| What's new in Xalan-Java Version 2.7.1 |

| Support for DOM Level 3 serialization (LSSerializer) |

The serializer now has support for DOM Level 3 serialization (LSSerializer) for an XML parser. These changes are seen in the new class `org.apache.xml.serializer.DOM3Serializer` and the new package `org.apache.xml.serializer.dom3` as well as a new method, `asDOM3Serializer()` on the older `org.apache.xml.serializer.Serializer` interface.

More details are in the javadoc of those classes and interfaces

| Upgrade to Xerces-J 2.9.0 and XML Commons External 1.3.04. |

| The distributions contain upgraded versions of `xml-apis.jar` (Xerces-J 2.9.0) and `xml-apis.jar` (XML Commons External 1.3.04).

| Bug fixes |

| Of course the 2.7.1 release contains performance enhancements and other bug fixes since 2.7.0 and a list of these can be found in the release notes.

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