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XMLUnit for Java 1.6 is mostly a bugfix release adressing four issues:

• If the sought for attribute in ATTR_NAME_NOT_FOUND or node in CHILD_NODE_NOT_FOUND differences is inside an XML namespace, the difference's value is now Java5-QName like {NS-URI}LOCAL-NAME rather than just the local name.
  Issue 65
• for ATTR_NAME_NOT_FOUND differences the XPath on the side where the attribute exists now points to the attribute itself rather than the parent element.
  Feature 33
• a new assertXpathEvaluatesTo assertion in XMLAssert combined with a new QualifiedName class allows stringified XPath values to be interpreted as qualified names.
  Feature 25
• The JAXP 1.3 based validator ignored now uses the xsi:namespaceLocation and xsi:noNamespaceLocation attributes if you specify no schema sources at all.
  Issue 65

Note the first two changes may be breaking backwards compatibility in rare cases.

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Reposting what I just sent to the xmlunit-general list for wider feedback, don't hesitate dropping me a mail if you want to stop me.

Hi all

if you are following the commits, you may have seen I've started to work
on XMLUnit 2.x again, nothing big, but I'm trying to get it done this
time.

Apart from re-thinking the abstractions used in the difference engine
the biggest piece missing for a release - even a beta - is
documentation.  Here I realized more and more that I really do not feel
like writing a big docbook document again, I need someting more
ligthweight with more immediate feedback.  A wiki would be fine, but
we've also always had a PDF version and I'd like to keep it that way.

Also I realized I prefer git over subversion by now, so I'd like to move
2.x to git.  I know I could do so on Sourceforge, but right now I feel
it would be best to move active development over to github.  A quick
search showed several forks over there, so we may be able to reconnect
and make this a community effort rather than mostly a one-man-show.

Here is what I intend to do, please let me know if anything looks
completely wrong:

* create an xmlunit organization at github
* create three repositories (for now)
  * XMLUnit Java 2.x - including the matchers and xmlunit-legacy
  * XMLUnit .NET 2.x - including constraints
  * a pure Wiki repository for the user guide.  github markdown works
    well enough for me and pandoc can create PDF or even epub from it
    (thanks to Stefan Tilkov for pointing me at it)
* start using github's issue tracker
* create a github.io site for XMLUnit 2.x
* keep using Sourceforge for XMLUnit 1.x
  * move XMLUnit 1.x back to svn trunk and keep it at sourceforge
  * keep using sourceforge's issue tracker for 1.x
  * keep the xmlunit.sf.net site for 1.x
* keep using the xmlunit-general@lists.sourceforge as primary
  communication medium for all versions
* keep the sourceforge forums even though I never liked them (or any web
  forum)

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