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Jeni Tennison is an XSLT guru who shares her expertise unstintingly on paper, at conferences and online.  If you’re an XSLT programmer, Jeni needs no introduction; she’s probably helped you out sometime or awed you with an elegantly simple solution to what you thought was a horrendously complex problem.  She has a knack for it.  And this skill for simplicity and elegance in code is something I aspire to.  And that’s easier said than done in XSLT – no sooner have you matched a “/” and before you can say value-of,  you find you’ve applied templates to the descendant of an ancestor, sorted three ways, with a mode and priorities applied.  So I salute you Jeni and will spend at least some of Ada Lovelace Day refactoring in your honour.