Xerces2

This release expands on Xerces' experimental support for XML Schema 1.1 by providing implementations for the simplified complex type restriction rules (also known as subsumption), xs:override, and a few other XML Schema 1.1 features. It introduces experimental support for XML Schema Component Designators (SCD). It fixes several bugs that were present in 2.10.0 and also includes a few other minor enhancements.

This release introduces experimental support for the XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes (December 2009) Working Drafts. It also contains an implementation of the parser related portions of JAXP 1.4, including partial support for StAX 1.0 (javax.xml.stream.events only) and a complete implementation of the DOM Element Traversal API. It contains fixes for several bugs which were present in Xerces-J 2.9.1, as well as a few other enhancements and performance improvements.

This release fixes several bugs and includes a few minor enhancements and performance improvements.

As of this release, Xerces' distribution includes
the Xalan serializer.
Xerces and Xalan now share a common serialization
codebase. The DOM
Level 3 serialization support which was in Xerces
has been migrated into
the Xalan serializer, and Xerces' native
serializer has been deprecated.
This release also upgrades the xml-commons
resolver to version 1.2
(which provides support for OASIS XML Catalogs
1.1), introduces a few
minor features, and fixes several bugs.

This release fixes several bugs which were present
in Xerces-J 2.8.0. It also includes a few minor
enhancements and performance improvements.