Makoto Murata

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Murata Makoto ( Japanese村田 真; * 1960 ) is a Japanese computer scientist . He was a member of the W3C Working Group (World Wide Web Consortium), which developed the XML specification. In 2000 he developed the specification language RELAX , which he later developed together with James Clark to RELAX NG , a well-known alternative to XML schema .

Career

1982 Murata made his Bachelor at the Faculty of Science of the University of Kyoto . In 1985 he started working for Fuji Xerox . From 1993 to 1995 he worked at the Xerox Webster Research Center. From 1997 he worked for Fuji Xerox Information Systems. He left Fuji Xerox in 2000 and has since worked at the International University of Japan and the IBM Tokyo Research Laboratory.

Work

XML

Since 1997 he was a member of the W3C Working Group (World Wide Web Consortium), which developed the XML specification 1.0. He later developed the XML Japanese Profile, which deals with the representation of Japanese script in XML.

RELAX and RELAX NG

Murata and James Clark were critical of the W3C's XML Schema Standard. Murata had previously developed RELAX, which in collaboration with James Clark became RELAX NG as an alternative to XML schema.

Fonts

• Hiroshi Maruyama, Kent Tamura, Naohiko Uramoto, Makoto Murata, Andy Clark, Yuichi Nakamura, Ryo Neyama, Kazuya Kosaka and Satoshi Hada: XML and Java: Developing Web Applications, Second Edition. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002, ISBN 0-201-77004-0 .

Web links

• RELAX website
• RELAX NG website
• Makoto Murata's own page ( Memento from June 18, 2005 in the Internet Archive )