Read the Common Problems FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Parsing HTML Generated an Error
• UTF-8 Character Error
• Error Accessing EBCDIC XML Files
• EOF Character Error

Read the General FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Querying Xerces Version
• JIRA
• Jar file changes
• Using JAXP 1.4 on JDK 1.4 and above
• ClassCastException using Xerces
• Xerces XML, HTML and XHTML Serializers
• Obtaining smaller jars
• Validation against DTD
• International Encodings
• Accessing Documents on the Internet
• JDK Compatibility

Read the Caching and Preparsing Grammars document or jump directly to:

• Caching Grammars
• Xerces Default Grammar Caching Implementation
• Preparsing Grammars
• Grammar caching with Standard APIs
• Examining Grammars
• Alternative method for getting an XSModel

Read the Configuring Parser document or jump directly to:

• Validation and infoset augmentation
• Default Parser Configuration
• Validation Features
• Validation against a specific schema language

Read the Xerces Native Interface FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Augmentations
• Overriding Default Parser Configuration
• Xerces Parser Configurations

Read the Building and Running FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Swing version?
• Recompling source files?
• Regenerating API documentation?
• How do I use Visual Age?
• Running on the Mac?
• Visual Cafe exception error?

Read the Writing Application FAQs document or jump directly to:

• Handling Errors
• What does "non-validating" mean?
• Parsing Several Documents
• Pull-parsing documents
• Getting More Information for Your Entity Resolver

Read the Programming with SAX document or jump directly to:

• Creating a SAX Parser
• Incomplete character data is received via SAX
• Ignorable Whitespace and XML Schemas
• Attributes and ContentHandler.startElement
• Namespace of xmlns attributes
• Encodings and XML Version via SAX

Read the Programming with DOM document or jump directly to:

• Concurrent access
• Creating a DOM Parser with JAXP and DOM Level 3
• Serializing a DOM document
• Java Object Serialization of a DOM
• Specifying non-Xerces DOM implementation
• Accessing the DOM Level 3 API
• Using DOM Level 3 with JDK 1.4 and higher
• XML Schema API and DOM
• Revalidation of DOM document in Memory
• Handling Errors in DOM
• Controlling Entity Representation
• Associating user data with a Node
• Making getElementById work
• Setting ID attribute
• Accessing type information

Read the Using XML Schemas document or jump directly to:

• Usage
• Using Entities and CDATA Sections
• XPath 2.0 support for XML Schema 1.1 validation
• User defined error messages, for XML Schema 1.1 assertion failures
• XML Schema API
• Changes to PSVI
• Accessing PSVI via XNI
• Accessing PSVI via DOM
• Accessing PSVI via SAX
• Accessing PSVI via the JAXP 1.4 Validation API
• Parsing and analyzing an XML schema
• Using XSLoader to get an XSModel

Read the Using XInclude document or jump directly to:

• Usage
• XInclude and validation
• xml:base attributes and XML Schema validation
• XML Base Support
• Language Fixup
• References Property Fixup
• Document Fragments
• XPointer and IDs
• Content Negotiation
• The Namespace: 'http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude'

Read the Using XML Catalogs document or jump directly to:

• Usage
• Resolving XML Schemas
• Resolving DTDs and other External Entities
• The XML Catalogs Processing Instruction
• Other Catalog Formats

Read the Performance FAQs document or jump directly to:

• General Performance
• Parser Performance
• Parsing Documents Performance
• XML Application Performance

Read the FAQs for Developers and Prospective Contributors document or jump directly to:

• Submitting Patches
• Release Preparation