Acknowledgments

Cliff Binstock: Many thanks to my wife, Amy, for putting up with months of work on this book: days, nights, and weekends. Many thanks to coauthor Dave Peterson. Dave’s unflagging e-mails and editing, as well as his participation in the W3C XML Schema Working Group, made this book as accurate as humanly possible. Thanks to Shelley Kronzek, executive editor, for providing the opportunity to share some of my knowledge with you. Thanks to Anne Marie Walker, the development editor, for teaching me how to write a book (which, by the way, is very different from all the technical documents I have written over the years). Mostly, thanks to you, the reader, for making this long journey worthwhile. I really hope that this book makes your current and future projects much easier.

Dave Peterson: I want to thank my wife, Greta, for putting up with me living in another world for too many months while this book has been gestating. Cliff, it’s been fun. And thanks to Tyrrell Albaugh for repeatedly saving our sanity towards the end.

Mitchell Smith: I would like to thank my friend Cliff for getting me involved, Shelley and Anne Marie for all of their work on this book, and Dave Buehmann and David Schrader for teaching me the expressiveness of SQL and the capabilities of Oracle.

Mike Wooding: My efforts on this book were possible because I had the fantastic support of my wonderful wife Linda and my two daughters, Andrea and Jessica. Thanks for allowing me to disappear into my “cave” to complete this.

Chris Dix: I would like to thank my wife Jennifer and my sons Alexander and Calvin; you are my favorites. Thanks to Cliff, Shelley, and the folks at Addison-Wesley for this opportunity.

Chris Galtenberg: All my love to my Lady Lavinia . . . and many thanks to “The Year 2001,” the most brutal and evolutionary period of my life.