request to integrate jaxp 1.4.4

[Joe Darcy]

Hello.

As part of a coordinated effort to update jaxp in the JDK, I approve 
this change going into OpenJDK 6 build 21.

Thanks,

-Joe

Joe Wang wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We're working on jaxp 1.4.4 release and would like to know if you 
> would approve integrating it into OpenJDK6. Here are links to jaxp 
> 1.4.4 source bundle for JDK6 and 7:
> Source bundle: 
> https://jaxp.dev.java.net/files/documents/913/152561/jaxp-1_4_4.zip
> Unit tests: 
> https://jaxp.dev.java.net/files/documents/913/152562/jaxp-unittests-1_4_4.zip
>
> For details, see release notes and changelog below.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
> *
> Java API for XML Processing Release Notes*
> Specification Version: 1.4
> Reference Implementation (RI) Version: 1.4.4
> Aug. 24, 2010
>
> The drivers of this release are several regressions from JDK 6 Update 
> Release 18 and customer escalations. This release will be integrated 
> into JDK6 Update release 23 as well as the current JDK7 development 
> branch. Please read below for details on the change log.
>
> Changes and bug fixes in the release:
>
> 1.Regressions
> Before JDK6 Update 18, bug fixes and improvements in JAXP were 
> selectively integrated into JDK6 update releases. During update 18, 
> there was a complete synchronization between the JDK and JAXP. Due to 
> the number of changes made and the age of these changes, there were 
> several regressions found in the release. All of the 
> currently-identified regressions have been fixed in this release.
>
>
> 2.Customer escalations
> Customer escaltions are generally provided through revision releases 
> immediately after they are fixed. The inclusion here is a recount and 
> serves as a record for JDK7 integration.
>
> 3.Performance improvements
> There have been continued effort in performance improvements as a 
> result of SPECjvm2008 benchmark tests and analysis.
>
> 4.Apache Update
> JAXP 1.4 is based on Xerces 2.7.1 and Xalan 2.7. Starting from this 
> release, JAXP 1.4.4, we will sync up to Xerces 2.10.0 and Xalan 2.7.1 
> over a period of releases in phases. In the first phase of this 
> sync-up, all blockers and critical fixes from Xerces and Xalan are 
> integrated.
>
>
> •For all changes and fixes made in the JAXP 1.4.4 release, please 
> refer to:
>
> The JAXP 1.4.4 Change Log
>
> Changes Made and Bugs Fixed in JAXP 1.4.4
>
> Nr Category ID Synopsis/Description
> 1 JAXP/SAX/Error Handling 6921075 FactoryConfigurationError is not 
> chaining the exception properly
> 2 JAXP/XSLT/Performance 6922044 XSLTC performance regression in 1.6.0_18
> 3 JAXP/XSLT 6689809 Jaxp Issue 60: XSLT transformer ignores XPath 
> predicates in xsl:key elements
> 4 JAXP/Validation 6925531 A validation of a SAXSource always fails if 
> SecurityManager is set
> 5 JAXP/XSLT 6928198 reset() method in the Transformer does not reset 
> to its original state, causes the memory to grow.
> 6 JAXP/DOM 6909336 OpenJDK Issue 100123: XMLDOMWriterImpl throws 
> ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
> 7 JAXP/Doc 6653982 Wrong link in javadoc for XMLConstants and 
> DatatypeFactory
> 8 JAXP/Performance 6935738 Jaxp Issue 61 and 62: Perf. optimization 
> for QName.equals(...)
> 9 JAXP/Validation 6936624 sharing cached schema causing 
> cvc-complex-type.2.4.b error
> 10 JAXP/Performance 6938276 lock contention reduction in jaxp 
> XSComplexTypeDecl.getContentModel(CMBuilder cmBuilder)
> 11 JAXP/XSLT/Regression(6u18) 6940416 Regression in 6u18 wrt XSL/T 
> processing
> 12 JAXP/XSLT 6941869 XSL : Xalan transformer fails to process 
> semicolumn symbol in a count() function correctly
> 13 JAXP/SAX/Regression 6946312 XML parser omits characters callback to 
> ContentHandler since 6u18
> 14 JAXP/SAX 6949607 Jaxp Issue 63 : attribute is accessible with 
> invalid namespace
> 15 JAXP/Conformance 6937964 XML Duration do not conform to W3C 
> specifications
> 16 JAXP/SAX 6954755 The setXIncludeAware method in SAXParserFactory 
> throws obscure error message
> 17 JAXP/XSLT/Regression 6957215 JDK6u18 XSLT regression: xsl:copy-of 
> failing to copy generated attributes
> 18 JAXP/Performance 6908123 refactor 
> com.sun.org.apache.xalan.internal.xsltc.runtime.BasicLibrary.substringF() 
> variants
> 19 JAXP/StAX 6846133 StAX XMLEventReader DTD issues
> 20 JAXP/SAX 6925410 XMLReaderFactory.createXMLReader is very slow
> 21 JAXP/StAX 6756677 [StAX] XMLInputFactory.newInstance(String 
> factoryId, ...) treats property name as a property value
> 22 JAXP/Validation 6954738 StackOverflowError during XML schema 
> validation
>
> Apache Blockers and Critical Fixes
>
> Nr Key Synopsis/Description
> 1 XERCESJ-1094 Xerces in infinite loop validating wrongly encoded XML 
> 1.1 documents
> 2 XERCESJ-773 Poor performance when processing schemas with high 
> values of maxOccurs
> 3 XERCESJ-682 Comination of fields in <xsd:unique> acts as <xsd:key>
> 4 XERCESJ-506 warn-on-undeclared-element feature not recognized
> 5 XERCESJ-206 Stack overflow when using a schema validation.
> 6 XERCESJ-1357 pattern causes the parser to hang
> 7 XERCESJ-1174 PSVIElementNSImpl.getNil()
> 8 XERCESJ-1101 Validating DocumentBuilder instance fails to parse more 
> than one XML document. 
> 9 XERCESJ-1326 StackOverflowException when parsing against a schema 
> with a pattern
> 10 XERCESJ-1456 Regular expression is incorrectly handled in pattern 
> facet
> 11 XERCESJ-1389 RegEx matching: range not computed correctly
> 12 XERCESJ-1388 RegEx matching: when computing backreferences, "\dd" 
> must match group "dd" if group exists
> 13 XERCESJ-1377 Thread safety problem in RegularExpression
> 14 XERCESJ-1061 Regex "$" and "^" characters treated as special chars 
> in conflict with XML Schema spec 
> 15 XERCESJ-1265 E2-67 not fully implemented; rejecting regular 
> expressions like ~[-], ~[^-]
> 16 XERCESJ-1336 Add a new property for setting the locale used for 
> reporting error messages.
> 17 XALANJ-2290 ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException when xsl:varaible 
> storing RTF result
> 18 XALANJ-2204 Function Count on variable modifies number of nodes in 
> variable.
> 19 XALANJ-2199 Xalan 2.7.0 Error parsing XPath expression
> 20 XALANJ-2285 count function applied to union as test of node 
> identity is broken 
> 21 XALANJ-2184 cp850, cp860 serialization fails 
> 22 XALANJ-2083 Data corrupted in Parallel XSL execution 
> 23 XALANJ-2324 XPath function last() gives wrong result when select 
> has a predicate
>