Makoto Murata (村田 真, Murata Makoto; born 1960) is a Japanese computer scientist, Ph.D. in engineering, and Project Professor at Keio University. He participated in the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) XML Working Group. The Working Group designed XML1.0, a markup language specification. Murata and James Clark designed RELAX NG, an XML schema language. Murata is the convener of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34 WG 4, responsible for Office Open XML maintenance.
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