an additional implementation of JAXP Datatypes

[Yevgeny Rouban <ye...@gmail.com>]

Hello.

While working with the JAXP Datatypes in XercesJ 2.7.1, we found a few
bugs in both public and implementation classes from XML Commons and
Xerces projects respectively (See lists attached).  We are interested
in helping fix these bugs in both projects.

Besides, we have an internal implementation of this API that we'd like
to donate to the project (and continue to maintain it in the future)
as an additional implementation of JAXP Datatypes. We believe that
it's fairly bug free, and reasonably performant (we've done
performance testing in Intel platforms using Jrockit 1.4.2 and 1.5).

We have about 150 JUnit tests that reveal the bugs in the current
implementation, and we'd like to donate those as well.  (Our
implementation passes those tests.) Those tests can be integrated into
the current build quite easily to monitor regressions. In addition, we
have several performance tests that can be used to compare
implementations.

Our sources are now in stable state, but our internal procedures for
donation will take some time and effort.  Is this something that the
community is interested in accepting?  We'd like to be sure before we
start the internal processes.

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Yevgeny Rouban
INTEL Middleware Product Division