XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference, 4th Edition

Acknowledgments

There are two groups of people I must thank: those who contributed to the book, and those who supported me in writing it.

In the first group, I am indebted to readers of previous editions who have pointed out my errors, and have told me what they liked and didn't like. I hope readers of this edition will do the same. Also to the (by now numerous) reviewers and editors engaged first by the original Wrox team in the UK, and more recently by their successors in Wiley, who have done so much of the legwork of testing example code and finding continuity errors, not to mention handling the unseen production processes that turn a heap of word-processed text into a finished book. Then my colleagues on the working groups, who provided the subject matter for me to write about, and those who taught me how to use the language — if you find a programming pearl that you particularly like in this book, the chances are I stole the idea from someone. James Clark in particular, who invented the XSLT language and showed me how it worked.

In the second group, I must once again acknowledge the patience of my family, who sighed resignedly when I suggested the prospect of retreating to my study for half a year to produce a new revision, and the generosity of my past employers who provided the time to get the project off the ground in the first place.