ActiveState Lecture Series: XSLT and Scripting Languages
Speaker:  Paul Prescod, Senior Developer, ActiveState
Date:  April 18, 2001 @ 6:30-7:30 pm (doors will close at 6:45pm)
Where: ActiveState HQ, 580 Granville Street
Cost: Free

ABSTRACT
Controversy rages in the open source community about XSLT. Some view it as a
competitor and others a compliment to open source scripting languages. This
talk will demonstrate the sort of problems that XSLT is uniquely qualified
to address and the kind that are better left to conventional programming
languages. It will also demonstrate how we can combine the virtues of
XSLT with those of traditional languages such as Perl, Python, Java and
JavaScript.

BIOGRAPHY - Paul Prescod, Senior Developer
Paul is a researcher and implementer of markup technologies and the Python
scripting language. He has been very involved in the development and
promotion of new standards and worked within the XML Working Group of the
World Wide Web consortium to develop the XML family of standards.  He
co-wrote the most popular book on that family of standards, The XML
Handbook. Paul is an advocate of the Python programming language in the XML
world and of XML in the Python world.
Prior to joining ActiveState he was a consulting engineer at ISOGEN, where
he helped organizations apply ISO and W3C standards to large-scale
documentation problems. Previously, he worked at Watcom on a
groundbreaking visual development environment for the REXX scripting
language. Today he applies that experience to ActiveState's Mozilla-based
IDE, Komodo. Paul ensures that Komodo implements leading
standards from the XML world.
Paul has a mathematics and computer science degree from the University of
Waterloo. His hobbies besides writing Python code comprise: playing
classical guitar, traveling with his wife, and learning how to ski on
the awesome Pacific Northwest mountains.

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