Bert Bos
Bert has a degree in Mathematics from the University of Groningen, The Netherlands
(1987), and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Arts of that same university, on a thesis
about
a rapid-prototyping language for Graphical User Interfaces (1993). Afterwards, he
lead a
project called PROSA, aimed at helping scholars in the Humanities make better use
of the
Internet and the World-Wide Web in particular. He joined W3C in France in October
1995,
as coordinator for internationalization.
Articles by this author
XML: From Bytes to Characters
This article defines, in some detail, how text is stored in an XML file. It also
describes how an XML file is encoded for transportation over the Internet, and upon
arrival,
decoded again.
