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Development of the XML Schema 1.1 validator reached an important milestone this quarter. Xerces-J now passes all of the relevant XML Schema 1.1 W3C test cases and that has helped advance the XML Schema 1.1 specification to a W3C Proposed Recommendation. This means we're finally in the home stretch and should be able to make XML Schema 1.1 support a full fledged feature of Xerces-J in the not too distant future. It's currently made available as a beta release.
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