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                       Dr. Charles F. Goldfarb
                          The XML Handbook
                        13075 Paramount Court
                        Saratoga, CA 95070 USA

                      Phone: +1(408)867-5553
            Email: Charles at the domain XMLHandbook.com

Charles F. Goldfarb is the father of "markup languages" -- the data
technology of the World Wide Web.  He is the inventor of SGML, the
Standard Generalized Markup Language on which the Web's HTML and XML are
based.

Goldfarb edits Prentice-Hall's Definitive XML Series and his XML
Handbook(tm), now in its Fifth Edition, has over 100,000 copies in print
in six languages.  He has been profiled in Forbes, Red Herring, and
other publications.

Dr. Goldfarb is an Honorary Fellow of the Society for Technical
Communication and holds the Gutenberg Award of the Printing Industries
of America.