Load the xml4c-3_5_1-win32\samples\Projects\Win32\VC6\samples.dsw Microsoft Visual C++ workspace inside your MSVC IDE. Then build the project marked SAX2Count.

	cd xml4c-3_5_1-linux/samples ./runConfigure -p<platform> -c<C_compiler> -x<C++_compiler> cd SAX2Count gmake

This will create the object files in the current directory and the executable named SAX2Count in 'xml4c-3_5_1-linux/bin' directory.

To delete all the generated object files and executables, type

	gmake clean

The SAX2Count sample parses an XML file and prints out a count of the number of elements in the file. To run SAX2Count, enter the following

	SAX2Count <XML File>

The following parameters may be set from the command line

	Usage: SAX2Count [options] <XML file> Options: -v=xxx Validation scheme [always | never | auto*] -n Enable namespace processing. Defaults to off. -s Disable schema processing. Defaults to on. This program prints the number of elements, attributes, white spaces and other non-white space characters in the input file. * = Default if not provided explicitly

-v=always will force validation
-v=never will not use any validation
-v=auto will validate if a DOCTYPE declaration is present in the XML document

Here is a sample output from SAX2Count

	cd xml4c-3_5_1-linux/samples/data SAX2Count -v=always personal.xml personal.xml: 60 ms (37 elems, 12 attrs, 134 spaces, 134 chars)

Running SAX2Count with the validating parser gives a different result because ignorable white-space is counted separately from regular characters.

	SAX2Count -v=never personal.xml personal.xml: 10 ms (37 elems, 12 attrs, 0 spaces, 268 chars)

Note that the sum of spaces and chracters in both versions is the same.

The time reported by the program may be different depending on your machine processor.