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-wanttohelp those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
- <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XMLSchemas</a></li>
-</ul><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a>describes the recents
-commitstothe <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/">CVS</a>code
-base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
+</style><title>Releases</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Releases</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.blastwave.org/packages.php/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
+to help those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
+ <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
+ Schemas</a></li>
+</ul><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits
+to the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/">CVS</a> code base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel,
+ Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards),
+ AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li>
+ <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
+ (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
+ equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
+ improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib
+ support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
+ (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
+ Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
+ of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to
+ python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca),
+ try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
+ add --html --memory case to xmllint</li>
+ <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix,
+ const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
+ portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
+ Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python
+ shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
+ (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
+ --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li>
+ <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
+ attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode,
+ xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
+ missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
+ (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
+ serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
+ xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
+ allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
+ fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
+ crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
+ when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when
+ using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
+ context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
+ autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
+ fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
+ validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute
+ XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
+ in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
+ meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc,
+ HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
+ htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
+ xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
+ htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
+ bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
+ </li>
+ <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
+ fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
+ xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
+ functions</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li>
<li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
@@ -22,474 +72,465 @@ base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3>
selfdocument.</li>
<li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
cache(Kasimier)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile
- onwindows(Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile
- (EricZurcher),HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config
- bugfix,gcc-4.1cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8
- file pathsonWindows (Roland Schwingel).</li>
- <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces
- xmlDOMWrapCloneNode(KasimierBuchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones),
- update to Unicode4.01.</li>
- <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23,
- xmlParseInNodeContext()onHTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob
- Richards), comment streamingbug,xmlParseComment (with William Brack),
- regexp bug fixes (DV &amp;YouriGolovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA
- (Kasimier),one Relax-NGinterleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,XSD
- bugfixes (Kasimier),remove debugleft in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier),
- xmlCatalogAdd bug(Martin Cole),xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML
- IDness (RobRichards), a largenumber of cleanups and small fixes based on
- Coverityreports, bugin character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars
- Kalvans),schemasfix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse
- errordeallocation,xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error
- handling onunallowedcode point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net
- (GaryCoady),line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers).</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
+ (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
+ HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
+ cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
+ Windows (Roland Schwingel).
+ </li>
+ <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
+ Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
+ on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
+ bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &amp;
+ Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
+ one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
+ XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
+ left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
+ xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
+ number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
+ in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
+ fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation,
+ xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
+ code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
+ line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li>
<li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li>
<li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on
- Windows(KoljaNowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan
- Maraas),--with-minimumcompilation fixes (William Brack), error case
- handling fixon Solaris(Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name
- reported bySamuel DiazGarcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert
- Chin),MinGW compilation(Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings
- (RickJones),</li>
- <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), removexmlBufferClose(Geert
- Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko),refactoringparsing code
- (Bjorn Reese)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path
- (WilliamBrack),combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code,
- leakinxmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities
- problem(MassimoMorara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault
- (KasimierBuchcik),XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV
- &amp;Kasimier),xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier),
- potentialleak inxmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf()
- misuseofvsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob
- Richards),CRLFsplit problem (William), issues with non-namespaced
- attributesinxmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling()
- (RobRichards),HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout
- (NicFerrier),exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin),
- XSDdataypetotalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing
- toanxmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not
- reported(HisashiFujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code
- (AlbertChin), fixXSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of
- xs:decimal(Kasimier),fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak
- inxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml(Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting
- schemas(Kasimier), configuration ofruntime debugging
- (Kasimier),xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs(Oleksandr
- Kononenko),xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),compilation and build
- fixes(Michael Day), removed dependancies onxmlSchemaValidError
- (Kasimier), bugwith &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, more XPathpattern based evaluation
- fixes(Kasimier)</li>
- <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions
- (KasimierBuchcik),node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards),
- countedtransitionbug in regexps, ctxt-&gt;standalone = -2 to indicate
- nostandaloneattribute was found, add
- xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()(KasimierBuchcik), add
- xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API(Kasimier), handlegzipped HTTP
- resources (Gary Coady), addhtmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (RobRichards),</li>
- <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert
- Chin),savefunction to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix
- (AronStansvik),</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
+ (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
+ --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
+ on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
+ Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
+ MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
+ Jones),</li>
+ <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
+ (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
+ parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
+ combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
+ xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
+ Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
+ XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV &amp; Kasimier),
+ xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
+ xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
+ vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
+ split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
+ xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
+ HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
+ exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
+ totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
+ xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
+ Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
+ XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
+ fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
+ (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
+ runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
+ (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
+ compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
+ xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, more XPath
+ pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
+ <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
+ Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
+ transition bug in regexps, ctxt-&gt;standalone = -2 to indicate no
+ standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
+ (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
+ (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
+ htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li>
+ <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
+ function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg
- Paraschenko)i,CDATApush parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1
- doc,XML_FEATURE_xxxclash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix
- someoutput formattingfor meta element (Rob Richards), script and
- styleXHTML1 serialization(David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in
- XSD(Kasimier Buchcik),better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
- <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob
- Richards),addXML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements
- preparingforderive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
- <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs,
- integrationwithdevhelp.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P.
