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87<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
88for a really accurate description</h3>
89<p>Items floating around but not actively worked on, get in touch with me if
90you want to test those</p>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +000091<ul><li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
92</li></ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +000093<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
94<ul>
95<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
96 xpath</li>
97<li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
98<li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
99<li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
100<li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
101</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000102<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000103<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000104<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
105 XPath&quot;</li>
106<li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
107 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
108<li>added the XML Canonalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000109</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000110<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
111<ul>
112<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
113 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
114<li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
115</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000116<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
117<ul>
118<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
119<li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
120<li>Includes cleanup</li>
121</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000122<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
123<ul>
124<li>Change of Licence to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
125 Licence</a> basisally for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
126 confusion around the previous dual-licencing</li>
127<li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
128 complete</li>
129<li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
130 manipulations</li>
131<li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
132 XML</li>
133</ul>
134<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000135<ul>
136<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
137<li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
138<li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
139 Narojnyi</li>
140<li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
141<li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
142</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000143<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
144<ul>
145<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
146 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
147 (robert)</li>
148<li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
149<li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
150</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000151<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
152<ul>
153<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
154 cleanups</li>
155<li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
156<li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
157<li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
158</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000159<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
160<ul>
161<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
162<li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
163<li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
164<li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
165 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
166<li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
167<li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
168</ul>
169<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
170<ul>
171<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
172<li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
173</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000174<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
175<ul>
176<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
177 tool</li>
178<li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
179</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000180<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
181<ul>
182<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
183<li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
184<li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
185 and regression tests</li>
186<li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
187<li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
188<li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
189<li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
190<li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
191<li>general bug fixes</li>
192<li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
193<li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
194</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000195<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
196<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000197<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000198<li>portability and configure fixes</li>
199<li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
200<li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
201<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported fof libxml or libxslt</li>
202<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
203</ul>
204<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
205<ul>
206<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
207<li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
208 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
209</ul>
210<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
211<ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
212 portability fixes</li></ul>
213<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
214<ul>
215<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
216 Catalog</li>
217<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
218<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
219</ul>
220<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
221<ul>
222<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
223<li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
224<li>A few bug fixes</li>
225</ul>
226<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
227<ul>
228<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
229<li>lot of bug fixes</li>
230<li>the Microsoft MSC projects files shuld now be up to date</li>
231<li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
232<li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
233<li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
234</ul>
235<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
236<ul>
237<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
238<li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
239<li>extension of the XPath API</li>
240<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
241<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
242</ul>
243<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
244<ul>
245<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
246<li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a coupel of examples to the
247 regression tests</li>
248<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
249</ul>
250<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
251<ul>
252<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce mem requirement when
253 substituing them</li>
254<li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
255 substancially faster</li>
256<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
257<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
258<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
259<li>Fixed an URI reference computating problem when validating</li>
260</ul>
261<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
262<ul>
263<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
264<li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
265</ul>
266<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
267<ul>
268<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
269<li>Small Makefile fix</li>
270</ul>
271<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
272<ul>
273<li>lots of cleanup</li>
274<li>a couple of validation fix</li>
275<li>fixed line number counting</li>
276<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
277<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
278<li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
279 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
280 optimizer on Tru64</li>
281<li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
282 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
283<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
284<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
285</ul>
286<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
287<ul>
288<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
289 problems (alpha)</li>
290<li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
291 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
292<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
293<li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
294 parser</li>
295<li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
296 node selection)</li>
297<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
298<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
299<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
300<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
301</ul>
302<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
303<ul>
304<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
305<li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
306 XInclude processing</li>
307<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
308</ul>
309<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
310<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
311<ul>
312<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
313<li>some serious speed optimisation again</li>
314<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
315<li>trying to get better linking on solaris (-R)</li>
316<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
317<li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
318 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
319<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
320<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
321<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
322<li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
323<li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
324<li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
325<li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
326</ul>
327<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
328<ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li></ul>
329<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
330<ul>
331<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
332<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
333<li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
334 point portability issue</li>
335<li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
336 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
337<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
338<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
339<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
340<li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
341</ul>
342<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
343<ul>
344<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
345<li>Non determinist content model validation support</li>
346<li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
347<li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
348<li>XPath: corrctions of namespacessupport and number formatting</li>
349<li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
350<li>HTML ouput fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
351<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
352<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
353<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
354</ul>
355<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
356<ul>
357<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
358 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
359<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
360<li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
361 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
362 them</li>
363<li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
364 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
365 broken ...</li>
366</ul>
367<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
368<ul>
369<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
370 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
371<li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
372 52299)</li>
373<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
374</ul>
375<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
376<ul>
377<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
378<li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
379 size to be application tunable.</li>
380<li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
381 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
382<li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
383 parser</li>
384<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
385<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
386<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
387<li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
388 are formatting spaces, this is for XmL conformance</li>
389</ul>
390<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
391<ul>
392<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
393<li>documentation cleanups</li>
394<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
395<li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
396</ul>
397<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
398<ul>
399<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
