## 1 xmerl Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the xmerl application.

### 1.1 xmerl 1.0

#### 1.1.1 Improvements and New Features

- The OTP release of xmerl 1.0 is mainly the same as xmerl-0.20 of http://sowap.sourceforge.net/. It is capable of parsing XML 1.0. There have only been minor improvements: Some bugs that caused an unexpected crash when parsing bad XML. Failure report that also tells which file that caused an error.
  Own Id: OTP-5174

#### 1.1.2 Known Problems

- xmerl cannot fetch external entities that are referenced by an URL. Only references to the local file system are working.
  Own Id: OTP-5173
- xmerl cannot handle markup names that are Unicode encoded characters bigger than 256.
  Own Id: OTP-5172

There are also release notes for older versions.

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