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3.1 The code base which formed the foundations of both the
Xerces-Java and Xerces-C++ subprojects of the Apache XML Project
was originally donated to Apache by IBM in 1999.  Xerces-Perl
came into existence as a subproject of the Apache XML project
after the Xerces-C++ community had already matured to a
significant 