applied syntax patch from Rick Jones and rebuilt the web site. Daniel
* doc/xml.html doc/*.html: applied syntax patch from Rick Jones
and rebuilt the web site.
Daniel
diff --git a/doc/news.html b/doc/news.html
index 2aa8600..259190f 100644
--- a/doc/news.html
+++ b/doc/news.html
@@ -91,30 +91,32 @@
for a really accurate description</h3>
<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
to test those</p>
-<ul><li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
+<ul>
+<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
-</li></ul>
+</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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
@@ -125,298 +127,302 @@
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
+ <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>
+ <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,
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+<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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
regression tests</li>
-<li>A bit of cleanup</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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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,
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+<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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
@@ -424,193 +430,197 @@
<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,
+ <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
52299)</li>
-<li>Fixed some portability issues</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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
implementation</li>
-<li>A few bug fixes</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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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>
+<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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
tests</li>
-<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+<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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>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>
@@ -619,53 +629,53 @@
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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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:
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ </ul>
</li>
-<li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
+ <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>
@@ -673,94 +683,96 @@
<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
+ <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,
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+<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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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,
+ <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>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,
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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
+ <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>
@@ -770,19 +782,19 @@
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
+ <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
+ <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>
+ <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>
+ <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
</ul>
<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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