REXML - Credits

# Credits

#### 2.4.0

I've had help from a number of resources; if I haven't listed you here, it means that I just haven't gotten around to adding you, or that I'm a dork and have forgotten. In either case, feel free to write me and complain. I may ignore you, but at least you tried. (Actually, I don't conciously ignore anybody except spammers.)

- Mike Stok has been very active, sending not only fixes for bugs (especially in Functions), but also by providing unit tests and making sure REXML runs under Ruby 1.7. He also sent the most awesome hand knitted tea cozy, with "REXML" and the Ruby knitted into it.
- Kouhei Sutou translated the REXML API documentation to Japanese! Links are in the API docs section of the main documentation.
- Erik Terpstra heard my pleas and submitted several logos for REXML. After sagely procrastinating for several weeks, I finally forced my poor slave of a wife to pick one (this is what we call "delegation"). She did, with caveats; Erik quickly made the changes, and the result is what you now see at the top of this page. He also supplied a smaller version that you can include with your projects that use REXML, if you'd like.
- Ernest Ellingson contributed the sourcecode for turning UTF16 and UNILE encodings into UTF8, which allowed REXML to get the 100% OASIS valid tests rating.
- Ian Macdonald provided me with a comprehensive, well written RPM spec file.
- Oliver M . Bolzer is maintaining a Debian package distribution of REXML. He also has provided good feedback and bug reports about namespace support.
- Michael Granger supplied a patch for REXML that make the unit tests pass under Ruby 1.7.
- James Britt contributed code that makes using Document.parse_stream easier to use by allowing it to be passed either a Source, File, or String.
- Tobias Reif: Numerous bug reports, and suggestions for improvement.
- Stefan Scholl, who provided a lot of feedback and bug reports while I was trying to get ISO-8859-1 support working.
- Steven E Lumos for volunteering information about XPath particulars.
- Fumitoshi UKAI provided some bug fixes for CData metacharacter quoting.
- TAKAHASHI Masayoshi, for information on UTF
- Robert Feldt: Bug reports and suggestions/recommendations about improving REXML. Testing is one of the most important aspects of software development.
- Electric XML: This was, after all, the inspiration for REXML. Originally, I was just going to do a straight port, and although REXML doesn't in any way, shape or form resemble Electric XML, still the basic framework and philosophy was inspired by E-XML. And I still use E-XML in my Java projects.
- NQXML: While I may complain about the NQXML API, I wrote a few applications using it that wouldn't have been written otherwise, and it was very useful to me. It also encouraged me to write REXML. Never complain about free software *slap*.
- See my technologies page for a more comprehensive list of computer technologies that I depend on for my day-to-day work.
- rdoc, an excellent JavaDoc analog12.
- Many, many other people who've submitted bug reports, suggestions, and positive feedback. You're all co-developers!

12) When I was first working on REXML, rdoc wasn't, IMO, very good, so I wrote API2XML. API2XML was good enough for a while, and then there was a flurry of work on rdoc, and it quickly surpassed API2XML in features. Since I was never really interested in maintaining a JavaDoc analog, I stopped support of API2XML, and am now recommending that people use rdoc.