Oracle XML Parser for PLSQL 1.0.2.0.0
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May 18, 2000

Changes: New APIs to free memory used by the Java object using the PL/SQL parser.

- xmldoc.freeDocument(doc DOMDocument)
- xmlparser.freeParser(p XMLParser)
- xslprocessor.freeProccessor(p XSLProcessor)
- xslprocessor.freeStylesheet(ss XSLStylesheet) New parameter setting/resetting APIs:
- xslprocessor.setParam(ss Stylesheet, name VARCHAR2, value VARCHAR2);
- xslprocessor.removeParam(ss Stylesheet, name VARCHAR2);
- xslprocessor.resetParams(ss Stylesheet); New APIs in XSLProcessor:
- xslprocessor.selectSingleNode(n xmldom.DOMNode, pattern varchar2) return xmldom.DOMNode;
- xslprocessor.valueOf(n xmldom.DOMNode, pattern varchar2) return VARCHAR2;

  Bug Fixes:

- BUG 1147031 - XMLPARSERCOVER.PARSEDTDCLOB CALLS WRONG METHOD NAME IN XMLPARSERCOVER.JAVA
- BUG 1174588 - VALUEOF NOT EXPOSED THROUGH PLSQL PACKAGE COVERS
- BUG 1194959 - STYLESHEET PARAMETER METHODS NOT EXPOSED IN PLSQL
- BUG 1250519 - LARGE MEMORY LEAK IN V2 JAVA XML/XSL PARSER
  Oracle XML Parser for PLSQL 1.0.1.0.0
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  October 1, 1999

  Changes:

  Now uses the Oracle XML parser for Java V2.

  The xmlparser package has been split into two: xmlparser, which contains methods for parsing an XML document and xmldom, which contains methods to manipulate the DOM tree

  Methods to parse and set a DTD have been added to xmlparser

  Methods to print DOMNodes and external DTDs have been added

  Support for namespaces has been added

  XSLT support has been added and is available in the xslprocessor package

  This is the first production release

  Oracle XML Parser for PLSQL 1.0.0.1.0
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  July 2, 1999

  Changes:

  Now uses the Oracle XML parser for Java V1.0.1.4.

  More API documentation has been added and the installation instructions in the READMEs have been expanded.

  This is the first beta patch release

  Oracle XML Parser for PLSQL 1.0.0.0.0
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  April 19, 1999

  The Oracle XML parser for PLSQL is an early adopter release and is written in PLSQL and Java. It will check if an XML document is well-formed and, optionally, if it is valid. The parser will construct an object tree which can be accessed via PLSQL interfaces.

  The licensing agreement is found in LICENSE. The parser is currently available only for testing purposes. We expect to make the parser available for commercial use in the future.

  Please post any questions, comments, or bug reports to the XML Forum on the Oracle Technology Network at http://technet.oracle.com. At this time OTN is your only support resource.

  The parser conforms to the following standards:

  * The W3C recommendation for Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 at
  http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-xml-19980210

  * The W3C recommendation for Document Object Model Level 1 1.0 at
  http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/REC-DOM-Level-1-19981001

  The parser currently supports the following encodings: UTF-8, BIG 5, US-ASCII,
  GB2312, EUC-JP, ISO-2022-JP, EUC-KR, ISO-2022-KR, KOI8-R, ISO-8859-1to -9, EBCDIC-CP-*, and Shift_JIS. UTF-8 is the default encoding if none is specified. Any other ASCII or EBCDIC based encodings that are supported by the Oracle 8i database may be used. Additional encodings will be added to the list of supported encodings in future releases.

  The parser also provides error recovery. It will recover from most errors and continue processing until a fatal error is encountered.

  The following directories and files are found in the release:

  license.html - licensing agreement
  readme.html - this file
  doc/ - API documentation
  lib/ - contains the XML parser archive
  sample/ - contains examples of how to use the XML parser