Xerces 2.8.0 Plan

Features:

Target DCUT (code complete) date: February 24th, 2006

Target release date: February 27th, 2006

Development line items

Line item Volunteer Sizing Timeframe Status
DOM Level 3
Repair DTD and schema validation behaviour of Document.normalizeDocument() Michael Glavassevich 2 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
LSSerializer: format-pretty-print [true] Matej Kraus November 2005 Complete
JAXP 1.3
Enhancements to SchemaFactory.newSchema(Source[]) Peter McCracken 1 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Expose current element node from validator when input is DOM. Michael Glavassevich 0.5 pd December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
DTD
Feature: balance-syntax-trees Michael Glavassevich 1.5 pw October 2005 Complete
Feature: warn-on-undeclared-elemdef Michael Glavassevich 2 pd January 2006 Complete
XML Schema 1.0
Expose annotations in XSAttributeUse and XSParticle Neil Delima 2 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Support lists of annotations for other XSObjects Neil Delima 2 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Feature: id-idref-checking Peter McCracken 1 pd December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Feature: identity-constraint-checking Peter McCracken 2 pd December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Feature: unparsed-entity-checking Peter McCracken 1 pd December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Feature: ignore-xsi-type-until-elemdecl Peter McCracken 1 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Property: root-type-definition Peter McCracken 1 pw December 2005 / January 2006 Complete
Improve identity constraint error messages George Cristian Bina August 2005 Complete
Miscellaneous
Bug fixes in xml-commons and update to latest xml-commons-external Nathan Beyer, Michael Glavassevich January/February 2006 Complete
Replace XJavac Ant task with a cleaner solution Deferred
Fix dtdjars target which was broken in Xerces 2.7.0 Michael Glavassevich February 23rd/24th, 2006 Complete
Documentation improvements All February 2006 Complete
DCUT February 24th, 2006
Review and fix severe defects reported in Bugzilla/Jira All 1 pw February 24th-27th, 2006
Build and publish Xerces 2.8.0 February 27th, 2006

Candidate features and cleanup items (if time permits)