doc/readme.xml

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        <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.
        </p>
        <p>&XercesCName; is faithful to the
        <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml">XML 1.0</jump> recommendation
        and many associated standards (see <link anchor="Features">Features</link> below).
        </p>
        <p>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 and minimal use of #ifdefs.</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>

    <anchor name="Features"/>
    <s2 title="Features">
        <ul>
            <li>Conforms to</li>
            <ul>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006">
                   XML 1.0 (Second Edition)</jump>, W3C Recommendation of October 6, 2000</li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001/">
                   DOM Level 1 Specification</jump>, W3C Recommendation of October 1, 1998</li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Core-20001113/">
                   DOM Level 2 Core Specification</jump>, W3C Recommendation of November 13, 2000</li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-DOM-Level-2-Traversal-Range-20001113/">
                   DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification</jump>,
                   W3C Recommendation of November 13, 2000</li>
               <li><jump href="http://sax.sourceforge.net/">SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0</jump></li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-19990114/">
                   Namespaces in XML</jump>, W3C Recommendation of January 14, 1999</li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-1-20010502/">
                   XML Schema Part 1: Structure</jump>, W3C Recommendation 2 May 2001</li>
               <li><jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-xmlschema-2-20010502/">
                   XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes</jump>, W3C Recommendation 2 May 2001</li>
            </ul>
            <li>Contains a partial implementation of the
            <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-Core-20020409/">
            DOM Level 3.0 Core Specification</jump>, W3C Working Draft of 09 April 2002 and
            <jump href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-DOM-Level-3-ASLS-20020409/">
            DOM Level 3.0 Abstract Schemas and Load and Save Specification</jump>,
            W3C Working Draft of 09 April 2002.  This implementation is experimental.
            See <jump href="dom3.html">DOM Level 3 Support</jump> for details.</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">
      <table>
        <tr>
          <th><em>Operating System</em></th>
          <th><em>Compiler</em></th>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><em>32-bit binary</em></th>
          <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Windows NT 4.0 SP5</td>
          <td>MSVC 6.0 SP3</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Redhat Linux 7.2</td>
          <td>g++ 3.1</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>AIX 5.1</td>
          <td>xlC_r 5.0.2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Solaris 2.7</td>
          <td>Forte C++ Version 6 Update 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>HP-UX 11.0</td>
          <td>aCC A.03.13 with pthreads</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <th><em>64-bit binary</em></th>
          <td></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Windows XP, IA64</td>
          <td>Intel C++ Compiler v6, ecl</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Redhat Linux 7.2, IA64</td>
          <td>Intel C++ Compiler v6, ecc</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>AIX 5.1</td>
          <td>xlC_r 5.0.2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>Solaris 2.7</td>
          <td>Forte C++ Version 6 Update 2</td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>HP-UX 11.0</td>
          <td>aCC A.03.13 with pthreads</td>
        </tr>
      </table>
    </s2>

    <s2 title="Other ports...">
        <ul>
            <li>OS/390</li>
            <li>AS/400</li>
            <li>FreeBSD</li>
            <li>SGI IRIX</li>
            <li>Macintosh</li>
            <li>OS/2</li>
            <li>PTX</li>
            <li>UnixWare</li>
            <li>and more!</li>
        </ul>
    </s2>

    <s2 title='License Information'>
       <p>The &XercesCName; Version &XercesCVersion; is available in both source distribution and
          binary distribution.   Both &XercesCName; are made available under the
          <jump href='http://xml.apache.org/LICENSE'>Apache Software License</jump>.
       </p>
    </s2>

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