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In some clean up work of the old XML project it was discovered that xml.apache.org/dist is still being used for publishing snapshots. A discussion was started to determine what should be done with these. No development activity to report.
XML Commons
There was some discussion in December about creating a new component for SAX utilities, seeded with some existing utilities from Apache Tika. The Apache Commons project is also being considered as a possible home. For the time being the developers decided to move forward with a sandbox component over in the Commons project, also including works from Cocoon and Jackrabbit.
General
We finally got around to developing a proper top-level website for Xerces. Had a skeleton up there for years which wasn't too inviting. http://xerces.apache.org/ is now building with Forrest. Special thanks to Ashley Morgan for the logo. This is one of the wonderful things that came out of Google's GHOP contest.