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<s1 title="&XercesCName; Sample 1: SAXCount">
<s2 title="SAXCount">
<p>SAXCount is the simplest application that counts the elements and characters of
a given XML file using the (event based) SAX API.</p>
<s3 title="Building on Windows">
<p>Load the &XercesCInstallDir;-win32\samples\Projects\Win32\VC6\samples.dsw
Microsoft Visual C++ workspace inside your MSVC IDE. Then
build the project marked SAXCount.</p>
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<s3 title="Building on UNIX">
<source>cd &XercesCInstallDir;-linux/samples
./runConfigure -p&lt;platform&gt; -c&lt;C_compiler&gt; -x&lt;C++_compiler&gt;
cd SAXCount
gmake</source>
<p>This will create the object files in the current directory
and the executable named
SAXCount in '&XercesCInstallDir;-linux/bin' directory.</p>
<p>To delete all the generated object files and executables, type</p>
<source>gmake clean</source>
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<s3 title="Running SAXCount">
<p>The SAXCount sample parses an XML file and prints out a count of the number of
elements in the file. To run SAXCount, enter the following </p>
<source>SAXCount &lt;XML File&gt;</source>
<p>The following parameters may be set from the command line </p>
<source>Usage:
SAXCount [options] &lt;XML file>
Options:
-v=xxx Validation scheme [always | never | auto*]
-n Enable namespace processing. Defaults to off.
This program prints the number of elements, attributes,
white spaces and other non-white space characters in the input file.
* = Default if not provided explicitly</source>
<p><em>-v=always</em> will force validation<br/>
<em>-v=never</em> will not use any validation<br/>
<em>-v=auto</em> will validate if a DOCTYPE declaration is present in the XML document</p>
<p>Here is a sample output from SAXCount</p>
<source>cd &XercesCInstallDir;-linux/samples/data
SAXCount -v=always personal.xml
personal.xml: 60 ms (37 elems, 12 attrs, 134 spaces, 134 chars)</source>
<p>Running SAXCount with the validating parser gives a different result because
ignorable white-space is counted separately from regular characters.</p>
<source>SAXCount -v=never personal.xml
personal.xml: 10 ms (37 elems, 12 attrs, 0 spaces, 268 chars)</source>
<p>Note that the sum of spaces and chracters in both versions is the same.</p>
<note>The time reported by the program may be different depending on your
machine processor.</note>
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