Hi all, The Xerces-J team is very happy to announce that version 2.3.0 of Xerces-J is now available. With this release, the Xerces-J developers are declaring the Xerces Native Interface (XNI) core and parsers packages to be gold. This release also brings Xerces-J into compliance with the most recent work of the W3C DOM working group on DOM level 3 Core and Load/Save, and introduces many fixes to bring Xerces-J's behaviour into line with XML Schema errata. Support for the parsing of documents written according to the XML 1.1 candidate recommendation has also been completed, except that no option for verifying that documents are normalized has yet been implemented. Finally, Xerces-J now provides means by which applications can force the parser to reject certain kinds of documents whose processing could result in a denial-of-service attack.
Specifically, the significant changes introduced in this release are: - Modified XMLLocator interface to remove setter methods for move towards finalizing XNI; this change also implied removing XMLLocator's dependence upon XMLResourceIdentifier. [Andy Clark] - Implemented several DOM Level 3 features, including DOMConfiguration, exposing type information via DOM, and allowing to set an ID attribute in the DOM. [Elena Litani] - Modified support for DOM L3 compareDocumentPosition (formerly compareTreePosition). [Lisa Martin] - Modified several XNI interfaces, i.e. NamespaceContext, XMLResourceIdentifier, Augmentation, XMLAttributes, and updated implementation accordingly. [Elena Litani, Sandy Gao] - Modified PSVI interfaces (org.apache.xerces.impl.xs.psvi) and updated implementation accordingly. [Elena Litani] - Modified XMLDTDHandler, XMLDTDSource, XMLDTDContentModelHandler and XMLDTDContentModelSource to make these pipelines doubly-linked, as was done in the last release for the main document pipeline. [Neil Graham] - Completed experimental support for XML 1.1 and XML Namespaces 1.1 CR's, except for XML 1.1 section 2.13. [Neil Graham] - Provided a mechanism by which applications can instruct the parser to abort the parsing of documents containing constructs that could swamp system resources. [Neil Graham, Neeraj Bajaj] - Added a feature "disallow-doctype-decl" so that a fatal error is reported if this feature is on and the incoming document has a DOCTYPE. [Sandy Gao] - Added a feature "standard-uri-conformant" so that the parser enforces the URI rules when this feature is on. [Sandy Gao] - Performance update: ported the partial DTM implementation of DOM and use it for parsing Schema documents. [Sandy Gao] - Provided full support for canonical representation of XML Schema datatypes. [Sandy Gao] - Implemented XML Schema errata as they were published. [Sandy Gao] - Fix comment parsing bug that prevented Tomcat 4.1.12 from making use of Xerces versions later than 2.1.0. [Tim Bruce, Neil Graham] The release can be downloaded from http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/ Enjoy! Neil Neil Graham XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab Phone: 905-413-3519, T/L 969-3519 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- In case of troubles, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
