xerces-c-3.0.0/doc/migration.xml

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<s1 title="Migration">
    <s2 title="Migration Archive">

       <p>For migration information to &XercesCName; 2 series or earlier,
          please refer to <link idref="migrate-archive-&XercesC3Series;">Migration Archive</link>.</p>

    </s2>

    <s2 title="Migrating from &XercesCName; 2 series to &XercesCName; &XercesC3Version;">
      <p>The following section is a discussion of the technical differences between
      &XercesCName; 2 series and &XercesCName; &XercesC3Version;.</p>

      <p>Topics discussed are:</p>
      <ul>
        <li><link anchor="NewFeatures300">New features in &XercesCName; &XercesC3Version;</link></li>
        <li><link anchor="API300">Public API Changes</link></li>
        <ul>
            <li><link anchor="NewAPI300">New Public API</link></li>
            <li><link anchor="ModifiedAPI300">Modified Public API</link></li>
            <li><link anchor="DeprecatedAPI300">Deprecated/Removed Public API</link></li>
        </ul>
      </ul>

    <anchor name="NewFeatures300"/>
    <s3 title="New features in &XercesCName; &XercesC3Version;">
      <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>
    </s3>

    <anchor name="API300"/>
    <s3 title="Public API Changes">

        <p>&XercesCName; &XercesC3Version; is a major release and includes
           a number of application-breaking interface changes compared to
           &XercesCName; 2 series.
           The following sub-sections provide an overview of the public API
           changes between &XercesCName; 2 series and this release.</p>

        <anchor name="NewAPI300"/>
        <s4 title="New Public APIs">
            <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>
        </s4>

        <anchor name="ModifiedAPI300"/>
        <s4 title="Modified Public APIs">

          <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>

        </s4>

        <anchor name="DeprecatedAPI300"/>
        <s4 title="Deprecated/Removed Public APIs">
          <p>All APIs marked as deprecated in &XercesCName; 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>
        </s4>

    </s3>
    </s2>

</s1>