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Credits

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Main contributors

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Stefan Behnel

       main developer and maintainer

Martijn Faassen

       creator of lxml and initial main developer

Ian Bicking

       creator and maintainer of lxml.html

Holger Joukl

       ISO-Schematron support, development on lxml.objectify, bug reports, feedback

Simon Sapin

       external maintenance and development of the cssselect package

Marc-Antoine Parent

       XPath extension function help and patches

Olivier Grisel

       improved (c)ElementTree compatibility patches, 

       website improvements.

Kasimier Buchcik

       help with specs and libxml2

Florian Wagner

       help with copy.deepcopy support, bug reporting

Emil Kroymann

       help with encoding support, bug reporting

Paul Everitt

       bug reporting, feedback on API design

Victor Ng

       Discussions on memory management strategies, vlibxml2

Robert Kern

       feedback on API design

Andreas Pakulat

       rpath linking support, doc improvements

David Sankel

       building statically on Windows

Marcin Kasperski

       PDF documentation generation

Sidnei da Silva

       official MS Windows builds

Pascal Oberndörfer

       official Mac-OS builds

... and lots of other people who contributed to lxml by reporting

bugs, discussing its functionality or blaming the docs for the bugs in

their code.  Thank you all, user feedback and discussions form a very

important part of an Open Source project!

Special thanks goes to:

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* Daniel Veillard and the libxml2 project for a great XML library.

* Fredrik Lundh for ElementTree, its API, and the competition through

  cElementTree.

* Greg Ewing (Pyrex) and Robert Bradshaw et al. (Cython) for the

  binding technology.

* Jonathan Stoppani for hosting the new mailing list on lxml.de.

* the codespeak crew, in particular Philipp von Weitershausen and

  Holger Krekel for originally hosting lxml on codespeak.net