Installation instructions

1. Retrieve the latest distribution from the Web site at http://www.w3.org/RDF/Implementations/SiRPAC/
2. Ungzip and untar the package with command similar to

   gtar -zxvf SiRPAC-1.0.tar.gz

   This will create a new subdirectory where all the distribution files are.

3. Copy the whole 'org' subtree somewhere where your CLASSPATH points to now OR add the SiRPAC distribution directory to your CLASSPATH
   

   cp -r org ~/classes OR setenv CLASSPATH $HOME/SiRPAC-1.0
   

4. Install the general SAX driver to your system. You can find Java source code from http://www.megginson.com/SAX/.
5. Install any SAX compliant XML parser to your system. You can find several of them from the same URI http://www.megginson.com/SAX/.
6. Run the compiler with command

   java -Dorg.xml.sax.parser=<classname> org.w3c.rdf.SiRPAC sourcefile/URI

   Where <classname> is your SAX compliant XML parser of choice.
7. Note 14-Dec-98: SiRPAC was originally developed with AElfred parser. This parser seems to have some trouble with IO management in embedded applications. I have since then been happy with the IBM XML4J SAX compliant XML parser.