May 2008 Report

Xerces-J

Wiki MarkupXerces-J was fortunate to be awarded one Google Summer of Code project for 2008. Starting this month Hiranya Jayathilaka (the new student) will be working on \[http://www.w3.org/TR/2007/WD-xmlschema11-1-20070830/#cTypeAlternative type alternatives\] for the XML Schema 1.1 implementation which has been under development on a branch in SVN.

We received several patches in April for improving memory management in the DOM implementation. These should help orphaned DOM objects to get garbage collected sooner. Just waiting for the contributor to get their CLA faxed in before committing them.

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