RE: Should XML Professionals Be Programmers?

[Michael Hopwood <michael@editeur.org>]

Hi there,

 

I’m a qualified information professional (~=librarian), working on an XML-heavy project in the publishing world.

 

I’ve been following XML-Dev and hoping to learn more about this question too: how do you define an “XML professional”?

 

Is anyone on the list qualified specifically in XML itself?

 

It seems to me like “something I should have learned at Library School”, but it’s one of those things that librarians tend to leave to the IT people.

 

Cheers,

 

Michael

 

From: Len Bullard [mailto:Len.Bullard@ses-i.com]
Sent: 08 March 2012 16:27
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Should XML Professionals Be Programmers?

 

It’s a general qualifications question:  do you expect an XML professional to:

 

1. Be able to correctly interpret DTD/Schema?
2. Write or modify a DTD/Schema
3. Code and/or test and modify XSLT.
4. Program at least to a level of proficiency to build simple productivity tools (for example, basic querying of XML in some form)

 

Len Bullard

ILS Manager

Science and Engineering Services, Inc

248 Dunlop Blvd.

Huntsville, AL 35824

len.bullard@ses-i.com