Editing Tim Bray (section)

===XML===
As an Invited Expert at the [[World Wide Web Consortium]] between 1996 and 1999, Bray co-edited the [[XML]] and [[XML namespace]] specifications.  Halfway through the project Bray accepted a consulting engagement with [[Netscape]], provoking vociferous protests from Netscape competitor [[Microsoft]] (who had supported the initial moves to bring [[SGML]] to the web.){{fact|date=May 2020}} Bray was temporarily asked to resign the editorship.  This led to intense dispute in the Working Group, eventually solved by the appointment of Microsoft's [[Jean Paoli]] as third co-editor.

In 2001, Bray wrote an article called ''Taxi to the Future'' <ref>{{cite web|title=TAXI to the Future|url=http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2001/03/14/taxi.html|access-date=2012-07-08}}</ref> for Xml.com which proposed a means to improve web client user experience and web server system performance via a ''Transform-Aggregate-send XML-Interact'' architecture—this proposed system is very similar to the [[Ajax (programming)|Ajax]] paradigm, popularized around 2005.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2006/02/14/AJAX-Performance|title=ongoing · The Real AJAX Upside|author=Tim Bray|website=Ongoing|access-date=2008-10-26}}</ref>