[XERCESJ-1383] Adding Unicode Normalization support to Xerces2-J

• Type: New Feature
• Status: In Progress
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.9.1
• Component/s: DOM (Level 3 Core), SAX
• Environment: All
• Assignee: Michael Glavassevich
• Reporter: Richard Kelly
• Created: 12/Jul/09 08:40
• Updated: 02/Dec/09 05:34

Description

This feature will add support for Unicode character normalization and normalization checking to Xerces. Applications that use Xerces will be able to produce fully normalized XML documents and verify that any XML documents they process are fully normalised.

Adding this functionality will allow Xerces to meet the XML 1.1 W3C Recommendation regarding character normalization and allow it to implement the optional character normalization and normalization checking features specified in the DOM Level 3 Core and SAX2.

More specifically, the features to be implemented are:
DOM Level 3 Core: "normalize-characters" [1]
DOM Level 3 Core: "check-character-normalization" [2]
SAX2: "unicode-normalization-checking" [3]

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-normalize-characters
[2] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-Core/core.html#parameter-check-character-normalization
[3] http://www.saxproject.org/apidoc/org/xml/sax/package-summary.html