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08 August 2005 - Apache Xalan-Java 2.7.0 Released

The Apache Xalan Project has released the version 2.7 of Xalan-Java (Xalan-J). The previous release was Xalan-J 2.6 on February 29, 2004, about 17 months before.

New features in the version 2.7:

• Support for JAXP 1.3 (thanks to Sun for donating JAXP 1.3) including new default error handling behavior required as part of JAXP 1.3 support.
• Support for XML 1.1 in input XML documents, output XML documents and stylesheets themselves (previously only XML 1.0 was supported)
• Updates to the SQL extension an SQL samples to support the Apache Derby database.
• Support for alternate BSF (Bean Scripting Framework) implementations.
• The code that does the serialization (writes the output to a file) was separated into an independent serializer.jar that can be used to write out a DOM, or SAX events into a file, or stream of characters without dependencies on any XSLT processor. Perhaps in the future Xerces-J will use this serializer.
• Minor restructuring of the source and binary distributions.
• Various performance fixes, and memory leak fixes, and others. A full list is at http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/readme.html
• Upgrade to Xerces-J 2.7.1 and a new version of xml-commons (xml-commons-external-1.3.02).

Downloads:

http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/downloads.html

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