[ANN]: Xerces 2.6.2 Next Release

[Michael Glavassevich]

Hi all,

I want to let everyone know that we're planning a point release of Xerces early next week.

Fairly soon after the 2.6.1 release it was discovered that some of the method signatures in the XML Schema API [1] do not match the signatures in the implementation.  We plan to fix the API given that implementations in Xerces-J and Xerces-C++ are already out in the world.  As was mentioned last week we also plan to deprecate [2] the HTMLSerializer and XHTMLSerializer as a first step in our effort towards common serialization code with Xalan.

In addition we've fixed a number of bugs including:
- A bug introduced in 2.6.1 which caused the XMLSerializer to automatically expand entity references and convert CDATA sections to text.
- Some SAX conformance bugs involving namespace prefixes with namespace support turned off.
- Several DOM L3 bugs.
- Message localization.

There are a few other issues which need to be addressed.  We're aiming for February 16th or 17th.

[1] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=3714
[2] http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/[EMAIL PROTECTED]&msgNo=3608

Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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