Oracle XML Schema Processor for Java

Release Notes for Version 9.2.0.6.0 (Production)

Contents

Release 9.2.0.6.0 (Prod)

Overview
New Features
Bugs Fixed
Demos
API Documentation
Previous Releases
Release 9.2.0.4.0
Release 9.2.0.3.0
Release 9.2.0.2.0
Release 9.0.2.0.0D
Release 9.0.2.0.0C
Release 9.0.2.0.0B
Release 9.0.2.0.0A
Release 9.0.0.0.0
Release 1.0.1.0.0
Release 1.0.0.0.0
Release 0.9 Alpha

Overview

Oracle XML Schema Processor for Java supports parsing and validating XML Files against an XML Schema definition file. It includes the following features

Built upon the XML Parser for Java v2
Supports the three parts of W3C XML Schema Recomendation

XML Schema Part 0: Primer

XML Schema Part 1: Structures

XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

Please post any questions, comments, or bug reports to the XML Forum on
the Oracle Technology Network at http://technet.oracle.com

New Features

Bugs Fixed

Release 9.2.0.4
New Features

Bugs Fixed

Bug #2426731: ERROR LINE/COL NUMBER LOST IF XSLBUILDER SETERROR CALLED
Bug #2328033: NAMESPACE CORRECTION

Release 9.2.0.3
Aug 1, 2001

New Features

None

Bugs Fixed

Bug #2410191: ARRAYINDEXOUTOFBOUNDSEXCEPTION WHILE PARSING WITH SAXPARSER & SCHEMA VALIDATION
Bug #2457676: XML PARSER THROWS ERRORS ON A VALID XML FILE - SCHEMA VALIDATION

Release 9.2.0.2
Feburary 1, 2001

New Features

Schema Identity-constraint validation no longer needs external DocumentBuilder.

Bugs Fixed

Bug #2147531: INTERACTION BETWEEN MAXOCCURS AND MINOCCURS IN SCHEMA PROCESSOR
Bug #2110177: XML SCHEMA REGULAR EXPRESSION CANT HANDLE '?' IF ESCAPE '\' IS AFTER
Bug #2147531: INTERACTION BETWEEN MAXOCCURS AND MINOCCURS IN SCHEMA PROCESSOR
Bug #2079768: A COMPLEX TYPE SHOULD NOT BE PARSED BEFORE ALL CHILDREN ARE PARSED
Bug #2130299: XML SCHEMA PROCESSOR DOES NOT CHECK THE DUPLICATION OF LOCAL DEFINITIONS
Bug #1833377: SUPPORT ACCESS TO ANNOTATION ELEMENTS

Release 9.0.2.0.0D (Beta)

December 1, 2001

New Features

None

Bugs Fixed

Bug #1916873: ADD ACCESS METHODS FOR KEY, KEYREF AND UNIQUE
Bug #1960797: GETTARGETNAMESPACE() GIVES A NULL POINTER EXCEPTION
Bug #2007604: MISLEADING ERR MESSAGE WHEN SCHEMA DEFINITION CAN NOT BE FOUND
Bug #2042015: SCHEMA PARSER PERFORMANCE
Bug #2090282: PARSER COMSUMES TOO MUCH MEMORY ON HEAP WHILE PARSING SCHEMA
Bug #2100895: COMPLEXTYPE SHOULD NOT REFERENCE TO THE SIMPLETYPE OF ITS BASETYPE

Release 9.0.2.0.0C

Oct 1, 2001

New Features

Remove April 2000 XML Schema Wroking Draft support.
Add validation from DOM using XMLElement.validateContent(XMLSchema) method.
Add apis to access Identity constraints: Enhancement Request #1916873

Bugs Fixed

Bug #1950494: XML SCHEMA CAN'T RECOGNIZE THE LAST "ITEM" ELEMENT
Fix attribute use construction in complexType derivation
Bug #1960797 GETTARGETNAMESPACE() GIVES A NULL POINTER EXCEPTION
Bug #1901648 USING XSI:SCHEMALOCATION TO COMBINE TWO SCHEMAS IS NOT WORKING PROPERLY

Release 9.0.2.0.0B

Aug 1, 2001

New Features

A new API has been added to XMLSchema to get the URLs used to build the XMLSchema. XMLSchema.getXMLSchemaURLs().
Add two schema validation modes: SCHEMA_LAX_VALIDATION and SCHEMA_STRICT_VALIDATION, see demo for usage.

Bugs Fixed

Bug #1815505: Need a new api to get the url of the schema source.
Bug #1845342: Attribute 'nillable' in <element/> is not recognized by schema processor
Bug #1852463: XML Schema data validation needs support leapyear constraints
Bug #1888470: <xsd:attribute> default attribute is not working as defined.

