Xerces 2.1 Plan

Features:

Target DCUT (code complete) date: July 26

Target release date: Week of Aug. 20

Line item	Volunteer	Sizing	Timeframe
DOM L3
Text	Elena Litani	1 pw	June 17 - June 21
Load and Save	Elena Litani	1 pm	June 24 - July 19
PSVI
Provide access from DOM	Sandy Gao	1 pm	June 17 - July 12
XML 1.1
Implement XML 1.1	Neil Graham	1 pm	June 17 - July 12
Misc. features and cleanup
Features TBD - see candidate list below	Neil Graham, Lisa Martin, Sandy Gao		July 15 - July 26
Performance enhancements
Misc. performance-related items (TBD)	Gopal Sharma, Neerja Bajaj, Rahul Srivastava, Pavani Mukthipudi, et. al	TBD	TBD
DCUT			July 26
Bug fix, test, etc.	all	3 pw	July 29 - Aug. 17
Build and publish Xerces 2.1			Week of Aug. 20

Schema: support multiple schemas in 1 file
Schema: support schemas embedded in instance docs
Schema: fix problem of cascading errors when schema not found
Schema: provide more informative datatypes errors
Cleanup of validation features and properties
Accepting DOM tree as source of schema
Schema: Cleanup processing of error codes for element/attribute PSVI
Schema: Investigate whether semantics should change when decl not found for alidation root
Schema: should we keep simple content model?
Revisit severity of namespace-related errors
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