Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subset of C++. Xerces-C++ makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write XML data. A shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating XML documents.

Xerces-C++ is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and many associated standards (see Features below).

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, and minimal use of #ifdefs.

Xerces has rich generating and validating capabilities. The parser is used for:

• Building XML-savvy Web servers
• Building next generation of vertical applications that use XML as their data format
• On-the-fly validation for creating XML editors
• Ensuring the integrity of e-business data expressed in XML
• Building truly internationalized XML applications

• Conforms to
• XML 1.0 (Second Edition), W3C Recommendation of October 6, 2000
• DOM Level 1 Specification, W3C Recommendation of October 1, 1998
• DOM Level 2 Core Specification, W3C Recommendation of November 13, 2000
• DOM Level 2 Traversal and Range Specification, W3C Recommendation of November 13, 2000
• SAX 1.0 and SAX 2.0
• Namespaces in XML, W3C Recommendation of January 14, 1999
• XML Schema Part 1: Structure, W3C Recommendation 2 May 2001
• XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes, W3C Recommendation 2 May 2001
• Full experimental implementation of XML 1.1, W3C Candidate Recommendation of October 15, 2002 (Note: section 2.13 Normalization Checking has not been implemented)
• Full experimental implementation of Namespaces in XML 1.1, W3C Candidate Recommendation of 18 December 2002
• Contains a partial implementation of the DOM Level 3.0 Core Specification, Version 1.0 W3C Working Draft 26 February 2003 and Document Object Model (DOM) Level 3 Load and Save Specification, Version 1.0 W3C Working Draft 26 February 2003. This implementation is experimental. See DOM Level 3 Support for detail.
• Source code, samples, and documentation is provided
• Programmatic generation and validation of XML
• Pluggable catalogs, validators and encodings
• High performance
• Customizable error handling

• OS/390
• AS/400
• FreeBSD
• SGI IRIX
• Macintosh
• OS/2
• PTX
• UnixWare
• and more!

The Xerces-C++ Version 2.5.0 is available in both source distribution and binary distribution. Both Xerces-C++ are made available under the Apache Software License.