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Spencer Critchley is an award-winning producer, writer and composer with experience in digital media, film, broadcasting and the music business.

XML's potential for enabling well-formed data makes it ideal for text parsing. Today, there are widely available programming libraries for working with XML using languages such as C/C++ and Java. In addition, all major scripting languages support XML, and remove much of the complexity of working with XML data. Because of its inherent structural simplicity, you're often able to quickly parse data using standard string runtime calls such as strcmp() , strstr() , and strncpy() , rather than employ the use of a full-fledged XML tool.

The success of Apple's recent venture with EMI indeed demonstrates the willingness of customers to purchase downloadable files when the system is easy to use and integrates neatly into their existing software to provide a high quality service that can also be shared across a network. While still hampered by some DRM constraints, the openness of EMI in permitting a certain level of copying and streaming is noteworthy in demonstrating a more creative outlook.

BK : We've been working with the Library of Congress over the last three or four years to help archive web sites. They've got a mission to record the cultural heritage of the United States -- actually also, Thomas Jefferson gave them, more broadly, "the world." And now that publishing is moving, or a large section of publishing, is moving on to the Internet, we've been working with them as a technology partner. They do the curation, and we do some special crawls.

O'Reilly editor Andy Oram spoke recently to the Virtual Internet2 Member Meeting, a consortium of universities working with industry and government to develop new Internet infrastructure and applications. Andy is the editor of O'Reilly's Peer-to-Peer: Harnessing the Power of Disruptive Technologies .

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