Jim has been the editor for all parts of the SQL standard for SQL-92, SQL:1999, and SQL:2003, and 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 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 is a co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium's XML Query Working Group. He is an editor of the two parts of the suite of documents being developed by the Query WG: Functions & Operators and XQueryX. Jim is working on a new book that deals with querying XML data in various ways.

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