February 2012 Report

Xerces-J

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 in the not too distant future. It's currently made available as a beta release.

Several new bug reports and patches were created/provided by members of the community. These still need to be reviewed.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 50+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of December.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-C

Moderate development activity during the reporting period: 3 bugs have been filed, 8 have been resolved.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 60+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of December.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-P

Nothing in particular to report. There was no development activity over the reporting period.

XML Commons

A suggestion to fix a URL conversion issue in the XML Commons Resolver was made by one user who also questioned whether it's still worth supporting Java 1.3 in 2012. Otherwise it's been a quiet period with no other mailing list traffic to report.

Moving the website and SVN location under the Xerces domain is still a TODO.

Apache Project Branding Requirements

There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding TM to the project logo. No progress this quarter.