History of Changes

build

• Added xml-commons/readme-build.txt to start to explain the build system. (crossley)

docs

• Published the new website. Hooray. (crossley)
• Added the brilliant xml-commons logo. (crossley) Thanks to Nicola Ken Barozzi.
• Added some ToDo items and noted some issues in How-to Forrest. (crossley)
• Added some content as overview for each component. Added some ToDo items. (curcuru)
• Added placeholder docs and tabs for components. (crossley)
• Built demo website using Forrest. Gleaned content from xml-commons/README.html (crossley)
• Fixed some license issues in various areas. (crossley)
• Improved the build process for docs and consistency between the website and the distribution. Integrated javadocs with website. (crossley)

code

• The CatalogManager class is no longer static. It is now possible to instantiate several catalog managers and each manager can manage several catalogs. (ndw)
• System catalogs are always loaded. (ndw)
• Tests/Examples available in the tests/resolver/ directory. (ndw)
• Bootstrap resolver for loading catalog files. Avoids the Catch-22 of having to resolve the catalog.dtd before the resolver is in action. (ndw)

docs

• Annotated example CatalogManager.properties for Resolver (see discussion) and new Tips page. (crossley) Thanks to Mark Diggory.
• Copied the docs built by forrest into the distribution and linked to javadocs. (crossley)
• Added brief descriptions of the following new functionality to the release notes ... (ndw)

build

• This release includes just the 1.0 XmlResolver component, by request from coccoon-dev and others. It is released for users who just want to use the Resolver and don't need the rest of xml-commons. Pending discussion on commons-dev, we believe that future xml-commons releases will be separated out in this manner (external, resolver, which, etc). (curcuru)

code

• New code! org.apache.xml.resolver.Resolver: Norm Walsh's entity resolver utility is now checked in and building! (curcuru)
• Minor javadoc fixes. ()

docs

• Various LICENSE.* and README.* files for our external sources. (curcuru)

code

• Which - org.apache.env.Which - a simple environment check utility for xml-related items in your JVM's environment: 1.0 funtionality working. (curcuru)
• External - java/external/build/xml-apis.jar containing the follow packages: (curcuru)
• DOM Level 2 including all base files and HTML and CSS DOMs; from w3c.org (curcuru)
• JAXP code roughly equivalent to JAXP 1.1.3; for reference releases from Sun, see java.sun.com/xml (curcuru)
• SAX 2.0-r2-prerelease and SAX2-ext-1.0; plus bugfixes to org.xml.sax.helpers.ParserAdapter (make compile in JDK 1.1.x) and AttributesImpl (minor removeAttribute bug); from megginson.com although SAX maintenance has now moved to sax.sourceforge.net (curcuru)

build

• Project started. See history. (curcuru)