gmane.text.xml.announce

[ANN] Apache Ant (TM) 1.8.2 Released

Antoine Levy-Lambert — 2010-12-27T17:01:25

Hi,

the Apache Ant development team is proud to announce the release of
Apache Ant (TM) 1.8.2

Key features of the 1.8.2 release are

    * performance improvements in directory scanning
    * XSLT task honors classpath again (bugrep 49271)
    * distinction between core tasks and optional tasks is abolished
    * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and
in WHATSNEW

Thanks to all our committers and contributors. Best wishes for 2011.

Regards,

Antoine

[ANN] release of Apache Ant 1.8.1

Antoine Levy-Lambert — 2010-05-14T23:13:07

Hi,

on behalf of the Ant development team, I have the pleasure to announce
the release of Apache Ant 1.8.1.

Key features of the 1.8.1 release are

    * new task augment allows to add attributes or nested elements to
previously defined references
    * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and
in WHATSNEW

Regards,

Antoine Levy-Lambert

[ANN] Release of Ant 1.8.0

Antoine Levy Lambert — 2010-02-08T22:37:43

Hi,

on behalf of the Ant development team, I have the pleasure to announce 
the release of Ant 1.8.0.

Some of the features included in the new release are :

    *  Lexically scoped local properties, i.e. properties that are only 
defined inside a target, sequential block or similar environment.
    * <import> can now import from any file- or URL-providing resource - 
this includes <javaresource>.
    * Various improvements to the directory scanning code that help with 
symbolic link cycles (as can be found on MacOS X Java installations for 
example) and improve scanning performance. For big directory trees the 
improvement is dramatic.
    * The way developers can extend Ant's property expansion algorithm 
has been rewritten (breaking the older API) to be easier to use and be 
more powerful.
    * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be 
extended with custom targets more easily
    * At the same time the if and unless attributes have been rewritten 
to do the expected thing if app

Xerces-C++ 3.1.0 released

Boris Kolpackov — 2010-02-01T12:30:45

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the release of Xerces-C++ 3.1.0. This version 
is interface-compatible (but not necessarily binary-compatible) with 
Xerces-C++ 3.0.x and contains the following major new features and
improvements:

 * Working multi-import support. The support for handling multiple import
   declarations with the same target namespaces has been improved and
   thoroughly tested. Furthermore, the same logic was extended to
   loadGrammar and the schemaLocation attributes so that you can load
   several schemas with the same namespace and/or "add" more declarations
   with the schemaLocation attributes. To enable this feature, set the
   XMLUni::fgXercesHandleMultipleImports feature/parameter to true.
   Starting with this release all the tests and examples have multi-import
   support enabled by default.

 * New property, XMLUni::fgXercesLowWaterMark, allows the configuration
   of the parser buffer low water mark. In particular, setting this value
   to 0 disables data caching in the parser whic

[ANN] Ant 1.8.0RC1 released

Antoine Levy Lambert — 2010-01-12T21:15:53

Hi,

 Apache Ant 1.8.0RC1 is now available for download from 
http://ant.apache.org

    * a new top level element extension-point allows build files to be 
extended with custom targets more easily
    * if and unless attributes will be evaluated according to the values 
of the properties entered if these properties evaluate to true, false, 
on, off
    * Ant now requires Java 1.4 or later
    * new task include provides an alternative to <import> that should 
be preferred when you don't want to override any targets
    * numerous bug fixes and improvements as documented in Bugzilla and 
in WHATSNEW


Regards,

Antoine

[ANNOUNCEMENT]: XML Commons External 1.2.06 now available

Michael Glavassevich — 2009-12-17T06:57:27


Hi everyone,

The XML Commons team is pleased to announce that version 1.2.06 of XML
Commons External is now available. This is a maintenance release of the
JAXP 1.2 APIs which were included in Xerces-J 2.6.2 and earlier.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

* Fixed a bug in StreamResult where it was not escaping non-ASCII
characters in its conversion of a java.io.File object to a system
identifier.

* 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.

* Updated each of the JAXP factory classes so that they treat an empty
string value for their system property as if it had not been set.
Previously the factories would make a futil