Debbie Lapeyre

Ms. Lapeyre has been working with XML, XSLT, and XPath since their inception and with SGML (XML’s predecessor) since 1984. Debbie is an architect and developer of XML Tag Sets (vocabularies) who designs and writes the schemas (DTD, XSD, RELAX NG) that model those vocabularies. Most recently, she serves as the architect and as a member of the design team for the NLM Journal Archiving and Interchange Tag Suite, now the de facto standard for tagging journal articles worldwide.

As a document-oriented publishing analyst, Debbie helps clients to analyze their information management, retrieval, and distribution/publication requirements and translates these requirements into functioning production systems, based on XML technologies. As a senior XSLT and XSL-FO consultant, she designs both pages and specifications for complex XSLT transforms and stylesheets as well as develops prototype XSLT applications.

Debbie is a member of the XML Guild. She is also a co-chair of “Balisage: The Markup Conference” and has previously co-chaired “Extreme Markup Languages”, “Markup Technologies”, and the annual international “SGML/XML’XX Conference”. She teaches XML, XSLT, XSL-FO, Schematron, What-is-XML-and-Why-Should-You-Care, and XML print workflows at venues all over the English-speaking world.