doc/readme.xml

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    <s2 title="&XercesCName;++ Version &XercesCVersion;">

        <p>&XercesCName; is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++.
        &XercesCName; makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/XML/">XML</jump> data. 
        A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML
        documents. &XercesCName; is faithful to the 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210">XML 1.0</jump> recommendation
        and associated standards (
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-core.html">DOM 1.0</jump>, 
        <jump href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX 1.0</jump>, 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">Namespaces</jump>). It also provides
        early implementations of 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/CR-DOM-Level-2-19991210/">DOM Level 2 version 1.0</jump> 
        and soon it will support
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/XML/Group/Schemas.html">XMLSchema</jump>, both the 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/structures.html">Structures</jump> and the 
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/datatypes.html">Datatypes</jump>. 
        The parser provides high performance, modularity, and scalability.
        Source code, samples and API documentation are provided with the parser. For
        portability, care has been taken to make minimal use of templates,
        no RTTI, no C++ namespaces, limited use of exceptions and minimal
        use of #ifdefs.</p>
        
        <p>&XercesCName; is fully compliant with 
        <jump href="http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/versions/Unicode3.0.html">Unicode 3.0</jump> 
        specification, making it the first Unicode 3.0 compliant application.</p>
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    <s2 title="Applications of the &XercesCProjectName; Parser">

        <p>&XercesCProjectName; has rich generating and validating capabilities. The parser is used for:</p>
        
        <ul>
            <li>Building XML-savvy Web servers</li>
            <li>Building next generation of vertical applications that use XML as
              their data format</li>
            <li>On-the-fly validation for creating XML editors</li>
            <li>Ensuring the integrity of e-business data expressed in XML</li>
            <li>Building truly internationalized XML applications</li>
        </ul>
    </s2>
        
    <s2 title="Features">
        <ul>
            <li>Conforms to <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210">XML Spec 1.0</jump></li>
            <li>Tracking of latest 
            <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/level-one-core.html">DOM (Level 1.0)</jump>, 
            <jump href="http://www.megginson.com/SAX/index.html">SAX</jump> and 
            <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/">Namespace</jump> specifications.</li>
            <li>Experimental 
            <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/CR-DOM-Level-2-19991210/">DOM Level 2.0</jump> implementation</li>
            <li>Source code, samples, and documentation is provided.</li>
            <li>Programmatic generation and validation of XML</li>
            <li>Pluggable catalogs, validators and encodings</li>
            <li>High performance</li>
            <li>Customizable error handling</li>
        </ul>
    </s2>

    <s2 title="Platforms with Binaries">
        <ul>
            <li>Win32 using MSVC 6.0 SP3</li>
            <li>Linux (RedHat 6.1) using egcs-2.91.66 and glibc-2.1.2-11</li>
            <li>Solaris 2.6 using Sun Workshop 4.2 <em>XML4C only</em></li>
            <li>AIX 4.3.3 using xlC 3.6.c <em>XML4C only</em></li>
            <li>HP-UX 10.2 using CC A.10.36 <em>XML4C only</em></li>
            <li>HP-UX 11 using aCC A.03.13 with pthreads <em>XML4C only</em></li>
        </ul>
    </s2>

    <s2 title="Platforms Coming Soon">
        <ul>
            <li>FreeBSD</li>
            <li>SGI IRIX</li>
            <li>Unixware</li>
            <li>OS/390</li>
            <li>OS/2</li>
            <li>AS/400</li>
            <li>and more!</li>
        </ul>
    </s2>

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