xmlhack: Xalan2-J 2.4.0 released

The Apache XML Project have released version 2.4.0 of the Xalan2-Java XSLT processor. Along with bug fixes and performance improvements, this release also includes some major feature enhancements.

The list of enhancements includes:

support for EXSLT extensions
improvements to the extensions mechanism
tested against the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) 1.1 and 1.2 TCK test suites (and passed all tests not on the exclude list)
now uses a list of supported encodings in a properties file (org.apache.xalan.serialize.Encodings.properties)
separation of source and messages for better localization
bundles version 2.1.0 of the Xerces2 Java Parser
XSLTC version changed to 1.2

The Xalan2-Java XSLT processor is an implementation of the Transformation API for XML (TrAX), which is designed to provide developers with a modular framework and a single standard API for performing XML transformations.