J r me Sim onJ r me Sim on is a member of the Technical Staff at Bell Labs, a division of Lucent Technologies. He graduated from ‰cole Polytechnique in France, then spent several years at INRIA, and obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Universit D'Orsay. His research interests and expertise are in XML technology, XML query and schema languages, data integration, optimization, and formal methods . He is also one of the implementers of Galax, one of the first XQuery 1.0 implementations . J r me is an editor of the working drafts of XQuery 1.0: An XML Query Language [XQ-LANG] , XML Path Language (XPath) 2.0 [XPATH2], and XQuery 1.0 Formal Semantics [XQ-FS]. |