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diff --git a/doc/xml.html b/doc/xml.html index fbb0d33..3dc7fd9 100644 --- a/doc/xml.html +++ b/doc/xml.html @@ -715,6 +715,32 @@ 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>2.6.18: 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) +</ul> <h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3> <ul> <li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), @@ -3099,6 +3125,17 @@ of a number of things:</p> <h2><a name="Encodings">Encodings support</a></h2> +<p>If you are not really familiar with Internationalization (usual shortcut +is I18N) , Unicode, characters and glyphs, I suggest you read a <a +href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode">presentation</a> +by Tim Bray on Unicode and why you should care about it.</p> +<p>If you don't understand why <b>it does not make sense to have a string +without knowing what encoding it uses</b>, then as Joel Spolsky said +<a href="http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html">please do +not write another line of code until you finish reading that article.</a>. +It is a prerequisite to understand this page, and avoid a lot of problems +with libxml2, XML or text processing in general.</p> + <p>Table of Content:</p> <ol> <li><a href="encoding.html#What">What does internationalization support @@ -3113,11 +3150,6 @@ of a number of things:</p> <h3><a name="What">What does internationalization support mean ?</a></h3> -<p>If you are not really familiar with Internationalization (usual shortcut -is I18N) , Unicode, characters and glyphs, I suggest you read a <a -href="http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/04/06/Unicode">presentation</a> -by Tim Bray on Unicode and why you should care about it.</p> - <p>XML was designed from the start to allow the support of any character set by using Unicode. Any conformant XML parser has to support the UTF-8 and UTF-16 default encodings which can both express the full unicode ranges. UTF8 |