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commit e31f0ed02affe51bfbda64b9af76cbb6f14fd9df Author: Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]> AuthorDate: Sun Mar 1 15:37:50 2026 -0500 Fix grammar and clarity issues in README Corrected grammatical errors and improved clarity in the README. --- README | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1b0b00573..9f2894de5 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -21,20 +21,20 @@ This Apache Xerces-J GitHub repos branch, contains instructions to build Xerces-J. -Before building Xerces-J, users would need the source package and tools package +Before building Xerces-J, users need the source package and tools package available from the Apache Xerces-J project's distribution web page: 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-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 +number) and extract them in the same directory. If you're using a Unix +variant 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. +repo 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. @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ variable to the installation directory of your JDK. Ant (https://ant.apache.org/) 1.10.2 or later 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 Xerces-J packages easier, Windows batch file and a Linux +make building Xerces-J packages easier, a Windows batch file and a Linux shell script are included. If you only want to compile the source code and make the JAR files, @@ -54,10 +54,9 @@ or from Linux (make sure that build.sh is executable): ./build.sh jars -This shall compile all of the source code and generate the JAR +This compiles all the source code and generates the JAR files that are available as part of the binary package. After -having results of these Xerces-J builds, the build results shall be -located in the "build" directory. +these Xerces-J builds, the build results are located in the "build" directory. 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" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
