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96<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
97for a really accurate description</h3>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +000098<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
99to test those</p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000100<ul>
101<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000102 Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000103</li>
104</ul>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000105<h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3>
106<ul>
107<li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
108 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
109 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
110 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
111 and improvement of the regexp core</li>
112 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
113 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
114 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
115 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
Daniel Veillard321be0c2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000116 APIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000117 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
118 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
119 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
120 Merlet)</li>
121 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
122 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
123 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
124</ul>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000125<p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p>
126<ul>
127<li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
128 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
129 (fcrozat)</li>
130 <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
131 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000132 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000133 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
134 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
135</ul>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000136<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
137<ul>
138<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000139 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
140 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
141 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
142 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000143 Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000144 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000145 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000146 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000147</ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000148<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
149<ul>
150<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
151 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000152 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000153 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000154 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000155 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
156 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000157 datatypes</li>
158</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000159<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
160<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
161Schemas <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
162interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
163progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000164it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000165<ul>
166<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000167 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
168 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000169 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000170 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
171 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000172</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000173<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
174<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000175<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000176 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
177 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000178 libxml.m4</li>
179</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000180<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
181<ul>
182<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
183 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000184 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
185 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
186 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000187</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000188<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
189<ul>
190<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000191 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000192 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
193 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
194 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
195 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000196</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000197<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000198<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000199<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
200 XPath&quot;</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000201 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000202 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000203 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000204</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000205<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
206<ul>
207<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
208 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000209 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000210</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000211<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
212<ul>
213<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000214 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
215 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000216</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000217<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
218<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000219<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
220 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
221 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000222 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000223 complete</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000224 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000225 manipulations</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000226 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000227 XML</li>
228</ul>
229<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000230<ul>
231<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000232 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
233 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000234 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000235 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
236 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000237</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000238<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
239<ul>
240<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
241 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
242 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000243 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
244 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000245</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000246<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
247<ul>
248<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
249 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000250 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
251 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
252 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000253</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000254<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
255<ul>
256<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000257 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
258 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
259 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000260 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000261 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
262 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000263</ul>
264<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
265<ul>
266<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000267 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000268</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000269<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
270<ul>
271<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
272 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000273 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000274</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000275<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
276<ul>
277<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000278 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
279 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000280 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000281 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
282 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
283 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
284 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
285 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
286 <li>general bug fixes</li>
287 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
288 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000289</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000290<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
291<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000292<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000293 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
294 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
295 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
296 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
297 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000298</ul>
299<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
300<ul>
301<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000302 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000303 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
304</ul>
305<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000306<ul>
307<li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
308 portability fixes</li>
309</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000310<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
311<ul>
312<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
313 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000314 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
315 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000316</ul>
317<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
318<ul>
319<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000320 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
321 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000322</ul>
323<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
324<ul>
325<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000326 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
327 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
328 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
329 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
330 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000331</ul>
332<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
333<ul>
334<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000335 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
336 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
337 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
338 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000339</ul>
340<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
341<ul>
342<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000343 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000344 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000345 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000346</ul>
347<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
348<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000349<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
350 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000351 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000352 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000353 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
354 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
355 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
356 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000357</ul>
358<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
359<ul>
360<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000361 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000362</ul>
363<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
364<ul>
365<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000366 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000367</ul>
368<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
369<ul>
370<li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000371 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
372 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
373 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
374 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
375 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000376 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
377 optimizer on Tru64</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000378 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000379 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000380 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
381 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000382</ul>
383<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
384<ul>
385<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
386 problems (alpha)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000387 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000388 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000389 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
390 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000391 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000392 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000393 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000394 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
395 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
396 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
397 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000398</ul>
399<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
400<ul>
401<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000402 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000403 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000404 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000405</ul>
406<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
407<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
408<ul>
409<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000410 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
411 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
412 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
413 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
414 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000415 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000416 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
417 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
418 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
419 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
420 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
421 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
422 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000423</ul>
424<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000425<ul>
426<li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
427</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000428<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
429<ul>
430<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000431 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
432 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000433 point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000434 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000435 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000436 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
437 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
438 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
439 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000440</ul>
441<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
442<ul>
443<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000444 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
445 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
446 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
447 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
448 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
449 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
450 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
451 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
452 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000453</ul>
454<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
