FOREWORD BY ELIZABETH CASTRO
XML has come a long way since I wrote the first edition of this book in 2001. It is as
widespread now as it was exotic then.
Last year, I bumped into my friend Kevin Goldberg on a visit to California. We had
known each other in college, and had played a lot of Boggle together in Barcelona.
When he offered to help me revise this book, I jumped at the chance. Kevin has been
working in the computer industry for more than twenty years. He started his career as a
video game programmer and producer. Since 1997, Kevin has been serving as partner and
chief technology officer at imagistic, an award-winning, Web development and services
company in Southern California. In this role, he is regularly called upon to help clients
clarify their business needs, and to clearly communicate the nature and applicability of
potential technology solutions—in a sense, demystify technology.
Besides all of these apt credentials, Kevin is a great guy. He is smart, conscientious, cre-
ative, and—not to mention—careful with details. In addition to updating the content
and examples in the book, he added chapters on XSL-FO, recent W3C recommendations
(XSLT 2.0, XPath 2.0 and XQuery 1.0), and a chapter devoted to real world examples
called XML in Practice. I am most confident that you will find this second edition of
XML: Visual QuickStart Guide to be an excellent tutorial for learning all about XML.
Elizabeth Castro
Author of XML for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Howard Goldberg has been working with computers since 1976 when he
taught himself BASIC on his elementary school’s PDP 11/70. Since then, Kevin’s career
has included management consulting using commerce simulations, and lead software
development for numerous video game titles in multi-million dollar divisions at Film
Roman and Lionsgate (previously Trimark). In his current capacity, he runs technology
operations for a world-class Internet Strategy, Marketing and Development company in
Westlake Village, California.
Kevin serves on the Santa Monica College Computer Science and Information Systems
Advisory Board, and was invited to speak at the ACLU Nationwide Staff Conference as a
Web development and production expert.
Kevin holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and Entrepreneurial Management from the
Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and is a candidate for a
master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.
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