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  <P>This Programming Guide is for Xerces-C++ version 3.1.1.</P>

  <P>Independent of the API you want to use, DOM, SAX, or SAX2, your
      application must initialize the Xerces system
      before using the API, and terminate it after you are done. This
      is achieved by the following code:</P>
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