Deborah Aleyne Lapeyre is a Senior Consultant for Mulberry Technologies, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in helping their clients toward better publishing through XML, XSLT, and Schematron solutions. She works with Tommie Usdin as architects and Secretariat for JATS (ANSI NISO Z39.96-2015 Journal Article Tag Suite), BITS (Book Interchange Tag Suite), and NISO STS (ANSI/NISO Z39.102-2017, STS: Standards Tag Suite). Debbie teaches hands-on XML, XSLT, Schematron, and schema and DTD construction courses, as well as numerous technical and business-level introductions to XML, JATS, and JATS customization.
Debbie has been working with XML and XSLT since their inception and with SGML since 1984 (before SGML was finalized as an ISO standard). In a previous life, she wrote code for systems that put ink on paper and programmed in, taught, and documented a proprietary generic markup system named “SAMANTHA”. Hobbies include Balisage: The Markup Conference and hosting pumpkin carving parties.
