Joe Fawcett - Beginning XML

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Beginning XML

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Id like to dedicate this book to my parents, especially to my mother Sheila who, unfortunately, will never be able to read this. I love you both.

Joe Fawcett

Dedicated to Yuri Rubinsky, without whom there would be no XML.

Liam Quin

Dedicated to my mother, Mary (because this will amuse her no end).

Danny Ayers

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

JOE FAWCETT ( http://joe.fawcett.name ) has been writing software, on and off, for forty years. He was one of the first people to be awarded the accolade of Most Valuable Professional in XML by Microsoft. Joe is head of software development for Kaplan Financial UK in London, which specializes in training people in business and accountancy and has one of the leading accountancy e-learning systems in the UK. This is the third title for Wrox that he has written in addition to the previous editions of this book.

LIAM QUIN ( http://www.holoweb.net/~liam ) is in charge of the XML work at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He has been involved with markup languages and text since the early 1980s, and was involved with XML from its inception. He has a background in computer science and digital typography, and also maintains a website dedicated to the love of books and illustrations at www.fromoldbooks.org . He lives on an old farm near Milford, in rural Ontario, Canada.

DANNY AYERS ( http://dannyayers.com ) is an independent researcher and developer of Web technologies, primarily those related to linked data. He has been an XML enthusiast since its early days. His background is in electronic music, although this interest has taken a back seat since the inception of the Web. Offline, hes also an amateur woodcarver. Originally from the UK, he now lives in rural Tuscany with two dogs and two cats.

ABOUT THE TECHNICAL EDITOR

KAREN TEGTMEYER is an independent consultant and software developer with more than 10 years of experience. She has worked in a variety of roles, including design, development, training, and architecture. She also is an Adjunct Computer Science Instructor at Des Moines Area Community College.

CREDITS

EXECUTIVE EDITOR

Carol Long

PROJECT EDITOR

Victoria Swider

TECHNICAL EDITOR

Karen Tegtmeyer

PRODUCTION EDITOR

Kathleen Wisor

COPY EDITOR

Kim Cofer

EDITORIAL MANAGER

Mary Beth Wakefield

FREELANCER EDITORIAL MANAGER

Rosemarie Graham

ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

David Mayhew

MARKETING MANAGER

Ashley Zurcher

BUSINESS MANAGER

Amy Knies

PRODUCTION MANAGER

Tim Tate

VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE GROUP PUBLISHER

Richard Swadley

VICE PRESIDENT AND EXECUTIVE PUBLISHER

Neil Edde

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER

Jim Minatel

PROJECT COORDINATOR, COVER

Katie Crocker

PROOFREADERS

James Saturnio, Word One

Sara Eddleman-Clute, Word One

INDEXER

Johnna VanHoose Dinse

COVER DESIGNER

Ryan Sneed

COVER IMAGE

Marcello Bortolino

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

ID LIKE TO HEARTILY ACKNOWLEDGE the help of the editor Victoria Swider and the acquisitions editor Carol Long, who kept the project going when it looked as if it would never get finished. Id like to thank the authors of the previous edition, especially Jeff Rafter and David Hunter, who let us build on their work when necessary. Id also like to thank my wife Gillian and my children Persephone and Xavier for putting up with my absences and ill humor over the last year; Ill make it up to you, I promise.

Joe Fawcett

THANKS are due to my partner and to the pets for tolerating long and erratic hours, and of course to Alexander Chalmers, for creating the Dictionary of Biography in 1810.