ling paradigm that structures data as information, thereby
facilitating the exchange, transformation, and presentation of
knowledge. The ability to transform raw data into usable information
has great potential to improve the functionality and use of
information systems. We intend to build freely available XML
parsers and closely related technologies in order to engender such 
improvements.
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2.2 The Apache Xerces parsers support standard APIs (formal, de facto, 
or proposed). 
They are designed to 