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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+ <header>
+ <copyright>
+ <year>1999</year>
+ <year>2013</year>
+ <holder>Ericsson AB. All Rights Reserved.</holder>
+ </copyright>
+ <legalnotice>
+ Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+ http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+ Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ limitations under the License.
+
+ </legalnotice>
+
+ <title>Introduction</title>
+ <prepared></prepared>
+ <responsible></responsible>
+ <docno></docno>
+ <approved></approved>
+ <checked></checked>
+ <date>2016-03-04</date>
+ <rev>PA1</rev>
+ <file>introduction.xml</file>
+ </header>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Scope</title>
+ <p>The Standard Erlang Libraries application, <em>STDLIB</em>, is mandatory
+ in the sense that the minimal system based on Erlang/OTP consists of
+ <em>STDLIB</em> and <em>Kernel</em>.</p>
+
+ <p><em>STDLIB</em> contains the following functional areas:</p>
+
+ <list type="bulleted">
+ <item>Erlang shell</item>
+ <item>Command interface</item>
+ <item>Query interface</item>
+ <item>Interface to standard Erlang I/O servers</item>
+ <item>Interface to the Erlang built-in term storage BIFs</item>
+ <item>Regular expression matching functions for strings and binaries</item>
+ <item>Finite state machine</item>
+ <item>Event handling</item>
+ <item>Functions for the server of a client-server relation</item>
+ <item>Function to control applications in a distributed manner</item>
+ <item>Start and control of slave nodes</item>
+ <item>Operations on finite sets and relations represented as sets</item>
+ <item>Library for handling binary data</item>
+ <item>Disk-based term storage</item>
+ <item>List processing</item>
+ <item>Maps processing</item>
+ </list>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Prerequisites</title>
+ <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
+ language.</p>
+ </section>
+</chapter>
+
+