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
diff --git a/doc/xml.html b/doc/xml.html
index f7fcdaa..07b545f 100644
--- a/doc/xml.html
+++ b/doc/xml.html
@@ -661,6 +661,74 @@
Schemas</a></li>
</ul>
+<h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3>
+<ul>
+ <li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
+ of change</li>
+ <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
+ a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
+ <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
+ text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
+ <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
+ provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
+ allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
+ immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
+ <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
+ intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
+ available.</li>
+ <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
+ easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
+ consecutive documents.</li>
+ <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
+ functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
+ bindings</li>
+ <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
+ Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
+ make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
+ extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
+ algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
+ access</li>
+ <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
+ <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
+ <li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
+ and charset informations if available.</li>
+ <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
+ zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
+ <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
+ output</li>
+ <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
+ convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
+ Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
+ Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
+ warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
+ 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
+ <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
+ tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
+ <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
+ mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
+ and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
+ on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
+ namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
+ (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
+ Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
+ mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
+ (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
+ error handling.</li>
+ <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
+ testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
+ replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
+ declarations</li>
+ <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
+ <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
+ xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
+ allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
+ on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
+ <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
+ <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
+ <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
+ parser instead.</li>
+</ul>
+
<h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3>
<p>A bugfix only release:</p>
@@ -3757,15 +3825,12 @@
prefix and its URI.</p>
<p>@@Interfaces@@</p>
-
-<pre>
-xmlNodePtr node;
+<pre>xmlNodePtr node;
if(!strncmp(node->name,"mytag",5)
&& node->ns
&& !strcmp(node->ns->href,"http://www.mysite.com/myns/1.0")) {
...
-}
-</pre>
+}</pre>
<p>Usually people object to using namespaces together with validity checking.
I will try to make sure that using namespaces won't break validity checking,
@@ -3773,11 +3838,10 @@
suggest adding namespaces to your document. A default namespace scheme
<code>xmlns="http://...."</code> should not break validity even on less
flexible parsers. Using namespaces to mix and differentiate content coming
-from multiple DTDs will certainly break current validation schemes.
-To check such documents one needs to use schema-validation, which is supported
-in libxml2 as well. See <a href="http://www.relaxng.org/">relagx-ng</a> and
-<a href="http://www.w3c.org/XML/Schema">w3c-schema</a>.
-</p>
+from multiple DTDs will certainly break current validation schemes. To check
+such documents one needs to use schema-validation, which is supported in
+libxml2 as well. See <a href="http://www.relaxng.org/">relagx-ng</a> and <a
+href="http://www.w3c.org/XML/Schema">w3c-schema</a>.</p>
<h2><a name="Upgrading">Upgrading 1.x code</a></h2>