Releases

| 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)

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