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Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 10 | </style><title>News</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C library for Gnome</h1><h2>News</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html">Developer Documentation</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">News</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation & DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file |
| 11 | for a really accurate description</h3><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want |
| 12 | to test those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 72fef16 | 2003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 14 | Schemas</a></li> |
| 15 | </ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the |
Daniel Veillard | 92fc02c | 2003-04-24 23:12:35 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 16 | xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li> |
| 17 | <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li> |
| 18 | <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li> |
| 19 | <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li> |
| 20 | <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes |
| 21 | (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser |
| 22 | and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, |
| 23 | behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" |
| 24 | error conditions </li> |
| 25 | <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory |
| 26 | allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations |
| 27 | accordingly.</li> |
| 28 | <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and |
| 29 | xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li> |
| 30 | <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li> |
| 31 | <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 32 | </ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for |
Daniel Veillard | c2d4a93 | 2003-04-01 11:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li> |
| 34 | <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and |
| 35 | XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML |
| 36 | Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li> |
| 37 | <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li> |
| 38 | <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li> |
| 39 | <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG |
| 40 | errors</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 41 | </ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including |
Daniel Veillard | d8da01c | 2003-03-24 15:58:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 42 | DocBook and TEI examples.</li> |
| 43 | <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li> |
| 44 | <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li> |
| 45 | <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding |
| 46 | conversion, line counting in the parser.</li> |
| 47 | <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li> |
| 48 | <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 49 | </ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude |
Daniel Veillard | 17bed98 | 2003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | implementation</li> |
| 51 | <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li> |
| 52 | <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on |
| 53 | namespaces, |
| 54 | <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp |
| 55 | generation problem.</p> |
| 56 | </li> |
| 57 | <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li> |
| 58 | <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li> |
| 59 | <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 60 | </ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first |
Daniel Veillard | 1d788d2 | 2003-02-10 16:21:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li> |
| 62 | <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for |
| 63 | serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 |
| 64 | serialization</li> |
| 65 | <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 66 | </ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 72fef16 | 2003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li> |
| 68 | <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, |
| 69 | delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul), |
| 70 | XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory |
| 71 | consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of |
| 72 | namespaces</li> |
| 73 | <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li> |
| 74 | <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc |
| 75 | patches (Stefan Kost)</li> |
| 76 | <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> |
| 77 | <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting |
| 78 | (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> |
| 79 | <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 80 | </ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li> |
Daniel Veillard | e2830f1 | 2003-01-08 17:47:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | <li>documentation updates (John)</li> |
| 82 | <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 83 | </ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C# |
Daniel Veillard | 7b4b2f9 | 2003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li> |
| 85 | <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li> |
| 86 | <li>XInclude fallback fix</li> |
| 87 | <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul), |
| 88 | drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup |
| 89 | and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li> |
| 90 | <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update |
| 91 | (John)</li> |
| 92 | <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li> |
| 93 | <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li> |
| 94 | <li>Entities handling fixes</li> |
| 95 | <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas |
| 96 | Schroeder)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 97 | <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li> |
| 98 | </ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | c1eed32 | 2002-12-12 11:01:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 99 | <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code |
| 100 | fixes.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 101 | </ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings |
Daniel Veillard | 9b4bb4d | 2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 102 | (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li> |
| 103 | <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li> |
| 104 | <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li> |
| 105 | <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 |
| 106 | dump</li> |
| 107 | <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li> |
| 108 | <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li> |
| 109 | <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li> |
| 110 | <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves |
| 111 | more informations needed for C# bindings</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 112 | </ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | f9c4cad | 2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 113 | <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li> |
| 114 | <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li> |
| 115 | <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li> |
| 116 | <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li> |
| 117 | <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 9b4bb4d | 2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 118 | <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 119 | </ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li> |
Daniel Veillard | dad3f68 | 2002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 120 | <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), |
| 121 | HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support |
| 122 | (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, |
| 123 | xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr |
| 124 | Pajas), entities processing</li> |
| 125 | <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li> |
| 126 | <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li> |
| 127 | <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), |
| 128 | better thread support on Windows</li> |
| 129 | <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li> |
| 130 | <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 131 | </ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li> |
Daniel Veillard | e645e8c | 2002-10-22 17:35:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 132 | <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , |
| 133 | HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small |
| 134 | problems</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 135 | </ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and |
Daniel Veillard | e16b574 | 2002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 136 | tree, xmlI/O, Html</li> |
| 137 | <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li> |
| 138 | <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix |
| 139 | and improvement of the regexp core</li> |
| 140 | <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li> |
| 141 | <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, |
| 142 | Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li> |
| 143 | <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp |
Daniel Veillard | 321be0c | 2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 144 | APIs</li> |
Daniel Veillard | e16b574 | 2002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 145 | <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li> |
| 146 | <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li> |
| 147 | <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe |
| 148 | Merlet)</li> |
| 149 | <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li> |
| 150 | <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li> |
| 151 | <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 152 | </ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 42766c0 | 2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 153 | <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 |
| 154 | (fcrozat)</li> |
| 155 | <li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li> |
| 156 | <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li> |
Daniel Veillard | e166254 | 2002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 157 | <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 42766c0 | 2002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 158 | <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li> |
