Welcome to the home of Xerces Java. Xerces2 provides high performance, 
      fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version 
      of Xerces continues to build upon 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.
    
    
      Xerces2 provides fully conforming XML Schema 1.0 and 1.1 processors. An experimental implementation of the 
	  "XML Schema Definition
	  Language (XSD): Component Designators (SCD) Candidate Recommendation (January 2010)"	  
	  is also provided for evaluation. For more information, refer to the 
	  XML Schema page.
    
    
      Xerces2 also provides a complete implementation of the 
Document 
      Object Model Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations and provides a 
      complete implementation of the XML Inclusions 
      (XInclude) W3C Recommendation. It also provides support
      for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1.
    
    Xerces2 is able to parse documents written according to the
        
        XML 1.1 Recommendation, except that 
        it does not yet provide an option to enable normalization checking as described
        in section 2.13 of this specification.
        It also handles namespaces according to the 
        
        XML Namespaces 1.1 Recommendation,
        and will correctly serialize XML 1.1 documents if the DOM level
        3 load/save APIs are in use.