Kenneth Sall

XML Specialist

SiloSmashers

Vienna
Virginia
United States Of America

Email: KSall@SiloSmashers.com

Biography:

Kenneth Sall of SiloSmashers, Inc. served as XML consultant on the GSA Integrated Acquisition Environment E-Government Initiative. Ken has been closely tracking XML developments since July 1997 and has developed several XML training courses and numerous presentations for the XML Working Group, NASA and other government agencies. He created the XML section of Web Developers Virtual Library (WDVL.Internet.com). Addison-Wesley published Ken's book, XML Family of Specifications: A Practical Guide in June 2002. His personal Web site contains several useful XML resources including his unique Big Picture of the XML Family of Specifications, an imagemap gateway to all major XML technical specifications which also indicates their maturity and depicts interrelationships. Ken has been an active participant in the Federal CIO Council's XML Working Group (XML.gov), the Semantic (XML Web Services) Interoperability Community of Practice (), and other US Federal XML efforts.

Papers:

How the US Federal Government is Using XML: One Year Later