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        <LI><A href="#Migrateto300">Migrating from Xerces-C++ 2.8.0 to 3.0.0</A></LI>

    <A name="Migrateto300"><!--anchor--></A>

    <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="494"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="494"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="492"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="+1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Migrating from Xerces-C++ 2.8.0 to Xerces-C++ 3.0.0</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="492"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="492"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10">&nbsp;</TD><TD width="484"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif">

      <P>The following section is a discussion of the technical differences between

      Xerces-C++ 2.8.0 and Xerces-C++ 3.0.0.</P>

 

      <P>Topics discussed are:</P>

      <UL>

        <LI><A href="#NewFeatures300">New features in Xerces-C++ 3.0.0</A></LI>

        <LI><A href="#API300">Public API Changes</A></LI>

        <UL>

            <LI><A href="#NewAPI300">New Public API</A></LI>

            <LI><A href="#ModifiedAPI300">Modified Public API</A></LI>

            <LI><A href="#DeprecatedAPI300">Deprecated/Removed Public API</A></LI>

        </UL>

      </UL>

 

    <A name="NewFeatures300"><!--anchor--></A>

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      <UL>

        <LI>Autotools-based build system for the UNIX/Linux/Mac OS X platforms</LI>

        <LI>Project files for VC++ 9</LI>

        <LI>Support for the ICU transcoder in VC++ 7.1, 8, and 9 project files</LI>

        <LI>libcurl-based net accessor</LI>

        <LI>Support for XInclude in DOM</LI>

        <LI>Support for both XPath 1 and XPath 2 models in the DOM XPath interface</LI>

        <LI>Support for the XML Schema subset of XPath 1 in DOM</LI>

        <LI>Conformance to the final DOM Level 3 interface specification</LI>

        <LI>Ability to provide custom DOM memory manager as well as tune the global DOM heap parameters</LI>

        <LI>All public and widely used interfaces as well as a large

            portion of the implementation were converted to be 64-bit safe.</LI>

        <LI>Various XML Schema fixes including the fix for the large

            maxOccurs and minOccurs bug as well as for the changed ##other

            interpretation</LI>

        <LI>Reviewed and cleaned up diagnostics messages</LI>

        <LI>Optimizations for SAX/SAX2 and DOM parsing as well as XML Schema

            validation</LI>

      </UL>

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    <A name="API300"><!--anchor--></A>

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        <P>Xerces-C++ 3.0.0 is a major release and includes

           a number of application-breaking interface changes compared to

           Xerces-C++ 2 series.

           The following sub-sections provide an overview of the public API

           changes between Xerces-C++ 2 series and this release.</P>

 

        <A name="NewAPI300"><!--anchor--></A>

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            <UL>

              <LI>XMLGrammarPoolImpl implementation has been moved to

                  framework/ and is now publicly accessible</LI>

 

              <LI>DOM XPath interfaces now support XPath 2 model</LI>

 

              <LI>A number of DOM interfaces (DOMLSInput, DOMLSOuput,

                  DOMLSParser, DOMLSSerializer, DOMConfiguration, etc.)

                  were added as part of the the final DOM Level 3

                  specification conformance work</LI>

            </UL>

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        <A name="ModifiedAPI300"><!--anchor--></A>

        <TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="474"><TR><TD bgcolor="ffffff" colspan="2" width="484"><TABLE border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="474"><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#039acc" height="1" width="472"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="472"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#039acc" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" width="472"><FONT color="#ffffff" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1"><IMG border="0" height="2" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="2"><B>Modified Public APIs</B></FONT></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#0086b2" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="472"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="472"></TD><TD bgcolor="#017299" height="1" width="1"><IMG border="0" height="1" hspace="0" src="resources/void.gif" vspace="0" width="1"></TD></TR></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD width="10">&nbsp;</TD><TD width="464"><FONT color="#000000" face="arial,helvetica,sanserif" size="-1">

 

          <P>A large number of public APIs have been modified. Consult

             individual interface documentation for details. The following

             list gives an overview of major changes:</P>

 

          <UL>

            <LI>Several DOM interfaces have been adjusted to conform to the final

                DOM Level 3 specification</LI>

 

            <LI>DOM XPath interfaces have been adjusted to support both XPath 1

                and XPath 2</LI>

 

            <LI>Many public interfaces that used int/long types to represent

                memory-related sizes, counts, indexes, etc., have been modified

                to use the 64-bit safe XMLSize_t type instead</LI>

          </UL>

 

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        <A name="DeprecatedAPI300"><!--anchor--></A>

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          <P>All APIs marked as deprecated in Xerces-C++ 2 series have

             been removed in this release. In particular deprecated DOM

             (depdom) as well as COM support have been removed.</P>

 

          <P>Furthermore, a number of DOM interfaces (DOMBuilder, DOMWriter,

             DOMInputSource, etc.) were replaced as part of the the final

             DOM Level 3 specification conformance work.</P>

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