Datasheet

XML parsers have a place as a document and schema development tool. They provide the means for you
to create XML documents and grammars in many forms (DTDs, XML Schema, and Relax-NG) and verify
that the grammars you’ve written do what you want and that your documents conform to those gram-
mars.
The reality is that most developers are doing less with XML parsers directly. That’s because lots of clever
tool and application developers have leveraged the fundamental capability of XML parsing and used it
to build tools that operate at a higher level. Although we hope you’re excited about Xerces and all the
cool things you can do with it, we hope you’re even more excited by some of the tools that have already
been built on top of it. Those tools are what the rest of this book is about.
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