Hi everyone,
The XML Commons team is pleased to announce that version
1.3.04 of XML
Commons External is now available. This release adds Java
Language
Bindings for SAC 1.3 (The Simple API for CSS), SMIL and SVG
1.1 and
contains several fixes and improvements to the JAXP 1.3
APIs.
Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:
* Added Java Language Bindings for SAC 1.3 (The Simple API
for CSS), SMIL
and SVG 1.1. These three packages that were formerly
published by Apache
Batik are now included in the new xml-apis-ext.jar.
* Added SchemaFactoryLoader. This class was removed from the
JAXP 1.3
specification before it was finalized but was mistakenly
included in Java
5. It only exists here (and in JAXP 1.4) for compatibility
reasons.
Applications should avoid using it.
* Added a serialVersionUID to TransformerException to
restore
serialization compatibility. It had been broken by a
previous modification
to this class.
* Serialization compatibility of QName was broken in JAXP
1.3 when the
serialVersionUID changed from -9120448754896609940 (which
was the original
one introduced in JAX-RPC 1.0) to 4418622981026545151.
Restored the
original serialVersionUID and provided a system property
called
org.apache.xml.namespace.QName.useCompatibleSerialVersionUID
which will
select 4418622981026545151 as the serialVersionUID when the
property is
set to "1.0".
* Added a readObject() method to QName to allow older
versions of the
class which didn't have a prefix field to be deserialized
correctly.
* Fixed bugs in the factory finding algorithm used by
SchemaFactory and
XPathFactory for META-INF/services files. Previously these
files were
being read as if they were properties files. The correct
format of a
service file is a newline-separated list of unique concrete
provider-class
names.
* Made the behaviour of the jaxp.debug property consistent
across all of
the FactoryFinder classes. If the value of the property is
"false" then
the debug field is set to false.
* Modified the FactoryFinder and SecuritySupport classes to
prevent them
from being extended or instantiated.
* Eliminated the creation of temporary Boolean objects in
the
SecuritySupport classes.
* Eliminated the creation of short lived StringBuffer and
String objects
in each of the FactoryFinder classes. The debug print method
calls were
creating instances of StringBuffer and String which were
never read.
* Modified the SAX XMLReaderFactory and ParserFactory so
that they use a
PrivilegedAction (through the SecuritySupport class) for
looking up system
properties.
* Fixed errors in the usage examples for the JAXP 1.3
Validation and XPath
APIs. Namespace-awareness needs to be set to true on the
DocumentBuilderFactory.
* Fixed the Implementation-Vendor and Implementation-URL
entries in the
xml-apis.jar manifest.
For more information please visit: http://xml.apache.org/
commons/
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
E-mail: mrglavas ca.ibm.com
E-mail: mrglavasapache.org
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