- Haase),callingconvention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups
- based onLinus'sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards),
- removewarningson Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1,
- detectionof thePython binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew
- W.Nosenko),compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem
- byC370 onZ/OS,</li>
- <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML
- UTF-8bug(Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William
- Brack),htmlParseScriptpotential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces,
- Base64Schemascomparisons NIST passes, automata build error
- xsd:all,xmlGetNodePath fornamespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda),
- xmlSchemasforeign namespaceshandling, XML Schemas facet comparison
- (KupriyanovAnatolij),xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier
- Buchcik), xml:namespaceahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group
- in Schemas(Kasimier),wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition
- (William),xs:anyType inSchemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting
- errormessages directly,Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying
- tofix the file path/URIconversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix
- (RobRichards),xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML
- UTF-8serialization, streamingXPath, Schemas determinism detection
- problem,XInclude bug, Schemascontext type (Dean Hill), validation fix
- (DerekPoon),xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards),
- Schemastype fix(Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in
- encodinghandling,xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity
- nameextraction inerror handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body
- tags(Gary Coady),xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath
- streamingpatternsbugs.</li>
- <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG
- errorreports(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner
- loopparsing(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron
- validationthoughnot finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration,
- keyrefmatcherror reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code
- notpluggedyet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser
- XML_PARSE_COMPACToptionfor text nodes allocation.</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
+ CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
+ XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
+ output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
+ XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
+ (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
+ <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
+ XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
+ derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
+ <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
+ devhelp.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
+ convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
+ sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
+ on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
+ Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
+ compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
+ Z/OS,</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
+ bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
+ htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
+ Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
+ xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
+ foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
+ Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
+ namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
+ (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
+ xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
+ messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
+ fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
+ Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
+ serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
+ XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
+ Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
+ type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
+ xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
+ error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
+ xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
+ bugs.</li>
+ <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
+ (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
+ (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
+ not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
+ error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
+ yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
+ for text nodes allocation.</li>
<li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw
- compilation(IgorZlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings
- (Kasimierandandriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to
- avoidthepthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve
- Nairn),compilingof subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation
- (WilliamBrack),compilation when disabling parts of the library,
- standalonetestdistribution.</li>
- <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William
- Brack),HTTPquery strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD
- (William),integeroverflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size,
- pattern "." apthfixup(Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe,
- replaceNodepatch(Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc),
- xml:basefixupon XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute
- buginexclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with
- SAX2(RobRichards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe),
- XSDtypeQNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William),
- RelaxNGbug(Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal
- of ID(RobRichards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode
- bug(JamesBursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in
- CDATAsections,areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in
- DTDbug(William).</li>
- <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik
- bothonconformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages
- (KasimierBuchcik,Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python
- level(BrentHendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests
- fromW3C/Nist(Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier),
- implementationofxmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml
- (JamesWert),standalone test framework and programs, new DOM
- importAPIsxmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces()
- xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode()andxmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint
- capabilities for SAXandSchemas regression tests, xmlStopParser()
- available in pull modetoo,ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces
- support, Windows port ofthestandalone testing tools (Kasimier
- andWilliam),xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug()
- andxmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAXSchemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build
- fix(WilliamBrack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it
- breakswith AIX5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT
- reductioncode onLinux/ELF/gcc4</li>
- <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack),
- xmmlintreturncode (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess
- andGUYFabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n
- (AlekseySanin),segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas
- attributevalidation(Kasimier), Prop related functions and
- xmlNewNodeEatName (RobRichards),HTML serialization of name attribute on a
- elements, Pythonerror handlersleaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks),
- uninitializedvariable inencoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential
- crashifgnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and
- xmlParseDocsignatures,switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding
- is givenatserialization time</li>
- <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik
- onfacetschecking and also mixed handling.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
+ Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
+ andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
+ pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
+ of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
+ compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
+ distribution.</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
+ HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
+ overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
+ (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
+ (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
+ on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
+ exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
+ Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
+ QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
+ (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
+ Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
+ Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
+ areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
+ (William).</li>
+ <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
+ conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
+ Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
+ Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
+ (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
+ xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
+ standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
+ xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
+ xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
+ Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
+ ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
+ standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
+ xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
+ Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
+ Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
+ 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
+ Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
+ code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
+ Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
+ segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
+ (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
+ HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
+ leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
+ encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
+ gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
+ switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
+ serialization time</li>
+ <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
+ checking and also mixed handling.</li>
<li></li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner),
- testapi.cgeneration,Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows
- compilation(Joel Reed),some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick
- Jones).</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik),
- pushandxmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support
- fordictionnariesreference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and
- pushproblem, URLsaved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes
- (Kasimier),Python pathsfixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and
- namespaces,xmlSetNsProp fix(Mike Hommey), warning should not count as
- error (WilliamBrack),xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser
- flags (William),cleanupFTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and
- IPv6(William),xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob
- Richards),XMLLINT_INDENT beingempty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob
- Richards),multithreading on Windows(Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix
- (Kasimier),Python binding leak (BrentHendricks), aliasing bug exposed by
- gcc4 ons390, xmlTextReaderNext bug(Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type
- fixes(William Brack),xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
- <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary
- supportforhash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier),
- streamingXPathsubset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese),
- Schemascanonicalvalues handling (Kasimier), add
- xmlTextReaderByteConsumed(AronStansvik),</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
+ Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
+ some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
+ xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
+ reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
+ saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
+ fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
+ (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
+ xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
+ FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
+ xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
+ empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
+ (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
+ Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
+ (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
+ xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
+ <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
+ hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
+ subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
+ values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
+ Stansvik),</li>
<li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William
- Brack),maintainer-cleandependency(William), build in a different
- directory(William), fixing--with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS
- build(Marcin Konicki),Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX
- (DanMcNichol)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob
- Richards),xmlCtxtReadFile()to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William
- Brack),XPath memory leak,ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard),
- debugDumpNodecrash (William),warning not using error callback (William),
- xmlStopParserbug (William),UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace
- bug on emptyelements inpush mode (Rob Richards), line and col
- computations fixups(AlekseySanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William),
- xmlXPathErr on bad range(William),patterns with too many steps, bug in
- RNG choice optimization,line numbersometimes missing.</li>
- <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), pythongenerator(William),
- xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Pythonstrings(William), XSD
- error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__callserialize().</li>
- <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and
- GetColumnNumberforthe xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries
- APIs (mostlyJoelReed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave
- option forformat(Phil Shafer)</li>
- <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries(William).</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based
- onnewautomated regression testing</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
+ maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
+ (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
+ (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
+ McNichol)</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
+ to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
+ ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
+ warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
+ UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
+ push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
+ Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
+ patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
+ sometimes missing.</li>
+ <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
+ (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
+ (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
+ serialize().</li>
+ <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
+ the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
+ Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
+ (Phil Shafer)</li>
+ <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
+ (William).</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
+ automated regression testing</li>
<li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr
- Pajas,encodingconversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting
- XPathreported byMarkus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries
- (WilliamBrack)</li>
- <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API
- functiondescritpionwere updated.</li>
- <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python
- level(BrentHendricks)</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding
+ conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
+ Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
+ <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
+ were updated.</li>
+ <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
+ Hendricks)</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul><li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
- <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building
- outsidethesource tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names
- (William),Pythonpaths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default
- namespace(William),saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick),
- DTD lookupfix(Malcolm), save back &lt;group&gt; in catalogs (William),
- treebuildfixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured
- errorhandleron Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory
- leakreportedby Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an
- internalsubset,entities and _private problem (William),
- xmlBuildRelativeURIerror(William).</li>
- <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William),
- treedebuggingmodule and tests, convenience functions at the Reader
- API(GrahamBennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and
- xsltproc,compilationwithout HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups
- (WilliamBrack &amp;Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig
- Berry),</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName
- properties(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude testing, Notation
- serialization,UTF8ToISO8859xtranscoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML
- Schemas cleanupand fixes(Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal),
- memory fixes (MarkVakoc),handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array
- adressing inSchemasdate handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm
- Tredinnick),NMTOKENSE20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
- <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier
- Buchcik),addxmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python
- exceptionhierearchy(Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver
- improvement(MalcolmTredinnick), Schemas support
- forxsi:schemaLocation,xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type
- (KasimierBuchcik)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag withgcc,Solaris
- compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
- <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error
- reportsAPIs(Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8
- (WilliamBrackand Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier),
- defaultnamespaceproblem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values,
- encodingerror couldgenrate a serialization loop.</li>
- <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added
- --pathand--load-trace options to xmllint</li>
+ <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
+ source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
+ paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
+ saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
+ (Malcolm), save back &lt;group&gt; in catalogs (William), tree build
+ fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
+ on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
+ by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
+ entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
+ (William).</li>
+ <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
+ module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
+ Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
+ without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &amp;
+ Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
+ Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
+ transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
+ (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
+ handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
+ date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
+ E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
+ <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
+ xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
+ (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
+ Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
+ xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
+ Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
+ <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
+ (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
+ and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
+ problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
+ genrate a serialization loop.</li>
+ <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
+ and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
<li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h
- fixes(PeterBreitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on
- Solaris(AlbertChin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
- <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and
- spacemixes(William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support
- (GerritP.Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML
- Schemassupport(Torkel Lyng)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
+ Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
+ Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
+ <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
+ (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
+ Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
+ (Torkel Lyng)</li>
<li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
- <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug
- (William),memorydebug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling
- (PeterBreitenlohner),xmlReader state after attribute reading
- (William),structured errorhandler (William), XInclude generated xml:base
- fixup(William), Windowsmemory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of
- Memoryconditionshandling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc()
- charsetbug,htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation
- DTDbase(William), notations serialization missing,
- xmlGetNodePath(Dodji),xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers
- onentity(William)</li>
- <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William),
- xmlcatalogtool(Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment
- (MikeHommey),xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell,
- allowXIncludeto not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version
- toinclude CVStag (William)</li>
- <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes(William)schemas
- API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (JohnFleck)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier
- Buchcikforattributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
- <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcccleanup(William),
- --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
- <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic),Catalogpath
- on Windows</li>
- <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint
- returncode(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
- <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey
- Sanin),testSAXproperly initialize the library (William), empty node set
- inXPath(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref
- problempointedby Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William),
- Relax-NGbugwith div processing (William), XPointer and
- xml:baseproblem(William),Reader and entities, xmllint return code for
- schemas(William), readerstreaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD
- serializationproblem (William),libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not
- providedestructors as methods onPython classes, xmlReader buffer bug,
- Pythonbindings memory interfacesimprovement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed
- thepush parser to be back tosynchronous behaviour.</li>
- <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob
- Richards),registernamespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python
- basedregressiontest for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase
- thenumber ofXPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory
- leak(Marc-AntoineParent and William)</li>
- <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF
- footprintandgenerated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to
- optimizethecode generated in the RPM packages.</li>
+ <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
+ debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
+ xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
+ handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
+ memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
+ handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
+ htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
+ (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
+ xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
+ (William)</li>
+ <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
+ (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
+ xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
+ to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
+ tag (William)</li>
+ <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
+ schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
+ attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
+ <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
+ (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
+ <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
+ path on Windows</li>
+ <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
+ (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
+ properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
+ (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
+ by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
+ with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
+ Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
+ streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
+ libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
+ Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
+ improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
+ synchronous behaviour.</li>
+ <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
+ namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
+ test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
+ XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
+ Parent and William)</li>
+ <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
+ and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
+ the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
<li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
- <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and
- Borland),memcmpvs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark
- Vakoc), C++ donotuse "list" as parameter name, make tests work with
- Python 1.5(EdDavis),</li>
- <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small
- buffersresizing(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to
- xmllint,addxmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring
- ofserializationescaping, added escaping customization</li>
- <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp
- bugs(WilliamBrack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration
- withreader,URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick
- Wellnhofer),regexptransition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas
- fixes(KasimierBuchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird
- problemswith DTD(William), structured error handler callback context
- (William),reversexmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping
- '"'</li>
+ <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
+ vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
+ use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
+ Davis),</li>
+ <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
+ (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
+ xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
+ escaping, added escaping customization</li>
+ <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
+ Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
+ URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
+ transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
+ Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
+ (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
+ xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
- <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and
- CDATA(DaveBeckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp
- patches(withWilliam), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed
- problem(withWilliam), Relax-NG name classes compares (William),
- XIncludeduplicatefallback (William), external DTD encoding detection
- (William), aDTDvalidation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix,
- recusiveextentionschemas</li>
- <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark
- Vakoc),indentingsave optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP
- redirectbehaviour (IanHummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa),
- libxml2-pythonRPMdependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier
- Buchcik), warningremovalclanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when
- installing fromRPMs</li>
- <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John
- Fleck),newexample (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump()
- comments,</li>
- <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work
- aroundMicrosoftcompiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
+ <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
+ Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
+ William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
+ William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
+ fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
+ validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
+ schemas</li>
+ <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
+ save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian
+ Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
+ dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
+ clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li>
+ <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
+ example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
+ <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
+ compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
- <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling
- fixes(AdamDickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
+ <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
+ Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
<li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
<li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
- <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results
- (William),externalreference in interleave (William), missing error
- on&lt;choice&gt;failure (William), memory leak in schemas
- datatypefacets.</li>
+ <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
+ reference in interleave (William), missing error on &lt;choice&gt;
+ failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
<li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey
- andWilliamBrack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR,
- xmlcatalogfallbacks toURI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse
- flagsinheritance (William),XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities
- (William),XML parser bugreported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak
- (William),regexps chargroups '-' handling (William), dictionnary
- reference countingproblems,do not close stderr.</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
+ Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
+ URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
+ XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
+ reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
+ groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
+ do not close stderr.</li>
<li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
<li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
- <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid,
- catalogcleanups(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland
- Schwingel),cross-compilationto Windows (Christophe de Vienne),
- --with-html-dirfixup (Julio MerinoVidal), Windows build (Eric
- Zurcher)</li>
+ <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
+ (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
+ to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
+ Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
<li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
<li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
<li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
- <li>bugfixes: xpath number with &gt; 19 fractional (William
- Brack),pushmode with unescaped '&gt;' characters, fix xmllint --stream
- --timing,fixxmllint --memory --stream memory
- usage,xmlAttrSerializeTxtContenthandling NULL, trying to fix
- Relax-NG/Perlinterface.</li>
+ <li>bugfixes: xpath number with &gt; 19 fractional (William Brack), push
+ mode with unescaped '&gt;' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
+ xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
+ handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
<li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
<li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing
- (IgorandWilliam) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
- <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter
- attributeserialization(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William),
- schemasvalidation(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues
- (Williamand OlegParaschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML
- warnings(William),XPointer in XInclude (William), Python
- namespaceserialization,isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch),
- output ofparameterentities in internal subset (William), internal subset
- bug inpush mode,&lt;xs:all&gt; fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
- <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warningsremoval(Philip
- Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard),fix--with-minimum
- configuration.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
+ William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
+ <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
+ (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
+ (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
+ Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
+ XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
+ isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
+ entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
+ &lt;xs:all&gt; fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
+ <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
+ (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
+ --with-minimum configuration.</li>
<li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
- <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John
- Fleck),versiondependancies (John Fleck)</li>
+ <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
+ dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
<li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
- <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail
- Grushinskiy),functionprototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler
- warnings,_WINSOCKAPI_patch</li>
- <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte
- offestininput.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack),
- regexpsegfault(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of
- XPointerbugfixes(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation
- problemwithnamespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal
- optionsfixes(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance),
- XPathunionevaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL
- (AlekseySanin),XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no
- href,argumentcallbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
- <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt
- stylesheets(JohnFleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
- <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support
- (StéphaneBidoul),structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
- <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related
- todictionnaryreferences (William &amp; me), recursion (William)</li>
- <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory
- leaks(AlfredMickautsch),</li>
+ <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
+ prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
+ patch</li>
+ <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
+ input.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
+ (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
+ (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
+ namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
+ (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
+ evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
+ XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
+ callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
+ <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
+ Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
+ <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
+ structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
+ <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
+ references (William &amp; me), recursion (William)</li>
+ <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
