[ANNOUCEMENT] Xerces-C_2_6_0 released

[PeiYong Zhang]

Hi all,

The Xerces-C team is very pleased to announce that Xerces-C 2.6.0 has been released today.  Along with many bug fixes, the major features of the new release are:

. Reduce footprint of DLL by building the deprecated DOM as a separate library
. Various enhancements to the schema component model API
. Improve support for schema annotations, including an option to laxly validate their contents
. Bring parser up to the XML 1.0 3rd Edition
. Update to the XML 1.1 recommendation  
. Update Schema Errata
. Feature for disabling schema identity constraints
. Upgrade to ICU3 .0
. Enable the parser to handle elements with a very large number of attributes

For a comprehensive list of features, see "New features in Xerces-C++ 2.6.0" [1]; for a complete list of changes, including bugfixes, see "Release Information of Xerces-C++ 2.6.0" [2].  The release should be available from all of the Apache mirrors within 24 hours; the list can be accessed via the Xerces-C download page [3].  

[1]:  http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/migrate.html#NewFeatures260
[2]:  http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html
[3]:  http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.html

Rgds,
PeiYong