Release Notes - Commons JXPath - Version 1.3

Bug

[JXPATH-2] - Using JXPath in multiple threads
[JXPATH-5] - asPath() returns a path to the last sibling
[JXPATH-10] - JXPath 1.1 code using custom functions failing when run in 1.2 onwards
[JXPATH-12] - Descendant or self axis does not work correctly at root node
[JXPATH-17] - JXPathContext.iteratePointers("//*") results are incorrect
[JXPATH-30] - Source instructions on web site are wrong
[JXPATH-37] - JXPathException cause
[JXPATH-38] - ClassFunctions throws NPE searching for a function in null ns
[JXPATH-40] - Problem in namespace handling
[JXPATH-46] - NullPointerException
[JXPATH-50] - does not properly handle NodeSet returned by extension function
[JXPATH-68] - StackOverflow error on a call to 'JXPathContext.createPath()'
[JXPATH-70] - Javadoc missing from distribution
[JXPATH-73] - ValueUtils should catch IndexOutOfBoundsException instead of ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException (for XmlBeans support)
[JXPATH-76] - CompiledExpression not completely thread-safe
[JXPATH-79] - Error when accessing JXPathContext methods in Concurrent Scenario
[JXPATH-83] - JXpath automatically trims string values
[JXPATH-84] - reserved word enum is used
[JXPATH-85] - Restore binary compatibility with JXPath 1.2
[JXPATH-87] - xmlURL field not set in XMLDocumentContainer
[JXPATH-89] - Cannot compare pointers that do not belong to the same tree
[JXPATH-90] - Upper boundary check is missing from substring(<string>, <number>)
[JXPATH-93] - Binary operators behaviour involving node-sets is incorrect
[JXPATH-94] - equality test for multi-valued variables does not conform to spec
[JXPATH-95] - Comparing with NaN is incorrect
[JXPATH-97] - Incomplete handling of undefined namespaces
[JXPATH-98] - termination problem with empty list
[JXPATH-100] - Core union operation does not sort result nodes according to document order
[JXPATH-101] - Original context from VariableContextWrapper is not visible
[JXPATH-102] - Core rounding functions don't handle NaN or infinite values correctly
[JXPATH-104] - selectSingleNode() from a map should not select map values keyed by strings with embedded colons using namespaced element syntax
[JXPATH-105] - BasicNodeSet.getNodes() returns values instead of nodes ?
[JXPATH-106] - Typo in JXPathException.getMessage()
[JXPATH-107] - RCN: Nullcheck of NodePointer.parent of value previously dereferenced in PropertyOwnerPointer.setValue(Object)
[JXPATH-109] - Namespaced attribute not selected with wildcard
[JXPATH-111] - ClassCastException in PrecedingOrFollowingContext
[JXPATH-113] - NullPointerException in ChildContext
[JXPATH-114] - node() implementation in DOM and JDOM model
[JXPATH-115] - Issue with attribute::
[JXPATH-120] - ClassCastException in ServletRequestHandler.setProperty()
[JXPATH-123] - Regression: "fix" made to NamespaceResolver broke existing testcases

Improvement

[JXPATH-75] - The dependency for xerces in commons-jxpath-1.2.pom is too old
[JXPATH-88] - Add getPrefix(String namespaceURI) to JXPathContext
[JXPATH-91] - KeyManager should support nodeset selection
[JXPATH-108] - problems with NodeSet returned from custom function.
[JXPATH-124] - Make buildContextChain method of Path class protected

New Feature

[JXPATH-96] - Extract VariablePointerFactory interface

Acknowledgements

Thanks to everybody who reported problems, helped to trace them, suggested changes or simply provided encouragement. Special thanks to

Dmitri Plotnikov (foundation)
Niall Pemberton (release guidance)
Dennis Lundberg (M2 assistance)
Sergey Vladimirov (numerous bug reports)
Michele Vivoda (numerous bug reports)
Henri Yandell (proposing a new committer)
Elliotte Rusty Harold (XPath feature sanity check)