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02 October 2004 - Apache Xerces-C 2.6.0 Released

The Apache Xerces-C team is very pleased to announce that Xerces-C 2.6.0 has been released today. Along with many bug fixes, the major features of the new release are:

• Reduce footprint of DLL by building the deprecated DOM as a separate library


• Various enhancements to the schema component model API


• Improve support for schema annotations, including an option to laxly validate their contents


• Bring parser up to the XML 1.0 3rd Edition


• Update to the XML 1.1 recommendation


• Update Schema Errata


• Feature for disabling schema identity constraints


• Upgrade to ICU3.0


• Enable the parser to handle elements with a very large number of attributes

For a comprehensive list of features, see "New features in Xerces-C++ 2.6.0" [1]; for a complete list of changes, including bugfixes, see "Release Information of Xerces-C++ 2.6.0" [2]. The release should be available from all of the Apache mirrors within 24 hours; the list can be accessed via the Xerces-C download page [3].

• [1]:http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/migrate.html#NewFeatures260
• [2]:http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/releases.html
• [3]:http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

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The Apache XML Xerces-C Development Team