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<p><tt>Hi all,</tt><br>
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<tt>The Apache Xerces project team is pleased to announce that version 2.11.0 of Apache Xerces-J is now available.</tt><br>
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<tt>Xerces-J 2.11.0 can be downloaded at: </tt><tt><a href="http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi">http://xerces.apache.org/mirrors.cgi</a></tt><br>
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<tt>This release expands on Xerces' experimental support for XML Schema 1.1 (see </tt><tt>Xerces-J-bin.2.11.0-xml-schema-1.1-beta.zip</tt><tt>) </tt><tt>by providing implementations for the simplified complex type restriction rules (also known as subsumption), xs:override and a few other XML Schema 1.1 features. Xerces-J 2.11.0 also introduces experimental support for XML Schema Component Designators (SCD). It fixes several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.10.0 and also includes a few other minor enhancements.</tt><br>
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<tt>Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:</tt><br>
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<tt>* Implemented XML Schema 1.1's simplified complex type restriction rules (also known as subsumption). [Sandy Gao]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Added support for XML Schema 1.1's overriding component definitions (<xs:override>). [Khaled Noaman, Udayanga Wickramasinghe]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Added experimental support for a parser and evaluator for XML Schema Component Designators (SCD). [Sandy Gao, Ishan Jayawardena]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Implemented support for the vc:typeAvailable, vc:typeUnavailable, vc:facetAvailable and vc:facetUnavailable attributes for conditional inclusion processing in XML Schema 1.1 documents. [Mukul Gandhi]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Implemented support for allowing xs:group as a child of xs:all in XML Schema 1.1 documents. [Mukul Gandhi]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Made several enhancements to the support for assertions in the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. [Mukul Gandhi]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Improved the ways in which the XML Schema API exposes values and identity constraint information. [Sandy Gao]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Fixed a bug where XMLSchemaValidator.findSchemaGrammar() was not getting called for substitution groups. [Michael Glavassevich]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Fixed a bug in the regular expression support which was introduced in the previous release. See JIRA Issue XERCESJ-1456 for details. [Khaled Noaman]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Fixed multiple issues with decimal precision in the processing of xs:precisionDecimal values. [Sandy Gao]</tt><br>
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<tt>* Fixed various bugs and made various improvements. [Mukul Gandhi, Sandy Gao, Michael Glavassevich, Johannes Koch, Khaled Noaman]</tt><br>
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<tt>A complete list of JIRA issues resolved in this release is available here: </tt><tt><a href="http://s.apache.org/pI">http://s.apache.org/pI</a></tt><br>
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<tt>For more information please visit: </tt><tt><a href="http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/">http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/</a></tt><br>
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<tt>Michael Glavassevich<br>
XML Parser Development<br>
IBM Toronto Lab<br>
E-mail: mrglavas@ca.ibm.com</tt><br>
<tt>E-mail: mrglavas@apache.org</tt></body></html>