This section provides a quick introduction of Xerces2 and a tutorial of downloading and installing Xerces2.
Xerces2 Java Parser? Xerces2 Java Parser is an open source Java API of XML parsers.
Xerces2 Java Parser supports XML standards, XInclude, DOM, SAX, JAXP, and XML Schema.
The current version of Xerces2 Java Parser is release 2.9.1, which
supports the following standards and APIs:
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fourth Edition Recommendation
Namespaces in XML 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation
eXtensible Markup Language (XML) 1.1 Second Edition Recommendation
Namespaces in XML 1.1 Second Edition Recommendation
XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 Second Edition Recommendation
Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Core, Load and Save, (DOM) Level 2 Core, Events, and Traversal and Range Recommendations
Simple API for XML (SAX) 2.0.2 Core and Extensions
Java APIs for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.3
XML Schema 1.0 Structures and Datatypes Second Edition Recommendations
Xerces2 is integrated into JDK 1.6 through the JAXP API now.
It is recommended to perform XML Schema validation using JAXP API instead of using Xerces2 directly.
See other chapters in this book for JAXP tutorial examples.
But if you really want to install Xerces2 Java Parser to your local computer and try it,
you can follow the steps bellow:
1. Go to the Xerces2 Java Parser home page: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/.
2. Click the menu link "Download", then click the "master distribution directory" link.
You will see a list of files for downloading.
3. Click the "Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.zip" link to start the download.
4. Save the downloaded file to \temp\Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.zip.
5. Unzip \temp\Xerces-J-bin.2.9.1.zip, then move the resulting directory
to \local\xerces-2_9_1.
6. Locate the JAR file \local\xerces-2_9_1\xercesImpl.jar to make sure
that the installation was done correctly.
