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87<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr>
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89<li><a href="APIchunk0.html">Alphabetic</a></li>
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98<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
99for a really accurate description</h3>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]100<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
101to test those</p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102<ul>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000[diff] [blame]103<li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
104 <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
105 Schemas</a>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]106</li>
107</ul>
Daniel Veillard17bed982003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000[diff] [blame^]108<h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3>
109<ul>
110<li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
111 implementation</li>
112 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
113 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
114 namespaces,
115 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
116 generation problem.</p>
117 </li>
118 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
119 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
120 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
121</ul>
Daniel Veillard1d788d22003-02-10 16:21:58 +0000[diff] [blame]122<h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3>
123<ul>
124<li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
125 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
126 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
127 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
128 serialization</li>
129 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
130</ul>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000[diff] [blame]131<h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3>
132<ul>
133<li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
134 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
135 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
136 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
137 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
138 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
139 namespaces</li>
140 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
141 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
142 patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
143 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
144 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
145 (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
146 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
147</ul>
Daniel Veillarde2830f12003-01-08 17:47:49 +0000[diff] [blame]148<h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3>
149<ul>
150<li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
151 <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
152 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
153</ul>
Daniel Veillard7b4b2f92003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000[diff] [blame]154<h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3>
155<ul>
156<li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
157 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
158 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
159 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
160 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
161 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
162 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
163 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
164 (John)</li>
165 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
166 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
167 <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
168 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
169 Schroeder)</li>
170 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a>
171</li>
172</ul>
Daniel Veillardc1eed322002-12-12 11:01:32 +0000[diff] [blame]173<h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3>
174<ul>
175<li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
176 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
177 fixes.</li>
178</ul>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]179<h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3>
180<ul>
181<li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
182 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
183 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
184 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
185 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
186 dump</li>
187 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
188 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
189 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
190 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
191 more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
192</ul>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000[diff] [blame]193<h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3>
194<ul>
195<li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
196 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
197 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
198 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
199 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse=&quot;text&quot;</li>
200 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]201 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000[diff] [blame]202</ul>
Daniel Veillarddad3f682002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]203<h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3>
204<ul>
205<li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
206 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
207 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
208 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
209 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
210 Pajas), entities processing</li>
211 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
212 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
213 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
214 better thread support on Windows</li>
215 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
216 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
217</ul>
Daniel Veillarde645e8c2002-10-22 17:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]218<h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3>
219<ul>
220<li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
221 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
222 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
223 problems</li>
224</ul>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]225<h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3>
226<ul>
227<li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
228 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
229 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
230 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
231 and improvement of the regexp core</li>
232 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
233 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
234 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
235 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
Daniel Veillard321be0c2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000[diff] [blame]236 APIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]237 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
238 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
239 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
240 Merlet)</li>
241 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
242 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
243 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
244</ul>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]245<p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p>
246<ul>
247<li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
248 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
249 (fcrozat)</li>
250 <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
251 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000[diff] [blame]252 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]253 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
254 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
255</ul>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]256<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
257<ul>
258<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]259 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
260 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
261 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
262 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]263 Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]264 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]265 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]266 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]267</ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]268<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
269<ul>
270<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
271 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]272 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]273 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]274 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]275 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
276 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]277 datatypes</li>
278</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]279<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
280<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
281Schemas <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
282interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
283progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]284it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]285<ul>
286<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]287 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
288 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]289 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]290 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
291 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]292</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]293<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
294<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]295<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]296 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
297 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]298 libxml.m4</li>
299</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]300<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
301<ul>
302<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
303 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]304 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
305 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
306 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]307</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]308<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
309<ul>
310<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]311 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]312 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
313 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
314 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
315 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]316</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]317<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]318<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]319<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
320 XPath&quot;</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]321 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]322 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]323 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]324</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]325<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
326<ul>
327<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
328 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]329 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]330</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]331<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
332<ul>
333<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]334 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
335 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]336</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]337<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
338<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]339<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
340 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
341 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]342 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]343 complete</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]344 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]345 manipulations</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]346 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]347 XML</li>
348</ul>
349<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]350<ul>
351<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]352 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
353 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]354 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]355 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
356 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]357</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]358<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
359<ul>
360<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
361 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
362 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]363 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
364 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]365</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]366<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
367<ul>
368<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
369 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]370 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
371 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
372 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]373</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]374<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
375<ul>
376<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]377 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
378 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
379 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]380 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]381 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
382 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]383</ul>
384<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
385<ul>
386<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]387 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]388</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]389<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
390<ul>
391<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
392 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]393 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]394</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]395<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
396<ul>
397<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]398 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
399 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]400 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]401 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
402 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
403 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
404 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
405 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
406 <li>general bug fixes</li>
407 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
408 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]409</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]410<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
411<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]412<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]413 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
414 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
415 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
416 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
417 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]418</ul>
419<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
420<ul>
421<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]422 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]423 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
424</ul>
425<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]426<ul>
427<li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
428 portability fixes</li>
429</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]430<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
431<ul>
432<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
433 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]434 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
435 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]436</ul>
437<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
438<ul>
439<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]440 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
441 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]442</ul>
443<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
444<ul>
445<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]446 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
447 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
448 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
449 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
450 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]451</ul>
452<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
453<ul>
454<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]455 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
456 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
457 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
458 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]459</ul>
460<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
461<ul>
462<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]463 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]464 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]465 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]466</ul>
467<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
468<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]469<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
470 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]472 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]473 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
474 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
475 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
476 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]477</ul>
478<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
479<ul>
480<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]481 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]482</ul>
483<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
484<ul>
485<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]486 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]487</ul>
488<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
489<ul>
490<li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]491 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
492 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
493 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
494 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
495 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]496 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
497 optimizer on Tru64</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]498 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]499 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]500 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
501 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]502</ul>
503<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
504<ul>
505<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
506 problems (alpha)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]507 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]508 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]509 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
