[ann]vtd-xml 2.9

VTD-XML 2.9, the next generation XML Processing API for SOA and Cloud computing, has been released. Please visit https://sourceforge.net/projects/vtd-xml/files/ to download the latest version.
  a.. Strict Conformance
    a.. VTD-XML now fully conforms to XML namespace 1.0 spec
  b.. Performance Improvement
    a.. Significantly improved parsing performance for small XML files
  c.. Expand Core VTD-XML API
    a.. Adds getPrefixString(), and toNormalizedString2()
  d.. Cutting/Splitting
    a.. Adds getSiblingElementFragment()
  e.. A number of bug fixes and code enhancement including:
    a.. Fixes a bug for reading very large XML documents on some platforms
    b.. Fixes a bug in parsing processing instruction
    c.. Fixes a bug in outputAndReparse()