Changes

For a complete list of changes from version to version, simply access the CVS repository from the project page and retrieve a changelog.

Release 1.5 -> 2.0

• Migrated code to .NET 2.0, taking advantage of generics.
• Made IProperty interface generic - all non-generic derived interfaces, like IStringProperty, are now obsolete.
• Changed LineNumber and ColumnNumber properties to a 64 bit integer type.
• Made InputSource a generic class and removed StreamSource and ReaderInputSource as they are no longer needed.
• SAXExpat.NET: better protected against recource leaks, using new "constrained execution region" feature in .NET 2.0.
• SAXExpat.NET: new ExpatParser class represents an OO-wrapper that hides the Expat API. Modified SAXExpat to use this wrapper.
• Documentation updates/improvements.
• Updated solution and project files for use under Visual Studio 2005.

Release 1.0 -> 1.5

• SAX core and extensions have been unified, so the Org.System.Xml.SaxExt and Org.System.Xml.SaxExt.Helpers namespaces have been removed. - IAttributes2 has been merged with IAttributes. - ILocator2 has been merged with ILocator. - IEntityResolver2 has been renamed to IEntityResolver (replacing it). - IXmlReaderControl has been merged with IXmlReader. - The corresponding helper classes have been adjusted. - changed, removed or added features and properties accordingly.
• Usage of exceptions has been streamlined to give preference to pre-defined .NET framework classes. The SaxNotSupportedException, SaxNotRecognizedException and SaxArgumentException classes have been removed.
• Removed the IsDeclared() method from IAttributes interface and replaced its functionality with the new "UNDECLARED" return value for GetType().
• Added the EntityType property to the ILocator interface. This makes the "is-standalone" standard feature redundant, which has been removed.
• Call requirements for IContentHandler.EndDocument() have been updated and clarified.
• It has also been clarified that for names that are not in any namespace, namespace URIs and prefixes must be the empty string and not null.
• The conformance demo now also includes SAX conformance checks.

Release 0.96 -> 1.0

• A new assembly Org.System.Xml was added and some basic types and namespace support classes were moved there, as these and the SAX API are mutually independent.
• Changes to the build procedure. The build scripts are now C# based and should work on recent versions of Mono as well. IDE support was switched from SharpDevelop to VS.NET 2003.
• Resource files changed from .resources to .resx format. The build scripts will convert them back to .resources files as needed.
• Strong named Sax.dll and Org.System.Xml.dll.

Release 0.95 -> 0.96

• Changed naming style for public constants from camel casing to Pascal casing. Fixed references to these constants.
• Improved and clarified documentation comments, pointing out differences to the original Java implementation.
• Minor bug fixes in namespace support classes. Also documented that absence of a namespace is indicated by a null URI, not an empty string.
• Added overloaded constructors to StreamInputSource and ReaderInputSource which take a systemId as additional argument.
• Marked assembly as CLS compliant.
• Improved build scripts and instructions.
• Added another demo application which tests a parser against the W3C XML test suite.

Release 0.9 -> 0.95

• Changed namespace root from System.Xml to Org.System.Xml.
• Renamed XmlNamespaces.cs file to Namespaces.cs.
• Improved assembly loading in SAXReaderFactory.
• Added the file XmlRes.cs and Split the resources into two, parts, one associated with the Org.System.Xml namespace and one for the Org.System.Xml.Sax namespace.
• Improved documentation comments.
• Added a demo application.

Release 0.8 -> 0.9:

• Reverted back from the IInputSource interface to just an InputSource class (hierarchy), which seems a better fit for C#, as it is for Java.
• Completely eliminated the SAXVendor factory approach copied from the Delphi port, and introduced a SAXReaderFactory class similar to the XMLReaderFactory class in Java. Moved the code to SAXHelpers.cs.
• Replaced the SAXParseException arguments for the error handler call-backs with arguments of type ParseError.
• Added IXMLReaderControl interface.
• Improved and added documentation comments.
• Added localization features and resources.
• Changed namespace from KDS.Xml(.Sax) to System.Xml(.Sax).