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90<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
91for a really accurate description</h3>
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +000092<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
93to test those</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +000094<ul><li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
95 Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +000096</li></ul>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +000097<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
98<ul>
99<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
100<li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
101<li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
102<li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
103<li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
104 Peter Jacobi</li>
105<li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
106 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
107<li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
108</ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000109<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
110<ul>
111<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
112 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000113 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000114<li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
115 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
116<li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
117<li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
118 datatypes</li>
119</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000120<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
121<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
122Schemas <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
123interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
124progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000125it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000126<ul>
127<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
128<li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
129<li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
130 Jinks</li>
131<li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
132<li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
133</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000134<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
135<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000136<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000137<li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
138<li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
139 libxml.m4</li>
140</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000141<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
142<ul>
143<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
144 encoder</li>
145<li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
Daniel Veillardb2fb8ed2002-04-01 09:33:12 +0000146<li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000147<li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
148</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000149<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
150<ul>
151<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000152 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000153<li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
154<li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
155<li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
156<li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
157</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000158<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000159<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000160<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
161 XPath&quot;</li>
162<li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
163 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000164<li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000165</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000166<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
167<ul>
168<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
169 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
170<li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
171</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000172<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
173<ul>
174<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
175<li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
176<li>Includes cleanup</li>
177</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000178<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
179<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000180<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
181 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
182 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000183<li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
184 complete</li>
185<li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
186 manipulations</li>
187<li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
188 XML</li>
189</ul>
190<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000191<ul>
192<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
193<li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
194<li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
195 Narojnyi</li>
196<li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
197<li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
198</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000199<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
200<ul>
201<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
202 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
203 (robert)</li>
204<li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
205<li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
206</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000207<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
208<ul>
209<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
210 cleanups</li>
211<li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
212<li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
213<li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
214</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000215<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
216<ul>
217<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
218<li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
219<li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
220<li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
221 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
222<li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
223<li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
224</ul>
225<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
226<ul>
227<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
228<li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
229</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000230<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
231<ul>
232<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
233 tool</li>
234<li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
235</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000236<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
237<ul>
238<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
239<li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
240<li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
241 and regression tests</li>
242<li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
243<li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
244<li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
245<li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
246<li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
247<li>general bug fixes</li>
248<li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
249<li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
250</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000251<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
252<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000253<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000254<li>portability and configure fixes</li>
255<li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
256<li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000257<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000258<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
259</ul>
260<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
261<ul>
262<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
263<li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
264 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
265</ul>
266<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
267<ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
268 portability fixes</li></ul>
269<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
270<ul>
271<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
272 Catalog</li>
273<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
274<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
275</ul>
276<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
277<ul>
278<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
279<li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
280<li>A few bug fixes</li>
281</ul>
282<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
283<ul>
284<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
285<li>lot of bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000286<li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000287<li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
288<li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
289<li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
290</ul>
291<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
292<ul>
293<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
294<li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
295<li>extension of the XPath API</li>
296<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
297<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
298</ul>
299<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
300<ul>
301<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000302<li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000303 regression tests</li>
304<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
305</ul>
306<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
307<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000308<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
309 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000310<li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000311 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000312<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
313<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
314<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000315<li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000316</ul>
317<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
318<ul>
319<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
320<li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
321</ul>
322<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
323<ul>
324<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
325<li>Small Makefile fix</li>
326</ul>
327<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
328<ul>
329<li>lots of cleanup</li>
330<li>a couple of validation fix</li>
331<li>fixed line number counting</li>
332<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
333<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
334<li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
335 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
336 optimizer on Tru64</li>
337<li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
338 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
339<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
340<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
341</ul>
342<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
343<ul>
344<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
345 problems (alpha)</li>
346<li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
347 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
348<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
349<li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
350 parser</li>
351<li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
352 node selection)</li>
353<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
354<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
355<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
356<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
357</ul>
358<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
359<ul>
360<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
361<li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
362 XInclude processing</li>
363<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
364</ul>
365<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
366<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
367<ul>
368<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000369<li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000370<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000371<li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000372<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
373<li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
374 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
375<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
376<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
377<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
378<li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
379<li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
380<li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
381<li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
382</ul>
383<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
384<ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li></ul>
385<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
386<ul>
387<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
388<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
389<li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
390 point portability issue</li>
391<li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
392 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
393<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
394<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
395<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
396<li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
397</ul>
398<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
399<ul>
400<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000401<li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000402<li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
403<li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000404<li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000405<li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000406<li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000407<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
408<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
409<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
410</ul>
411<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
412<ul>
413<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
414 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
415<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
416<li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
417 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
418 them</li>
419<li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
420 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
421 broken ...</li>
422</ul>
423<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
424<ul>
