Release Information


	November 15, 2001 (version 1.4.4)

JAXP fixes. [Edwin Goie]
Parser now resolves the locations of schemas referenced by other schemas relative to the schema doing the referencing rather than to the instance document. [Gopal Sharma/Neil Graham]
Changed HTML serializer so that, at user option, attributes with no value may be represented as attr="" instead of simply as attr. The default behaviour has not changed. [Sandor Szago (sszago@saba.com)/Neil Graham]
Fixed parser behavior: by default Xerces now exposes element and attribute values as defined by the Infoset. [Tamura Kent, Elena Litani]
By default bind "xml" prefix to "http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" per Namespace Constraint: Prefix Declared (Namespaces in XML REC) [Elena Litani]
Fixed date/time datatype bugs. [Henry Zongaro]
Fixed several DOM Level 2 conformance bugs. [Elena Litani]
General bug fixes [Elena Litani, Pavani Mukthipudi, Sandy Gao]


	August 20, 2001 (version 1.4.3)

Reorganization of the DOM implementation to separate the Core functionality (new classes: CoreDOMImplementationImpl, CoreDocumentImpl), from the complete DOM (DOMImplementationImpl, DocumentImpl) [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fix to Base64 and HexBinary datatype validators so they work properly on OS/390 [Steve Dulin/Neil Graham]
General bug fixes [Lisa Martin, Sandy Gao, Elena Litani, Neil Graham]


	July 23, 2001 (version 1.4.2)

Performance fixes [Henry Zongaro/Lisa Martin]
Patches for improving serializer extensibility [Gunnlaugur Thor Briem/Elena Litani]
Bug fixes (schema implementation, build, etc.) [Sandy Gao, Neil Graham, Elena Litani, Lisa Martin]


	June 22, 2001 (version 1.4.1)

Added support for all IANA encoding aliases which have a clear mapping to encodings recognized by Java [Neil Graham]
Addressed degradations in DTD validation performance caused by the schema implementation [Sandy Gao, Neil Graham]
Bug fixes [Sandy Gao, Neil Graham, Elena Litani, Lisa Martin, Henry Zongaro, Edwin Goei]
Added support for setAttribute/getAttribute in JAXP [Edwin Goei]
Added two new parser properties related to XML Schema [Elena Litani]


	May 22, 2001 (version 1.4.0)

Completed implementation of schema Identity Constraints [Neil Graham]
Update XPath support to bring it into compliance with Schema PR [Achille Fokoue Nkoutche/Neil Graham]
Implemented Schema PR changes to the syntax of <attribute> declarations [Ted Han (than@ghx.com)/Neil Graham]
Added French resource bundle for regex package [Jean-Claude Dufourd, Laurent Foret/Neil Graham]
Added support for Schema "final" attribute [Neil Graham]
Added support for nillable and removed limitation for xsi:schemaLocation usage [Elena Litani]
PR changes for Datatypes (including implementation of date/time) [Sandy Gao, Elena Litani]
Added support for fixed attribute on datatype facets [Elena Litani]
Constraint checking [Lisa Martin, Neil Graham, Sandy Gao, Elena Litani]
Re-implemented "all" group support for performance reasons [Henry Zongaro]
Re-implemented "mixed" content model groups for Schema [Lisa Martin]
Miscellaneous bug fixes [Arnaud Le Hors, Jeffrey Rodrigues, Elena Litani]


	March 16, 2001 (version 1.3.1)

Added support for schema <redefine> element [Neil Graham]
Added support for schema notations [Elena Litani]
Implemented validation constraints for the "abstract" attribute on elements [Lisa Martin]
Simple value normalization and whitespace facet support [Elena Litani]
Fixed validation constraints surrounding the schema <annotation> element info item [Neil Graham]
Implemented support for JAXP 1.1 [Edwin Goei]
Added experimental DOM Level 3 features for handling XML header [Elena Litani]
Miscellaneous bugfixes [Arnaud Le Hors, Neil Graham, Elena Litani, Andy Clark, Lynn Monson, Sandy Gao, Brad O'Hearne]
Partially fixed inability to make (or build) Xerces under Unix [Neil Graham]
Removed final from XMLSerializer per request [Andy Clark]
Fixed identity constraint bugs (support still limited) [Andy Clark]
Changed parse method to close streams opened by parser even in event of error [Andy Clark]


	January 31, 2001 (version 1.3.0)

Upgraded schema support to the schema CR drafts at a similar level to that which had existed for the WD schema specifications. [Elena Litani, Lisa Martin, Neil Graham]
Implemented schema union simple type definition. [Elena Litani]
Implemented many attribute and element declaration schema-validation constraints, as well as use=prohibited. [Neil Graham]
Implemented basic support for XML Schema identity constraints [Andy Clark]
Fixed bug in Deferred DOM with multiple IDs on same element [Andy Clark]
Updates to improve DFA build-time performance. [Tozawa Akihiko]
Optimization of memory used by attribute nodes in the DOM. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed conflict between HTML DOM and Core DOM. [Mark Diekhans]
Optimized DOM normalize operation. [Jay Cain + Arnaud Le Hors]


	December 06, 2000 (version 1.2.3)

