Yuri RubinskyYuri Rubinsky, whose life was cut tragically short just as XML made its appearance a decade ago, was a great contributor to XML. Rubinsky founded SoftQuad International more than 20 years ago and oversaw development of the first structured editing tool, SGML Author/Editor, as well as the very popular HoTMetaL editor for HTML, forerunner of today's XMetaL. "There is no point in storing anything unless you can find it again, in its most useful component elements, ready to be repurposed. There is a danger in allowing your most valuable asset—the 90% of your information that is in documents—to be locked away in proprietary, unmanaged, unmanageable electronic formats. Luckily, SGML provides an internationally standardized, vendor-supported, multipurpose, independent way of doing business. If you aren't using it today, you will be next year." Yuri Rubinsky, 1996? Up to Glossary of Terms |
