Acknowledgments

All of the authors would like to thank Dave Winer for nurturing XML-RPC and believing in its capabilities.We'd also like to thank John Posner for his contributions to this book and the entire O'Reilly tools and production crew for helping to get this book out so quickly.

Simon St.Laurent's Acknowledgements

I would like to thank John Osborn for believing in this project at the outset and for finding us the support we needed.Val Quercia and Paula Ferguson have improved the project substantially with their comments.Edd Dumbill helped get this project rolling, and his experience as an implementor of the specification was invaluable.Joe Johnston and John Posner helped us through the jungle of diverse implementations, and Joe's assistance with many of the chapters has strengthened them.I'd like to thank the XMLhack editors for their continuing support and the xml-dev mailing list for continuing to explore new and exciting applications for markup.Most of all, I'd like to thank my wife Tracey for keeping me going.

Joe Johnston's Acknowledgments

Deceivingly, only three names are listed on the cover, but this book is the result of many people working together to make it a reality. O'Reilly editor John Osborn is directly responsible for bringing me into this project. Although John left the project early on, he shouldn't be allowed to escape the culpability of his actions without a proper reckoning. The inheritor of this project, Valerie Quercia, maintained her grace and sense of humor despite being brought in on short notice to tame the wild manuscripts of physically (and mentally) remote authors. Another eleventh-hour hero is veteran O'Reilly editor Paula Ferguson, who deftly separated the content wheat from the fatuous chaff. It has been my privilege to work with Simon St.Laurent, whose quiet but firm leadership navigated this project through its often wild and turbulent course. Thanks are also due to Edd Dumbill and John Posner for bringing their technical expertise to this effort. Greg Wilson's comments on the Python chapter were both insightful and instructive.

I would not be a technical writer today without the encouragement, support, and friendship of O'Reilly's Jon Orwant. For many hours of proofreading and syntactic bravado, Caroline Senay has my gratitude. If anyone deserves to see some payoff from my writing, it's my family, who have tolerated me beyond any reasonable person's expectation. To the regulars of the IRC channel #perl, this kick's for you. Thank you all.

Edd Dumbill's Acknowledgments

I would like to thank the contributors to XMLhack, who constantly provide encouragement and a new perspective on the XML world; Ken MacLeod and Bijan Parsia for their criticism and debate; the members of the PHP XML-RPC mailing list; and my wife Rachael, whose support, as usual, makes my work possible.