[ANN] nux-1.0beta2 release

Nux is a small, straightforward, and surprisingly effective open-source=20
extension of the  XOM XML library.

Features include:
	=95 	Seamless W3C XQuery and XPath support for XOM, through Saxon.
	=95 	Efficient and flexible pools and factories for XQueries, XSL=20
Transforms, as well as Builders that validate against various schema=20
languages, including W3C XML Schemas, DTDs, RELAX NG, Schematron, etc.
	=95 	Serialization and deserialization of XOM XML documents to and from=20=
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an efficient and compact custom binary XML data format (bnux format),=20
without loss or change of any information.
	=95 	For simple and complex continuous queries and/or transformations=20
over very large or infinitely long XML input, a convenient streaming=20
path filter API combines full XQuery support with straightforward=20
filtering.
	=95 	Glue for integration with JAXB and for queries over ill-formed HTML.
	=95 	Well documented API. Ships in a jar file that weighs just 60 KB.

Changelog:

XOM serialization and deserialization performance is more than good=20
enough for most purposes. However, for particularly stringent=20
performance requirements this release adds "bnux", an option for=20
lightning-fast binary XML serialization and deserialization.=20
Contrasting bnux with XOM:

	=95 	Serialization speedup: 2-7 (10-35 MB/s vs. 5 MB/s)
	=95 	Deserialization speedup: 4-10 (20-50 MB/s vs. 5 MB/s)
	=95 	XML data compression factor: 1.5 - 4


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