Releases

| October 19, 2000 |
| This is a bug fix release Added Mark Swinkels datatype list refactoring [mark swinkels, jeffreyr] Added RangeImpl patch submitted by Lynn Monson [lynn monson,lehors, lehors] Fixed datatype registry not being initialized in XMLValidator bug [jeffreyr] Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs since last release [ericye] Fixed misc. Datatypes bugs since last release [jeffreyr]
| August 28, 2000 |
| Merged redundant Attribute validators inner classes with the data type validators. [jeffreyr] Fixed namespaces bugs for endElement method in SAX. [jeffreyr] Fixed misc. Schema Datatype bugs. [jeffreyr] Fixed misc. DOM implementation bugs. [lehors] Fixed Makefiles and documentations. [andyc] Added "any" with "processContents='lax|skip'" support for Schema. [ericye] Added feature "load-dtd-grammar" [ericye] Fixed a bug in reset() method of XMLValidator. [ericye] Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs. [ericye]
| July 26, 2000 |
| Added "anyAttribute" support for Schema. [ericye] Added "xsi:type" support for Schema. [ericye] Added full equivClass support for Schema. [ericye] Fixed "form" attribute behavior to be fully compilant with Schema Spec. [ericye] Fixed "xml:space" bug in DTD validation. [ericye, andyc] Expanded "any" element support to model groups. [ericye] Fixed "any" element bugs when there are multilple URIs. [ericye] Cleaned up XMLValidator. [ericye] Fixed misc. Schema bugs. [ericye] Fixed resolving Schema location bug in XMLValidator. [David.Blankenship@kla_tencor.com, ericye] Fixed for BUG:SAXParser endElement reports incorrect local name. [jeffreyr] Fixed DOM Java Serialization-previous fix did not work. [jeffreyr] Added testcase under test to test DOM Java Serialization. [jeffreyr] Added James Duncan fix suggestion to not compile RevalidatingDOMParser. [James Duncan, jeffreyr] Miscelanous DOM enhancements [lehors]. Fixed parameterizes entities in XMLDTDScanner. [jeffreyr] Fixed bug reported by Philippe MOUAWAD, on XMLContentSpec toString method. [jeffreyr] Fixed problem with DTD validation when namespace is supported is on. [andyc,ericye] Fixed bug reported by Michael Brundage in StringReader. [jeffreyr]
| June 21, 2000 |
| Added "any" element content support for Schema [andyc] Fixed adjacent text nodes bug in deferred DOM [andyc] Fixed namespace URI bug in deferred DOM [andyc] Fixed null document type node bug [andyc] Fixed StringReader index out of bounds exception bug [andyc] Turned on namespace support in all parsers, by default [andyc] Added feature to allow Schema support to be turned off [andyc] Fixed SAX2 DeclHandler, LexicalHandler callbacks [andyc] Fixed DOM serialization [jeffreyr] Fixed datatype enumeration bugs [jeffreyr] Fixed datatype pattern bugs [jeffreyr] Fixed datatype min/maxLength bugs [jeffreyr] Modified samples to include additional switches [jeffreyr] Fixed lexical comparison for string/qname datatypes [jeffreyr] Added regular expression character class subtraction [tkent@jp.ibm.com] Fixed regular expression bugs [tkent@jp.ibm.com] Added URI class [paul.eng@iclick.com] Fixed import/include Schema bug [ericye] Fixed lots of Schema bugs [ericye]
| June 5, 2000 |
| Added Schema include/import [ericye] Performance tuning [ericye, andyc] Added Ant support to build process [abagchi] Re-architecture Schema datatypes [jeffreyr] Re-organized docs directory to get FOP to work[abagchi, jeffreyr] Fixed Dynamic validation bug [ericye] Fixed Grammar access bug [ericye, andyc] Fixed Miscellaneous bugs [ericye, andyc, jeffreyr] Added JAXP to build, updated JAXP files [lehors] Added a DOM from scratch and Serializer sample [jeffreyr] Fixed NodeImpl supports nullpointer bug in Samples [lehors] Fixed a bug in cloning default attribute
| May 19, 2000 |
| Reworked internals for XML Schema support [andyc, ericye, jeffreyr] Updated XML Schema support to April working draft [ericye, jeffreyr] Changed code to notify error handler of content model validation errors before calling endElement [lehors]
| May 9, 2000 |
| Upgraded to SAX 2.0. [lehors] Added support for WML DOM. [david] Preliminary work for full schema support. [andyc, gmarcy, jefreyr, ericye] Reorganized DOM classes to use much less memory. [lehors] Entities and entity reference nodes are now readonly as expected. [lehors] Entity references now have their replacement value when created with createEntityReference. [lehors] Fixed problem in Deferred DOM which made building it N^2 order. [lehors] Fixed handling of elements with IDs in Deferred DOM. [lehors] Added support for namespaces in parameter entities. [lehors] setNodeValue raised an exception when it should simply be a no-op. [lehors] Attributes returned by setNamedItem and setNamedItemNS could not be reused. [lehors] Implemented new DOM Level 2 methods hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS. [lehors] 43: importNode now uses createElementNS and createAttributeNS when necessary. [lehors] 59: after a first iteration over the whole list, item(index) returned the wrong value. [lehors] 60: Fixed. [andyc] 62: Cloned attributes return wrong owner element. [awiner@us.oracle.com] Fixed caption element creation pb with HTMLTableElement. [arkin] Improved performance of XML serialize. Added support of encodings and reuse of serializer. [arkin] Updated XML serializer to not be strictly dependent on DOM Level 2. [andyc]
| March 8, 2000 |
| 26: Schema lookup disabled when validation is off. [lehors] 23: With UCS-4 and UTF-16 encodings, 0xD characters are now properly normalized.[gmarcy] 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. [rpfeiffe] 35: Fixed getLength() to always return the right value[lehors] 36: Fixed setPrefix() to update nodeName[lehors]
| February 8, 2000 |
| Removed hard-coded strings to enable national language support (NLS) [jeffreyr,lehors,rip] Update for SAX2beta [andyc] Add new feature `http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace` [andyc] ChunkyByteArray - needed resize chunk array for large files [andyc] UTF8DataChunk - memory perf fix [andyc] DOM L1 - cache node children length to accelerate `Node#item()`[andyc] DOM L1 - Off by one error in DeferredDocumentImpl [jflight@impresse.com] DOM L1 - Slight refactoring of DOM to save memory [lehors] 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 [arkin] Serializers now prints PUBLIC/SYSTEM id [arkin] HTMLTableElementImpl - Empty cell no longer created when adding a row [arkin] DOM L2 - TreeWalkerImpl didn't iterate backwards properly [bmj01@club-internet.fr] DOM L2 - Tracking the candidate recommendation [lehors] DOM L2 Namespace bug fixes [rip, lehors] DOM L2 API moved to org.w3c.dom where it belongs [rip] DOMMemTest [lehors]
| 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)