Xerces 2.7.0 Plan

Features:

Target DCUT (code complete) date: Monday May 10, 2004.

Target release date: Friday May 14, 2004.

Development line items

Line item Volunteer Sizing Timeframe Status
SAX 2.0.1
Report skipped entities Michael Glavassevich 1 pd February 27 Complete
Feature: lexical-handler/parameter-entities Michael Glavassevich 0.2 pd March 19 Complete
SAX2 Extensions 1.1 + SAX 2.0.2
Attributes2, Locator2 Michael Glavassevich 1 pd March/April 2004 Started
EntityResolver2 Michael Glavassevich 1 pw March/April 2004 Started
Feature Support Michael Glavassevich 1 pd April 2004 Open
DOM Level 3
TypeInfo.isDerivedFrom Naela Nissar 3 pd March 2004 Open
Reimplement Text.replaceWholeText Neil Delima 2 pd March 2004 Started
Core and L/S: namespace-declarations [false] Neil Delima Open
Core and L/S REC changes Neil Delima, Naela Nissar 3 pw March/April 2004 Started
Replace org.apache.xerces.dom3 with org.w3c.dom Neil Delima 2 pd April 2004 Open
General bug fixes Neil Delima, Naela Nissar 3 pw March/April 2004 Started
JAXP 1.3
Validation API
DocumentBuilder, SAXParser changes
XInclude 1.0
XInclude 1.0 CR changes Michael Glavassevich 3 pd April 2004 Started
Content Negotiation (parse=xml) K. Venugopal
XPointer Support (Dean Chalker) Michael Glavassevich 2.5 pw
Miscellaneous
Apache License, Version 2.0 Michael Glavassevich 1.5 pd February 24-25 Complete
NOTICE file All N/A March 2004 Complete
JAXP, SAX and DOM work for xml-commons
Build DOM Level 3 with standard distribution
Update SAX and DOM samples
Documentation: JAXP 1.3
Documentation: SAX2 Extensions 1.1 + SAX 2.0.2
Documentation: DOM Level 3 REC
Documentation: XInclude 1.0 CR
DCUT May 10
Review and fix severe defects reported in Bugzilla/Jira All 1 pw Week of May 10
Build and publish Xerces 2.7.0 May 14

Candidate features and cleanup items (if time permits)