| 159 | <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 160 | </ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 161 | <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li> |
| 162 | <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li> |
| 163 | <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li> |
| 164 | <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from |
Daniel Veillard | 782afda | 2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 165 | Peter Jacobi</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 166 | <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and |
Daniel Veillard | 782afda | 2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 167 | HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 168 | <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 169 | </ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 170 | usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), |
Daniel Veillard | 2147367 | 2002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 171 | indentation, URI parsing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 172 | <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 173 | protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 174 | <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li> |
| 175 | <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | datatypes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 177 | </ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML |
Daniel Veillard | cf27f7c | 2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 178 | Schemas <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, all |
| 179 | interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in |
| 180 | progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 181 | 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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 182 | <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li> |
| 183 | <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard |
Daniel Veillard | cf27f7c | 2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 184 | Jinks</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 185 | <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li> |
| 186 | <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 187 | </ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 188 | <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li> |
| 189 | <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, |
Daniel Veillard | c397534 | 2002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 190 | libxml.m4</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 191 | </ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 |
Daniel Veillard | 1927409 | 2002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 192 | encoder</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 193 | <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li> |
| 194 | <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li> |
| 195 | <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 196 | </ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | XPath</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 198 | <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li> |
| 199 | <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li> |
| 200 | <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li> |
| 201 | <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 202 | </ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 203 | XPath"</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 204 | <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more |
Daniel Veillard | af43f63 | 2002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 205 | regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 206 | <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 207 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | 5f4b599 | 2002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 208 | from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 209 | <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 210 | </ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 211 | <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li> |
| 212 | <li>Includes cleanup</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 213 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 214 | License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing |
| 215 | confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 216 | <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite |
Daniel Veillard | b6c1e2f | 2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 217 | complete</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 218 | <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree |
Daniel Veillard | b6c1e2f | 2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 219 | manipulations</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 220 | <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in |
Daniel Veillard | b6c1e2f | 2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 221 | XML</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 222 | </ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li> |
| 224 | <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei |
Daniel Veillard | 744683d | 2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | Narojnyi</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 226 | <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li> |
| 227 | <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 228 | </ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), |
Daniel Veillard | ef90ba7 | 2001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 229 | XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups |
| 230 | (robert)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 231 | <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li> |
| 232 | <li>some makefiles cleanups</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 233 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | a487105 | 2001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 234 | cleanups</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 235 | <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li> |
| 236 | <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li> |
| 237 | <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 238 | </ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 239 | <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li> |
| 240 | <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li> |
| 241 | <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and |
Daniel Veillard | 43d3f61 | 2001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 243 | <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li> |
| 244 | <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 245 | </ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 247 | </ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog |
Daniel Veillard | ed421aa | 2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 248 | tool</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 249 | <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 250 | </ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 251 | <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li> |
| 252 | <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option |
Daniel Veillard | 5540daa | 2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 253 | and regression tests</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 254 | <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li> |
| 255 | <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li> |
| 256 | <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li> |
| 257 | <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li> |
| 258 | <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li> |
| 259 | <li>general bug fixes</li> |
| 260 | <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li> |
| 261 | <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 262 | </ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 263 | <li>portability and configure fixes</li> |
| 264 | <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li> |
| 265 | <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li> |
| 266 | <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li> |
| 267 | <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 268 | </ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 269 | <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 270 | version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 271 | </ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | portability fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 273 | </ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 274 | Catalog</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 275 | <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li> |
| 276 | <li>some documentation cleanups</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 277 | </ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 278 | <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li> |
| 279 | <li>A few bug fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 280 | </ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | <li>lot of bug fixes</li> |
| 282 | <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li> |
| 283 | <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li> |
| 284 | <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li> |
| 285 | <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 286 | </ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 287 | <li>some computation NaN fixes</li> |
| 288 | <li>extension of the XPath API</li> |
| 289 | <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li> |
| 290 | <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 291 | </ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 293 | regression tests</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <li>A bit of cleanup</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 295 | </ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | substituting them</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 297 | <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 298 | substantially faster</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li> |
| 300 | <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li> |
| 301 | <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li> |
| 302 | <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 303 | </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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 304 | <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 305 | </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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 306 | <li>Small Makefile fix</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 307 | </ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | <li>a couple of validation fix</li> |
