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We're still making good progress on support for XML Schema 1.1. At the moment the developers are discussing the design and working on the implementation of "inheritable attributes" for the new conditional type assignment feature introduced in XML Schema 1.1. Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is now wrapping up. Richard Kelly (our student) has completed support for character normalization (relying on ICU4J) and has posted patches for us to review. We're looking forward to integrating his contributions into the trunk and making this capability available in the next Xerces-J release.
The security vulnerability reported by CERT-FI in a recent advisory has been fixed and can be applied as a patch against the source of earlier releases. Users can also work around the issue by enabling the "disallow-doctype-decl" feature which rejects any document containing a DOCTYPE before reading it.
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