This is the first milestone in the 1.2 series of releases and is intended to serve as developer's preview of new features which will be part of 1.2 final release. Specifically, 1.2m1 introduces:

• New web based administration console;
• Read and write database access via WebDAV API;
• Full text indexing and querying of Xindice collections using Lucene;
• Full text search extension for XPath query language;
• as well as few bug fixes and enhancements.

Complete list of changes can be found here:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/changes.html

Xindice now comes in only two forms of distributions - source and binary, which is compiled with JDK 1.4, and available from the download page:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/download.cgi

Please send your comments and suggestions to the Xindice mailing lists. Bug reports and patches are accepted via Bugzilla:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

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This is the first production quality release in the 1.1 series of releases and follows four beta releases. Xindice 1.1 includes many bug fixes and stability improvements over the last beta release. Complete list of changes can be found here:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/changes.html

Xindice now comes in only two forms of distributions - source and binary, both are compiled with JDK 1.3.1 and available from the download page:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/download.cgi

Users upgrading existing databases from previous Xindice releases should read migration guide at:

http://xml.apache.org/xindice/community/upgrading/

Please send your comments and suggestions to the Xindice mailing lists. Bug reports and patches are accepted via Bugzilla:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

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Change Logs: http://xml.apache.org/security/changes.html

Downloads: http://xml.apache.org/security/download.html

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Apache Forrest is a publishing framework that transforms input from various sources into a unified presentation in one or more output formats. The modular and extensible plugin architecture is based on Apache Cocoon and relevant standards, which separates presentation from content. Apache Forrest can generate static documents, or be used as a dynamic server, or be deployed by its automated facility.

New features in this version include:

• Locationmaps define the mapping from requests to locations, which enables content and resources to be located at various different sources. The advantage of this is that the URL seen by the user need bear no relation to the location of the source document, thus Forrest can separate the client URL space from the source document URL space. Thus, using the locationmap it is possible to pull together documents from many different locations into a single uniform site. In addition, since the user URL space is now unconnected to the source URL space it is possible to move source documents without breaking any existing user links.
• Existing core plugins and sitemaps have been refactored to take advantage of locationmaps. Some core functionality has moved to plugins.
• Prototype of new xml-based properties system. Projects and plugins can use a forrest.properties.xml file. At this stage, it supplements the existing forrest.properties file.
• Some new documents to explain certain core aspects. Documentation menu navigation changed to provide clearer structure for Forrest project versioned product documentation grouped into howto and background sections. Better layout of the Developers tab into Getting Involved, Resources (mail lists, SVN, Issue Tracker) and Best Practices sections. See also the "linkmap" for an automated Table of Contents ability.

Full list of changes: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/changes.html

See also lists of changes in each plugin's documentation.

Upgrade guide: http://forrest.apache.org/docs/upgrading_08.html

See the issue tracker for known issues: http://forrest.apache.org/issues.html

Download: http://forrest.apache.org/mirrors.cgi

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• DOM Level 3 Core/Events/XPath support
• Improved WMF transcoder support
• Near complete SMIL Animation support
• A few SVG 1.2 features, such as:
  • resource documents
  • shapechange and RenderedBBoxChange events
  • SVGGlobal startMouseCapture/stopMouseCapture methods
  • handler elements

Batik can be downloaded from here:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/download.cgi

For the full list of improvements and bug fixes over version 1.6, click on the "release change log" link from that page.

The reasoning behind having a beta release rather than a full release is that there has been a great deal of changes since version 1.6, and while we believe the code to be reasonably stable, it would be beneficial to get feedback from users on any bugs that may have been missed. We plan to have a full 1.7 release in a month or two.

If you find any problems, please file bug reports:

http://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/

And for more information, see the Batik project website:

http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/batik/

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Apache XML Graphics Commons is a library that consists of several reusable components used by Apache Batik and Apache FOP. Many of these components can easily be used separately outside the domains of SVG and XSL-FO. You will find components such as a PDF library, an RTF library, Graphics2D implementations that let you generate PDF and PostScript files, and much more.

Important changes are:

• A start was made of an XMP metadata framework.
• ImageWriter abstraction supports writing multi-page formats like TIFF.

See http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/changes.html for the detailed list of changes.

