Xerces-C++ is a validating XML parser written in a portable subsets 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 using the DOM, SAX, and SAX2 APIs. Xerces-C++ is faithful to the XML 1.0 recommendation and many associated standards. The parser provides high performance, modularity, and scalability. Source code, samples and API documentation are provided with the parser. For portability, care has been taken to make minimal use of templates, no RTTI, and minimal use of #ifdefs. This component package provides a suite of precompiled sample programs, as included in the standard Xerces-C++ distribution. This component package provides the shared library (DLL), which is required by all dynamically linked Xerces-C++ applications. The version 3.1.1-2 release of this shared library has been compiled using MinGW32-GCC-4.7.2, and uses the Dwarf-2 exception handling model; the version 3.1.1-1 release has been compiled using MinGW32-GCC-3.4.5, and uses the SJLJ exception handling model. This component package provides the development libraries, and their associated header files, to facilitate the development of dynamically or statically linked Xerces-C++ applications. For programming guidance, please refer to http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/program-3.html This component package delivers a copy of the Apache Software License, version 2.0, under which Xerces-C++ is distributed, and associated accreditation of Xerces-C++ developers.