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Apache Xerces

Collection of software libraries for XML

Field	Value
name	Apache Xerces
logo	Apache Xerces logo.svg
developer	Apache Software Foundation
latest release version	2.12.2 (Xerces J)
3.2.3 (Xerces C++)
latest release date	24 January 2022 (Xerces J)
10 April 2020 (Xerces C++)
operating system	Cross-platform
genre	XML parser library
license	Apache License 2.0
website

3.2.3 (Xerces C++) 10 April 2020 (Xerces C++) In computing, Xerces is Apache's collection of software libraries for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML. The library implements a number of standard APIs for XML parsing, including DOM, SAX and SAX2. The implementation is available in the Java, C++ and Perl programming languages.

The name "Xerces" is believed to commemorate the extinct Xerces blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces). | publication-date = 2004 | access-date = 2014-10-01

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.{{cite web | access-date=2019-12-08

Language	Release Date	Version
Java	2022-01-24	2.12.2
C++	2020-04-10	3.2.3
Perl	2014-04-30	2.7.0

Features

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

Feature	Java{{cite web
url=http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/	title=Features
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fourth Edition Recommendation
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 Second Edition Recommendation
Namespaces in XML 1.1 Second Edition Recommendation
Namespaces in XML 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation
XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation
Simple API for XML (SAX)
Streaming API For XML (StAX)
DOM Level 2 Core Specification
DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core, Load and Save
Element Traversal Specification
XML Schema 1.0 Structures and Datatypes
XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes
XML Schema Definition Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD)
Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.4

References

Notes

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

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