ructure, APIs, code, testing,
and release cycles. Components must be vendor neutral and usable as
core components for all.
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2.4 In order to achieve a coherent architecture between Apache Xerces 
parsers
and other components and applications, standards (formal or
de facto) will be used as much as possible for both protocols and
APIs. Where appropriate, experiences and lessons learned will be fed 
back to standards bodies in an effort to assist in the development of 
those standards.  We will also enc