[ANNOUNCE] Xalan-Java 2.4.1 release is now available

Hi everyone,

The Xalan-J team is pleased to announce the availability
of Xalan Java 2.4.1.

The release can be downloaded from  http://xml.apache.org/dist/xalan-j/.

Highlights include:

*  Performance fixes and enhancements to address some
   performance regressions between Xalan-Java 2.3.1 and
   Xalan-Java 2.4.0

*  A prototype implementation of the DOM Level 3 XPath
   Specification.

*  Many extension changes and enhancements, including:

     * additional EXSLT function support.

     * enabled EXSLT extensions in XSLTC.

     * integrated nodeset and redirect extensions in XSLTC.

 * Enabled support for invoking transformations using the
   Xalan compiler (XSLTC) via the org.apache.xalan.xslt.Process
   command line.

 * Eliminated size limitation on XPath expressions.

 * Support for and bundling of Xerces Java 2.2.

 * Support for and bundling of xml-apis.jar from the
   factoryfinder-build RIVERCOURT1 branch of xml-commons.

 * Build script enhancements for building with JDK1.4.

 * General bug fixes.

 * and more.... for a complete list of all changes, see
   [email protected] in the Apache mailing list archive
   found at http://nagoya.apache.org/eyebrowse/ViewLists

For more information on Xalan Java, please refer to
http://xml.apache.org/xalan-j/index.html.


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Ilene Seelemann.