425<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
426 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
427<li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
428 52299)</li>
429<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
430</ul>
431<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
432<ul>
433<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
434<li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
435 size to be application tunable.</li>
436<li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
437 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
438<li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
439 parser</li>
440<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
441<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
442<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
443<li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000444 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000445</ul>
446<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
447<ul>
448<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
449<li>documentation cleanups</li>
450<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
451<li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
452</ul>
453<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
454<ul>
455<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
456<li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
457<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
458<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
459</ul>
460<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
461<ul>
462<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
463<li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
464 implementation</li>
465<li>A few bug fixes</li>
466</ul>
467<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
468<ul>
469<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
470<li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
471 XSLT</li>
472<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
473<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
474<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
475<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
476<li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
477 libxml2-devel</li>
478<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
479<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
480<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
481<li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000482<li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000483</ul>
484<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
485<ul>
486<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
487<li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
488<li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
489<li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
490<li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
491</ul>
492<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
493<ul>
494<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
495<li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
496<li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
497<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
498<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
499</ul>
500<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
501<ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li></ul>
502<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
503<ul>
504<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
505 support</li>
506<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
507<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
508<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
509<li>added an URI escaping function</li>
510<li>some other bug fixes</li>
511</ul>
512<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
513<ul>
514<li>added message redirection</li>
515<li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
516<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
517<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
518<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
519</ul>
520<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
521<ul>
522<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
523 those</li>
524<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
525<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
526<li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
527 normalization)</li>
528<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
529<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
530</ul>
531<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
532<ul>
533<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
534<li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
535 tests</li>
536<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
537 and release</li>
538<li>Late validation fixes</li>
539<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
540<li>added memory management docs</li>
541<li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
542</ul>
543<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
544<ul>
545<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
546<li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
547<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
548</ul>
549<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
550<ul>
551<li>bug fixes</li>
552<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
553<li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
554 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000555<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000556 works smoothly now.</li>
557</ul>
558<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
559<ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li></ul>
560<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
561<ul>
562<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
563<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
564</ul>
565<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
566<ul>
567<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
568<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
569<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
570<li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
571 allocation routines</li>
572</ul>
573<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
574<ul>
575<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
576<li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
577 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
578<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
579<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
580<li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
581<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
582<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
583<li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
584 support</a>
585</li>
586</ul>
587<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
588<ul>
589<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
590<li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
591 rpmfind users problem</li>
592</ul>
593<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
594<ul>
595<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
596<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
597</ul>
598<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
599<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000600<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
601 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000602 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
603<li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
604 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
605 <ul>
606<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
607<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
608<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000609<li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000610 related problems</li>
611<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
612<li>lot of various fixes</li>
613</ul>
614</li>
615</ul>
616<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
617<ul>
618<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000619 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
620 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000621 workload.</li>
622<li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
623 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
624 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
625<p>instead of</p>
626<pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
627</li>
628<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
629<li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
630 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
631<li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
632 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
633 package</li>
634<li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
635 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
636 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
637 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
638<li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
639 number of the libxml module in use</li>
640<li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
641 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
642</ul>
643<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
644<ul>
645<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
646<li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
647 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
648 RPMs</li>
649<li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
650 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000651<li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
652 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
653 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000654</li>
655<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
656<li>the updates includes:
657 <ul>
658<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
659 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000660<li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000661 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
662<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000663<li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000664<li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000665 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000666</ul>
667</li>
668<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 +0000669 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000670 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
671 head version.</li>
672</ul>
673<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
674<ul>
675<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
676<li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
677 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
678 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
679 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
680 old code.</li>
681<li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
682 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
683<li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
684 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
685<li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
686 URIs</li>
687</ul>
688<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
689<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
690 it without troubles</li></ul>
691<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
692<ul>
693<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
694 XML spec)</li>
695<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
696<li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
697 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
698<li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
699 gnumeric soon</li>
700</ul>
701<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
702<ul>
703<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
704<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
705<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
706<li>added newDocFragment()</li>
707</ul>
708<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
709<ul>
710<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
711<li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000712<li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000713<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
714<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
715<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
716<li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
717 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
718<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
719</ul>
720<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
721<ul>
722<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
723 for good this time</li>
724<li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
725 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
726 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
727<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
728</li>
729</ul>
730<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
731<ul>
732<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
733 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
734<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
735<li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
736 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
737<li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
738 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
739<li>fixed a bug in</li>
740</ul>
741<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
742<ul>
743<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
744<li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
745 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
746<li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
747 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
748 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
749<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000750<li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
751 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000752</ul>
753<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
754<ul>
755<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
756<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
757<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
758<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
759</ul>
760<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
761<ul>
762<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000763<li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000764 were it's not available, fixed</li>
765</ul>
766<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
767<ul>
768<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
769 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
770 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
771 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
772 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
773<li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
774 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
775</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000776<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000777<ul>
778<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
779<li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
780 like callback</li>
781<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
782<li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
783<li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
784 implementation</li>
785<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
786</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000787<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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