400<li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
401<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
402<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
403</ul>
404<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
405<ul>
406<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
407<li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
408 implementation</li>
409<li>A few bug fixes</li>
410</ul>
411<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
412<ul>
413<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
414<li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
415 XSLT</li>
416<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
417<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
418<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
419<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
420<li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
421 libxml2-devel</li>
422<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
423<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
424<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
425<li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
426<li>optimisation patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
427</ul>
428<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
429<ul>
430<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
431<li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
432<li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
433<li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
434<li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
435</ul>
436<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
437<ul>
438<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
439<li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
440<li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
441<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
442<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
443</ul>
444<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
445<ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li></ul>
446<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
447<ul>
448<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
449 support</li>
450<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
451<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
452<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
453<li>added an URI escaping function</li>
454<li>some other bug fixes</li>
455</ul>
456<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
457<ul>
458<li>added message redirection</li>
459<li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
460<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
461<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
462<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
463</ul>
464<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
465<ul>
466<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
467 those</li>
468<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
469<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
470<li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
471 normalization)</li>
472<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
473<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
474</ul>
475<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
476<ul>
477<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
478<li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
479 tests</li>
480<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
481 and release</li>
482<li>Late validation fixes</li>
483<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
484<li>added memory management docs</li>
485<li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
486</ul>
487<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
488<ul>
489<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
490<li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
491<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
492</ul>
493<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
494<ul>
495<li>bug fixes</li>
496<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
497<li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
498 checked too</li>
499<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against Docbook XML Dtd
500 works smoothly now.</li>
501</ul>
502<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
503<ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li></ul>
504<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
505<ul>
506<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
507<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
508</ul>
509<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
510<ul>
511<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
512<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
513<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
514<li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
515 allocation routines</li>
516</ul>
517<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
518<ul>
519<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
520<li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
521 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
522<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
523<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
524<li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
525<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
526<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
527<li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
528 support</a>
529</li>
530</ul>
531<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
532<ul>
533<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
534<li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
535 rpmfind users problem</li>
536</ul>
537<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
538<ul>
539<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
540<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
541</ul>
542<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
543<ul>
544<li>1.8.8 is mostly a comodity package for upgrading to libxml2 accoding to
545 <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
546 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
547<li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
548 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
549 <ul>
550<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
551<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
552<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
553<li>tried to fix as much as possible DtD validation and namespace
554 related problems</li>
555<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
556<li>lot of various fixes</li>
557</ul>
558</li>
559</ul>
560<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
561<ul>
562<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
563 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initally
564 scheduled for Apr 3 the relase occured only on Apr 12 due to massive
565 workload.</li>
566<li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
567 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
568 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
569<p>instead of</p>
570<pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
571</li>
572<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
573<li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
574 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
575<li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
576 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
577 package</li>
578<li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
579 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
580 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
581 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
582<li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
583 number of the libxml module in use</li>
584<li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
585 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
586</ul>
587<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
588<ul>
589<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
590<li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
591 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
592 RPMs</li>
593<li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
594 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
595<li>This includes a very large set of changes. Froma programmatic point of
596 view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
597</li>
598<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
599<li>the updates includes:
600 <ul>
601<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
602 handled now</li>
603<li>Better handling of entities, especially well formedness checking
604 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
605<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
606<li>Validation now correcly handle entities content</li>
607<li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
608 structures to accomodate DOM</a></li>
609</ul>
610</li>
611<li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
612 OASIS testsuite (except the japanese tests since I don't support that
613 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
614 head version.</li>
615</ul>
616<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
617<ul>
618<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
619<li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
620 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
621 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
622 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
623 old code.</li>
624<li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
625 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
626<li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
627 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
628<li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
629 URIs</li>
630</ul>
631<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
632<ul><li>added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of <a href="http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html">rpmfind</a> can use
633 it without troubles</li></ul>
634<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
635<ul>
636<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
637 XML spec)</li>
638<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
639<li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
640 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
641<li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
642 gnumeric soon</li>
643</ul>
644<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
645<ul>
646<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
647<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
648<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
649<li>added newDocFragment()</li>
650</ul>
651<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
652<ul>
653<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
654<li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
655<li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas hollidays</li>
656<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
657<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
658<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
659<li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
660 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
661<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
662</ul>
663<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
664<ul>
665<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
666 for good this time</li>
667<li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
668 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
669 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
670<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
671</li>
672</ul>
673<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
674<ul>
675<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
676 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
677<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
678<li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
679 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
680<li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
681 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
682<li>fixed a bug in</li>
683</ul>
684<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
685<ul>
686<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
687<li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
688 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
689<li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
690 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
691 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
692<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
693<li>attributes defaulted from Dtds should be available, xmlSetProp() now
694 does entities escapting by default.</li>
695</ul>
696<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
697<ul>
698<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
699<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
700<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
701<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
702</ul>
703<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
704<ul>
705<li>portability problems fixed</li>
706<li>snprintf was used unconditionnally, leading to link problems on system
707 were it's not available, fixed</li>
708</ul>
709<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
710<ul>
711<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
712 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
713 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
714 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
715 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
716<li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
717 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
718</ul>
719<h3>1.7.0: sep 23 1999</h3>
720<ul>
721<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
722<li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
723 like callback</li>
724<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
725<li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
726<li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
727 implementation</li>
728<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
729</ul>
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