Norman Walsh

Norman Walsh is an XML Standards Architect at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide. 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 is a specification lead for the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) and has participated occasionally in several other XML-related JSRs.

Before joining Sun, he developed XML and SGML publishing systems for Arbortext, Inc., and O’Reilly and Associates. With more than a decade of industry experience, Mr. Walsh is well known for his work on DocBook and for the numerous works he has published. He is the principle author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide.

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