Computer software development tools for developing gate-level software for processing flows of information; graphical computer software development tools; software drivers for transferring incoming or outgoing data streams, content queries, dynamic in-line content processing, and for programming setup and teardown; computer firmware for content disaggregation and formatting; programmable silicon chips featuring specific content processing gate-level logic, namely, computer software and applications that recognize, parse and process messages semantically, monitor network data traffic, and stream data; computer firmware for developing, modeling, simulating, compiling, debugging, verifying, constructing, integrating and interfacing applications for semantic processing of digital information, XML (Extensible Markup Language) content processing, XPATH (XML Path Language) processing, anti-virus processing, intrusion detection processing, Layer 4-7 content processing, URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) normalization, data decoding, data parsing processing, and data pattern matching processing; and software for the development, testing, programming, and production of all the foregoing