The Apache XML Project Xerces-J team have announced version 2.0.2 of their Java-based XML parser.

Major changes include:

• Added Schema Component API interfaces and implementation; full PSVI support.
• Added implementation for baseURI, documentURI, normalizeDocument and required normalize document features. Added support for DOM revalidation against XML Schemas.
• Improved handling of settings in parser classes making it easier to re-use the parsers with other parser configurations.

Many more performance enhancements and bug fixes are also included in this release.