need help with Xerces

[Craig11111]

Ok, I'm new to XML, and when I went to download Xerces from Apache's website, it gave me a long list of files, and I don't know which to download. I got the one that was 1.5MB and described itself as the program. However, after I extracted it, i only had jar files and batch files. Where is the executable?

[Doug Wang]

Originally posted by Craig Hartel:
i only had jar files and batch files. Where is the executable?

That is just what you want.
Becoz what you download is a Java application(just in the jar files), there is no explicit .exe excutable file. Follow the batch files, you can get it excuted.

Doug

[Joe Gilvary]

Originally posted by Craig Hartel:
Ok, I'm new to XML, and when I went to download Xerces from Apache's website, it gave me a long list of files, and I don't know which to download. I got the one that was 1.5MB and described itself as the program. However, after I extracted it, i only had jar files and batch files. Where is the executable?

The Apache site has more information on its pages
for installation (http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/install.html)
and the pages for the sample programs under
http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/samples.html
With the jar files on your classpath you should
have no problem running Xerces.
HTH,
Joe

[Doug Wang]

Joe's links are good.
But one more word. Running Xerces requires that you have already installed the Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime Environment (JRE) on you computer and extracted the Xerces-J software. Download JDK1.3 from Sun's java website. Also refer to DeveloperLife.com for instructions and many other great tutorials.
Enjoy yourself.
Doug

[Scott Bain]

Xerces is a package of classes that allows you to parse XML in your own application... so there's no executable per se, but rather a JAR file with various classes needed to perform parsing.
Here's an example of using Xerces as a DOM parser:

import org.xml.sax.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
import org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser;
import java.io.IOException;
public class DOMClient {
DOMParser myDOMParser;
Document myDocument;

public DOMClient(String uri) {
myDOMParser = new DOMParser();
try{
myDOMParser.parse(uri);
myDocument = myDOMParser.getDocument();
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Error opening file: "+e.getMessage());
} catch(DOMException d) {
System.out.println("DOM Exception thrown: "+d.getMessage());
} catch(SAXException s) {
System.out.println("SAX Exception thrown: "+s.getMessage());
}
}
}
  

You would then call methods on myDocument to "walk the tree".
HTH