C Sperberg-mcqueen
Member And Principal Consultant at Black Mesa Technologies
New Mexico, United States
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Top SchoolC. Sperberg-McQueen is the founder and principal consultant of Black Mesa Technologies, specializing in XML, XSD, and XSLT for vocabulary development, validation, and long-term preservation of cultural heritage data. A pioneer in descriptive markup since 1988, he co-edited the first XML specification, led the XSD 1.1 editorial work, and chaired W3C XML coordination efforts during a decade at the W3C. His background as editor-in-chief of the Text Encoding Initiative and academic training (Ph.D. in comparative literature) give him a rare blend of humanistic scholarship and deep standards engineering. He focuses on practical schema design and transformation workflows that make data durable and interoperable, and is a frequent conference speaker and educator. Based in New Mexico, he continues active research into the theory and practice of markup while consulting on accessibility and preservation projects. An often-cited early advocate for SGML/XML on the Web, he combines historical perspective with hands-on tooling and standards stewardship.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Ph.D., Comparative Literature at Stanford University
german, french, reading knowledge of norwegian, danish, and swedish.
Stackoverflow
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xml
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xml-parsing
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xsd
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xslt
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xpath
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schema
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Github Skills (71)
xml-parsing10
xslt10
xsd10
xml10
validation9
text-encoding9
schema9
swi-prolog9
xpath9
prolog9
stylesheets9
xquery9
xml-schema8
tla8
logic-programming8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
cmsmcq/gingersnap
Jan 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:157 commits, 45 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
cmsmcq/Aparecium
Nov 2021 - Aug 2022
An invisible-XML processor for XQuery and XSLT
Contributions:96 commits, 36 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
xmlxqueryxslt
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