preparing 2.4.17 release updated and rebuilt the docs fixed a comment

* configure.in: preparing 2.4.17 release
* doc/*: updated and rebuilt the docs
* xpath.c: fixed a comment
* python/libxml.c: fixed a possible reentrancy problem
Daniel
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 for a really accurate description</h3>
 <p>Items floating around but not actively worked on, get in touch with me if
 you want to test those</p>
+<ul><li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
+</li></ul>
+<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
 <ul>
-<li>Implementing <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT">XSLT</a>, this is done
-    as a separate C library on top of libxml called libxslt</li>
-<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
-</li>
-<li>(seeems working but delayed from release) parsing/import of Docbook
-    SGML docs</li>
+<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
+  XPath&quot;</li>
+<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 Canonalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
 </ul>
 <h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
 <ul>