The C-based XML parser from the Apache XML Project, Xerces-C, has gained support for a
subset of W3C XML Schema in its 1.5.0 release.
The supported subset
includes:
- Atomic simple types, choice and sequence complex types
- substitution groups
- Types string, boolean, decimal, hexbinary, base64binary, integer
- xsi:nil, xsi:schemaLocation, xsi:noNamespaceLocation
Experimental support (subject to change) is included for complex type
deriation, element and attribute reuse with "ref", include and import support.
Other new features in this release include:
- Mac OS X command line configuration and build support
- Enabled libWWW NetAccessor support under UNIX.
- Enabled COMPAQ Tru64 UNIX machines to build xerces-c with gcc, updated
support for SCO UnixWare 7 (gcc)
- Experimental IDOM
- Support for ICU 1.8
- Documentation in PDF format
- Plus many Bug fixes and performance improvement
Xerces-C can be downloaded from xml.apache.org.