Fixed Memory leak bug was reported by Tosiki IGA where parser runs out of memory [Eric Ye]
Rampant object creation even when not validating fix patch send by Elena Litani[Elena Litani]
ListDatatypeValidator enumeration bug fix by Elena Litani Litani[Elena Litani]
Optimization in validator to only instantiate objects needed in the case of DTD vs. Schemas[Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed misc. Schema Structures miscelaneous bugs since last release [Eric Ye]
improved implementation of <all> schema construct to handle 8 elements instead of 6; also increased validation speed [Neil Graham, Eric Ye]
Fixed DOM misc. bugs and other patches since last release [Arnaud Le Hors]
Miscelaneous DOM patches by Lynn Monson [Lynn Monson]
Added new 'load-external-dtd' feature, so that when non validating, applications can ask the parser not to load the external subset at all [Arnaud Le Hors]


	November 22, 2000 (version 1.2.2)

DOM 2 Recommendation release support update [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed FAQ section submitted by Tony Montgomery Smith [Jeffrey Rodriguez,Tony Montgomery]
Added normalization patch by Ken Tamura [Jeffrey Rodriguez, Ken Tamura]
Fixed hang in UTF8Reader when we find a multb. UTF8 char. outside [#x10000-#x10FFFF] range [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed problem in Server env. with Singleton implemtation of validators [Eric Ye, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed patch submitted by Elena Litani Kitani and others with RangeImpl [Eric Ye, Elena Litani, Lynn Monson]
Fixed misc. Schema Structures miscelaneous bugs since last release [Eric Ye]
Miscelaneous bug fixes and patches submitted by Lisa Martin [Lisa Martin]
Fixed DOM misc. bugs and other patches since last release [Arnaud Le Hors]


	October 19, 2000 (version 1.2.1)

This is a bug fix release
Added Mark Swinkels datatype list refactoring [Mark Swinkels, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Added RangeImpl patch submitted by Lynn Monson [Lynn monson, Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed datatype registry not being initialized in XMLValidator bug [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs since last release [Eric Ye]
Fixed misc. Datatypes bugs since last release [Jeffrey Rodriguez]


	August 28, 2000 (version 1.2.0)

Merged redundant Attribute validators inner classes with the data type validators. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed namespaces bugs for endElement method in SAX. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed misc. Schema Datatype bugs. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed misc. DOM implementation bugs. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed Makefiles and documentations. [Andy Clark]
Added "any" with "processContents='lax|skip'" support for Schema. [Eric Ye]
Added feature "load-dtd-grammar" [Eric Ye]
Fixed a bug in reset() method of XMLValidator. [Eric Ye]
Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs. [Eric Ye]


	July 26, 2000 (version 1.1.3)

Added "anyAttribute" support for Schema. [Eric Ye]
Added "xsi:type" support for Schema. [Eric Ye]
Added full equivClass support for Schema. [Eric Ye]
Fixed "form" attribute behavior to be fully compilant with Schema Spec. [Eric Ye]
Fixed "xml:space" bug in DTD validation. [Eric Ye, Andy Clark]
Expanded "any" element support to model groups. [Eric Ye]
Fixed "any" element bugs when there are multilple URIs. [Eric Ye]
Cleaned up XMLValidator. [Eric Ye]
Fixed misc. Schema bugs. [Eric Ye]
Fixed resolving Schema location bug in XMLValidator. [David Blankenship, Eric Ye]
Fixed for BUG:SAXParser endElement reports incorrect local name. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed DOM Java Serialization-previous fix did not work. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Added testcase under test to test DOM Java Serialization. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Added James Duncan fix suggestion to not compile RevalidatingDOMParser. [James Duncan, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Miscelanous DOM enhancements [Arnaud Le Hors].
Fixed parameterizes entities in XMLDTDScanner. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed bug reported by Philippe MOUAWAD, on XMLContentSpec toString method. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed problem with DTD validation when namespace is supported is on. [Andy Clark,Eric Ye]
Fixed bug reported by Michael Brundage in StringReader. [Jeffrey Rodriguez]


	June 21, 2000 (version 1.1.2)

Added "any" element content support for Schema [Andy Clark]
Fixed adjacent text nodes bug in deferred DOM [Andy Clark]
Fixed namespace URI bug in deferred DOM [Andy Clark]
Fixed null document type node bug [Andy Clark]
Fixed StringReader index out of bounds exception bug [Andy Clark]
Turned on namespace support in all parsers, by default [Andy Clark]
Added feature to allow Schema support to be turned off [Andy Clark]
Fixed SAX2 DeclHandler, LexicalHandler callbacks [Andy Clark]
Fixed DOM serialization [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed datatype enumeration bugs [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed datatype pattern bugs [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed datatype min/maxLength bugs [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Modified samples to include additional switches [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed lexical comparison for string/qname datatypes [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Added regular expression character class subtraction [Ken Tamura]
Fixed regular expression bugs [Ken Tamura]
Added URI class [paul.eng@iclick.com]
Fixed import/include Schema bug [Eric Ye]
Fixed lots of Schema bugs [Eric Ye]