510 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]511 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]512 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]513 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]514 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
515 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
516 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
517 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]518</ul>
519<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
520<ul>
521<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]522 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]523 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]524 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]525</ul>
526<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
527<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
528<ul>
529<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]530 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
531 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
532 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
533 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
534 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]535 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]536 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
537 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
538 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
539 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
540 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
541 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
542 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]543</ul>
544<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]545<ul>
546<li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
547</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]548<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
549<ul>
550<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]551 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
552 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]553 point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]554 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]555 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
557 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
558 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
559 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]560</ul>
561<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
562<ul>
563<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]564 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
565 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
566 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
567 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
568 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
569 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
570 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
571 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
572 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]573</ul>
574<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
575<ul>
576<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
577 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]578 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
579 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]580 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
581 them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]582 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]583 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
584 broken ...</li>
585</ul>
586<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
587<ul>
588<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
589 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]590 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]591 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]592 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]593</ul>
594<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
595<ul>
596<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]597 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]598 size to be application tunable.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]599 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]600 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]601 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]602 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]603 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
604 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
605 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
606 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]607 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]608</ul>
609<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
610<ul>
611<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]612 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
613 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
614 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]615</ul>
616<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
617<ul>
618<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]619 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
620 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
621 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]622</ul>
623<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
624<ul>
625<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]626 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]627 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]628 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]629</ul>
630<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
631<ul>
632<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]633 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]634 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]635 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
636 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
637 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
638 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
639 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]640 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]641 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
642 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
643 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
644 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
645 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]646</ul>
647<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
648<ul>
649<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]650 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
651 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
652 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
653 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]654</ul>
655<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
656<ul>
657<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]658 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
659 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
660 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
661 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]662</ul>
663<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]664<ul>
665<li>erroneous release :-(</li>
666</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]667<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
668<ul>
669<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
670 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]671 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
672 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
673 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
674 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
675 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]676</ul>
677<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
678<ul>
679<li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]680 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
681 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
682 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
683 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]684</ul>
685<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
686<ul>
687<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
688 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]689 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
690 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
691 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]692 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]693 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
694 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]695</ul>
696<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
697<ul>
698<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]699 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]700 tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]701 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]702 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]703 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
704 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
705 <li>added memory management docs</li>
706 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]707</ul>
708<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
709<ul>
710<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]711 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
712 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]713</ul>
714<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
715<ul>
716<li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]717 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
718 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]719 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]720 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]721 works smoothly now.</li>
722</ul>
723<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]724<ul>
725<li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
726</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]727<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
728<ul>
729<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]730 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]731</ul>
732<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
733<ul>
734<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]735 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
736 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
737 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]738 allocation routines</li>
739</ul>
740<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
741<ul>
742<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]743 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]744 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]745 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
746 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
747 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
748 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
749 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
750 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]751 support</a>
752</li>
753</ul>
754<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
755<ul>
756<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]757 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]758 rpmfind users problem</li>
759</ul>
760<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
761<ul>
762<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]763 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]764</ul>
765<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
766<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]767<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
768 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]769 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]770 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]771 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
772 <ul>
773<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]774 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
775 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
776 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]777 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]778 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
779 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
780 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]781</li>
782</ul>
783<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
784<ul>
785<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]786 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
787 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]788 workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]789 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]790 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
791 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]792 <p>instead of</p>
793 <pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
794 </li>
795 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
796 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]797 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]798 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]799 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
800 package</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]801 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]802 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
803 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
804 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]805 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]806 number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]807 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]808 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
809</ul>
810<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
811<ul>
812<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]813 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]814 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
815 RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]816 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]817 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]818 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]819 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
820 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]821</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]822 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
823 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]824 <ul>
825<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
826 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]827 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]828 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]829 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
830 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
831 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]832 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]833 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]834</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]835 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]836 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]837 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
838 head version.</li>
839</ul>
840<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
841<ul>
842<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]843 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]844 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
845 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
846 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
847 old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]848 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]849 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]850 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]851 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]852 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]853 URIs</li>
854</ul>
855<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]856<ul>
857<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
858 it without troubles</li>
859</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]860<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
861<ul>
862<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
863 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]864 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
865 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]866 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]867 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]868 gnumeric soon</li>
869</ul>
870<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
871<ul>
872<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]873 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
874 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
875 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]876</ul>
877<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
878<ul>
879<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]880 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
881 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
882 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
883 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
884 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
885 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]886 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]887 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]888</ul>
889<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
890<ul>
891<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
892 for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]893 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]894 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
895 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]896 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]897</li>
898</ul>
899<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
900<ul>
901<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
902 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]903 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
904 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]905 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]906 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]907 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]908 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]909</ul>
910<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
911<ul>
912<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]913 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]914 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]915 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]916 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
917 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]918 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
919 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]920 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]921</ul>
922<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
923<ul>
924<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]925 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
926 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
927 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]928</ul>
929<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
930<ul>
931<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]932 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]933 were it's not available, fixed</li>
934</ul>
935<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
936<ul>
937<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
938 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
939 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
940 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
941 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]942 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]943 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
944</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]945<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]946<ul>
947<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]948 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]949 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]950 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
951 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
952 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]953 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]954 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]955</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]956<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]957</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
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