Xerces / Xalan / FOP all have very nice command line features, which is great for somebody who hates to write java code but wants to take advantage of all the great work of the xml.apache.org project.

My most used feature of Xerces is a quick command to check the syntax and validate XML. Very handy during development, especially when your writing XML with vi.

java sax.SAXCount -v file_to_validate.xml
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Documentation for Xerces Command-line utility
Documentation for Xalan Command-line utility
Documentation for FOP Command-line utility

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