xerces – Tarik Billa

cmake cannot find libraries installed with vcpkg

April 9, 2024 by Tarik

You need to install the packages beforehand (using vcpkg install ). (Then you could specify the toolchain as a CMake option: -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=C:\path\to\vcpkg\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake but this won’t work if you already specify a toolchain, such as when cross-compiling.) “include” it, instead, to avoid this problem: Add this line to the project CMakeLists.txt before find_package(): include(/path/to/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake)

Validate an XML File Against Multiple Schema Definitions

September 3, 2023 by Tarik

So just in case anybody else runs into the same issue here, I needed to load a parent schema (and implicit child schemas) from a unit test – as a resource – to validate an XML String. I used the Xerces XMLSchemFactory to do this along with the Java 6 validator. In order to load … Read more

Dealing with “Xerces hell” in Java/Maven?

September 7, 2022 by Tarik

There are 2.11.0 JARs (and source JARs!) of Xerces in Maven Central since 20th February 2013! See Xerces in Maven Central. I wonder why they haven’t resolved https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ-1454… I’ve used: <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>2.11.0</version> </dependency> and all dependencies have resolved fine – even proper xml-apis-1.4.01! And what’s most important (and what wasn’t obvious in the … Read more