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.microstar.com/XML/SAX/.
5. Install any SAX compliant XML parser to your system. You can find several of them from the same URI http://www.microstar.com/XML/SAX/.
6. Run the compiler with command

   java -Dsax.parser=<classname> org.w3c.rdf.SiRPAC sourcefile/URI

   or

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

   Where <classname> is your SAX compliant XML parser of choice.
7. Note 29-Jul-98: Having developed SiRPAC with the AElfred parser, I did not test other SAX parsers. Today, I checked MSXML, XP, and XML4J and not one single one of them worked. They all complained about "Unimplemented interface method" which means they are not 100% compatible with the latest SAX V1.0 specification. Please use AElfred until this gets fixed.
   (More technical: it seems only AElfred supports methods for reading the source document using InputSource instead of plain URL class access.)
8. Note 8-Sep-98: Olivier Marce reported DXP works with SiRPAC.