[ANNOUNCEMENT]: Xerces-J 2.7.1 now available

Hi everyone, 

The Xerces-J team is pleased to announce that version 2.7.1 of Xerces-J is 
now available.

This release fixes one XInclude bug and several schema related bugs which 
were present in Xerces-J 2.7.0.

Specifically, the changes introduced in this release are:

* Fixed an inconsistency in the validation behaviour of the parser when 
XInclude processing is enabled and the validation and schema validation 
features are also enabled.

* Fixed a bug where in a DOM Level 3 context with schema validation 
enabled, not all schema constraints (such as unique particle attribution) 
were being checked.

* Fixed bugs which allowed various invalid lexical values to be accepted 
by the schema validator for the following types: double, date, float, 
gDay, gMonthDay, gMonth and gYearMonth. 

* Fixed a schema bug where errors would be reported for comments and 
processing instructions which appear as the children of an element 
declared to have empty content.

* Fixed a schema bug which caused an NPE to be thrown for a namespace 
declaration such as xmlns="" which appeared on an ancestor element of an 
<annotation>.