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# Credits

# Main contributors

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
Sidnei da Silva
  official MS Windows builds
Pascal Oberndörfer
  official Mac-OS builds
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

... 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:

- 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