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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)