Xerces-c++ is a validating xml parser written in a portable subset of c++. xerces-c++ makes it easy to give your application the ability to read and write xml data. a shared library is provided for parsing, generating, manipulating, and validating xml documents. xerces-c++ is faithful to the xml 1.0 recommendation and associated standards (dom 1.0, dom 2.0, sax 1.0, sax 2.0, namespaces, xml schema part 1 and part 2). it also provides experimental implementations of xml 1.1 and dom level 3.0. the parser provides high performance, modularity, and scalability.