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<chapter id="introduction"><title>Introduction</title>
<para>
level APIs of &yaz;.
</para>
<para>
- The basic low level modules, which are independent of the role (client or server),
- consist of three primary interfaces:
+ The basic low level modules, which are independent of the role
+ (client or server), consist of three primary interfaces:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>&asn;, which provides a C representation of the Z39.50
provided by the &odr; (Open Data Representation) subsystem.
</para>
<para>
- &odr; is a basic mechanism for representing an
+ &odr; is a basic mechanism for representing an
ASN.1 type in the C programming language, and for implementing BER
encoders and decoders for values of that type. The types defined in
the &asn; module generally have the prefix <literal>Z_</literal>, and
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