Norman Walsh

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Norman Walsh
Born June 16, 1967
United States

Norman Walsh, (born June 16, 1967 in the United States), is a software engineer and self-described "long-time markup geek" with a history of involvement in work related to electronic publishing systems and SGML/XML applications. He is perhaps best known as a guiding force behind the DocBook markup system for technical documentation.

Walsh is currently an XML Standards Architect in the Web Technologies and Standards group at Sun Microsystems where he participates in the development of XML-related standards. In the JCP, he is a specification lead for JAXP. At the W3C, he is chair of the XML Processing Model Working Group, co-chair of the XML Core Working Group, a member of the XSL Working Group, and an elected member of the Technical Architecture Group. At OASIS, he is a member of the RELAX NG Technical Committee, the Entity Resolution Technical Committee (for which he is the editor), and the DocBook Technical Committee (which he has chaired for several years).

He is one of the principal developers of the DocBook XSL stylesheets (and of the DocBook DSSSL stylesheets that preceded them), as well as the principal author of the book DocBook: The Definitive Guide, the official reference documentation for DocBook.

Walsh graduated from Iona College in 1989 with a B.Sc. double major in computer and information science and mathematics. He received an M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1993. From 1993 to 1997 Walsh worked for O'Reilly & Associates and from 1997 to 2000 for Arbortext. He joined Sun in 2000.

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  • nwalsh.com - Norman Walsh's personal website
  • norman.walsh.name - Norm's weblog
  • docbook.org - Official homepage for DocBook: The Definitive Guide
  • xproc.org - a public site devoted to the development of an XML Processing Model language
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