Learning XML, 2nd Edition

Colophon

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The animal on the cover of Learning XML, Second Edition is a hatching chick. Chickens have been around for at least 3,000 years. A hen typically lays one egg at a time and will sit on the egg, keeping it warm, until it hatches. The incubation period for a chicken egg is approximately 21 days from fertilization to hatching. Before hatching, the chick absorbs the egg yolk, which can sustain it for the first three days of its life. The most popular laying chicken in North America is the leghorn, which can produce eggs from five months of age until about a year and a half.

Philip Dangler was the production editor and proofreader for Learning XML, Second Edition. Melanie Wang was the copyeditor. Mary Brady and Darren Kelly provided quality control. James Quill provided production assistance. Octal Publishing wrote the index.

Ellie Volckhausen designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a 19th-century engraving from the Dover Pictorial Archive. Emma Colby produced the cover layout with QuarkXPress 4.1 using Adobe’s ITC Garamond font.

David Futato designed the interior layout. This book was converted by Andrew Savikas to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik T. Ray, ...