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1. Introduction
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The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a subset of SGML. Its goal is
to enable generic SGML to be served, received, and processed on the
Web in the way that is now possible with HTML. XML has been designed
for ease of implementation and for interoperability with both SGML and
HTML.

This library includes a set of Ada95 packages to manipulate XML input.
It implements the XML 1.0 standard (see the references at the end of
this document), as well as support for namespaces and a number of
other optional standards related to XML.

We have tried to follow as closely as possible the XML standard, so
that you can easily analyze and reuse languages produced for other
languages.

This document isn’t a tutorial on what XML is, nor on the various
standards like DOM and SAX. Although we will try and give a few
examples, we refer the reader to the standards themselves, which are
all easily readable.

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