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<td><h1><font face="Arial">Contributors</font></h1>
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<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>
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