Jim is the editor for the SQL-92 standard and the more recent revision, SQL:1999, as well as the upcoming SQL:2003 edition. He has published five books covering various aspects of the SQL standard. Jim has represented his employer in the ANSI standards community and the United States in the international standards community for nearly two decades. A founding member of the SQLX Group, he is very active in developing (as well as editing) a new part of the SQL standard, called SQL/XML, that specifies technology for effectively using SQL and XML together. In addition, Jim participates in the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Query Working Group and XML Schema Working Group, and is an editor of the Functions & Operators specification that is part of the suite of documents being developed by the Query WG. Jim is working on a new book that deals with querying XML data in various ways.