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commit 599715de7beacd9b50021e69b586b71b5e5acddd
Author: Mukul Gandhi <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Oct 12 09:22:28 2024 +0530
committing few changes to xerces-j readme document
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README | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 4fb7e1ef6..28a881129 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -19,26 +19,29 @@
* limitations under the License.
===========================================================================
-Before building Xerces, you need the source package and tools
-package available from the Apache XML Project's distribution
+Before building Xerces-J, users shall need the source package and tools
+package available from the Apache Xerces-J project's distribution
web page:
- http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/
+ https://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/
Download both the Xerces-J-src.X.Y.Z.zip and Xerces-J-tools.X.Y.Z.zip
-files for the appropriate Xerces release (where "X.Y.Z" is the version
-number) and extract them in the same directory. If you are using Unix,
-download the equivalent .tar.gz files instead of the .zip files.
-
-You also need to have a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.2 (or
-higher) installed on your system. Before initiating any part of the
-build, set the JAVA_HOME environment variable to the installation
-directory of your JDK.
-
-The Ant program is used to build everything in Xerces, including
+files for the appropriate Xerces-J release (where "X.Y.Z" is the version
+number) and extract them in the same directory. If you're using an Unix
+variant OS like Linux, download the equivalent .tar.gz files instead of
+the .zip files.
+
+You also need to have a Java Development Kit (JDK) version 1.8 or
+higher installed on your system. The latest Xerces-J codebase on this GitHub
+repos has Java language maximum source/target level requirement of 1.8.
+
+Before initiating any part of the build, set the JAVA_HOME environment
+variable to the installation directory of your JDK.
+
+The Ant build too is needed to build everything in Xerces-J, including
the documentation. This tool, and the others needed (besides the
pre-requisite JDK) are contained within the tools package. To
-make building the packages easier, a Windows batch file and a Unix
+make building Xerces-J packages easier, Windows batch file and a Linux
shell script are included.
If you only want to compile the source code and make the JAR files,
@@ -46,14 +49,15 @@ run the following command on Windows:
build.bat jars
-or from Unix (make sure that build.sh is executable):
+or from Linux (make sure that build.sh is executable):
build.sh jars
-This will compile all of the source code and generate the JAR
+This shall compile all of the source code and generate the JAR
files that are available as part of the binary package. After
-building, these files will be located in the build/ directory.
+having results of these Xerces-J builds, the build results shall be
+located in the "build" directory.
-If you want to build everything, including the documentation,
-run the build batch file (or shell script) specifying the "all"
-target instead of "jars".
\ No newline at end of file
+If all results of Xerces-J build are needed, including the documentation,
+run the build batch file or shell script specifying an Ant build "all"
+target instead of "jars".
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