Sams Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days
(Publisher: Macmillan Computer Publishing)
Author(s): Simon North
ISBN: 1575213966
Publication Date: 04/13/99

About the Author

Simon North originally hails from England, but thinks of himself as more of a European. Fluent in several European languages, Simon is a technical writer for Synopsys, the leading EDA software company, where he documents high-level IC design software. This puts him in the strange situation of working for a Silicon Valley company in Germany while living in The Netherlands.

Simon has been working with SGML and HyTime-based documentation systems for the past nine years, but was one of the first to adopt HTML. His writing credits include contributions on XML and SGML to the Sams.Net books Presenting XML, Dynamic Web Publishing Unleashed, and HTML4 Unleashed, Professional Reference Edition. Simon can be reached at north@synopsys.com (work) or sintac@xs4all.nl (or through his books Web page at http://www.xs4all.nl/~sintac/books.html).

Paul Hermans is founder and CEO of Pro Text, one of the leading SGML/XML consultant firms and implementation service providers in Belgium.

Since 1992 he has been involved in major Belgian SGML implementations. Previously he was head of the electronic publishing department of CED Samsom, part of the Wolters Kluwer group. He is also the chair of SGML BeLux, the Belgian-Luxembourgian chapter of the International SGML Users’ Group.

Dedications

From Simon North:

To the thousands of givers in the online community without whose dedication, hard work, generosity, and selflessness the Internet would be just a poor, sad reflection of everyday life.

From Paul Hermans:

To Rika for bringing structure into my life and to my parents for caring.

Acknowledgements

From Simon North:

To all the folks at Sams for giving me the chance to write this book and for allowing me to make it the book I wanted it to be. To all my colleagues at Synopsys who made my working life so pleasant and gave me the enthusiasm and energy to survive the extra workload. Most of all, to my long-suffering wife Irma without whose willingness to spring into the breach and assume most of my parental responsibilities this book just wouldn’t have been possible.

From Paul Hermans:

I would like to thank Simon North for giving me the opportunity to put some of my knowledge on paper. Furthermore I would like to acknowledge all the people at Sams Publishing who helped bring this book to completion.

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