This is the joint ISO/IEC committee responsible for the SGML family of standards, and the XML-related standards being shepherded by ISO. The presentation is delivered by the Secretariat Manager, on behalf of himself and the committee chairman, Dr. Jim Mason.
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Mr. G. Ken Holman is the Chief Technology Officer for Crane Softwrights Ltd., a Canadian corporation offering XSL, XSLT and XSL-FO language training, Python and OmniMark programming, and general SGML and XML related computer systems analysis services regarding text markup technologies to international customers. Mr. Holman is the current international secretary of the ISO subcommittee responsible for the SGML family of standards, a co-editor of the Universal Business Language (UBL) 2.0 specification, an invited expert to the W3C and member of the W3C Working Group that developed XML from SGML, the former Canadian chair of the ISO subcommittee, the founding chair of the OASIS XML Conformance Technical Committee, the founding chair of the OASIS XSLT/XPath Conformance Technical Committee, the founding and current chair of the OASIS Code List Representation Technical Committee, the current chair of the OASIS UBL Human Interface Subcommittee and co-chair of the OASIS UBL Small Business Subset subcommittee, a technical lead on UBL code list and customization task groups, the author of electronically-published and print-published books on XML-related technologies, and has often been a speaker at related conferences. Prior to establishing Crane, Mr. Holman spent over 13 years in a software development and consulting services company working in the NAPLPS and the SGML industries.