About the Authors

Simon St. Laurent is a web developer, network administrator, computer book author, and XML troublemaker living in Ithaca, NY. His books include Programming Web Services with XML-RPC and Office 2003 XML (O'Reilly), XML: A Primer and Sharing Bandwidth (Hungry Minds), and XML Elements of Style and Building XML Applications (McGraw-Hill). Simon is a contributing editor to XMLhack.com and an occasional contributor to XML.com (O'Reilly Network).

Michael Fitzgerald is a freelance writer and trainer specializing in XML and related technologies. He is the author of Building B2B Applications with XML and XSL Essentials, both published by John Wiley & Sons, and has published several articles for XML.com on the O'Reilly Network.

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