455<ul>
456<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
457 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000458 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
459 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000460 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
461 them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000462 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000463 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
464 broken ...</li>
465</ul>
466<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
467<ul>
468<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
469 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000470 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000471 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000472 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000473</ul>
474<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
475<ul>
476<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000477 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000478 size to be application tunable.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000479 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000480 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000481 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000482 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000483 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
484 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
485 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
486 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000487 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000488</ul>
489<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
490<ul>
491<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000492 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
493 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
494 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000495</ul>
496<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
497<ul>
498<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000499 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
500 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
501 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000502</ul>
503<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
504<ul>
505<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000506 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000507 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000508 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000509</ul>
510<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
511<ul>
512<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000513 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000514 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000515 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
516 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
517 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
518 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
519 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000520 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000521 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
522 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
523 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
524 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
525 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000526</ul>
527<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
528<ul>
529<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000530 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
531 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
532 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
533 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000534</ul>
535<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
536<ul>
537<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000538 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
539 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
540 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
541 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000542</ul>
543<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000544<ul>
545<li>erroneous release :-(</li>
546</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000547<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
548<ul>
549<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
550 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000551 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
552 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
553 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
554 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
555 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000556</ul>
557<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
558<ul>
559<li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000560 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
561 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
562 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
563 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000564</ul>
565<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
566<ul>
567<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
568 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000569 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
570 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
571 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000572 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000573 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
574 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000575</ul>
576<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
577<ul>
578<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000579 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000580 tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000581 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000582 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000583 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
584 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
585 <li>added memory management docs</li>
586 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000587</ul>
588<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
589<ul>
590<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000591 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
592 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000593</ul>
594<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
595<ul>
596<li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000597 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
598 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000599 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000600 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000601 works smoothly now.</li>
602</ul>
603<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000604<ul>
605<li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
606</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000607<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
608<ul>
609<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000610 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000611</ul>
612<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
613<ul>
614<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000615 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
616 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
617 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000618 allocation routines</li>
619</ul>
620<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
621<ul>
622<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000623 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000624 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000625 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
626 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
627 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
628 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
629 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
630 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000631 support</a>
632</li>
633</ul>
634<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
635<ul>
636<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000637 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000638 rpmfind users problem</li>
639</ul>
640<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
641<ul>
642<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000643 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000644</ul>
645<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
646<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000647<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
648 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000649 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000650 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000651 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
652 <ul>
653<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000654 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
655 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
656 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000657 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000658 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
659 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
660 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000661</li>
662</ul>
663<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
664<ul>
665<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000666 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
667 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000668 workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000669 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000670 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
671 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000672 <p>instead of</p>
673 <pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
674 </li>
675 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
676 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000677 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000678 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000679 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
680 package</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000681 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000682 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
683 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
684 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000685 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000686 number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000687 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000688 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
689</ul>
690<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
691<ul>
692<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000693 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000694 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
695 RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000696 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000697 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000698 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000699 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
700 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000701</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000702 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
703 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000704 <ul>
705<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
706 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000707 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000708 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000709 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
710 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
711 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000712 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000713 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000714</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000715 <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 +0000716 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000717 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
718 head version.</li>
719</ul>
720<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
721<ul>
722<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000723 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000724 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
725 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
726 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
727 old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000728 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000729 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000730 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000731 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000732 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000733 URIs</li>
734</ul>
735<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000736<ul>
737<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
738 it without troubles</li>
739</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000740<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
741<ul>
742<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
743 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000744 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
745 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000746 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000747 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000748 gnumeric soon</li>
749</ul>
750<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
751<ul>
752<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000753 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
754 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
755 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000756</ul>
757<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
758<ul>
759<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000760 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
761 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
762 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
763 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
764 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
765 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000766 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000767 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000768</ul>
769<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
770<ul>
771<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
772 for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000773 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000774 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
775 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000776 <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 +0000777</li>
778</ul>
779<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
780<ul>
781<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
782 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000783 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
784 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000785 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000786 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000787 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000788 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000789</ul>
790<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
791<ul>
792<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000793 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000794 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000795 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000796 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
797 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000798 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
799 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000800 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000801</ul>
802<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
803<ul>
804<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000805 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
806 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
807 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000808</ul>
809<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
810<ul>
811<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000812 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000813 were it's not available, fixed</li>
814</ul>
815<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
816<ul>
817<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
818 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
819 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
820 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
821 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000822 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000823 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
824</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000825<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000826<ul>
827<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 +0000828 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000829 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000830 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
831 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
832 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000833 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000834 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000835</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000836<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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