Source and binary distributions can be downloaded from the corresponding directories in an Apache Software Foundation mirror at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlgraphics/commons.

See also the download page:
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/commons/download.html

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Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

• Implemented native support for the ISO-8859-1 encoding. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Added a method to XSModel which returns a list containing the members of the substitution group for a given element declaration. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Improved the performance of Xerces' optimized readers (for small documents) by recycling their byte buffers. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Modified the DocumentBuilder and LSParser implementations so that they drop their internal references to the DOM they just built. If an application is pooling parsers this will allow the garbage collector to reclaim the Document and all of its nodes if the application no longer has any references to it. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed numerous schema annotation related bugs including those introduced in Xerces-J 2.8.0 which caused NPEs to be thrown from several of the getAnnotation() methods in the XML Schema API. [Neil Delima, Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a DOM bug which caused the internal subset of a DocumentType node to be omitted from a cloned Document. [Jacob Kjome]
• Fixed a bug in Xerces' regular expression support involving patterns starting with '.'. [Kent Tamura]
• Fixed a bug which caused the DOM builder to drop all of the text in the document if grammar caching is enabled and the document being processed contains both an internal and an external DTD subset. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a schema bug which allowed defaulted attributes with the same local name to overwrite each other. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug which caused a schema document to be loaded multiple times if it was both included and redefined. This made it possible for the redefined components to be incorrectly overwritten by the original ones from the include. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug in Xerces' native serializer which caused documents containing supplemental characters in attribute values to be written incorrectly. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug in the XInclude processor which in some instances caused content to be omitted from the result if an element() XPointer is specified on an include element. [Neil Delima]
• Fixed various bugs and made various improvements. [Dave Brosius, Michael Glavassevich, Jacob Kjome, Peter McCracken]

For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/

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Berin Lautenbach, who had much contributed to the concept of Apache XML Federation framework, is the initial PMC Chair of new Apache Santuario Project.

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This release introduces several new validation related features and provides enhancements to the XML schema annotation support. All of the schema component interfaces in the XML Schema API now have a getAnnotations() method which returns a list of XSAnnotations. This includes annotations on particles and attribute uses which were previously "lost". In addition, in this release we implemented support for pretty-printing in the LSSerializer, repaired the warn-on-undeclared-elemdef feature which had been broken for several releases and fixed many other bugs.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

• Added a getAnnotations() method to each of the component interfaces in the XML Schema API (including XSParticle and XSAttributeUse) and implemented the support for the new methods. [Neil Delima]
• Implemented a property for starting schema assessment from a specific type definition. [Peter McCracken]
• Implemented features for disabling ID/IDREF, unparsed entity and identity constraint checking. [Peter McCracken]
• Implemented a feature which instructs the schema validator to ignore xsi:type attributes until a global element declaration has been found. [Peter McCracken]
• Modified the JAXP Validation API implementation so that it propagates features set on the SchemaFactory to the Schemas created from the factory and in turn ValidatorHandlers and Validators constructed from those Schema objects (as clarified by JAXP 1.4). [Peter McCracken]
• Implemented the DOM Level 3 Load and Save format-pretty-print parameter. [Mat?j Kraus]
• Fixed the warn-on-undeclared-elemdef feature which had been broken for many releases. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Implemented a feature which allows the parser to process DTDs containing large content models which under normal operation may cause a StackOverflowError to occur. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Improved the performance and memory usage of XSAnnotation.writeAnnotation(). [Michael Glavassevich]
• Implemented XML Schema erratum E2-66. [Sandy Gao]
• Fixed bugs in the implementation of Document.normalizeDocument() which caused DTD validation to fail in numerous scenarios. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug where schema validation performed in Document.normalizeDocument() was adding default attributes without setting their owner element or firing mutation events. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug which caused the JAXP 1.2 method for schema validation to fail when the parser is reused. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed a bug which caused a ClassCastException to be thrown when adopting a node from a deferred DOM into a non-deferred DOM. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Fixed the dtdjars build target which had been broken for several releases. [Michael Glavassevich]
• Improved identity constraint error messages. [George Cristian Bina]
• Fixed various bugs and made various improvements. [Nathan Beyer, Dave Brosius, Sandy Gao, Michael Glavassevich, Mat?j Kraus, Peter McCracken]

For more information please visit: http://xerces.apache.org/xerces2-j/

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The changes made since 0.91 alpha can be found here: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/changes.html

The following page contains the links to the various distributions: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/download.html

To those of you still using FOP 0.20.5 we would like to repeat the request to go ahead and try out the redesigned FOP. The more feedback we get, the more likely it becomes that certain features and enhancements will find their way into the codebase. If you encounter problems when upgrading, please check the following page first: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.91/upgrading.html

If the answer to your particular problem isn't mentioned there, the Apache FOP Team will be at your disposal on fop-users.AT.xmlgraphics.apache.org to help guide you to a working solution.

