your question. He created the Tex backend processor with David and Kathleen.</font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Kathleen Marszalek:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">She is the bee, working hard and methodical. She created the Tex and MIF backends with other members of the team.</font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>Paul Prescod:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">Paul has always a good comment to bring to the table. He created the MIF backend with Kathleen.</font></dd> <dt><font face="Arial"><strong>David Megginson:</strong></font></dt> <dd><font face="Arial">An other fellow canadian that is bringing every day to the XML community ideas, new code, its commitment. He created the Tex backend with Kathleen and Sebastian.</font></dd> </dl> </td> </tr> </table> </div> <p> </p> </body> </html>