| 309 | <li>fixed line number counting</li> |
| 310 | <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li> |
| 311 | <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li> |
| 312 | <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 313 | miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the |
| 314 | optimizer on Tru64</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 315 | <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 316 | compilation on Windows MSC</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 317 | <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li> |
| 318 | <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 319 | </ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 320 | problems (alpha)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 323 | <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li> |
| 324 | <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 325 | parser</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 326 | <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 327 | node selection)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 328 | <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li> |
| 329 | <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li> |
| 330 | <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li> |
| 331 | <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 332 | </ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | XInclude processing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 336 | </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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 337 | <li>some serious speed optimization again</li> |
| 338 | <li>some documentation cleanups</li> |
| 339 | <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li> |
| 340 | <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li> |
| 341 | <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | xmlValidGetValidElements()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 343 | <li>Added an INSTALL file</li> |
| 344 | <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li> |
| 345 | <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li> |
| 346 | <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li> |
| 347 | <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li> |
| 348 | <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li> |
| 349 | <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 350 | </ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li> |
| 351 | </ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 352 | <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li> |
| 353 | <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | point portability issue</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 355 | <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 356 | DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 357 | <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li> |
| 358 | <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li> |
| 359 | <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li> |
| 360 | <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 361 | </ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 362 | <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li> |
| 363 | <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li> |
| 364 | <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li> |
| 365 | <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li> |
| 366 | <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li> |
| 367 | <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li> |
| 368 | <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li> |
| 369 | <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li> |
| 370 | <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 371 | </ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 372 | cleared half a dozen potential problem</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 373 | <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li> |
| 374 | <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 375 | trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing |
| 376 | them</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 378 | problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems |
| 379 | broken ...</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 380 | </ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 381 | there is some new APIs for this too</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 382 | <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 383 | 52299)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 384 | <li>Fixed some portability issues</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 385 | </ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | size to be application tunable.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 388 | <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 391 | parser</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 392 | <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li> |
| 393 | <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li> |
| 394 | <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li> |
| 395 | <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 396 | are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 397 | </ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 398 | <li>documentation cleanups</li> |
| 399 | <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li> |
| 400 | <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 401 | </ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 402 | <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li> |
| 403 | <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li> |
| 404 | <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 405 | </ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 406 | <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 407 | implementation</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 408 | <li>A few bug fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 409 | </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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 410 | <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 411 | XSLT</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li> |
| 413 | <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li> |
| 414 | <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li> |
| 415 | <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li> |
| 416 | <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 417 | libxml2-devel</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 418 | <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li> |
| 419 | <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li> |
| 420 | <li>tree copying bugfixes</li> |
| 421 | <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li> |
| 422 | <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 423 | </ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 424 | <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li> |
| 425 | <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li> |
| 426 | <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li> |
| 427 | <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 428 | </ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 429 | <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li> |
| 430 | <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li> |
| 431 | <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li> |
| 432 | <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 433 | </ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li> |
| 434 | </ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 435 | support</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 436 | <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li> |
| 437 | <li>updated MS compiler project</li> |
| 438 | <li>fixed some XPath problems</li> |
| 439 | <li>added an URI escaping function</li> |
| 440 | <li>some other bug fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 441 | </ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 442 | <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li> |
| 443 | <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li> |
| 444 | <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li> |
| 445 | <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 446 | </ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 447 | those</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 448 | <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li> |
| 449 | <li>HTTP module cleanups</li> |
| 450 | <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 451 | normalization)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 452 | <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li> |
| 453 | <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 454 | </ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 455 | <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 456 | tests</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 457 | <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 458 | and release</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 459 | <li>Late validation fixes</li> |
| 460 | <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li> |
| 461 | <li>added memory management docs</li> |
| 462 | <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 463 | </ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 464 | <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li> |
| 465 | <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 466 | </ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 467 | <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li> |
| 468 | <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 469 | checked too</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 470 | <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 471 | works smoothly now.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 472 | </ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li> |
| 473 | </ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 474 | <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 475 | </ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 476 | <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li> |
| 477 | <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li> |
