Francis Cave Digital Publishing was established in September 1999 with the aim of delivering a range of XML consultancy, training, system design and implementation services. It is the trading name of Francis Cave, an SGML/XML expert with more than twenty years' experience in the field.

The range of services currently on offer includes:

• advice on all aspects of the use of XML in publishing, including:
  • strategic reviews, technical audits, feasibility studies and business case development
  • project design, including DTD, schema and stylesheet design and development
  • data capture and conversion methods
  • editorial, content management and production system selection, integration and configuration
  • processing XML for paper-based delivery
  • processing XML for online and other modes of electronic delivery
• introductory and advanced training in XML editing, DTD and schema writing
• quality assurance in XML publishing projects

Recent and current development projects in which Francis has or is played a leading role include:

• configuration of FrameMaker templates for production of UK Parliamentary documents (Amendments to Parliamentary Bills)
• specification of a Word-to-XML workflow for production of UK Parliamentary documents (including the House of Commons Order Paper)
• development of XML DTDs, schemas and associated XSLT scripts for global e-commerce trading standards for the book and serials industries, including the ONIX and EDItX families of XML formats published by EDItEUR and a series of web service standards published by Book Industry Communication.
• development, in collaboration with Griffin Brown Digital Publishing Ltd, of an open source tool to enable the creation of XML expressions of publications licenses in EDItEUR's ONIX-PL format – see the Sourceforge OPLE Project.

Francis Cave is currently Technical Project Manager of the ACAP Project. He is Chairman of XML UK and is also Chairman of IST/41, the Technical Committee of BSI responsible for XML and related standards.