[ANN] Xerces-C++ 3.0.0 released

[Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>]

Hi,

I am pleased to announce the availability of Apache Xerces-C++ 3.0.0.
Xerces-C++ is an open-source validating XML parser written in a
portable subset of C++. It provides DOM (level 1, 2, and 3), SAX,
and SAX2 APIs and supports validation of XML documents against DTD
and XML Schema.

This release includes a large number of new features, bug fixes, and
clean-ups, including:

  * automake-based build system for the UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X platforms.
  * libcurl-based net accessor.
  * Support for XInclude in DOM.
  * Support for both XPath 1 and XPath 2 models in the DOM XPath interface.
  * Support for the XML Schema subset of XPath 1 in DOM.
  * Conformance to the final DOM Level 3 interface specification.
  * Ability to provide custom DOM memory manager as well as tune the global
    DOM heap parameters.
  * All public and widely used interfaces as well as a large portion of the
    implementation were converted to be 64-bit safe.
  * XML Schema bug/errata fixes including the fix for the large maxOccurs
    and minOccurs bug as well as for the changed ##other interpretation.
  * Reviewed and cleaned up diagnostics messages.
  * Optimizations for SAX/SAX2 and DOM parsing as well as XML Schema
    validation.

Xerces-C++ 3.0.0 is available in source code and as precompiled binaries 
for the following platforms/compilers:

32 bit:

  Windows              x86       MS Visual C++ 7.1 (2003)
  Windows              x86       MS Visual C++ 8.0 (2005)
  Linux                x86       GCC 3.4.x or later
  Solaris 10           x86       Sun C++ 5.7 (Studio 10) or later
  Solaris 10           SPARC     Sun C++ 5.7 (Studio 10) or later
  AIX 5.3              PowerPC   IBM XL C++ 7.0 or later
  HP-UX 11i            IA-64     HP aCC A.06.x
  Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger  x86       GCC 4.0.x (Xcode 2.x) or later
  Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger  PowerPC   GCC 4.0.x (Xcode 2.x) or later

64 bit:

  Windows              x86-64    MS Visual C++ 8.0 (2005)
  Linux                x86-64    GCC 3.4.x or later
  Solaris 10           x86-64    Sun C++ 5.7 (Studio 10) or later
  Solaris 10           SPARC     Sun C++ 5.7 (Studio 10) or later
  AIX 5.3              PowerPC   IBM XL C++ 7.0 or later
  HP-UX 11i            IA-64     HP aCC A.06.x

More information on Xerces-C++, including documentation and build
instructions, is available from the project's website:

http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/

The source code archives and precompiled binaries are available from
the download page:

http://xerces.apache.org/xerces-c/download.cgi

Boris

-- 
Boris Kolpackov, Code Synthesis Tools   http://codesynthesis.com/~boris/blog
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