Dear BaseX team -

no bug, no question, no feature request - only the urge to thank you for your work.

About a year ago I embarked on a piece of research work which has kept me busy and excited ever since. This work is important to me because so much seems to go into it, of what I have come to think and be convinced of in the course of several years.

At every step, BaseX has been my tool to turn ideas into reality. It has not failed me once, in spite of heavy use of advanced features like function items and partial function invocations. And several times I was so glad to find that BaseX offered exactly the extensions I needed.

I think BaseX has achieved an admirable combination of standard conformance and reliability, on the one hand, and bold and generous extension on the other hand. So, summing up - thank you very much.

Hans-Jürgen Rennau