Eric van der Vlist is an independent XML consultant, developer, trainer and writer.

He’s involved in many XML projects for the French administration, most of them related to the publication of XML vocabularies.

Eric is the editor of the ISO DSDL Part 10 specification (work in progress, see http://dsdl.org) describing “Validation Management”. He is also the author of Examplotron (http://examplotron.org) and one of the editors of RSS 1.0. (http://www.purl.org/rss/1.0/www.purl.org/rss/1.0/).

He is a contributing editor to XML.com and xmlhack.com, creator and chief editor of XMLfr.org, the main website dedicated to XML in French, and therefore contributes to the adoption of XML by the French community.

Eric is the author of "XML Schema, The W3C's Object-Oriented Descriptions for XML", O'Reilly 2002 and "RELAX NG, A Simpler Schema Language For XML", O'Reilly 2003.

He lives in Paris France, but you will probably meet him in one of the many international conferences where he delivers his tutorials and presentations.

He welcomes your comments at vdv@dyomedea.com.