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# Apache Xerces Reviews
**Vendor:** The Apache Software Foundation  
**Category:** [XML Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/xml-databases)  
**Average Rating:** 4.1/5.0  
**Total Reviews:** 12
## About Apache Xerces
Xerces is Apache's collection of software libraries for parsing, validating, serializing and manipulating XML. The library implements a number of standard APIs for XML parsing, including DOM, SAX and SAX2.




## Apache Xerces Reviews
  ### 1. Review from a past Xerces user and a developer who helped Xerces to improve their code

**Rating:** 3.0/5.0 stars

**Reviewed by:** Sanjaya L. | Consultant, Computer Software, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

**Reviewed Date:** October 30, 2019

**What do you like best about Apache Xerces?**

Ability to select the parsing mechanism is possible with xerces. We can decide whether to use DOM or SAX

**What do you dislike about Apache Xerces?**

I don't have any dislikes with Xerces as a Xerces user . But one thing Xerces can improve is quickly fixing the issue and adding new features . 

**What problems is Apache Xerces solving and how is that benefiting you?**

I used Xerces to parse the xml documents. It passes the xml documents quickly and and it is very reliable.


## Apache Xerces Discussions
  - [What is Apache Xerces used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-apache-xerces-used-for)

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## Apache Xerces Features
**Database Features**
- Storage
- Availability
- Stability
- Scalability
- Security
- Data Manipulation
- Query Language

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