Editing Apache Xerces (section)

{{Infobox software
| name = Apache Xerces
| logo = Apache Xerces logo.svg
| logo caption = 
| screenshot = 
| caption = 
| developer = [[Apache Software Foundation]]
| latest release version = 2.12.2 (Xerces J)<br />3.2.3 (Xerces C++)
| latest release date = 24 January 2022 (Xerces J)<br />10 April 2020 (Xerces C++)
| latest preview version = 
| latest preview date = 
| programming language = 
| operating system = [[Cross-platform]]
| genre = [[XML]] parser [[Library (computing)|library]]
| license = [[Apache License 2.0]]
| website = {{URL|//xerces.apache.org/}}
}}
In [[computing]], '''Xerces''' is [[Apache Software Foundation|Apache]]'s collection of [[software library|software libraries]] for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating [[XML]]. The library implements a number of standard [[Application programming interface|API]]s for XML parsing, including [[Document Object Model|DOM]], [[Simple API for XML|SAX]] and SAX2. The implementation is available in the [[Java (programming language)|Java]], [[C++]] and [[Perl]] programming languages.

The name "Xerces" is believed to commemorate the extinct [[Xerces blue]] butterfly (''Glaucopsyche xerces'').<ref>
{{cite book
| last1                 = Benz
| first1                = Brian
| last2                 = Durant
| first2                = John 
| title                 = XML Programming Bible
| date = 7 May 2004
| url                   = https://books.google.com/books?id=fsR0qWu2glcC
| publisher             = John Wiley & Sons
| publication-date      = 2004
| page                  = 87
| isbn                  = 9780764555763
| access-date            = 2014-10-01
| quote                 = Apparently, the parser was named after the now extinct Xerces blue butterfly, a native of the San Francisco peninsula.
}}
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