diff --git a/swig/interfaces/DOM.i b/swig/interfaces/DOM.i
deleted file mode 100644
index 0a5e02944075a4b84c0fd6ab0f7a2c4551faf549..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/swig/interfaces/DOM.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,128 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/*
- * All DOM classes and their related SWIG alterations go in this interface file
- */
-
-/*
- * the DOM classes gets a special exception handler
- * 'goto fail' must be called - either explicitly, or via SWIG_croak()
- * to ensure that any variable cleanup is done - to avoid memory leaks.
- * By making these macros, it reduces the code *file* size dramatically
- * (but doesn't reduce the compiled file size at all...)
- */
-%{
-#define CATCH_DOM_EXCEPTION \
- catch (const XMLException& e) \
- { \
- makeXMLException(e); \
- goto fail; \
- } \
- catch (const DOMException& e) \
- { \
- makeDOMException(e); \
- goto fail; \
- } \
- catch (...) \
- { \
- SWIG_croak("Handling Unknown exception"); \
- goto fail; \
- }
-%}
-
-%exception {
- try
- {
- $action
- }
- CATCH_DOM_EXCEPTION
-}
-
-// Introduced in DOM Level 1
-%include "dom/DOMException.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNode.i"
-%include "dom/DOMAttr.i"
-%include "dom/DOMElement.i"
-%include "dom/DOMEntity.i"
-%include "dom/DOMDocumentType.i"
-%include "dom/DOMCharacterData.i"
-%include "dom/DOMComment.i"
-%include "dom/DOMText.i"
-%include "dom/DOMCDATASection.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNodeList.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNamedNodeMap.i"
-%include "dom/DOMDocumentFragment.i"
-%include "dom/DOMEntityReference.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNotation.i"
-%include "dom/DOMProcessingInstruction.i"
-
-// type info
-%include "dom/DOMTypeInfo.i"
-%include "dom/DOMPSVITypeInfo.i"
-
-// XPath
-%include "dom/DOMXPathEvaluator.i"
-%include "dom/DOMXPathException.i"
-%include "dom/DOMXPathExpression.i"
-%include "dom/DOMXPathNamespace.i"
-%include "dom/DOMXPathNSResolver.i"
-%include "dom/DOMXPathResult.i"
-
-// Introduced in DOM Level 2
-%include "dom/DOMDocumentRange.i"
-%include "dom/DOMDocumentTraversal.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNodeIterator.i"
-%include "dom/DOMNodeFilter.i"
-%include "dom/DOMRange.i"
-%include "dom/DOMRangeException.i"
-%include "dom/DOMTreeWalker.i"
-
-/*
- * Introduced in DOM Level 3
- */
-%include "dom/DOMUserDataHandler.i"
-%include "dom/DOMConfiguration.i"
-%include "dom/DOMStringList.i"
-%include "dom/DOMImplementationLS.i"
-%include "dom/DOMImplementation.i"
-%include "dom/DOMImplementationList.i"
-%include "dom/DOMImplementationSource.i"
-%include "dom/DOMImplementationRegistry.i"
-
-%include "dom/DOMError.i"
-%include "dom/DOMErrorHandler.i"
-%include "dom/DOMDocument.i"
-%include "dom/DOMLocator.i"
-%include "dom/DOMLSResourceResolver.i"
-
-// DOMLSParser
-%include "dom/DOMLSInput.i"
-%include "framework/Wrapper4InputSource.i"
-%include "framework/Wrapper4DOMLSInput.i"
-%import "dom/DOMLSParserFilter.i"
-%include "dom/DOMLSParser.i"
-
-// DOMWriter
-%include "dom/DOMLSOutput.i"
-%include "framework/XMLFormatter.i"
-%include "framework/StdOutFormatTarget.i"
-%include "framework/LocalFileFormatTarget.i"
-%include "framework/MemBufFormatTarget.i"
-
-%include "dom/DOMLSException.i"
-%include "dom/DOMLSSerializer.i"
-%include "dom/DOMLSSerializerFilter.i"
diff --git a/swig/interfaces/Perl/transcode.i b/swig/interfaces/Perl/transcode.i
deleted file mode 100644
index c152c88f782302ab34199c430330744ca2832d6b..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/swig/interfaces/Perl/transcode.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,121 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/*
- * Perl/transcode.i - maps Xerces-C UTF16 chars to Perl's UTF8 chars
