What's New in XDK?

What's New contains this topic:

• Features Introduced in Oracle XML Developer's Kit 10g Release 1 (10.1)

Features Introduced in Oracle XML Developer's Kit 10g Release 1 (10.1)

JAXB Class Generator

The JAXB compiler generates the interfaces and the implementation classes corresponding to the XML Schema. The JAXB Class Generator, which is based on the Java Specification Request (JSR) recommendation for JAXB, is to be used for new applications. The Class Generator for Java is deprecated and replaced by the JSR-31 implementation of XML Data Binding (JAXB). The runtime will be supported, so that the Java classes generated in older releases will continue to work.

Unified API for C and C++

These sets of functions work in both XDK and XML DB and replace the C and C++ XDK functions of previous releases.

XDK C/C++ Components Change

Previously, the globalization support data environment variable setting was ORA_NLS33. It has now been changed to ORA_NLS10.

Pipeline Definition Language

This W3C note is implemented for Java in the XDK.

XSLT Compiler and XSLT Virtual Machine (XVM)

For improved performance there are new interfaces for the XSL processor for C and C++.

XSQL Pages Publishing Framework Updates

This chapter has been updated for this release.

Using SOAP

New sections are included, plus an example of a SOAP project is found in this chapter:

New XML JavaBeans

XMLCompress, XMLDBAccess, XSDValidator JavaBeans have been added.

Changes in this Manual

PL/SQL chapters

• "XML Parser for PL/SQL"

• "XSLT Processor for PL/SQL"

• "XML Schema Processor for PL/SQL"

are moved to the Oracle XML DB Developer's Guide.

Upgrades to the XDK Components

Specifications of the levels of the components in this release are described in this section:

XDK Java Components Changes

• The XDK Java components in this release have several fixes for J2EE conformance and XML 1.0 Conformance Test Suite. Some of the changes resulted in change in behavior with respect to previous release. A few of them are listed below:

  • The default value of preserve whitespace [XMLParser.setPreserveWhitespace()] is now dependent on the presence of a DTD. If a DTD is present, the default is false, else it is true. Earlier the default was always false.

  • getPrefix(), getNamespaceURI(), and getLocalName() return null instead of '""' (empty string), when not present in the element or attribute, or if the node was created using DOM 1.0 methods.

• The PL/SQL wrapper for parsing and transformation is replaced by the DBMS_XMLPARSER, DBMS_XMLDOM and DBMS_XSLPROCESSOR packages.

• JAXP 1.2 supports XML Schema validation.

• XMLSAXSerializer provides support to handle the SAX output serialization.