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, Xerces is

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's collection of

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for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating

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. The library implements a number of standard

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s for XML parsing, including DOM, SAX and SAX2. The implementation is available in the

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, C++ and

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programming languages. The name "Xerces" is believed to commemorate the extinct Xerces blue butterfly (''Glaucopsyche xerces'').

Xerces language versions

There are several language versions of the Xerces parser: * Xerces2 Java, the Java reference implementation * Xerces C++, a C++ implementation * Xerces Perl, a Perl implementation. This implementation is a wrapper around the C++ API.

Features

The features supported by Xerces depend on the language, the Java version having the most features.

References

Notes

* Implemented third edition. * Implemented second edition. Section 2.13 Normalization Checking has not been implemented. * Implemented first edition. * Implemented first edition.

External links

* /xerces.apache.org/ Apache Xerces Project home {{Apache Software Foundation Xerces C++ libraries Java (programming language) libraries Java platform Software using the Apache license XML parsers

Xerces language versions

Features

See also

References

Notes

External links