+ Mickautsch),</li>
<li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
<li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
<li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
- <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs
- forfutureXSLT optimizations.</li>
+ <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
+ XSLT optimizations.</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
<li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
<li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
- <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack),
- examplefix(Lucas Brasilino)</li>
- <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath
- handlingofNULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or
- parserfromfiledescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to
- bestableagain (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating
- '(null)'(WilliamBrack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack),
- XMLSchemasdouble inclusion behaviour</li>
+ <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
+ (Lucas Brasilino)</li>
+ <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
+ NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
+ filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
+ again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
+ Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
+ double inclusion behaviour</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
- <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey
- Sanin,DodjiSeketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
- <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher,Mingw(Kenneth
- Haley)</li>
+ <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
+ Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
+ <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
+ (Kenneth Haley)</li>
<li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
<li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
<li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li>
<li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
- <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William
- Brack),xmlWriter(Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML
- parser(James Bursa),attribute defaulting and validation, some
- serializationcleanups,XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads
- (WilliamBrack),serialization of attributes and entities content,
- xmlWriter(DanielSchulman)</li>
- <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version
- includingthenamespace change.</li>
- <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), importandnamespace
- handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, addedexamplesbased on Eric
- van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
- <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed
- forschemasconstraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to
- collectsubdocumentwhen streaming.</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
+ xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
+ (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
+ cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
+ Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
+ (Daniel Schulman)</li>
+ <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
+ namespace change.</li>
+ <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
+ namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
+ based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
+ <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
+ constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
+ when streaming.</li>
<li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
<li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
@@ -501,118 +542,117 @@ base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3>
<li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
<li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
<li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
- <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxxfunctions</li>
+ <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
+ functions</li>
<li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
<li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
<li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
<li>HTML serialization for &lt;p&gt; elements (William Brack and me)</li>
<li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
- <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output(added--xmlout
- to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using
- theXMLserializer)</li>
+ <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
+ --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
+ serializer)</li>
</ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul><li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
- <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche),
- warningscleanup(William Brack)</li>
- <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane
- Bidoul,IgorZlatkovic)</li>
+ <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
+ (William Brack)</li>
+ <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
+ Zlatkovic)</li>
<li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
<li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
- <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (GrahamBennett)</li>
+ <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
+ Bennett)</li>
<li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
- <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal
- entities(StephaneBidoul)</li>
+ <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
+ (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
<li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
<li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
<li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
<li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
- <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl,
- serializingDocumentFragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier
- Buchcik),XPath errorsnot reported, slow HTML parsing of large
- documents.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got alotof
- change</li>
- <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be strippedout,a
- --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
- <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names
- andsmalltext nodes from the dictionnary</li>
- <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML
- parsercore,provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes,
- minimizememoryallocations and copies, namespace checking and specific
- errorhandling,immutable buffers, make predefined entities static
- structures,etc...</li>
- <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors
- canbeintercepted at a structured level, with
- preciseinformationavailable.</li>
- <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs,
- allowingtoeasilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context
- formultipleconsecutive documents.</li>
- <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse,
- providednewfunctions to access content as const strings, use them
- forPythonbindings</li>
- <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf
- (AlekseySanin),Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred
- Mickautschcode,make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting
- and futurePSVIextensions, generation of character ranges to be checked
- withfasteralgorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher
- Dunnavant),bufferaccess</li>
+ <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
+ Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
+ XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
+ of change</li>
+ <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
+ a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
+ <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
+ text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
+ <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
+ provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
+ allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
+ immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
+ <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
+ intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
+ available.</li>
+ <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
+ easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
+ consecutive documents.</li>
+ <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
+ functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
+ bindings</li>
+ <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
+ Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
+ make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
+ extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
+ algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
+ access</li>
<li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
<li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
- <li>Parser&lt;-&gt;HTTP integration fix, proper processing of
- theMime-Typeand charset informations if available.</li>
- <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn
- FaassenandzeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
- <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout forerrorsoutput</li>
- <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export
- andcallingconvention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig
- A.Berry),Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric
- Zurcher,Igor),Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version
- (StephaneBidoul),warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William
- Brack), BeOS(Marcin'Shard' Konicki)</li>
- <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search
- fix(William),tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan
- Kost)</li>
- <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett),
- threadinguninitializedmutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO
- (William),compression detectionand restore (William), attribute
- declaration in DTDs(William), namespaceon attribute in HTML output
- (William), input filename(Rob Richards),namespace DTD validation,
- xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland),I/O callbacks(Markus Keim), CDATA
- serialization (Shaun McCance),xmlReader (PeterDerr), high codepoint
- charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, bufferaccess in pushmode (Justin Fletcher),
- TLS threads on Windows (JessePelton), XPath bug(William),
- xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATAoutput (William), HTTPerror
- handling.</li>
- <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1
- forcompattesting, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary,
- --nocdatatoreplace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove
- surperfluousnamespacedeclarations</li>
+ <li>Parser&lt;-&gt;HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
+ and charset informations if available.</li>
+ <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
+ zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
+ <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
+ output</li>
+ <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
+ convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
+ Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
+ Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
+ warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
+ 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
+ <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
+ tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
+ mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
+ and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
+ on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
+ namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
+ (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
+ Derr), high codepoint charref like &amp;#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
+ mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
+ (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
+ error handling.</li>
+ <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
+ testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
+ replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
+ declarations</li>
<li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
- <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup
- patchforxmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do
- farlessallocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris
- Andersonworkedon speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
+ <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
+ xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
+ allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
+ on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
<li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
<li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
