Quoting Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Quoting Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Jacob Kjome wrote: > > > > > > I saw that one of the release notes for Ant-1.7.0RC1 was... > > > > > > "Upgraded XML API and parser to Xerces 2.8.1" > > > > > > You may be interested to know that Xerces has now released version 2.9.0 > > > [1] and, along with it, a proper official release of > > > xml-commons-external-1.3.04 (otherwise known as xml-apis-1.3.04) [2]. A > > > number of bug fixes and features were implemented as well. Also note > > > that as of Xerces 2.9.0, there is now a shared serializer library and > > > the Xerces native serializers have been deprecated. When serializer.jar > > > (shipped with both Xerces2 and the next version of Xalan) is in the > > > classpath, this new shared serialization framework will be used instead > > > of the deprecated Xerces framework. There's also a new release of > > > xml-commons-resolver-1.2 [3] which includes a number of features and bug > > > fixes. I don't think Ant specifically uses that one, but I thought I'd > > > mention it just in case. > > > > > > I hope that Xerces-2.9.0, xml-apis-1.3.04, and the new serializer jar > > > (2.7.1, according the MANIFEST.MF, I guess to match the next version of > > > Xalan?) can make it into Ant before the official 1.7.0 release. > > > > > > Jake > > > > Jake, are you part of the Xerces team? > > > > Nope, but I did contribute to the latest release. > > > We can do this, but we like the stuff in the ibiblio.org repository to > > be in sync, if possible, and that's not been the case for the last few > > releases > > > > Do you mean... > > http://ibiblio.org/maven/xerces/ > > I see the 2.8.1 jars and poms there. I can ping the xerces list and get them > to > put the 2.9.0 versions out there. What's the time frame for the next > release? > Is it imminent? I can work on them to get it out there. Maybe you can just > check in the 2.9.0 stuff (xercesImpl.jar, xml-apis.jar, serializer.jar) in > the > meantime if the next release of Ant-1.7 (final?) is happening soon. >
Just wanted to note that I posted a message to the Xerces list. Here's a pointer to that email thread... http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=116499889520564&w=2 Jake --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
