Francis Cave

Francis Cave is an XML consultant based in the UK. He was a founder member of the International SGML/XML Users Group and is currently Chairman of XML UK, the UK XML user group. He is also Chairman of BSI Technical Committee IST/41, which represents the UK in the work of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 34, and is editor of DSDL Part 9 Namespace- and datatype-aware DTDs.

For more than seven years Francis has been working with EDItEUR on the development and maintenance of a wide range of XML-based communication standards for the book and serials industries worldwide, including the ONIX and EDItX format families. As well as supporting the continuing development of the ONIX for Books product metadata standard, significant work is being done to develop XML-based standards for communication of license terms, with current and potential applications across the whole publishing and media sector. Partly as a result of this work, in 2006 Francis was appointed by the World Association of Newspapers to be Technical Project Manager for the ACAP Project.

Francis has operated a successful freelance XML consultancy business since 1999 and lives in the Surrey Hills with his wife Liz and two teenage children.

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