Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program.
The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual.
Furthermore, it is a fully conforming XML Schema processor. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page.
Xerces2 also provides an experimental implementation of the Document Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save Working Drafts and provides a partial implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Candidate Recommendation.
