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We're getting more feedback from the community on the XML Schema 1.1 implementation. Several JIRA issues were opened by users which weof the XML Schema 1.1 code. We've addressed each of the valid ones with fixes.
Some users are asking again for Xerces jars to be deployed to Apache's Maven repository. None of the committers use Maven or have a personal interest in it so this has never become part of our release process. Deployment to the repository has been managed in the past by volunteers from the user community. Expecting new volunteers with an interest in Maven will need to step up for these sorts of requests to be satisfied.
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