preparing libxml2-2.6.0 updated and regenerated the docs and API moved the
* configure.in NEWS doc/libxml2.xsa: preparing libxml2-2.6.0
* doc/*: updated and regenerated the docs and API
* SAX2.c error.c tree.c: moved the line number to their proper
field in elements now.
Daniel
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Schemas
+2.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
+ - Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
+ of change
+ - Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
+ a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
+ - Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
+ text nodes from the dictionnary
+ - Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
+ provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
+ allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
+ immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
+ - rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
+ intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
+ available.
+ - New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
+ easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
+ consecutive documents.
+ - Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
+ functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
+ bindings
+ - a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
+ Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
+ make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
+ extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
+ algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
+ access
+ - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
+ - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
+ - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
+ and charset informations if available.
+ - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
+ zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
+ - Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
+ output
+ - Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
+ convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
+ Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
+ Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
+ warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
+ 'Shard' Konicki)
+ - Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
+ tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)
+ - Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
+ mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
+ and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
+ on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
+ namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
+ (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
+ Derr), high codepoint charref like , buffer access in push
+ mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
+ (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
+ error handling.
+ - xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
+ testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
+ replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
+ declarations
+ - added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming
+ - a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
+ xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
+ allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
+ on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.
+ - cleanup of "make tests"
+ - libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick
+ - deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
+ parser instead.
+
+
2.5.11: Sep 9 2003:
A bugfix only release: - risk of crash in Relax-NG
- risk of crash when using multithreaded programs