| 478 | <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 479 | allocation routines</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 480 | </ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 481 | <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 482 | encoded in UTF-8)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 483 | <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li> |
| 484 | <li>added xmlHasProp()</li> |
| 485 | <li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li> |
| 486 | <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li> |
| 487 | <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li> |
| 488 | <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 489 | support</a></li> |
| 490 | </ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 491 | <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 492 | rpmfind users problem</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 493 | </ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 494 | <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 495 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 496 | to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 497 | about &#38; charref parsing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 498 | <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 499 | also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 500 | <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 501 | <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li> |
| 502 | <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li> |
| 503 | <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 504 | related problems</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 505 | <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li> |
| 506 | <li>lot of various fixes</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 507 | </ul></li> |
| 508 | </ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul><li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 509 | idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially |
| 510 | scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 511 | workload.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 512 | <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 513 | $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by |
| 514 | <pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 515 | <p>instead of</p> |
| 516 | <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre> |
| 517 | </li> |
| 518 | <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li> |
| 519 | <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 520 | dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 521 | <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 522 | <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2 |
| 523 | package</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 524 | <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 525 | specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using |
| 526 | xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a |
| 527 | parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 528 | <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 529 | number of the libxml module in use</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 530 | <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 531 | configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 532 | </ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 533 | <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 534 | FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and |
| 535 | RPMs</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 536 | <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 537 | available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 538 | <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point |
Daniel Veillard | c0801af | 2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 539 | of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 540 | <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 541 | <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li> |
| 542 | <li>the updates includes: |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 543 | <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 544 | handled now</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 545 | <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 546 | and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 547 | <li>DTD conditional sections</li> |
| 548 | <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li> |
| 549 | <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 550 | structures to accommodate DOM</a></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 551 | </ul></li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 552 | <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 553 | OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 554 | encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS |
| 555 | head version.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 556 | </ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 557 | <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 558 | libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note |
| 559 | that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by |
| 560 | default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for |
| 561 | old code.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 562 | <li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 563 | avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 564 | <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 565 | compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 566 | <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 567 | URIs</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 568 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 569 | it without troubles</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 570 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 571 | XML spec)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 572 | <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li> |
| 573 | <li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 574 | to solve the zlib checks problems</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 575 | <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 576 | gnumeric soon</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 577 | </ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 578 | <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li> |
| 579 | <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li> |
| 580 | <li>added newDocFragment()</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 581 | </ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 582 | <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li> |
| 583 | <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li> |
| 584 | <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li> |
| 585 | <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li> |
| 586 | <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li> |
| 587 | <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 588 | xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 589 | <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 590 | </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 |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 591 | for good this time</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 592 | <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 593 | xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and |
| 594 | xmlDocSetRootElement</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 595 | <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li> |
| 596 | </ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 597 | the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 598 | <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li> |
| 599 | <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 600 | and more specifically the Dia application</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 601 | <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 602 | Dtd not specified in the original document)</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 603 | <li>fixed a bug in</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 604 | </ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 605 | <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 606 | not crash, whatever the input !</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 607 | <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 608 | dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>, |
| 609 | configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 610 | <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li> |
| 611 | <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now |
Daniel Veillard | 63d8314 | 2002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 612 | does entities escaping by default.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 613 | </ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 614 | <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li> |
| 615 | <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li> |
| 616 | <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 617 | </ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 618 | <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 619 | were it's not available, fixed</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 620 | </ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 621 | 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason |
| 622 | is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However |
| 623 | on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a |
| 624 | <strong>#define </strong>.</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 625 | <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 626 | leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 627 | </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> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 628 | <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 629 | like callback</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 630 | <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li> |
| 631 | <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li> |
| 632 | <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a> |
Daniel Veillard | c948420 | 2001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 633 | implementation</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 0b28e88 | 2002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 634 | <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li> |
Daniel Veillard | 1177ca4 | 2003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 635 | </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> |