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The Apache Xindice team is pleased to announce the production release of the next version of the Xindice native XML database, Apache Xindice 1.1. This release contains many stability and correctness enhancement and is recommended over any previous Xindice release.
Xerces-J 2.9.0 is now available from the Xerces-J site.
As of this release, Xerces and Xalan now share a common serialization codebase. The DOM Level 3 serialization support which was in Xerces was migrated into the Xalan serializer and Xerces' native serializer was deprecated. More information on changes can be found here.
This release adds support for OASIS XML Catalogs v1.1. See the changelog for details.
This release adds Java Language Bindings for SAC 1.3 (The Simple API for CSS), SMIL and SVG 1.1 and contains several fixes and improvements to the JAXP 1.3 APIs. See the changelog for details.
ApacheCon EU 2006. ApacheCon is the conference for all things Apache. Come along and learn about a range of new technologies, meet some Apache folks and share the knowledge. See more information about Apache Conferences.
XML::Xerces 2.7.0-0 is now available from the Xerces-P site.
The major change in this release (besides support for Xerces-C 2.7) is the elimination of the SAX/SAX2 related Unicode bugs. Xerces-P should now have 100% Unicode compliance.
Xerces-J 2.8.0 is now available from the Xerces-J site.
Information on changes can be found here.
ApacheCon US 2005 (10-14 December 2005). ApacheCon is the conference for all things Apache. Come along and learn about a range of new technologies, meet some Apache folks and share the knowledge. See more information about Apache Conferences.
ApacheCon Europe 2005 (18-22 July 2005) was a success. ApacheCon is the conference for all things Apache. Come along and learn about a range of new technologies, meet some Apache folks and share the knowledge. See more information about Apache Conferences.
Available from download mirrors. See the changelog for details.
Apache XML Batik and Apache XML FOP formed the Apache XML Graphics project.
ApacheCon US 2004
Available from download mirrors. See the changelog for details.
forrest.apache.org
Available from Apache Cocoon 2.1
Xerces-J 2.6.1 is now available from the Xerces-J site.
Changes include :
Xalan-C++ 1.7 is now officially available from the Xalan-C++ site.
Changes include :
Xerces-C++ Version 2.4 has now been released, and is available from the Xerces-C++ site.
Information on changes can be found here.
ApacheCon US 2003 was a success. ApacheCon is the conference for all things Apache. Come along and learn about a range of new technologies, meet some Apache folks and share the knowledge.
See the changelog for details.
The Xalan team is pleased to announce the availability of Xalan Java 2.5.2.
Xalan Java provides XSLT processors for transforming XML documents into HTML, text, or other XML document types. The Xalan Java Interpretive processor and the Xalan Java Compiling processor implement XSL Transformations (XSLT) Version 1.0, XML Path Language (XPath) Version 1.0, and Java API for XML Programming (JAXP) Version 1.2.
Xalan Java 2.5.2 can be downloaded from one of the Apache
mirrors at
Beta release with some new functionality and updated documentation to match Forrestized website. Expect a 1.1 release in time for the next Ant release, which bundles Resolver. See the changelog for details.
Bugfix release using Cocoon 2.1.2, which fixes a bug where some pages (most noticeably, the last image on the default skin) to not be rendered. Also includes skin fixes, and the ability to obfuscate email addresses. See the changelog for details.
Much faster, new flexible tab and menu system, numerous skin improvements, DocBook support, Wiki support, improved PDF output, eased maintenance of sitemaps, and more. See the changelog for details.
Available from Apache Cocoon 2.1
The Apache Xerces2 Java Parser team is very happy to announce that version 2.5.0 of Xerces2 Java Parser is now available.
This release provides a partial partial implementation of the XML Inclusions (XInclude) W3C Candidate Recommendation and also brings Xerces-J into compliance with the most recent work of the W3C DOM working group on DOM level 3 Core and Load/Save.
The release can be downloaded from http://xml.apache.org/dist/xerces-j/
For more information, visit the Apache Xerces2 Java Parser Project WebSite.
The FOP team is pleased to announce the release of FOP 0.20.5. See the announcement for details.
Cocoon has become the status of a top-level project, you will find the new website here: http://cocoon.apache.org.
The Axis, SOAP, XML-RPC subprojects have been split off into a newly formed Web Services project, http://ws.apache.org.
Forrest 0.4 fixes various cross-browser issues, the default skins are improved, menus generated with site.xml are much more friendly. Backwards-compatibility with previous releases has been maintained. See release notes.
Forrest 0.3 incorporates two months of improvements and bugfixes since 0.2. Most of the changes are incremental, and backwards-compatibility with 0.2 has been maintained. See release notes.
The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the release of
Cocoon 2.0.4. The distribution is available from the
Forrest 0.2.1 contains a handful of bugfixes since
0.2 as detailed in the release
notes. JDK 1.3 and Win95/98 users especially may wish to
upgrade. Forrest 0.2.1 may be obtained from the
The Apache Forrest team is proud to announce our first public release
Forrest 0.2 which is available for download (as source code and binary)
from the
Our project's website! The Forrest team will be gradually rebuilding
the xml.apache.org website into a true developer community for Apache
XML technology.
The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the release of
Cocoon 2.0.3. The distribution is available from the
The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the release of
Cocoon 2.0.2. The distribution is available from the
The Apache Cocoon team is proud to announce the release of
Cocoon 2.0.1. The distribution is available from the
The beta release for Xerces2 marks the first step in producing the
next generation of Xerces XML parser technology. Xerces2 beta is
available from the
A new subproject focusing on sharing common XML code and interfaces, etc. was formed recently. For details, look in the xml-commons repository, in the general@xml.apache.org mailing list, or the commons-dev@xml.apache.org mailing list.
Dear Apache XML Project,
Congratulations! JavaWorld has selected the Apache XML Project's Xalan-Java
1.2.2 as a finalist in the Best Java-XML Application category of our
Editors' Choice Awards. Established in 1997, the awards recognize those innovative companies,
organizations, and individuals committed to developing new Java tools and
technologies that drive the platform forward. More than 100 products and
technologies were nominated by vendors, readers, as well as JavaWorld
editors and writers. We'll publish the complete list of finalists in each
category by 5 p.m. PDT on Friday, May 4 (go to:
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-05-2001/jw-0504-finalists.html).
As a finalist, members of your product team will be invited to attend JavaWorld's Editors' Choice Awards ceremony at the JavaOne Conference and Expo from June 4-8 in San Francisco, where a winner in each category will be announced.
Regards, Scott Plamondon
Senior Editor
JavaWorld
scott_plamondon@itworld.com
415-975-2651
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