	June 5, 2000 (version 1.1.1)

Added Schema include/import [Eric Ye]
Performance tuning [Eric Ye, Andy Clark]
Added Ant support to build process [abagchi]
Re-architecture Schema datatypes [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Re-organized docs directory to get FOP to work[Anupam Bagchi, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed Dynamic validation bug [Eric Ye]
Fixed Grammar access bug [Eric Ye, Andy Clark]
Fixed Miscellaneous bugs [Eric Ye, Andy Clark, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Added JAXP to build, updated JAXP files [Arnaud Le Hors]
Added a DOM from scratch and Serializer sample [Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Fixed NodeImpl supports nullpointer bug in Samples [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed a bug in cloning default attribute


	May 19, 2000 (version 1.1.0)

Reworked internals for XML Schema support [Andy Clark, Eric Ye, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Updated XML Schema support to April working draft [Eric Ye, Jeffrey Rodriguez]
Changed code to notify error handler of content model validation errors before calling endElement [Arnaud Le Hors]


	May 9, 2000

Upgraded to SAX 2.0. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Added support for WML DOM. [david]
Preliminary work for full schema support. [Andy Clark, Glenn Marcy, jefreyr, Eric Ye]
Reorganized DOM classes to use much less memory. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Entities and entity reference nodes are now readonly as expected. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Entity references now have their replacement value when created with createEntityReference. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed problem in Deferred DOM which made building it N^2 order. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Fixed handling of elements with IDs in Deferred DOM. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Added support for namespaces in parameter entities. [Arnaud Le Hors]
setNodeValue raised an exception when it should simply be a no-op. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Attributes returned by setNamedItem and setNamedItemNS could not be reused. [Arnaud Le Hors]
Implemented new DOM Level 2 methods hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS. [Arnaud Le Hors]
43: importNode now uses createElementNS and createAttributeNS when necessary. [Arnaud Le Hors]
59: after a first iteration over the whole list, item(index) returned the wrong value. [Arnaud Le Hors]
60: Fixed. [Andy Clark]
62: Cloned attributes return wrong owner element. [awiner@us.oracle.com]
Fixed caption element creation pb with HTMLTableElement. [Assaf Arkin]
Improved performance of XML serialize. Added support of encodings and reuse of serializer. [Assaf Arkin]
Updated XML serializer to not be strictly dependent on DOM Level 2. [Andy Clark]


	March 8, 2000

26: Schema lookup disabled when validation is off. [Arnaud Le Hors]
23: With UCS-4 and UTF-16 encodings, 0xD characters are now properly normalized.[Glenn Marcy]
27: SAX2 http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces - default set to true. [pier]
28: Fixed error in setNamespaces javadoc [elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
33: Relaxed restraint of xml:space attribute for XHTML DTDs [david-b@pacbell.net]
34: SAX 2.0beta2 changes accepted. [Ralf Pfeiffer]
35: Fixed getLength() to always return the right value[Arnaud Le Hors]
36: Fixed setPrefix() to update nodeName [Arnaud Le Hors]


	February 8, 2000

Removed hard-coded strings to enable national language support (NLS) [Jeffrey Rodriguez, Arnaud Le Hors, Ralf Pfeiffer]
Update for SAX2beta [Andy Clark]
Add new feature http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace [Andy Clark]
ChunkyByteArray - needed resize chunk array for large files [Andy Clark]
UTF8DataChunk - memory perf fix [Andy Clark]
DOM L1 - cache node children length to accelerate Node#item()[Andy Clark]
DOM L1 - Off by one error in DeferredDocumentImpl [jflight@impresse.com]
DOM L1 - Slight refactoring of DOM to save memory [Arnaud Le Hors]
Schema datatypes - add binary & URI, update decimal & String [twl]
Schema datatypes - allow StringValidator to validate maxLength & enumeration facets [gtj@peakin.com]
Schema datatypes - timeDuration & timeInstant validators [gtj@peakin.com]
Schema functionality - allow schema lookup via installed entity resolver [gtj@peakin.com]
Schema bug fixes (reportSchemaError & integer subtype registration) [gtj@peakin.com]
Serializer bug on CData sections [Assaf Arkin]
Serializers now prints PUBLIC/SYSTEM id [Assaf Arkin]
HTMLTableElementImpl - Empty cell no longer created when adding a row [Assaf Arkin]
DOM L2 - TreeWalkerImpl didn't iterate backwards properly [bmj01@club-internet.fr]
DOM L2 - Tracking the candidate recommendation [Arnaud Le Hors]
DOM L2 Namespace bug fixes [Ralf Pfeiffer, Arnaud Le Hors]
DOM L2 API moved to org.w3c.dom where it belongs [Ralf Pfeiffer]
DOMMemTest [Arnaud Le Hors]


	December 31, 1999

Include documentation in the repository.
Switch packaging to jar files from .zip and .tar.gz files.
StreamingCharReader for stream based applications.
Assaf Arkin's serialization package.
Assaf Arkin's HTML DOM Level 1 classes.
Performance improvements.
Bug fixes.


	November 5, 1999

Created initial code base from IBM's XML4J.
Modified documentation to reflect new name (Xerces)