Jonathan Robie

Jonathan Robie is the XQuery Technology Lead at DataDirectTechnologies, which specializes in data integration, data connectivityand mainframe integration products. He is a lead designer of XQuery,the W3C XML Query language, and an editor of many of thespecifications which define the XQuery language. He is also aco-inventor of Quilt, a predecessor of XQuery, and XQL, a predecessorof XPath.Jonathan has been significantly involved in several other W3C WorkingGroups, acting as an editor for documents produced by the XML Schemaand Document Object Model Working Groups, and has also participated inthe W3C XML Information Set and XML Stylesheet Language (XSL) WorkingGroups. He is well known in the XML world, both as an innovator and asa speaker.Prior to joining DataDirect, Jonathan worked as an XML Research Specialist at Software AG, where he helped design architectures for XML servers and represented Software AG on the XML Query and XML Schema Working Groups. He has been on the architecture team for three XML databases or repositories, at Software AG, Texcel Research, and POET Software. He has a total of 18 years experience with advanced database systems and complex database applications, especially object oriented databases, multimedia databases, workgroup database applications, and XML/SGML databases.Jonathan's Blog can be found at http://blogs.datadirect.com/jonathan_robie/.