Welcome to Jirka Kosek's homepage

Most of the information on my site is in the Czech language. Several resources are also available in English. This page contains my brief CV and links to other English pages on my site.

So, who am I?

Not an easy question, because I wear several hats on my head:

• Freelance writer and journalist – writer of books and articles concerning Internet technologies (HTML, PHP, XML, XSLT etc.)
• Training lector and consultant – book publishing in the Czech Republic is not the most lucrative job, other monetary supplements are welcomed. Thus I lead training courses regularly. These courses are devoted to creating web applications (PHP), XML technologies (core XML, DTD, schema languages, CSS, XSLT, XML API – SAX and DOM), DocBook and several others. I also offer consulting services related to usage of markup technologies and electronic publishing. My customers are both corporations and government agencies.
• University teacher – I lead two courses at the University of Economics in Prague. One course is devoted to the creation of web pages and web applications, second is the XML technology one.
• Open source developer – I'm a member of DocBook developers team. This team is developing and improving DSSSL and XSL stylesheets for formatting DocBook documents. I am fortunated to claim responsibility for the creation of HTML Help, internationalized indexing and profiling support in XSL stylesheets.
• Standardization folk – I'm OASIS individual member where I participate in DocBook and Entity Resolution Technical Committees. I'm also Czech representative in ISO/IEC JTC1/SC34 working groups.
• PhD student – after finishing Master degree in knowledge engineering I'm slowly progressing in my academic career.

My English resources

• Slides from DocBook Best Practices tutorial held in O'Reilly Open Source Convention 2001 in San Diego
  • Using DocBook with Central European Languages (without frames)
  • Profiling DocBook documents (without frames)
  • From DocBook to integrated help systems (without frames)
• Documentation fragments for DocBook stylesheets:
  • Profiling DocBook documents
  • Using the XSL stylesheets to generate HTML Help
• Adding catalog support into Saxon – how to add support for catalog files into my favorite XSLT processor
• My xml.com articles
• Using XSLT for getting back-of-the-book indexes – my paper from XML 2004 conference

Contact

If you want contact me, send an e-mail to jirka@kosek.cz.