• C++ Namespace Support
• Schema 1.0 Errata Implementation
• Experimental Implementation of XML 1.1
• More DOM L3 Core Support:
• DOMNode: baseURI
• DOMAttr: isId, getTypeInfo
• DOMElement: setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNS, setIdAttributeNode, getTypeInfo
• DOM Message: make use of the non-standard extension DOMImplementation::loadDOMExceptionMsg to load the default error text message for the correspond Exception Code.
• New feature XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize(const char* const locale) to set the locale for message loader. See Specify locale for Message Loader for details
• Support Build with ICU Message Loader, or Message Catalog Message Loader
• RPM for Linux
• 390: Uniconv390 support
• 390: support record-oriented MVS datasets with the DOM Level 3 serialization APIs
• Support for Linux/390
• Performance: Break Scanner for different functionalities and many other performance improvement
• New feature, "http://apache.org/xml/features/dom/byte-order-mark", allows user to enable DOMWriter to write Byte-Order-Mark in the output XML stream, See Xercesc Feature: Byte Order Mark for details

Xerces-C++ 2.2.0 now supports C++ Namespace. All Xerces-C++ classes/data/variables are defined in the "namespace xercesc" if C++ Namespace support is ENABLED.

All the binary distributions of Xerces-C++ 2.2.0 are now built with C++ Namespace enabled. Therefore users' applications that links with the distributed binary packages must namespace qualified all the Xerces-C++ classes/data/variables with "xercesc::" or add the "using namespace xercesc" clause.

See the Programming Guide Using C++ Namespace for more details.

The following lists the public API changes between the Xerces-C++ 2.1.0; and the Xerces-C++ 2.2.0 releases of the parser.

New Public API

To support additional DOM L3 functions, the following are added: DOMAttr: isId, getTypeInfo DOMElement: setIdAttribute, setIdAttributeNS, setIdAttributeNode, getTypeInfo Added DOMTypeInfo class for getTypeInfo calss in DOMElement and DOMAttr Added getDOMTypeInfoUri, getDOMTypeInfoName to XMLAttDef and XMLElementDecl for use in building DOMTypeInfo Added a non-standard extension DOMImplementation::loadDOMExceptionMsg to load the default error message for the corresponding DOMException code. XMLAttr: Added a constructor and a set method to allow creating/setting of XMLAttr using a rawname. Added XMLUri::getUriText to return the URI as a string specification. Add XMLString::fixURI to transform an absolute path filename to standard URI form. Added XMLString::equals for faster string comparison. To allow users to tell the parser to force standard uri conformance, the following are added: XercesDOMParser/DOMParser/SAXParser: get/setStandardUriConformant and DOMBuilder/SAX2XMLReader will recognize the feature http://apache.org/xml/features/standard-uri-conformant Add XMLURL::hasInvalidChar() to indicate if the URL has invalid char as per RFC standard To allow users to enable/disable src offset calculation, the following are added: XercesDOMParser/DOMParser/SAXParser: get/setCalculateSrcOfs and DOMBuilder/SAX2XMLReader will recognize the feature http://apache.org/xml/features/calculate-src-ofst To allow users to select the scanner when scanning XML documents, the following are added: XercesDOMParser/DOMParser/SAXParser: useScanner and DOMBuilder/SAX2XMLReader will recognize the property http://apache.org/xml/properties/scannerName Added getSrcOffset to XercesDOMParser/DOMParser/SAXParser/DOMBuilder/SAX2XMLReader to allow users to get the current src offset within the input source.

Modified Public API

The following DOM functions are being added a const modifier. DOMImplementation::hasFeature DOMNode: isSameNode, isEqualNode, compareTreePosition XMLPlatformUtils::Initialize() takes a parameter specifying locale for message loader, with default value "en_US". To fix [Bug 13641], the QName copy constructor is corrected to take a reference as parameter, i.e. QName(const QName& qname). To fix [Bug 12232], the QName operator== has been added a const modified. Move XMLUri copy constructor and operator = as public. Move XMLUri::isURIString as public. For validation purpose, added two more default parameters to XMLValidator::validateAttrValue. To fix [Bug 15802], the getURIText of DOMParser/XercesDOMParser/SAXParser/SAX2XMLReader are being added a const modifier.

Deprecated/Removed Public API
	No Deprecated Public API in this release.