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diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml
index 6a66f77..b34058d 100644
--- a/doc/introduction.xml
+++ b/doc/introduction.xml
@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@
    <ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/zebra/">&zebra;</ulink>
    is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text
    indexing and retrieval engine. It reads records in a
-   variety of input formats (eg. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access
+   variety of input formats (e.g. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access
    to them through a powerful combination of boolean search
    expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries.
   </para>
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@
        <entry>Predefined field types</entry>
        <entry>user defined</entry>
        <entry>Data fields can be indexed as phrase, as into word
-       tokenized text, as numeric values, url's, dates, and raw binary
+       tokenized text, as numeric values, URLs, dates, and raw binary
        data.</entry> 
        <entry><xref linkend="character-map-files"/> and
               <xref linkend="querymodel-pqf-apt-mapping-structuretype"/>
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@
        <entry>Regular expression matching</entry>
        <entry>available</entry>
        <entry>Full regular expression matching and "approximate
-        matching" (eg. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
+        matching" (e.g. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
        <entry><xref linkend="querymodel-regular"/></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
@@ -780,31 +780,11 @@
      Why does Kete wants to use Zebra?? Speed, Scalability and easy
  integration with Koha. Read their
  <ulink
-     url="http://kete.net.nz/blog/topics/show/44-who-what-why-when-answering-some-of-the-niggly-development-questions">detailled
+     url="http://kete.net.nz/blog/topics/show/44-who-what-why-when-answering-some-of-the-niggly-development-questions">detailed
  reasoning here.</ulink>
     </para>
    </section>
 
-  <section id="emilda-ils">
-   <title>Emilda open source ILS</title>
-   <para>
-     <ulink url="http://www.emilda.org/">Emilda</ulink> 
-     is a complete Integrated Library System, released under the 
-     GNU General Public License. It has a
-     full featured Web-OPAC, allowing comprehensive system management
-     from virtually any computer with an Internet connection, has
-     template based layout allowing anyone to alter the visual
-     appearance of Emilda, and is
-     &acro.xml; based language for fast and easy portability to virtually any
-     language.
-     Currently, Emilda is used at three schools in Espoo, Finland.
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     As a surplus, 100% &acro.marc; compatibility has been achieved using the
-    &zebra; Server from Index Data as backend server. 
-    </para> 
-   </section>
-
   <section id="reindex-ils">
    <title>ReIndex.Net web based ILS</title>
     <para>
@@ -848,54 +828,11 @@
    </para>
    <para>
     More information can be found at
-    <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/"/> and
+    <ulink url="http://www.dtic.dtu.dk/"/> and
     <ulink url="http://dads.dtv.dk"/>
    </para>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="infonet-eprints">
-   <title>Infonet Eprints</title>
-   <para>
-     The InfoNet Eprints service from the 
-     <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/">
-      Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark</ulink>
-     provides access to documents stored in
-     eprint/preprint servers and institutional research archives around
-     the world. The service is based on Open Archives Initiative metadata
-     harvesting of selected scientific archives around the world. These
-     open archives offer free and unrestricted access to their contents.
-    </para>
-   <para>
-    Infonet Eprints currently holds 1.4 million records from 16 archives.
-    The online search facility is found at
-    <ulink url="http://preprints.cvt.dk"/>.
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
-  <section id="alvis-project">
-   <title>Alvis</title>
-   <para>
-     The <ulink url="http://www.alvis.info/alvis/">Alvis</ulink> EU
-     project run under the 6th Framework (IST-1-002068-STP)
-     is building a semantic-based peer-to-peer search engine. A
-     consortium of eleven partners from six different European
-     Community countries plus Switzerland and China contribute
-     with expertise in a broad range of specialties including network
-     topologies, routing algorithms, linguistic analysis and
-     bioinformatics. 
-    </para>
-    <para>
-     The &zebra; information retrieval indexing machine is used inside
-     the Alvis framework to
-     manage huge collections of natural language processed and
-     enhanced &acro.xml; data, coming from a topic relevant web crawl.
-     In this application, &zebra; swallows and manages 37GB of &acro.xml; data
-     in about 4 hours, resulting in search times of fractions of
-     seconds. 
-     </para>
-   </section>
-
-
   <section id="uls">
    <title>ULS (Union List of Serials)</title>
    <para>
@@ -924,43 +861,13 @@
    </para>
   </section>
 
-  <section id="nli">
-   <title>NLI-&acro.z3950; - a Natural Language Interface for Libraries</title>
-   <para>
-    Fernuniversit&#x00E4;t Hagen in Germany have developed a natural
-    language interface for access to library databases.
-    <!-- <ulink
-    url="http://ki212.fernuni-hagen.de/nli/NLIintro.html"/> -->
-    In order to evaluate this interface for recall and precision, they
-    chose &zebra; as the basis for retrieval effectiveness.  The &zebra;
-    server contains a copy of the GIRT database, consisting of more
-    than 76000 records in &acro.sgml; format (bibliographic records from
-    social science), which are mapped to &acro.marc; for presentation.
-   </para>
-   <para>
-    (GIRT is the German Indexing and Retrieval Testdatabase.  It is a
-    standard German-language test database for intelligent indexing
-    and retrieval systems.  See
-    <ulink url="http://www.gesis.org/forschung/informationstechnologie/clef-delos.htm"/>)
-   </para>
-   <para>
-    Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003 
-    <ulink url="http://clef.iei.pi.cnr.it"/>.
-    <!-- or <ulink url="http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/"/> -->
-   </para>
-   <para>
-    For more information, contact Johannes Leveling
-    <email>Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De</email>
-   </para>
-  </section>
-
   <section id="various-web-indexes">
    <title>Various web indexes</title>
    <para>
     &zebra; has been used by a variety of institutions to construct
     indexes of large web sites, typically in the region of tens of
     millions of pages.  In this role, it functions somewhat similarly
-    to the engine of google or altavista, but for a selected intranet
+    to the engine of Google or AltaVista, but for a selected intranet
     or a subset of the whole Web.
    </para>
    <para>
@@ -1034,13 +941,6 @@
      releases, bug fixes, etc.) and general discussion.  You are welcome
      to seek support there.  Join by filling the form on the list home page.
    </para>
-   <para>
-    Third, it's possible to buy a commercial support contract, with
-    well defined service levels and response times, from Index Data.
-    See
-    <ulink url="&url.indexdata.support;"/>
-     for details.
-   </para>
   </section>  
 </chapter>
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