You all say that,

-it is really stable,
-supports most plattforms and compiler,
-it is standard conform,
-there is a good documentation,
-there is great support,
-there is still improvement (IDOM, DOM3),
-the developer are available by mail etc.,
-there is permanent bugfixing,
-source available,
-free of charge.
-there are lot of people using Xerces (me to)

yes that is true.

But just to choose a product because it is open source ? I dont know ..? 
There must be something more! There are a lot of open source projects I 
would never use.

Compared to MSXML I would say:
-MSXML is available for WIN32 only,
-MSXML has some extensions (which are not in the standard) -see some 
mailings here,
-MSXML is faster (I don't have the current specs)
-if you have a bug in MSXML which is a really blocker you are lost :-(
pls correct me if I am wrong

For me the most important reason why to choose Xerces is the the 
multiplatform feature.

Adib.

Ian Brown wrote:
> That's a matter of opinion.  For me xerces is fantastic, and a major part of
> that is the open-sourceness.  While you would hope that any 3rd party
> software you use is bug free and does everything you could hope for it often
> isn't so open source means:
> 
> - that if you simple must get 'x' fixed/changed you can do it
> - that if you want it to work on another platform/compiler/OS version its
> possible
> - that if the company drops support for the product, it doesn't matter.  You
> have the source, you can keep going as long as you like and even port to new
> OS's etc.
> 
> (Basically thanks to the developers that funded xerces)
> Ian
> 
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: adv of xerces?
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> 
>>>What are the advantages of using Xercesc over MSXML 4.0?:p>
>>
>>
>>Xerces-C is open source, MSXML is not.
>>
> 
> 
> If this is the only one this is nothing.
> 
> Adib.
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