Code-grinders are, of course, always welcome to check out the source distribution and offer any ideas for enhancement and/or improvement on fop-dev.AT.xmlgraphics.apache.org.

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The main changes in this release are:

• Better performance and memory utilization.
• Bug fixes.

The detailed changelog can be found here: http://xml.apache.org/security/changes.html

Thanks to everyone involved.

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• Feature to not generate XML Schema annotations. That is, not to add them to the grammar. If you don't need annotations you may want to turn on this feature to avoid memory bloat for XML Schemas that use annotations heavily.
• Option to skip regenerating the XML Schema annotations when deserializing a grammar. If you don't need annotations you may want to turn on this option to avoid memory bloat for XML Schemas that use annotations heavily.
• Feature to not perform default entity resolution. When the entityResolver returns NULL, the parser does not try to resolve the entity externally.
• Feature to do schema-only validation even if there is a DTD.

The web site [1] has been updated earlier today and the release should be available from all of the Apache mirrors within 24 hours; the list can be accessed via the Apache Xerces-C download page [2].

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• [2] - http://xml.apache.org/xerces-c/download.html

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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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http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/xerces-j/

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XMLBeans is a tool that allows you to access the full power of XML in a Java friendly way. You can take advantage of all the richness and features of XML and XML Schema and have these features mapped as naturally as possible to the equivalent Java language and typing constructs.

XMLBeans uses XML Schema to generate Java interfaces and classes that you can then use to access and modify XML instance data. Using XMLBeans is similar to using any other Java interface/class, you will see things like getFoo or setFoo just as you would expect when working with Java.

While a major use of XMLBeans is to access your XML instance data with strongly typed Java classes there are also API's that allow you to access the full XML infoset (XMLBeans keeps XML Infoset fidelity) as well as to reflect into the XML schema itself through an XML Schema Object Model.

Here's a short list of improvements in this release:

• Improved XQuery/XPath integration - Both XQuery and XPath on XMLBeans are now fully integrated. XPath and XQuery expressions can return other XMLObjects, or they can be executed using an XmlCursor instance, in which case you manipulate the results using a cursor.
• DOM Level II Support - DOM Level II support is now implemented natively so that you can handle the underlying XML in the DOM style. You can switch between DOM, XmlCursor, and XmlObject (either untyped or typed). This improves performance and reduces the memory footprint over Version 1.
• Extensions - You can now add custom functionality to generated XMLBeans. You can pass to the Schema Compiler 1) an interface that defines the set of methods to implement and 2) a static handler that implements this functionality. The generated classes will implement the interface and, for each method, call out to the static handler.
• Improved Error Handling - This version adds error codes and ensures message consistency. In addition, fail-fast behavior is provided for simple types, while access to the post schema validation infoset is made available during validation.
• Performance - Performance has been improved across the board. Native DOM support improves performance and memory footprint; XML parsing is now by default performed by Piccolo, a high performance parser; incremental compilation of only modified artifacts has been added; and the performance of the XmlCursor implementation has been greatly improved.
• JDK 1.5 Generics - Generated classes now optionally take advantage of JDK 1.5 Generics. Note that JDK 1.4 continues to be supported.
• XML Instance/XSD Generation - You can generate a sample XML instance from schema using the xsd2inst tool (which uses the SchemaInstanceGenerator class). You can also generate a schema from an instance using the inst2xsd tool (which uses the Inst2Xsd class).

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This release provides a complete implementation of the parser related portions of JAXP 1.3 and also brings Xerces into compliance with SAX 2.0.2, the DOM Level 3 Core and Load/Save W3C Recommendations, the XML Inclusions (XInclude) Version 1.0 W3C Recommendation and the XML Schema 1.0 Structures and Datatypes Second Edition W3C Recommendations.

