Apache News Online : Apache Xalan

22 October 2005 - Apache Xalan-C++ 1.10 Released

The Apache Xalan Project released the version 1.10 of Apache Xalan-C++.

Apache Xalan-C++ version 1.10 is a robust implementation of the W3C Recommendations for XSL Transformations (XSLT) and the XML Path Language (XPath). It works with a compatible release of the Xerces-C++ XML parser: Xerces-C++ version 2.7.0. The focus for this release is on bug fixes, pluggable memory management, and enhanced stability improvements in stylesheet execution.

This release inlcudes:

• Support for XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1
• Improved and stabilized C pluggable memory management functionality
• Xalan XML serializer redesign for better performance ans stability
• performance fixes
• Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.6 to Xerces-C 2.7
• Support for IBM XLC 7.0 compiler on Linux.
• the usual bug fixes

For more details please refer to :
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-c/whatsnew.html

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-- The Apache Xalan Project

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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-- The Apache Xalan Project

25 October 2004 - Apache Xalan Project Becomes Top Level in Apache.Org

The Board of the Apache Software Foundation approved the creation of Apache Xalan PMC (Project Management Committee), with Brian Minchau as its Chair. It picks up the Xalan projects from Apache XML.

This is a part of an effort of the Apache XML Project to reduce the number of diseparate projects under its covers, with the hope that the smaller projects can provide more fine-tuned oversight and management of the codebases and communities, and is one of the major steps of the Apache XML Project to promote its projects upwards and become a federation, or a central information repository, of all the XML-related projects at the Apache Software Foundation.