Re: JDOM 1.1 Release Candidate

This is good news!

I would like to confirm that the patch I supplied for "Fixed bug when
using attributes without a namespace and outputting to a JDOMResult."
seems to be working fine with the "jdom-1.1-RC.zip" build.
Running JDK 1.5.

 /Mattias

Jason Hunter wrote (2007-11-10 09:11):
> I just posted a JDOM 1.1 release candidate for download!
>
> This download is ready to go as far as I'm concerned, but I'm offering
> it up as a release candidate preview because I want your help to make
> sure.
>
> Please download the 1.1 candidate here:
>
> http://www.jdom.org/dist/binary/jdom-1.1-RC.tar.gz    // Unix
> http://www.jdom.org/dist/binary/jdom-1.1-RC.zip       // Windows
>
> (The only difference is the line endings.)
>
> Try the new build against your existing program(s).  Let me know (you
> can send private mail) if it works or if it doesn't.  Either way I'd
> like to know.  I won't call this build final until I get a few OK's
> for each build.
>
> Two main things I want to verify:
>
> * I built this with Java 5 using a Java 1.2 target.  Will this still
> work on older JVMs?
>
> * Did I miss anything in packaging up the build?  It's been a while.  :)
>
>
> I'm calling it 1.1 instead of 1.0.1 because there are some new public
> properties, methods, and constructors.
>
> Here's the list of additions and changes, from the CHANGES.txt file:
>
> Added an additional constructor to JDOMSource with an EntityResolver
> which is passed to the internal DocumentReader allowing the
> SAXOutputter to properly resolve DTDs.
>
> Added a forceNamespaceAware property to DOMOutputter which specifies
> you want a DOM constructed with namespaces even if the source JDOM
> document has no namespaces.
>
> Added support for attribute "INF" and "-INF" values, to indicate
> positive and negative infinity, as XML Schema allows.
>
> Moved isXMLWhitespace() method from private in XMLOutputter to public in
> Verifier.
>
> Clarified XMLOutputter behavior with newlines and indents:
>   setIndent(" ") means newlines and " " indents
>   setIndent("") means newlines and "" indents
>   setIndent(null) means no newlines and no indents
>
> Added set/getIgnoringBoundaryWhitespace() methods and features to
> SAXBuilder and SAXHandler.
>
> Added a string constant for the JDOM_OBJECT_MODEL_URI used by JAXP
> 1.3.  It deserves being part of the public API.
>
> Fixed bug in SAXOutputter where default namespaces would be declared as
> xmlns:="" with a spurious colon.
>
> Fixed bug when using attributes without a namespace and outputting to a
> JDOMResult.
>
> Removing check that a comment not start with a hyphen. A careful
> reading of production 15 in the XML 1.0 spec indicates leading hyphens
> are in fact allowed.
>
> Fixed bug where outputFragment() on SAXOutputter could cause a
> NullPointerException because the locator would be null during the call.
>
> Fixed bug where serializing ElementFilter causes a
> NullPointerException if the filter has no assigned namespace
>
> Fixed some subtle bad behaviors in listIterator.add() logic, using
> brand new iterator logic.
>
> Allowed a String to be passed to ContentList.add(int, Object).
>
> Simplified JDOMAbout and renamed info.xml to jdom-info.xml, so
> getResourceAsStream() won't suffer any name collision.
>
> Fixed tiny issue where CDATA could be set with illegal character content.
>
> Added logic to escape some special characters in namespace URIs.
>
> Fixed bug where the attribute type would change on a setAttribute() call.
>
> Improved performance on Namespace handling.
>
> Improved and clarified Javadocs.
>
> -jh-
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