Biezunski, Michel - Michel Biezunski, Ph.D., is working as an independent consultant. He is actively involved in the creation of an information industry based on XML-related technologies. Dr. Biezunski serves as co-editor in ISO efforts to extend the Topic Maps standard and advocates a convergence of topics maps with the RDF recommendation. He created and chaired the SGML Users' Group France until 1997.
Bosak, Jon - Formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Mr. Bosak is considered by many to be "the father of XML,".
Bray, Tim - Mr. Bray is the founder of Textuality Services, although he no longer is available for consulting work. He is currently with Sun Microsystems. He serves as a member of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Working Group and co-edited the XML 1.0 and XML Hyperlinking standards. He works in the areas of system design, performance optimization, and programming. He is also the editor of The Gilbane Report, Technical Editor of XML.com, and a Seybold Fellow.
Clark, James - Mr. Clark has been writing open source software since about 1987. He worked on groff, a complete, open source implementation of the standard Unix typesetting system, including troff, eqn, tbl, pic, -ms and -man macros. He donated this to the GNU project and it became a standard part of Linux. Since 1991, he has been mainly in the area of SGML/XML including being the technical lead for the World Wide Web Consortium's XML activity which developed XML 1.0 Recommendation. He currently promotes open source for the Software Industry Promotion Agency, Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand. His webpage provides a selection of papers, standards and tools.
Connelly, Dan - Dan Connolly is the leader of the XML Activity at W3C. He began contributing to the World Wide Web project, and in particular, the HTML specification, while developing hypertext production and delivery software in 1992. He presented a draft of HTML 2.0 at the first Web Conference in 1994 in Geneva, and served as editor until it became a Proposed Standard RFC in November 1995. He was the chair of the W3C Working Group that produced HTML 3.2 and HTML 4.0, and collaborated with Jon Bosak to form the W3C XML Working Group and produce the W3C XML 1.0 Recommendation.
Dumbill, Edd - Edd Dumbill is co-chair of the O'Reilly Open Source Convention. He is also chair of the XTech web technology conference. Edd conceived and developed Expectnation, a hosted service for organizing and producing conferences. Edd has also been Managing Editor for XML.com, a Debian developer, and GNOME contributor. He writes a blog called Behind the Times.
Goldfarb, Charles F. - Charles F. Goldfarb is the co-inventer of IBM's "Generalized Markup Language" and is known as the father of the Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). (XML is a subset of SMGL.) He is the author of the The XML Handbook and The SGML Handbook. He is now an independent consultant and advises ObjectBuilders. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Columbia College.
Planet XMLHack - A blog aggregating the weblogs of XML hackers and commentators. It is updated hourly. The blogs are selected by the the editor, to whom all comments should be addressed.
Prescod, Paul - Among his accomplishments, Paul has been very involved in the development and promotion of new standards. He worked within the XML Working Group of the World Wide Web consortium to develop the XML family of standards and co-wrote the book The XML Handbook. He has implemented systems using XML and the open source Python programming language. Paul is also experienced in programming using C, C++ and Java.
Walsh, Norm - Norman Walsh is a Principal Technologist in the Information & Media Solutions team at Mark Logic Corporation. Mr. Walsh is an elected member of the Technical Architecture Group at the W3C where he is also chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group, co-chair of the XML Core Working Group, and an active member of the XSL Working Group. At OASIS, he is chair of the DocBook Technical Committee and a member of the RELAX NG and Entity Resolution Technical Committees. He was editor of the XML Catalogs specification for the Entity Resolution Technical Committee and wrote the implementation of that OASIS Standard that is part of the XML Commons project at Apache. He was a specification lead for the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and has participated occasionally in other XML-related JSRs.
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