| October 19, 2000 |

- This is a bug fix release
- Added Mark Swinkels datatype list refactoring [mark swinkels, jeffreyr]
- Added RangeImpl patch submitted by Lynn Monson [lynn monson,lehors, lehors]
- Fixed datatype registry not being initialized in XMLValidator bug [jeffreyr]
- Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs since last release [ericye]
- Fixed misc. Datatypes bugs since last release [jeffreyr]

| August 28, 2000 |

- Merged redundant Attribute validators inner classes with the data type validators. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed namespaces bugs for endElement method in SAX. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed misc. Schema Datatype bugs. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed misc. DOM implementation bugs. [lehors]
- Fixed Makefiles and documentations. [andyc]
- Added "any" with "processContents='lax|skip'" support for Schema. [ericye]
- Added feature "load-dtd-grammar" [ericye]
- Fixed a bug in reset() method of XMLValidator. [ericye]
- Fixed misc. Schema Structures bugs. [ericye]

| July 26, 2000 |

- Added "anyAttribute" support for Schema. [ericye]
- Added "xsi:type" support for Schema. [ericye]
- Added full equivClass support for Schema. [ericye]
- Fixed "form" attribute behavior to be fully compilant with Schema Spec. [ericye]
- Fixed "xml:space" bug in DTD validation. [ericye, andyc]
- Expanded "any" element support to model groups. [ericye]
- Fixed "any" element bugs when there are multilple URIs. [ericye]
- Cleaned up XMLValidator. [ericye]
- Fixed misc. Schema bugs. [ericye]
- Fixed resolving Schema location bug in XMLValidator. [David.Blankenship@kla_tencor.com, ericye]
- Fixed for BUG:SAXParser endElement reports incorrect local name. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed DOM Java Serialization-previous fix did not work. [jeffreyr]
- Added testcase under test to test DOM Java Serialization. [jeffreyr]
- Added James Duncan fix suggestion to not compile RevalidatingDOMParser. [James Duncan, jeffreyr]
- Miscelanous DOM enhancements [lehors].
- Fixed parameterizes entities in XMLDTDScanner. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed bug reported by Philippe MOUAWAD, on XMLContentSpec toString method. [jeffreyr]
- Fixed problem with DTD validation when namespace is supported is on. [andyc,ericye]
- Fixed bug reported by Michael Brundage in StringReader. [jeffreyr]

| June 21, 2000 |

- Added "any" element content support for Schema [andyc]
- Fixed adjacent text nodes bug in deferred DOM [andyc]
- Fixed namespace URI bug in deferred DOM [andyc]
- Fixed null document type node bug [andyc]
- Fixed StringReader index out of bounds exception bug [andyc]
- Turned on namespace support in all parsers, by default [andyc]
- Added feature to allow Schema support to be turned off [andyc]
- Fixed SAX2 DeclHandler, LexicalHandler callbacks [andyc]
- Fixed DOM serialization [jeffreyr]
- Fixed datatype enumeration bugs [jeffreyr]
- Fixed datatype pattern bugs [jeffreyr]
- Fixed datatype min/maxLength bugs [jeffreyr]
- Modified samples to include additional switches [jeffreyr]
- Fixed lexical comparison for string/qname datatypes [jeffreyr]
- Added regular expression character class subtraction [tkent@jp.ibm.com]
- Fixed regular expression bugs [tkent@jp.ibm.com]
- Added URI class [paul.eng@iclick.com]
- Fixed import/include Schema bug [ericye]
- Fixed lots of Schema bugs [ericye]

| June 5, 2000 |

- Added Schema include/import [ericye]
- Performance tuning [ericye, andyc]
- Added Ant support to build process [abagchi]
- Re-architecture Schema datatypes [jeffreyr]
- Re-organized docs directory to get FOP to work[abagchi, jeffreyr]
- Fixed Dynamic validation bug [ericye]
- Fixed Grammar access bug [ericye, andyc]
- Fixed Miscellaneous bugs [ericye, andyc, jeffreyr]
- Added JAXP to build, updated JAXP files [lehors]
- Added a DOM from scratch and Serializer sample [jeffreyr]
- Fixed NodeImpl supports nullpointer bug in Samples [lehors]
- Fixed a bug in cloning default attribute