- <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged
- theXMLparser instead.</li>
+ <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
+ parser instead.</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
<li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
<li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
- <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha,
- MingwonWindows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
+ <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
+ on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
<li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
<li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
<li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
<li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
<li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim),
- Windowsbuild(Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter
- Sobisch),threading(Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM
- (DodjiSeketeli),xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace
- handling,EXSLT (SeanGriffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD
- validationfor mixedcontent + namespaces, HTML serialization,
- libraryinitialization,progressive HTML parser</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
+ (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
+ (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
+ xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
+ Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
+ content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
+ progressive HTML parser</li>
<li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
<li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
<li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
@@ -620,121 +660,122 @@ base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3>
<li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
<li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
<li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
- <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/...(WilliamBrack)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16
- save(MarkItzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing
- (WilliamBrack),PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without
- xpath(JoergSchmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem
- withDTDs,rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems
- from2.5.7,xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
+ <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
+ Brack)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
+ Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
+ PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
+ Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
+ rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
+ xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
<li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
<li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
<li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
- <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher),
- threading(StéphaneBidoul)</li>
+ <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
+ Bidoul)</li>
<li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
<li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
- <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul),
- andmethod/classgenerator</li>
+ <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
+ generator</li>
<li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
<li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top
- ofthexmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
+ xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
<li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
<li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
<li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
- <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and
- Durationfixes(Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks),
- HTML pushparserand zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file
- pathconversions,behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of
- "outof memory"error conditions</li>
- <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage
- collectingmemoryallocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified
- theallocationsaccordingly.</li>
- <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the
- pushandxmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
+ <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
+ (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
+ and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
+ behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
+ error conditions</li>
+ <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
+ allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
+ accordingly.</li>
+ <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
+ xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
<li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
<li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now exceptforbinHex
- and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
- <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large
- docsandXInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external
- subsets,XMLSchemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
+ binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
+ <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
+ XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
+ Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
<li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
<li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
- <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches,
- RelaxNGerrors</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More
- testingincludingDocBook and TEI examples.</li>
+ <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
+ errors</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
+ DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
<li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
<li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
- <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation,
- XPath,encodingconversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
+ conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
<li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
<li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG
- andXIncludeimplementation</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
+ implementation</li>
<li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
- <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity
- checkingonnamespaces,
- <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a
- DTDregexpgeneration problem.</p>
+ <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
+ namespaces,
+ <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
+ generation problem.</p>
</li>
<li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
<li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
<li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added afirstversion
- of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
- <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API
- fixforserializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion
- bug,XHTML1serialization</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
+ version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
+ <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
+ serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
+ serialization</li>
<li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
<li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
- <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude
- andentities,delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader
- (StéphaneBidoul),XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization,
- XMLreader memoryconsumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the
- presenceofnamespaces</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
+ delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
+ XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
+ consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
+ namespaces</li>
<li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
- <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck),docpatches
- (Stefan Kost)</li>
+ <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
+ patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
<li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
- <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error
- reporting(StéphaneBidoul)</li>
+ <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
+ (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
<li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
<li>documentation updates (John)</li>
<li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
-</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a>based on
- C#API(with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
+ API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
<li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
<li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
- <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging
- (StéphaneBidoul),drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul),
- fixes,speedupand iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
- <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint manupdate(John)</li>
+ <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
+ drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
+ and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
+ <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
+ (John)</li>
<li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
<li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
<li>Entities handling fixes</li>
- <li>new API to optionally track node creation and
- deletion(LukasSchroeder)</li>
+ <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
+ Schroeder)</li>
<li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
- <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of
- minorcodefixes.</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking,
- pythonbindings(Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export
- listupdates</li>
+ <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
+ fixes.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
+ (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
<li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
<li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
- <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path,
- fixedXHTML1dump</li>
+ <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
+ dump</li>
<li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
<li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
<li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
- <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser
- andsavesmore informations needed for C# bindings</li>
+ <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
+ more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
<li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
<li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
@@ -743,41 +784,41 @@ base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3>
<li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
<li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
- <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs,xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),HTML
- parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman),document fragment support(Christian
- Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (BrianStafford), XPointer,xmlFreeNode(),
- xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones),xmlGetNodePath (PetrPajas), entities
- processing</li>
+ <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
+ HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
+ (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
+ xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
+ Pajas), entities processing</li>
<li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
<li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
- <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more
- compilers(Igor),better thread support on Windows</li>
+ <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
+ better thread support on Windows</li>
<li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
<li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
- <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath()
- ,HTMLserialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of
- smallproblems</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM
- andtree,xmlI/O, Html</li>
+ <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
+ HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
+ problems</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
+ tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
<li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
- <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, smallfixand
- improvement of the regexp core</li>
+ <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
+ and improvement of the regexp core</li>
<li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
- <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of
- Makefiles(Igor,Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
- <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver
- andregexpAPIs</li>
+ <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
+ Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
+ <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
+ APIs</li>
<li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
<li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
- <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
- DESTDIR(ChristopheMerlet)</li>
+ <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
+ Merlet)</li>
<li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
<li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
<li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
- <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm
- build,x86-64(fcrozat)</li>
+ <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
+ (fcrozat)</li>
<li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
<li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
<li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
@@ -787,98 +828,96 @@ base.</p><p>There is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3>
<li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
<li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
<li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
- <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability
- fixfromPeter Jacobi</li>
- <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XMLandHTML
- parsers, ID lookup function</li>
+ <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
+ Peter Jacobi</li>
+ <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
+ HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
<li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling,
- parser,memoryusage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation
- (ChristianCornelssen),indentation, URI parsing</li>
- <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of
- thenetworkprotocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
+ usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
+ indentation, URI parsing</li>
+ <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
+ protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
<li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
- <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for
- XMLSchemasdatatypes</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the
-earlyXMLSchemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a>and
-<a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a>code,
-beware,allinterfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly
-a workinprogress and don't even think of putting this code in a
-productionsystem,it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes
-are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
+ <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
+ datatypes</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
+Schemas <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">structures</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/">datatypes</a> code, beware, all
+interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
+progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
+it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
- <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by RichardJinks</li>
+ <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
+ Jinks</li>
<li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
<li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
<li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
- <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1,
- pythonbindings,libxml.m4</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin
- toUTF8encoder</li>
+ <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
+ libxml.m4</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
+ encoder</li>
<li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
<li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
<li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization,
- validation,portability,XPath</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
+ XPath</li>
<li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
<li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
<li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
<li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no
- parentsinXPath"</li>
- <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples
- andmoreregression tests, XPath extension functions can now
- returnnode-sets</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
+ XPath"</li>
+ <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
+ regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
<li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XMLTestsuitefrom
- OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantlyimproved.</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
+ from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
<li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
<li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
<li>Includes cleanup</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MITLicense</a>basicallyfor
- integration in XFree86 codebase, and removingconfusion around theprevious
- dual-licensing</li>
- <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already
- bequitecomplete</li>
- <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for
- alltreemanipulations</li>
- <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API
- definitioninXML</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
+ License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
+ confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
+ <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
+ complete</li>
+ <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
+ manipulations</li>
+ <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
+ XML</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
<li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
- <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor
- andSergueiNarojnyi</li>
+ <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
+ Narojnyi</li>
<li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
<li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint
- (GeertKloosterman),XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy),
- I/Ocleanups(robert)</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
+ XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
+ (robert)</li>
<li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
<li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs,
- somecodecleanups</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
+ cleanups</li>
<li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
<li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
<li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
<li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
<li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
- <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format
- and--encode,Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
+ <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
+ --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
<li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
<li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
<li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release,
- updatedxmlcatalogtool</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
+ tool</li>
<li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
<li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
- <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added
- configureoptionand regression tests</li>
+ <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
+ and regression tests</li>
<li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
<li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
<li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
@@ -894,11 +933,12 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
- <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since
- someversionof Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
-</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of
- bugandportability fixes</li>
-</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XMLCatalog</li>
+ <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
+ version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
+</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
+ portability fixes</li>
+</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
+ Catalog</li>
<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
@@ -916,13 +956,13 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
- <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples
- totheregression tests</li>
+ <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
+ regression tests</li>
<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
-</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory
- requirementwhensubstituting them</li>
- <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter
- canbesubstantially faster</li>
+</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
+ substituting them</li>
+ <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
+ substantially faster</li>
<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
@@ -936,38 +976,37 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>fixed line number counting</li>
<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
- <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of
- float,gcc-3.0miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix
- fortheoptimizer on Tru64</li>
- <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and
- improvementsforcompilation on Windows MSC</li>
+ <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
+ miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
+ optimizer on Tru64</li>
+ <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
+ compilation on Windows MSC</li>
<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
-</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix
- someportabilityproblems (alpha)</li>
- <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script,
- andblock/inlinehandling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of
- thiscode</li>
+</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
+ problems (alpha)</li>
+ <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
+ handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
- <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the
- DocBookSGMLparser</li>
- <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter
- andnamespacesnode selection)</li>
+ <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
+ parser</li>
+ <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
+ node selection)</li>
<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
- <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv
- detection,XIncludeprocessing</li>
+ <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
+ XInclude processing</li>
<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p><ul><li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
<li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
<li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
- <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary
- Pennington,fixedxmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
+ <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
+ xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
@@ -978,10 +1017,10 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
- <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix thefloatingpoint
- portability issue</li>
- <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s
- forDOM+validationusing the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
+ <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
+ point portability issue</li>
+ <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
+ DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
@@ -996,33 +1035,32 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
-</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options,
- foundandcleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
+</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
+ cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
- <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function.
- usedthetrio library code to provide the one needed when the platform
- ismissingthem</li>
- <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate
- evaluationproblem,extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result.
