Running the sample applications requires that you have already
   installed the Java Development Kit (JDK) or Java Runtime
   Environment (JRE) on your computer and extracted the 
   Xerces-J software.
  
  
   If you do not already have a JDK already on your computer download
   one from Oracle's Java website: 
   http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html
   or from IBM's website
   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/.
   The sample applications described in the following pages support 
   Java 1.x (e.g. 1.1.8, etc) and/or Java 2 (e.g. 1.2.2, 1.3, etc).
   The UI samples are written using Swing and require Java 2 in order
   to run but all of the command line programs will run using Java 1.x.
  
  
   Command lines examples on the following pages use the Windows path
   separator ';' (semicolon) and directory separator 
   '\' (backslash). On UNIX, use the ':' (colon) 
   character to separate the JAR files in the classpath, and replace
   Windows directory separator '\' (backslash) with 
   '/' (forward slash).