Read the Distributing Xerces-C++ document or jump directly to:

• What platforms / compilers are being used to build the binary distribution kits?
• What are the differences between Xerces-C and XML4C?
• Which DLL's do I need to distribute with my application?
• How do I package the sources to create a binary drop?
• I do not see binaries for my platform. When will they be available?
• When will a port to my platform be available?
• How can I port Xerces to my favourite platform?
• What application do you use to create the documentation?
• Can I use Xerces in my product?
• How do I uninstall Xerces-C++?
• I am getting a tar checksum error on Solaris. What's the problem?

Read the Building / Running FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Why do I get compilation error saying undeclared identifier or class undefined?
• Why do I get compilation error saying DOMDocument was declared twice using Microsoft Visual C++.Net?
• Why can't the compiler find the include files?
• Why do I get Internal Compiler Error when compiling Xerces-C++ for a 64bit target with gcc?
• Why do I get compilation error when compiling Xerces-C++ on FreeBSD with native transcoder?
• Building Xerces-C++ with compiler GCC 2.7.x or 2.8.x gives problem, what's wrong?
• Why does my application give unresolved linking errors?
• Why do I get link error saying icudata library not found when building with ICU?
• I cannot run the sample applications. What is wrong?
• Why does my application crash on AIX when I run it under a multi-threaded environment?
• Why does my multi-threaded application crash on Solaris 2.6?
• I just built my own application using the Xerces-C++ parser. Why does it crash?
• Why does deleting a transcoded string result in assertion on windows?
• Can't debug into the Xerces-C++ DLL with the MSVC debugger
• First-chance exception in Microsoft debugger
• Fatal Error: Cannot open include file: XXX: No such file or directory
• Cannot load message domain, Xerces Panic Error
• Why my document is valid on some platforms while invalid on others
• Regenerating (API) documention?

Read the Programming/Parsing FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Does Xerces-C++ support Schema?
• Why Xerces-C++ does not support this particular Schema feature?
• Why does my application crash when instantiating the parser?
• Is it OK to call the XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize/Terminate pair of routines multiple times in one program?
• Why does my application crash or hang if XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize()/Terminate() pair is called more than once?
• Why does my application crash after calling XMLPlatformUtils::Terminate()?
• I'm suddenly getting segfaults with Xerces-C 2.3.0; why might this be?
• Is Xerces-C++ thread-safe?
• I am seeing memory leaks in Xerces-C++. Are they real?
• I find memory leaks in Xerces-C++. How do I eliminate it?
• Can Xerces-C++ create an XML skeleton based on a DTD
• Can I use Xerces-C++ to perform write validation
• Can I validate the data contained in a DOM tree?
• How to write out a DOM tree into a string or an XML file?
• Why does DOMNode::cloneNode() not clone the pointer assigned to a DOMNode via DOMNode::setUserData()?
• How are entity reference nodes handled in DOM?
• What kinds of URLs are currently supported in Xerces-C++?
• How can I add support for URLs with HTTP/FTP protocols?
• Can I use Xerces-C++ to parse HTML?
• I keep getting an error: "invalid UTF-8 character". What's wrong?
• What encodings are supported by Xerces-C / XML4C?
• What character encoding should I use when creating XML documents?
• Is EBCDIC supported?
• Why does deleting a transcoded string result in assertion on windows?
• How do I transcode to/from something besides the local code page?
• Why does setProperty not work?
• Why does getProperty not work?
• Why does the parser still try to locate the DTD even validation is turned off and how to ignore external DTD reference?
• Why do I get segmentation fault when running on Redhat Linux?
• Why does the XML data generated by the DOMWriter does not match my original XML input?
• Why does my application crash when deleting the parser after releasing a document?
• Why do we have two versions of XMLString::transcode (one with memory manager and one without)?

Read the Other Xerces-C++ Questions document or jump directly to:

• Are the Xerces parsers Year-2000-compliant?
• How do I determine the version of Xerces-C++ I am using?
• I can't use C++. Do you have a Java version?
• Where can I find additional information on XML?
• Is there any kind of support available for Xerces-C++?
• I found a defect -- how do I report it?
• I have a patch to the Xerces-C++ source code. How do I submit it?
• Where can I get predefined character entity definitions?
• Does Xerces-C++ support XPath?