If you’re having trouble converting data to and from XML format, or if your site has accessibility issues, Dave Pawson is the fellow to ask. He’ll answer your questions, or find someone who can.

With an Aerospace and systems+software background, Dave arrived late in the world of SGML and XML. His work at RNIB requires that any document be made available in up to 4 media simultaneously. Experience shows that XML fits this bill nicely and has authored very little in anything other than XML since a blind reader noted the variance in the updated powerpoint presentation and the earlier unmodified braille version. His acceptance of a non-print users right to equal access to information is firmly entrenched.

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About XSL FO: No matter how flexible and convenient digital information has become, we haven’t done away with the need to see information in print. Extensible Style Language-Formatting Objects, or XSL-FO, is a set of tools developers and web designers use to describe page printouts of their XML (including XHTML) documents. If you need to produce high quality printed material from your XML documents, then XSL-FO provides the bridge.

Dave Pawson has been a regular user of SGML XML since ’97, hosting
the XSLT faq since ’99 as a regular user and advocate of XSLT.
He authored XSL-FO which O’Reilly published in ’02, and is currently
revising it based on reader feedback. He co-hosted the first XSLT conference
in the UK in 2001.
He has been a member of the W3C web accessibility initiative since ’97,
and the W3C voting member for RNIB since ’99.