Acknowledgments

I’d like to thank my technical editor, Steven Champeon, for helping me sort out the sordid details of SGML, HTML, and XML, making this book far clearer as well as more accurate. He was a much-needed partner in a number of battles. Tracey Cranston read the opening chapters to make sure they stayed intelligible, kept me excited about XML, and made the process far smoother by smiling at me regularly. Ann Lush, my editor, got me excited about XML in the first place, got the proposal through a number of obstacles, and helped keep me sane throughout the process. I’d also like to thank Sara Black for making my prose clearer and Kitty May for presenting it so well. My mother helped keep the writing moving with regular shipments of cookies, for which I’m very grateful.