Xerces-J 2.7.0 incorporates two minor changes to the Xerces Native Interface. A new package org.apache.xerces.xs.datatypes has been added to Xerces' XML Schema API that provides a full schema datatype to object mapping. In addition, in this release we introduced many new parser features, improved parser performance in several areas and fixed many bugs.

Specifically, the significant changes introduced in this release are:

• Implemented the following packages defined by JAXP 1.3: javax.xml.datatype, javax.xml.parsers and javax.xml.validation.
• Defined and implemented interfaces (org.apache.xerces.xs.datatypes) for accessing actual values.
• Implemented a feature that instructs the schema processor to use all schema location hints for a given target namespace when locating components.
• Implemented partial experimental support for the first working draft of XML Schema 1.1 Structures and Datatypes.
• Implemented features for configuring whether the XInclude processor performs base URI fixup and/or language fixup.
• Implemented the XInclude Recommendation (December 2004).
• Fixed a bug which caused the DTD validator to be activated when using the XInclude processor with schema validation turned on.
• Modified the XNI XMLLocator interface to include getCharacterOffset and getXMLVersion. Added a getCharacterOffset method to XMLParseException.
• Made various modifications to support the reporting of character offsets in XNI and DOM.
• Implemented SAX 2.0.2 and SAX2 Extensions 1.1.
• Fixed SAX conformance bugs including one concerning skipped entities.
• Implemented a feature that allows schema annotations to be validated.
• Added support for generating synthetic annotations when a schema component has non-schema attributes but no child annotation.
• Fixed numerous schema related bugs.
• Reimplemented Text.replaceWholeText and TypeInfo.isDerivedFrom according to the DOM Level 3 Core Recommendation.
• Fixed various DOM Level 3 bugs.
• Fixed numerous bugs in the DOM Level 2 Events and Traversal and Range implementation.
• Created two new parser configurations that support XML 1.1.
• Improved the performance of the SymbolTable, processing of attribute values and parsing of relative URIs.
• Added support for EntityResolver2 and LSResourceResolver to XMLCatalogResolver.
• Fixed a potential memory leak in the ObjectFactory classes which in some circumstances allowed input streams to never be closed.
• Fixed a thread-safety bug concerning identity constraints which caused spurious errors about duplicate field matches to be reported.
• Fixed many other bugs.

Downloads: http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xml/xerces-j/

For more information please visit: http://xml.apache.org/xerces2-j/

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Full details of changes can be found in the project's changelog. More information on the C++ library can be found at the project's website.

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Major goals of the 2.0.0-beta1 release:

• source backwards compatible
• improve usability of wildcards, substitution groups, error handling
• a native DOM level 2 API
• integration with Saxon xpath/xquery engine
• performance improvements
• instance to schema and schema to instance tools

For a comprehensive list of improvements, see the CHANGES.txt file in the distribution.

Goals for the next 2.0.0 release include fixing any remaining performance issues and bugs. Please take 2.0.0-beta1 for a spin and help us make the 2.0.0 GA rock solid.

The source and binaries are available on mirror near you at:
http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi/xmlbeans

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• Better speed & memory utilization.
• Easier JCE integration.

The Apache-XML-Security-J 1.2 supports XML-Signature Syntax and Processing, W3C Recommendation 12 February 2002 and (in beta) XML Encryption Syntax and Processing, W3C Recommendation 10 December 2002.

Both binary and source distributions are available from the download section on the project site. Please remember to verify the signatures of the files you download using the keys found on the project site to verify integrity of the package.

For more information on Apache-XML-Security-J, see the XML Security web site.

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Apache XML Graphics Project is responsible for software licensed to the Apache Software Foundation intended for the creation & maintenance of:

• the conversion of XML formats to graphical output
• related software components

Apache XML Graphics Project currently consists of the following sub-projects, each focused on a different aspect of XML Graphics:

• Apache Batik - A toolkit for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), based in Java
• Apache FOP - A print formatter & renderer for XSL-FO (FO=formatting objects), based in Java

Jeremias Maerki is the first Chair of the Apache XML Graphics PMC (Project Management Committee).

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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.

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• 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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Note:

This is one of the 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 ASF. Look for more promotions over the next few months.

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