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<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
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),
variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
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 &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>
<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
&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 <xml:foo/>, 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->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>2.6.22: 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>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>
<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>
<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>
<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>
</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 <group> 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 &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>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>
<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>
</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>
</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>
</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>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<choice>failure (William), memory leak in schemas
datatypefacets.</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>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>
</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),pushmode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream
--timing,fixxmllint --memory --stream memory
usage,xmlAttrSerializeTxtContenthandling NULL, trying to fix
Relax-NG/Perlinterface.</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,<xs:all> 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>
<li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
<li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John
Fleck),versiondependancies (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 & me), recursion (William)</li>
<li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory
leaks(AlfredMickautsch),</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>
</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>
</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>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>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 xmlReadxxxfunctions</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
theXMLserializer)</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>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 reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
<li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal
entities(StephaneBidoul)</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>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
<li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
<li>Parser<->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 &#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>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>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>
</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>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>
<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/...(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>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>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>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>
<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>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>
<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>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>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>
<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>
<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>
<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>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
<li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck),docpatches
(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>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
(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>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>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>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>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>
</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 (BrianStafford), XPointer,xmlFreeNode(),
xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones),xmlGetNodePath (PetrPajas), 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()
,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>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>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>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>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
fixfromPeter Jacobi</li>
<li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XMLandHTML
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>
<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>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
<li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by RichardJinks</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 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
parentsinXPath"</li>
<li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples
andmoreregression tests, XPath extension functions can now
returnnode-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>
<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>2.4.13: 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>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>
<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>
<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,
updatedxmlcatalogtool</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>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
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>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
totheregression 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>
<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-3.0miscompile 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>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>
<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>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>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>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 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>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,
foundandcleared 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>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>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>
</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
DOMgdome2implementation</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 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>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
structuretothose</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>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>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
hasbeenchecked too</li>
<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook
XMLDtdworks 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>
</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>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">libxmlInternationalizationsupport</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>
</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
&#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><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>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
<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
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>
</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>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>
<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>
</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>
</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 <a> </a> 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>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
<li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> 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>
</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
itusesxmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing
wereadded</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>
<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>
<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 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>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>
</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>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>
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