One Good Idea
Sjogreen spent a summer designing applications in XML, a programming language that is a more developed and more powerful cousin to the familiar HTML of Web sites.
While working on a prototype Web site for an online financial services company, Sjogreen realized that there were hardly any tools available to would-be XML programmers.
Computer stores are lined with programs like FrontPage to streamline HTML writing. But there was nothing comparable for XML.
Designing an XML editor seemed like a logical project. So he enlisted his friends to help.
"Carl came to me and said, 'Hey, I've got this idea,'" Lloyd says.
Sjogreen, Lloyd and Omri Traub, a first-year graduate student in computer science, set to work building an editor for XML. But they didn't realize their work would have a commercial application.
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