# Vtd-xml 2.9

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vtd-xml-2-9/193205>\
**Category:** Ruby\
**Created:** [August 13, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vtd-xml-2-9/193205 "2010-08-13T04:27:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@casper\_the\_ghost](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/casper_the_ghost)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/vtd-xml-2-9/193205/1 "2010-08-13T04:27:02Z")

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VTD-XML 2.9, the next generation XML Processing API for SOA and Cloud  
computing, has been released. Please visit  
[VTD-XML: The Future of XML Processing - Browse Files at SourceForge.net](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()