Eric van der Vlist is a consultant and contributing editor for xmlhack and XML.com and author of the O'Reilly books RELAX NG and XML Schema.
He has created and maintains XMLfr, a French portal dedicated to XML and is the editor of the ISO/DSDL Part 10 specification in progress: Validation Management.
van der Vlist is a seasoned software engineer and active contributor to XML and XSL mailing lists. He is one of the authors of the RSS 1.0 proposal and the creator of examplotron and XSLTunit.