+1 to the release plan. Good timing indeed. Thanks, Hiranya On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:25 AM, Michael Glavassevich <[email protected]>wrote:
> 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] > -- Hiranya Jayathilaka Software Engineer; WSO2 Inc.; http://wso2.org E-mail: [email protected]; Mobile: +94 77 633 3491 Blog: http://techfeast-hiranya.blogspot.com
