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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+<!DOCTYPE chapter SYSTEM "chapter.dtd">
+
+<chapter>
+  <header>
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2012</year><year>2016</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>2016-05-22</date>
+    <rev>PA1</rev>
+    <file>introduction.xml</file>
+  </header>
+  <section>
+    <title>Scope</title>
+    <p>The Erlang Runtime System Application, <c>ERTS</c>, contains
+      functionality necessary to run the Erlang system.</p>
+    <note>
+      <p>By default, <c><![CDATA[ERTS]]></c> is only guaranteed to be
+        compatible with other Erlang/OTP components from the same release as
+        <c><![CDATA[ERTS]]></c> itself.</p>
+      <p>For information on how to communicate with Erlang/OTP components
+        from earlier releases, see the documentation of system flag
+        <seealso marker="erl#compat_rel"><c>+R</c></seealso> in <c>erl(1)</c>.
+      </p>
+    </note>
+  </section>
+
+  <section>
+    <title>Prerequisites</title>
+    <p>It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the Erlang programming
+      language.</p> 
+  </section>
+</chapter>
+