About the Authors

Mark V. Scardina is Oracle’s XML Evangelist for Server products and is the Group Product Manager for the CORE and XML Development Group tasked with providing the XML infrastructure components used throughout the Oracle product stack, including the Oracle XML Developer’s Kit. Mark chairs the Oracle XML Standards committee and is an editor on the W3C XSL Working Group. He is a frequent speaker at industry trade shows and conferences, a writer for industry journals and is co-author of Oracle9i XML Handbook and Oracle XML Handbook. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked at Socket Communications and ACE Technologies. He holds a B.S. in Information Systems Management from USF.

Mark lives in San Francisco with his wife and twin boys. His hobbies include DanceSport, high-end audio/video, and working on his house.

Ben Chang is a 15-year veteran at Oracle Corp., where he heads the CORE and XML Development Group as Director. In addition to working on Oracle6 to Oracle Database 10g releases, he served the longest tenure as Development Release Manager for Oracle 8.0, spanning five releases. He also served three years as chair of Oracle’s C Coding Standards Committee, and he was a W3C DOM Working Group editor. He is co-author of Oracle9i XML Handbook and Oracle XML Handbook. Before coming to Oracle, he worked at IBM Corp., Pacific Bell, Bellcore, and GE Corporate R&D. He holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering (Computer Systems) from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Jinyu Wang is a Senior Product Manager for Oracle XML Product management, in charge of the Oracle XML Developer’s Kit, which provides the XML infrastructure components used across Oracle product stacks. As an Oracle Certified Professional with an extensive database background, she leads a variety of projects that successfully apply XML technologies to enterprise business applications. While completing her master’s degree in computer science at the University of Southern California and electrical engineering at Northern Jiaotong University, she worked on artificial intelligence and computer vision, focusing on motion analysis.