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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.
We're already getting some early interest for GSoC 2012. So far one student has joined the development mailing list and is asking about potential project ideas.
Several new bug reports and patches were created/provided by members of the community. These still need to be reviewed.
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