BIO: Mark Birbeck is the founder of x-port.net Ltd., a software house that produces XForms processors and tools. x-port’s core engine, formsPlayer, was one of the two full implementations that allowed the XForms standard to meet its exit criteria. Mark has 20 years experience in software development, and has contributed to books on XML, XML and databases, SOAP, and RDF and metadata. He is an invited expert on both the W3C XForms and HTML Working Groups. Website
Mark Birbeck (and company) are behind formsPlayer, an XForms processor, and Sidewinder, a semantic web browser, seamlessly combining XForms with XHTML, SVG, and MathML.
He is an Invited Expert on the W3C’s XForms, XHTML 2 and HTML Working Groups. His most recent work involved proposing and developing RDFa.
His blog focuses on building a new generation of rich internet applications for the semantic web, using Ajax, XHTML, XForms, RDFa, and declarative mark-up.