| May 19, 2000 |

- Reworked internals for XML Schema support [andyc, ericye, jeffreyr]
- Updated XML Schema support to April working draft [ericye, jeffreyr]
- Changed code to notify error handler of content model validation errors before calling endElement [lehors]

| May 9, 2000 |

- Upgraded to SAX 2.0. [lehors]
- Added support for WML DOM. [david]
- Preliminary work for full schema support. [andyc, gmarcy, jefreyr, ericye]
- Reorganized DOM classes to use much less memory. [lehors]
- Entities and entity reference nodes are now readonly as expected. [lehors]
- Entity references now have their replacement value when created with createEntityReference. [lehors]
- Fixed problem in Deferred DOM which made building it N^2 order. [lehors]
- Fixed handling of elements with IDs in Deferred DOM. [lehors]
- Added support for namespaces in parameter entities. [lehors]
- setNodeValue raised an exception when it should simply be a no-op. [lehors]
- Attributes returned by setNamedItem and setNamedItemNS could not be reused. [lehors]
- Implemented new DOM Level 2 methods hasAttribute and hasAttributeNS. [lehors]
- 43: importNode now uses createElementNS and createAttributeNS when necessary. [lehors]
- 59: after a first iteration over the whole list, item(index) returned the wrong value. [lehors]
- 60: Fixed. [andyc]
- 62: Cloned attributes return wrong owner element. [awiner@us.oracle.com]
- Fixed caption element creation pb with HTMLTableElement. [arkin]
- Improved performance of XML serialize. Added support of encodings and reuse of serializer. [arkin]
- Updated XML serializer to not be strictly dependent on DOM Level 2. [andyc]

| March 8, 2000 |

- 26: Schema lookup disabled when validation is off. [lehors]
- 23: With UCS-4 and UTF-16 encodings, 0xD characters are now properly normalized.[gmarcy]
- 27: SAX2 http://xml.org/sax/features/namespaces - default set to true. [pier]
- 28: Fixed error in setNamespaces javadoc [elharo@metalab.unc.edu]
- 33: Relaxed restraint of xml:space attribute for XHTML DTDs [david-b@pacbell.net]
- 34: SAX 2.0beta2 changes accepted. [rpfeiffe]
- 35: Fixed getLength() to always return the right value[lehors]
- 36: Fixed setPrefix() to update nodeName[lehors]

| February 8, 2000 |

- Removed hard-coded strings to enable national language support (NLS) [jeffreyr,lehors,rip]
- Update for SAX2beta [andyc]
- Add new feature `http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/include-ignorable-whitespace` [andyc]
- ChunkyByteArray - needed resize chunk array for large files [andyc]
- UTF8DataChunk - memory perf fix [andyc]
- DOM L1 - cache node children length to accelerate `Node#item()`[andyc]
- DOM L1 - Off by one error in DeferredDocumentImpl [jflight@impresse.com]
- DOM L1 - Slight refactoring of DOM to save memory [lehors]
- Schema datatypes - add binary & URI, update decimal & String [twl]
- Schema datatypes - allow StringValidator to validate maxLength & enumeration facets [gtj@peakin.com]
- Schema datatypes - timeDuration & timeInstant validators [gtj@peakin.com]
- Schema functionality - allow schema lookup via installed entity resolver [gtj@peakin.com]
- Schema bug fixes (reportSchemaError & integer subtype registration) [gtj@peakin.com]
- Serializer bug on CData sections [arkin]
- Serializers now prints PUBLIC/SYSTEM id [arkin]
- HTMLTableElementImpl - Empty cell no longer created when adding a row [arkin]
- DOM L2 - TreeWalkerImpl didn't iterate backwards properly [bmj01@club-internet.fr]
- DOM L2 - Tracking the candidate recommendation [lehors]
- DOM L2 Namespace bug fixes [rip, lehors]
- DOM L2 API moved to org.w3c.dom where it belongs [rip]
- DOMMemTest [lehors]

| December 31, 1999 |

- Include documentation in the repository.
- Switch packaging to jar files from .zip and .tar.gz files.
- StreamingCharReader for stream based applications.
- Assaf Arkin's serialization package.
- Assaf Arkin's HTML DOM Level 1 classes.
- Performance improvements.
- Bug fixes.

| November 5, 1999 |

- Created initial code base from IBM's XML4J.
- Modified documentation to reflect new name (Xerces)