Release 9.0.2.0.0A

June 16, 2001

This is the first beta release of 9.0.2

New Features

Oracle Schema Processor supports the oficial W3C Schema Recommendation.
The Processor still supports XML Schema Candidate Recommendation

Bugs Fixed

Bug#1817327: SCHEMA VALIDATION THROWS NULL POINTER EXCEPTION ON XSI: TYPE
Bug#1771668: SCHEMA WITH RECURSIVE TYPE CAUSES STACK OVERFLOW
Bug#1749171: SIMPLE TYPE BUGS FIXED IENTITY CONSTRAINT BUGS ON KEYREF

Release 9.0.0.0.0

January 25, 2001

This is the first beta release of 9.0.0.0.0.

The schema processor complies with the following W3C XMLSchema Candidate Recommendation:

XML Schema Part 0: Primer
XML Schema Part 1: Structures
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

Bug Fixed

Bug #1588606: GET A NULL POINTER EXCEPTION WHEN BUILDING SCHEMA
Bug #1584960: XML PARSER DOES NOT RECOGNIZE MINOCCURS ATTRIBUTE OFCOMPLEX ELEMENT
Bug #1562568: REQUIRED ATTRIBUTES ARE NOT ENFORCED
Bug #1562435: ERROR FOR ELEMENT WITH EMPTY CONTENT (ATTRIBUTES ONLY)
Bug #1495361: PATTERN FACETS SHOULD BE OF 'OR' RELATION RATHER THAN 'AND".
Bug #1486115: GROUP ORDER SHOULD BE EXPLICIT
Bug #1481095: XML SCHEMA PROCESSOR SHOULD SUPPORT INLINE SCHEMA.
Bug #1449270: DEFAULTS ARE NOT PROCESSED

Release 1.0.1.0.0

October 17, 2000

The schema processor complies with the following W3C XMLSchema Candidate Recommendation:

XML Schema Part 0: Primer
XML Schema Part 1: Structures
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

Please note that in this release, the schema namespace has been changed to: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema
and the namespace for built-in datatypes has been separated from schema namesapce to: http://www.w3.org/2000/10/XMLSchema-datatypes
in accordance with the current Working Drafts. In order to use new syntax and features of the current spec, new schema namespace must be used. Old syntax is supported under the old schema namespace in this release but the use is discouraged, there is no gurantee for future support.

The following features are not implemented in this release

redefine element.
unique, key and keyref constrains when using SAXParser.
lexical space validation & comparison of datetime datatypes.
binary encoding validation.

APIs to build a XMLSchema object

build(java.io.InputStream, java.net.URL)
build(java.io.Reader, java.net.URL)
build(java.lang.String, java.net.URL)
build(oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument, java.net.URL)

This is still a beta release for XML schema validation, and it is subject to change with changes in the
XML Schema working draft.

Release 1.0.0.0.0

July 21, 2000

The schema processor complies with the following W3C XMLSchema Working Drafts:

XML Schema Part 0: Primer
XML Schema Part 1: Structures
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

The following features are not implemented in this release

unique, key and keyref constrains when using SAXParser.
lexical space validation & comparison of datetime datatypes.
precision & scale check in decimal type.
binary encoding validation.

Fpllowing are the APIs to build a XMLSchema object

build(java.io.InputStream, java.net.URL)
build(java.io.Reader, java.net.URL)
build(java.lang.String) build(java.lang.String, java.net.URL)
build(java.net.URL)
build(oracle.xml.parser.v2.XMLDocument, java.net.URL)

This is an beta release for XML schema validation, and it is subject to change with changes in the XML
Schema working draft.

Release 0.9 Alpha

March 1, 2000

The schema processor complies with the following W3C XMLSchema Working Drafts:

XML Schema Part 0: Primer
XML Schema Part 1: Structures
XML Schema Part 2: Datatypes

The following features are not implemented in this release

unique, key and keyref constrains.
derivation by restriction from complexType.
pattern facet in string, datetime datatypes
builtin types derived from integer ((unsigned) long, short, int, byte)
comparison of datetime datatypes

New APIs in XMLParser to invoke XML Schema validation

setSchemaValidationMode(boolean) to set schema validation mode.
setXMLSchema(object) set a XMLSchema object to be used for validation

APIs to build a XMLSchema object

XSDBuilder.build(String namespace, String systemId) returns XMLSchema object

This is an alpha release for XML schema validation, and it is subject to change with changes in the
XML Schema working draft.