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Tim Bray

Tim Bray managed the Oxford English Dictionary project at the University of Waterloo in 1987-1989, co-founded Open Text Corporation (Nasdaq:OTEX) in 1989, launched one of the first public web search engines in 1995, co-invented XML 1.0 and co-edited "Namespaces in XML" between 1996 and 1999, founded Antarctica Systems in 1999, and served as a Tim Berners-Lee appointee on the W3C Technical Architecture Group in 2002-2004. Currently, he serves as Director of Web Technologies at Sun Microsystems, publishes a popular weblog tbray.org, and co-chairs the IETF AtomPub Working Group.

Articles by this author

TAXI to the Future

Tim Bray presents TAXI, a Web application architecture that utilises the power of XML to deliver a responsive user environment.

What Is RDF

An introduction to the W3C's Resource Description Format, a standard for exchanging metadata, and a key technology for the W3C's "Semantic Web".

XML Namespaces by Example

The hows and whys of XML namespaces explained by a co-author of the specification, XML.com's technical editor Tim Bray.

The doctor will see you now

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 5)

How it works

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 4)


Standards to the rescue!

Using XML and other standards-based technologies, seafarers are no longer out to sea when it comes to specialized medical care. (Part 2)







XML support in IE5

Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 5 and XML.com's technical editor Tim Bray finds that though the final release of IE5 has some nice features for the XML community, its XML implementation is still a little buggy.


Low-Rent Virtual Reality with XML

3DML is almost XML - though you wouldn't know it from its creator's marketing information. This 'economy' virtual reality language has some benefits that VRML doesn't, and proves that you can use XML to do some surprising things.





News Wire Services Heading for XML

The News Industry is hoping that a switch to XML will jump-start adoption of the News Industry Text Format (NITF) among users and vendors of news wire services.

XML Linking

This document specifies a simple set of constructs that may be inserted into XML documents to describe links between objects and to support addressing into the internal structures of XML documents. It is a goal to use the power of XML to create a structure that can describe the simple unidirectional hyperlinks of today's HTML as well as more sophisticated multi-ended, typed, self-describing links.

RDF and Metadata

Not excited about metadata? XML.com's technical editor Tim Bray thinks you should be and he explains why. He presents RDF, a spec that standardizes how to supply metadata on the Web.

The Annotated XML Specification

If you want to understand XML, you have to read the specification. However, to really get inside the specification and understand why it says what it does, you need an expert guide. Tim Bray, co-editor of the XML 1.0 specification, shares his knowledge and insights about XML, SGML and the working group behind the specification in this annotated version of the document.

Preview of XML Support in IE 5

A preview release of Microsoft's Internet Explorer 5.0 is now available for developers and Tim Bray looks at what's new in IE5 and what that means for XML.