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Xalan and Xerces difference

 
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Can anybody tell me the difference between XALAN AND XERCES
PArsers and when to go for Xalan and when to go for Xerces.
ALso the advantage of each over the othar.
Any input on this would be of great help to me.
Thanks in Advance,
Anand R
Edit: I changed the subject to lowercase
[ January 21, 2004: Message edited by: Lasse Koskela ]
 
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Xerces is used to validate XML documents against a DTD or Schema.
Xalan is used to transfer a XML together with a associated XSLT into something (e.g. Html, Text) other.
 
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In short, Xerces is an XML parser while Xalan is an XSL engine.
 
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