Norman Walsh is an XML Standards Architect in the Web Products, Technologies and Standards group at Sun Microsystems, Inc. His work is currently focused on Core XML Technologies.

Norm is an active participant in a number of standards efforts worldwide, including the XML Core and XSL Working Groups of the World Wide Web Consortium where he is also 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 chairs. Norm is also one of the specification leads for JSR 206, the Java API for XML Processing, version 1.3.

He is the principal author of DocBook: The Definitive Guide, published by O'Reilly & Associates. He is also one of the pricipal designers and maintainers of the DocBook XSL Stylesheets and a number of other open source projects.