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Introduction
Until recently, the diverse and well-established domains of Personal Computers (PC), Web (Internet), Consumer Electronics (CE) and Broadcast domains have had their own autonomous realms of existence. Each of these domains spawned their own characteristic and individualistic ways of managing and doing things, with examples as diverse as the application specification to the very notion of interactivity. However, lately there has been considerable interest among these domain communities to share and adopt inter-domain best practices and knowledge. As an illustration, the content creators could create applications for one domain, which could be seamlessly integrated or be transferred to other domains. Such integration could provide new usage models in the CE optical disc domains. As an example, the content creators could author multi-domain interoperable applications which could be packaged in a disc and additional application extensions such as bonus materials, clips etc could be downloaded from a content server or a set top box in a home network, thus borrowing the ideas from web and broadcast domains. One of the possible candidates for this cross-domain sharing is the XML and its related technologies. XML is emerging as the de-facto standard for storing, managing, and communicating information on the Internet.