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want +to test 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><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 (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), external + reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> + 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 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, 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 > 19 fractional (William Brack), push + mode with unescaped '>' 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 (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, + <xs:all> 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), version + dependancies (John Fleck)</li> + <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</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 & 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 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), 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, 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 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> + <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li> + <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li> + <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li> + <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li> + <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li> + <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 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 <p> 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 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), 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 (Graham + Bennett)</li> + <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</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, 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<->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 &#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 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 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, 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), 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> + <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li> + <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/... (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 (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), 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 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 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 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, 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, 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 and XInclude + implementation</li> + <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li> + <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 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 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), doc + patches (Stefan Kost)</li> + <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</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> + <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li> + <li>XInclude fallback fix</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 (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 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, 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 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> + <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li> + <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li> + <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 (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 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() , + 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, 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 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 (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>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li> + <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li> + <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li> + <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li> + <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li> +</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li> + <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 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, 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 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 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, 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> + <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 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 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">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 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 (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, 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>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, 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 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> + <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li> + <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li> + <li>general bug fixes</li> + <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li> + <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li> +</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li> + <li>portability and configure fixes</li> + <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li> + <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</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 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> + <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li> + <li>A few bug fixes</li> +</ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li> + <li>lot of bug fixes</li> + <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li> + <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li> + <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li> + <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li> +</ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li> + <li>some computation NaN fixes</li> + <li>extension of the XPath API</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 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 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> + <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li> +</ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li> + <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li> +</ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul><li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li> + <li>Small Makefile fix</li> +</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li> + <li>a couple of validation fix</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-3.0 + 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 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 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, + 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, 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> + <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li> + <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li> + <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li> + <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</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 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> + <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li> +</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li> + <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li> + <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li> + <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li> + <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li> + <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li> + <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</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, 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. 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 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 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> + <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li> +</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li> + <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</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 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 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-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> + <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li> + <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li> +</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li> + <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li> + <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li> + <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li> + <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li> +</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li> + <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li> + <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</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> + <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li> + <li>updated MS compiler project</li> + <li>fixed some XPath problems</li> + <li>added an URI escaping function</li> + <li>some other bug fixes</li> +</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li> + <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</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 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, 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, 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> + <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li> +</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li> + <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</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 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 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 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 &#38;</li> + <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li> + <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</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 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 libxml2 according + to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem + about &#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 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 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 <libxml/xxx.h></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 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/">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) 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">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> 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 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 <a> </a> 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 <jgoldberg@home.com> 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> + <li>added newDocFragment()</li> +</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li> + <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li> + <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</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 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 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++ 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 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, 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() 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 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>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> |