[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Xerces-J 2.6.2 now available
Michael Glavassevich
mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
Sat Feb 21 00:21:01 2004
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Hi everyone,
The Xerces-J team is pleased to announce that version 2.6.2 of Xerces-J is
now available.
As well as containing a few performance improvements and several minor bug
fixes, this release fixes several bugs which a number of users encountered
with version 2.6.1. This release requires JDK 1.2 or later to run and also
requires JDK 1.2 or later to build the source code.
It was decided soon after the 2.6.1 release [1] that Xerces-J and Xalan-J
will be moving towards a common base for serialization code. As a first
step in this effort the HTML and XHTML serializers
(org.apache.xml.serialize) have been deprecated. Alternative
serialization methods are described in the Xerces-J documentation [2].
Specifically, the significant changes introduced in this release are:
* Fixed a bug in the specification of the XML Schema API. Some of the
method signatures did not match the signatures in the implementation.
[Elena Litani]
* Fixed a bug introduced in 2.6.1 which caused the XMLSerializer to
automatically expand entity references and convert CDATA sections to text.
[Elena Litani]
* Fixed a possible security hole regarding class loading. [Neeraj Bajaj]
* Improved class initialization for the XMLChar and XML11Char classes to
reduce the cost of loading Xerces. [Michael Glavassevich]
* Fixed a SAX conformance bug involving spurious prefix mapping events
with namespace support turned off. [Michael Glavassevich]
* Made message localization changes. [Neil Delima, Michael Glavassevich]
* Fixed schema related bugs. [Sandy Gao]
* Fixed various bugs. [Curt Arnold, Michael Glavassevich, Kohsuke
Kawaguchi, Naela Nissar]
[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=107593381313807&w=2
[2] http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-5
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Hi everyone, </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The Xerces-J team is pleased to announce
that version 2.6.2 of Xerces-J is now available.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">As well as containing a few performance
improvements and several minor bug fixes, this release fixes several bugs
which a number of users encountered with version 2.6.1. This release requires
JDK 1.2 or later to run and also requires JDK 1.2 or later to build the
source code.</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It was decided soon after the 2.6.1
release [1] that Xerces-J and Xalan-J will be moving towards a common base
for serialization code. As a first step in this effort the HTML and
XHTML serializers (org.apache.xml.serialize) have been deprecated. Alternative
serialization methods are described in the Xerces-J documentation [2].</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Specifically, the significant changes
introduced in this release are:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed a bug in the specification of
the XML Schema API. Some of the method signatures did not match the signatures
in the implementation. [Elena Litani] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed a bug introduced in 2.6.1 which
caused the XMLSerializer to automatically expand entity references and
convert CDATA sections to text. [Elena Litani] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed a possible security hole regarding
class loading. [Neeraj Bajaj] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Improved class initialization for
the XMLChar and XML11Char classes to reduce the cost of loading Xerces.
[Michael Glavassevich] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed a SAX conformance bug involving
spurious prefix mapping events with namespace support turned off. [Michael
Glavassevich] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Made message localization changes.
[Neil Delima, Michael Glavassevich] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed schema related bugs. [Sandy
Gao] </font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">* Fixed various bugs. [Curt Arnold,
Michael Glavassevich, Kohsuke Kawaguchi, Naela Nissar]</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xalan-dev&m=107593381313807&w=2</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">[2] http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/faq-general.html#faq-5</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Michael Glavassevich<br>
XML Parser Development<br>
IBM Toronto Lab<br>
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org</font>
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