(Forwarding the announcement from [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Boris Kolpackov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 07/24/2008 02:38:04 PM: > Hi, > > The second and hopefully final beta for the upcoming Xerces-C++ > 3.0.0 release is available for download: > > http://people.apache.org/builds/xerces/c/ > > The purpose of this beta is to allow all interested parties to > test the code on various platforms before the final release as > well as to make sure that no regressions have been introduced > compared to 2.8.0 and/or 3.0.0 beta 1. > > This is the final beta before the release and unless serious > problems are uncovered we will not make any interface changes > or major modification to this code base. In other words, this > beta is pretty much what will be released as final 3.0.0 and > I suggest that you test it thoroughly. > > Below is the list of new features and improvements in 3.0.0 > beta 2 compared to beta 1: > > - DOM XPath interface has been adapted to support both XPath 1 > and XPath 2 models. This allows seamless integration with > XPath 2 processors such as XQilla. > > - All public and widely used interfaces as well as a large > portion of the implementation were converted to be 64-bit > safe. > > - Various XML Schema fixes including the fix for the large > maxOccurs/minOccurs bug as well as for the changed ##other > interpretation. > > - Optimizations for SAX and DOM parsing as well as XML Schema > validation. > > - All error messages have been reviewed and cleaned up. > > - Bug fixes and improvements for the net accessor and regex > code. > > > The following known issues are to be resolved before 3.0.0 is > released: > > - Automated test suite (make check) reports one test as > producing an incorrect result on some 64-bit platforms due > to different ordering in the hashtable. This is harmless. > > - A couple of warnings in VC++ builds. > > - Some documentation hasn't been updated yet. > > > Some UNIX platforms (e.g., AIX, Solaris, etc.) may require extra > configure and/or make options which are listed on the following > page (these will be incorporated into the build instructions > before the final release): > > http://wiki.apache.org/xerces/XercescBuildStatus > > > Enjoy, > Boris > > -- > Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis Tools http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog > Open source XML data binding for C++: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd > Mobile/embedded validating XML parsing: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsde > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
