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17.4. Critical Xerces Packages

You have seen a decent handful of new classes so far, in several different packages. Before going deeper, we want to try to wrap up what you have seen and what you are about to see with a summarized subset of the Xerces API.

Listed in Tables 17.3 through 17.10 are the critical packages, classes, interfaces, and exceptions of the Java Xerces2 parser (with descriptions extracted from the API documentation). Take a look at these names and read the table a few times—if you become familiar with these types, you will soon feel comfortable building applications with Java Xerces. (Note that this is not an exhaustive list, so see the official API reference for a full package, class, interface, and exception list.)

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