- XPointer seemsbroken...</li>
-</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of
- XPathexpressions,there is some new APIs for this too</li>
- <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser,
- 51876,notations,52299)</li>
+ <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
+ trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
+ them</li>
+ <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
+ problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
+ broken ...</li>
+</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
+ there is some new APIs for this too</li>
+ <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
+ 52299)</li>
<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
- <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow defaultbuffersize
- to be application tunable.</li>
- <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and
- thispartshould probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content
- model:-\</li>
- <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes
- in2.3.3parser</li>
+ <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
+ size to be application tunable.</li>
+ <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
+ should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
+ <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
+ parser</li>
<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
- <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves
- thattheyare formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
+ <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
+ are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
<li>documentation cleanups</li>
<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
@@ -1032,17 +1070,18 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
- <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for
- DOMgdome2implementation</li>
+ <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
+ implementation</li>
<li>A few bug fixes</li>
</ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul><li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
- <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error
- reportingforXSLT</li>
+ <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
+ XSLT</li>
<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
- <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-develandlibxml2-devel</li>
+ <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
+ libxml2-devel</li>
<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
@@ -1059,7 +1098,8 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li>
-</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>support</li>
+</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
+ support</li>
<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
@@ -1070,19 +1110,19 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
-</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal
- structuretothose</li>
+</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
+ those</li>
<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
- <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style
- handling,attributenormalization)</li>
+ <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
+ normalization)</li>
<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
- <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions
- registration,moretests</li>
- <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows
- buildandrelease</li>
+ <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
+ tests</li>
+ <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
+ and release</li>
<li>Late validation fixes</li>
<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
<li>added memory management docs</li>
@@ -1092,113 +1132,115 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li>
<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
- <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage
- hasbeenchecked too</li>
- <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook
- XMLDtdworks smoothly now.</li>
+ <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
+ checked too</li>
+ <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
+ works smoothly now.</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li>
<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
- <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the
- memoryallocationroutines</li>
+ <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
+ allocation routines</li>
</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
- <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is nowalwaysencoded
- in UTF-8)</li>
+ <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
+ encoded in UTF-8)</li>
<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
<li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
- <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxmlInternationalizationsupport</a></li>
+ <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
+ support</a></li>
</ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
- <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9
- tosolverpmfind users problem</li>
+ <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
+ rpmfind users problem</li>
</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
-</ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul><li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2accordingto
- <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nastyproblemabout
- &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
- <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version.italso
- contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
+</ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul><li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
+ to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
+ about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
+ <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
+ also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
<ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
- <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation andnamespacerelated
- problems</li>
+ <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
+ related problems</li>
<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
<li>lot of various fixes</li>
</ul></li>
-</ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul><li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's
- agoodidea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE:
- whileinitiallyscheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due
- tomassiveworkload.</li>
- <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml
- (insteadof$prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
+</ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul><li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
+ idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
+ scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
+ workload.</li>
+ <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
+ $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
<pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
<p>instead of</p>
<pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
</li>
<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
- <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now
- beoverloadeddynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
- <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has
- beenrenamed<strong>xmllint</strong>and is now installed as part of
- thelibxml2package</li>
- <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to
- pluginspecific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection
- levelusingxmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions
- whencreating aparser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
- <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing
- theversionnumber of the libxml module in use</li>
- <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded
- atconfiguretime (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
+ <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
+ dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
+ <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
+ <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
+ package</li>
+ <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
+ specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
+ xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
+ parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
+ <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
+ number of the libxml module in use</li>
+ <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
+ configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
- <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.orgFTP</a>, it's packaged
- aslibxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar andRPMs</li>
- <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old
- oneisavailable under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
- <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic
- pointofview applications should not have to be modified too much, check
- the<a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
+ <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org
+ FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
+ RPMs</li>
+ <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
+ available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
+ <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
+ of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
+ <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
<li>the updates includes:
- <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly)
- seemscorrectlyhandled now</li>
- <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness
- checkingandproper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
+ <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
+ handled now</li>
+ <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
+ and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
<li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
- <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">changestructuresto
- accommodate DOM</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
+ structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
</ul></li>
- <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the
- test</a>againsttheOASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I
- don't supportthatencoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours
- using theCVShead version.</li>
+ <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
+ OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
+ encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
+ head version.</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
- <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic
- usedbylibxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow
- this.Notethat for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be
- disabledbydefault in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep
- compatibilityforold code.</li>
- <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not
- ignoredanymore,avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
- <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breakinglibxml-1.8.6compilation
- on some platforms has been fixed</li>
- <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping
- whenprocessingURIs</li>
-</ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a>canuseit
- without troubles</li>
-</ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul><li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a>of
- theXMLspec)</li>
+ <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
+ libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
+ that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
+ default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
+ old code.</li>
+ <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
+ avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
+ <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
+ compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
+ <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
+ URIs</li>
+</ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
+ it without troubles</li>
+</ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul><li>adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-content">[43] content</a> of the
+ XML spec)</li>
<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
- <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patchtryingto
- solve the zlib checks problems</li>
- <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as
- 1.8.5withgnumeric soon</li>
+ <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
+ to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
+ <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
+ gnumeric soon</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
@@ -1209,52 +1251,52 @@ are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
- <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now
- itusesxmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing
- wereadded</li>
+ <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
+ xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
-</ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul><li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue
- isfixedfor good this time</li>
- <li>Added a few tree modification
- functions:xmlReplaceNode,xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling,
- xmlNodeSetNameandxmlDocSetRootElement</li>
+</ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul><li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
+ for good this time</li>
+ <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
+ xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
+ xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
-</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with
- C++compilersthe "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
+</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
+ the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
- <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default
- namespaceprocessing,and more specifically the Dia application</li>
- <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by
- usingaDtd not specified in the original document)</li>
+ <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
+ and more specifically the Dia application</li>
+ <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
+ Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
<li>fixed a bug in</li>
</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
- <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one,
- itshouldnot crash, whatever the input !</li>
- <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement
- forlargedataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">CarlNygard</a>,configure with
- --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
+ <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
+ not crash, whatever the input !</li>
+ <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
+ dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
+ configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
- <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp()nowdoes
- entities escaping by default.</li>
+ <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
+ does entities escaping by default.</li>
</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li>
- <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems
- onsystemwere it's not available, fixed</li>
-</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been
- renamedin1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong>to <strong>xmlChar</strong>.
- Thereasonis that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on
- Windows.Howeveron non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the
- way ofa<strong>#define </strong>.</li>
- <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called
- errno,andleading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
-</ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul><li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a>module.</li>
- <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simpleprintflike
- callback</li>
+ <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
+ were it's not available, fixed</li>
+</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
+ 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
+ is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
+ on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
+ <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
+ <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
+ leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
+</ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul><li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
+ <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
+ like callback</li>
<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
- <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a>module)</li>
- <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>implementation</li>
+ <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
+ <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
+ implementation</li>
<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
</ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>