November 2012 Report

Xerces-J

We continue to receive feedback from the community on the XML Schema 1.1 implementation and are addressing the issues they're raising in JIRA with fixes.

Our GSoC student (Shakya) successfully completed his project in August. This addresses a long standing issue with validation against multiple XML schemas with the same namespace.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 180+ posts on the j-dev and j-users lists since the beginning of August.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-C

In September we heard from Rob Cameron of International Characters, Inc. about a potential donation of code to the project. They've developed a high performance version of Xerces-C++ called icXML. It seemed like he was interested in joining the community to develop this further in Apache, though we have not yet seen an Incubator proposal or follow-up from the initial discussion thread.

A few bugs were fixed during the reporting period.

Mailing list traffic has been moderate; about 95+ posts on the c-dev and c-users lists since the beginning of August.

No new releases this quarter.

Xerces-P

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

XML Commons

It's been quiet in XML Commons. No development activity to report.

Apache Project Branding Requirements

There's still some work left to do on the TLP website, including adding "TM" to the project logo.