Hi everyone, The XML Commons team is pleased to announce that version 1.3.04 of XML Commons External is now available. This release adds Java Language Bindings for SAC 1.3 (The Simple API for CSS), SMIL and SVG 1.1 and contains several fixes and improvements to the JAXP 1.3 APIs.
Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are: * Added Java Language Bindings for SAC 1.3 (The Simple API for CSS), SMIL and SVG 1.1. These three packages that were formerly published by Apache Batik are now included in the new xml-apis-ext.jar. * Added SchemaFactoryLoader. This class was removed from the JAXP 1.3 specification before it was finalized but was mistakenly included in Java 5. It only exists here (and in JAXP 1.4) for compatibility reasons. Applications should avoid using it. * Added a serialVersionUID to TransformerException to restore serialization compatibility. It had been broken by a previous modification to this class. * Serialization compatibility of QName was broken in JAXP 1.3 when the serialVersionUID changed from -9120448754896609940 (which was the original one introduced in JAX-RPC 1.0) to 4418622981026545151. Restored the original serialVersionUID and provided a system property called org.apache.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID which will select 4418622981026545151 as the serialVersionUID when the property is set to "1.0". * Added a readObject() method to QName to allow older versions of the class which didn't have a prefix field to be deserialized correctly. * Fixed bugs in the factory finding algorithm used by SchemaFactory and XPathFactory for META-INF/services files. Previously these files were being read as if they were properties files. The correct format of a service file is a newline-separated list of unique concrete provider-class names. * Made the behaviour of the jaxp.debug property consistent across all of the FactoryFinder classes. If the value of the property is "false" then the debug field is set to false. * Modified the FactoryFinder and SecuritySupport classes to prevent them from being extended or instantiated. * Eliminated the creation of temporary Boolean objects in the SecuritySupport classes. * Eliminated the creation of short lived StringBuffer and String objects in each of the FactoryFinder classes. The debug print method calls were creating instances of StringBuffer and String which were never read. * Modified the SAX XMLReaderFactory and ParserFactory so that they use a PrivilegedAction (through the SecuritySupport class) for looking up system properties. * Fixed errors in the usage examples for the JAXP 1.3 Validation and XPath APIs. Namespace-awareness needs to be set to true on the DocumentBuilderFactory. * Fixed the Implementation-Vendor and Implementation-URL entries in the xml-apis.jar manifest. For more information please visit: http://xml.apache.org/commons/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
