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                 Release of version 1.7.0_0 of XML::Xerces
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NAME
    XML::Xerces - Perl Interface to the Apache Xerces XML Parser

DESCRIPTION
   Because it is based on the Xerces-C parser, XML::Xerces provides 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 associated standards (
   DOM 1.0, DOM 2.0. SAX 1.0, SAX 2.0, Namespaces, and partial support
   for W3C XML Schema). The parser provides high performance,
   modularity, and scalability. It also provides full support for
   Unicode.

AUTHORS
  Jason Stewart: Xerces 1.4 through 1.7 ports
  Harmon Nine: Xerces 1.3 DOM port
  Fredrick Paul Eisele: Xerces 1.3 DOM port
  Tom Watson: Xerces 1.1 DOM port

COPYRIGHT
   Copyright (c) 2001, Apache Software Foundation. All Rights
   Reserved.  This code is distributed under the terms of the Apache
   Software License, Version 1.1. See the file LICENSE for details

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REQUIREMENTS

* Perl 5.6.0 or greater

* Xerces-C 1.7.0: available from:

   http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-c/stable/

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CHANGES IN VERSION 1.7.0_0
        - Mirrors Xerces-C-1.7.0 release
	- The DOM API is now implemented by the Xerces-C IDOM
          implementation (see README for issues)
	- All dynamic casting of DOM_Node*'s is now done internally by
          the C++ code. This means that calls to DOM_Node::actual_cast
          are now unnecessary.
	- ensured that methods which return DOM_NodeList's and
	  DOM_NamedNodeMap's will never return undef in an array
          context (instead they return the empty list).

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AVAILABILITY

XML::Xerces is available from CPAN 

  http://www.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/JASONS/

and Apache:

   http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-p/stable/

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