Announcing

We are pleased to announce the release of ToXgene V2.1. ToXgene is a
template-based generator for large, consistent collections of synthetic XML
documents, and is part of the ToX project, developed at the Univerisity of
Toronto.

The ToXgene Template Specification Language (TSL) is a subset of the XML
Schema notation augmented with annotations for specifying certain properties
of the intended data, such as value distributions, the vocabulary for CDATA
content, etc.

Besides several performance improvements, this second release of ToXgene
includes the following new features:

1. Use of a Persistent Object Manager (POM): ToXgene can use a POM for storing
   temporary data structures that do not fit in main memory. One can customize
   the buffer management and take advantage of parallel I/O for optimal
   performance.

2. More built-in CDATA generators: besides the usual TPCH text and gibberish
   generators, ToXgene allows the specification of: XMark text, email
   addresses, country names, people's first and last names, etc.

3. Extensibility mechanism for CDATA generators: It is now possible to
   register new CDATA generators to be used by ToXgene. The code for the CDATA
   generators is loaded dynamically. The source code for the built-in CDATA
   generators is provided as examples.

We also updated the documentation and provide more sample templates.

More information about ToXgene and download instructions can be found in
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/tox/toxgene
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