Hi all,
I think it's about time we had a release. It's been over two years since the last one and during that time we've made significant progress in a number of areas: * XML Schema 1.1 * JAXP 1.4 * StAX event API (javax.xml.stream.events) * Element Traversal API [1] (org.w3c.dom.ElementTraversal) * Unicode normalization and normalization checking among other enhancements. Before we can do the Xerces release, we're first going to need to get out an official release of the JAXP 1.4 APIs from XML Commons. The coding has been done for awhile now. Just needs some documentation updates and a release candidate to vote on. If anyone would like to help out with that it would be appreciated. Hoping we could wrap that up and roll out releases from the other branches of XML Commons over the next month. Then we could start preparing the Xerces-J release. There's been a bit of chatter about having one in December. How does Friday, December 18th sound? Just before the end of the year. I'm thinking that we'd release two sets of binaries for 2.10.0, one built from the trunk and an experimental one from the XML Schema 1.1 branch so that the community could start to try out the new features: assertions, conditional type assessment, etc... with an understanding that things could change in the future along with the spec which isn't final yet. What do folks think? Thanks. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/ElementTraversal/ Michael Glavassevich XML Parser Development IBM Toronto Lab E-mail: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected]