- *
- */
-
-%{
-
-SV*
-XMLString2Perl(const XMLCh* input) {
- SV *output;
- unsigned int charsEaten = 0;
- int length = XMLString::stringLen(input); // string length
- // use +1 to make room for the '\0' at the end of the string
- // in the pathological case when each character of the string
- // is UTF8_MAXLEN bytes long
- XMLByte* res = new XMLByte[(length * UTF8_MAXLEN) + 1]; // output string
-
- unsigned int total_chars =
- UTF8_TRANSCODER->transcodeTo((const XMLCh*) input,
- (unsigned int) length,
- (XMLByte*) res,
- (unsigned int) (length*UTF8_MAXLEN),
- charsEaten,
- XMLTranscoder::UnRep_Throw
- );
- res[total_chars] = '\0';
-
-#if (0)
- if (DEBUG_UTF8_OUT) {
- printf("Xerces out length = %d: ",total_chars);
- for (int i=0;i<length;i++){
- printf("<0x%.4X>",res[i]);
- }
- printf("\n");
- }
-#endif
-
- output = sv_newmortal();
- sv_setpv((SV*)output, (char *)res );
- SvUTF8_on((SV*)output);
- delete[] res;
- return output;
-}
-
-XMLCh*
-Perl2XMLString(SV* input){
- XMLCh* output;
-
- STRLEN length;
- char *ptr = (char *)SvPVutf8(input,length);
-
-#if (0)
- if (DEBUG_UTF8_IN) {
- printf("Perl in length = %d: ",length);
- for (unsigned int i=0;i<length;i++){
- printf("<0x%.4X>",ptr[i]);
- }
- printf("\n");
- }
-#endif
-
- if (SvUTF8(input)) {
- unsigned int charsEaten = 0;
- unsigned char* sizes = new unsigned char[length+1];
- output = new XMLCh[length+1];
- unsigned int chars_stored =
- UTF8_TRANSCODER->transcodeFrom((const XMLByte*) ptr,
- (unsigned int) length,
- (XMLCh*) output,
- (unsigned int) length,
- charsEaten,
- (unsigned char*)sizes
- );
- delete [] sizes;
-
-#if (0)
- if (DEBUG_UTF8_IN) {
- printf("Xerces in length = %d: ",chars_stored);
- for (unsigned int i=0;i<chars_stored;i++){
- printf("<0x%.4X>",output[i]);
- }
- printf("\n");
- }
-#endif
-
- // indicate the end of the string
- output[chars_stored] = '\0';
- } else {
- output = XMLString::transcode(ptr);
-
-#if (0)
- if (DEBUG_UTF8_IN) {
- printf("Xerces: ");
- for (int i=0;output[i];i++){
- printf("<0x%.4X>",output[i]);
- }
- printf("\n");
- }
-#endif
-
- }
- return(output);
-}
-
-%}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/swig/interfaces/typemaps-xmlch.i b/swig/interfaces/typemaps-xmlch.i
deleted file mode 100644
index abe1134f0441bbff32794f51a9629048071273b2..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/swig/interfaces/typemaps-xmlch.i
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright 2002,2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-/***********/
-/* */
-/* XMLCh * */
-/* */
-/***********/
-
-/************************************************************************/
-/* */
-/* FOR FUNCTIONS TAKING XMLCh * (I.E AN XMLCh STRING) AS AN ARGUMENT -- */
-/* NOW YOU CAN JUST SUPPLY A STRING. THIS TYPEMAP CONVERTS */
-/* PERL-STRINGS TO XMLCh STRINGS AUTOMATICALLY */
-/* */
-/************************************************************************/
-
-/************************************************************************/
-/* */
-/* CAVEAT: */
-/* TO CONVERT STRINGS TO XMLCh STRINGS, A TEMPORARY POINTER MUST BE */
-/* CREATED IN THE in TYPEMAP TO POINT TO MEMORY THAT HOLDS THE */
-/* CONVERSION. THE MEMORY IS DYNAMIC, SO IT MUST BE FREED AFTER THE C */
-/* FUNCTION THAT USES IT IS CALLED. THIS IS DONE VIA A "freearg" */
-/* TYPEMAP. */
-/* */
-/************************************************************************/
-
-// in typemap
-%typemap(in) XMLCh * %{
- if ($input == &PL_sv_undef) {
- SWIG_Perl_NullRef("perl-string",$argnum,"$symname");
- goto fail;
- } else {
- // we convert *everything* into a string that isn't undef
- $1 = Perl2XMLString($input);
- }
-%}
-
-%typemap(freearg) XMLCh * %{
- delete[] $1;
-%}
-
-// out typemap
-%typemap(out) XMLCh * %{
- $result = XMLString2Perl($1);
- ++argvi;
-%}
-