be high performance, reliable, and easy to use. 
To facilitate easy porting of ideas between languages, the API's supported
should be as similar as possible, given the constraints of the languages 
and existing architectures.  Apache Xerces parsers should also be designed
to work efficiently with other Apache projects that deal
with XML whenever possible.
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2.3 We believe that the best way to further these goals 
is by having both individuals and corporations
collaborate on the best possible infrast