Information about the package, xerces-j2, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The xerces-j2 package is designed for, Java XML parser.
Package Name:
xerces-j2
Summary:
Java XML parser
Description:
Welcome to the future! Xerces2 is the next generation of high performance, fully compliant XML parsers in the Apache Xerces family. This new version of Xerces introduces the Xerces Native Interface (XNI), a complete framework for building parser components and configurations that is extremely modular and easy to program. The Apache Xerces2 parser is the reference implementation of XNI but other parser components, configurations, and parsers can be written using the Xerces Native Interface. For complete design and implementation documents, refer to the XNI Manual. Xerces 2 is a fully conforming XML Schema processor. For more information, refer to the XML Schema page. Xerces 2 also provides a partial implementation of Document Object Model Level 3 Core, Load and Save and Abstract Schemas [deprecated] Working Drafts. For more information, refer to the DOM Level 3 Implementation page.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.7.1
Release:
12.7.el6_5
Size:
2.5 M
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the xerces-j2 package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install xerces-j2
This command will install xerces-j2 on the server.
yum remove xerces-j2
This command will un-install xerces-j2 on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xerces-j2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove xerces-j2
This command will un-install xerces-j2 on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xerces-j2 when using the -y flag.
yum update xerces-j2
This command will update xerces-j2 to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove xerces-j2, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update xerces-j2
This command will update xerces-j2 to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove xerces-j2 when using the -y flag.
yum info xerces-j2
This command will show you core information about the xerces-j2 package.
yum deplist xerces-j2
This command will show you the dependencies for xerces-j2. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update xerces-j2
This command will check if there is an update waiting on xerces-j2. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.