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We've tentatively decided to implement The Archive via Python scripts and the Berkley DB from Sleepycat Software. It's open source and can be licensed for commercial use. For relevant info on the XML aspects of this database system.^2.17 It supports the XPath standard, which was highly praised by one of our Spring-2002 distinguished speakers.^2.18

Many of the attributes in XML documents will be references (i.e., symbolic links) to files and directories submitted by users (students, faculty, graders and TAs).