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Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]77<li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li>
78<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li>
Daniel Veillard4a859202002-01-08 11:49:22 +0000[diff] [blame]79<li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li>
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Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]81<li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li>
82<li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
Daniel Veillarddb9dfd92001-11-26 17:25:02 +0000[diff] [blame]83<li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
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Daniel Veillard2d347fa2002-03-17 10:34:11 +0000[diff] [blame]85<li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml&amp;product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li>
Daniel Veillard594cf0b2001-10-25 08:09:12 +0000[diff] [blame]86</ul></td></tr>
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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 +0000[diff] [blame]92<p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
93to test those</p>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]94<ul>
95<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]96 Schemas</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]97</li>
98</ul>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]99<h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3>
100<ul>
101<li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]102 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
103 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
104 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
105 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]106 Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]107 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]108 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]109 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]110</ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]111<h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3>
112<ul>
113<li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
114 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]115 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]116 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]117 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]118 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
119 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]120 datatypes</li>
121</ul>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]122<h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3>
123<p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
124Schemas <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
125interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
126progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillarde6d8e202002-05-02 06:11:10 +0000[diff] [blame]127it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]128<ul>
129<li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]130 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
131 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]132 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]133 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
134 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]135</ul>
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]136<h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3>
137<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]138<li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]139 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
140 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]141 libxml.m4</li>
142</ul>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]143<h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3>
144<ul>
145<li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
146 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]147 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
148 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
149 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]150</ul>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]151<h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3>
152<ul>
153<li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]154 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]155 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
156 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
157 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
158 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard34ce8be2002-03-18 19:37:11 +0000[diff] [blame]159</ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]160<h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]161<ul>
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]162<li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
163 XPath&quot;</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]164 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]165 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]166 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]167</ul>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]168<h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3>
169<ul>
170<li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
171 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]172 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]173</ul>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]174<h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3>
175<ul>
176<li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]177 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
178 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard397ff112002-02-11 18:27:20 +0000[diff] [blame]179</ul>
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]180<h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3>
181<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]182<li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
183 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
184 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]185 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]186 complete</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]187 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]188 manipulations</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]189 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]190 XML</li>
191</ul>
192<h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]193<ul>
194<li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]195 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
196 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]197 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]198 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
199 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]200</ul>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]201<h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3>
202<ul>
203<li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
204 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
205 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]206 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
207 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]208</ul>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]209<h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3>
210<ul>
211<li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
212 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]213 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
214 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
215 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]216</ul>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]217<h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3>
218<ul>
219<li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]220 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
221 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
222 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]223 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]224 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
225 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]226</ul>
227<h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3>
228<ul>
229<li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]230 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]231</ul>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]232<h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3>
233<ul>
234<li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
235 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]236 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]237</ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]238<h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3>
239<ul>
240<li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]241 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
242 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]243 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]244 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
245 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
246 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
247 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
248 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
249 <li>general bug fixes</li>
250 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
251 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]252</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]253<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
254<ul>
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]255<li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]256 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
257 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
258 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
259 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
260 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]261</ul>
262<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
263<ul>
264<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]265 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]266 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
267</ul>
268<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]269<ul>
270<li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
271 portability fixes</li>
272</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]273<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
274<ul>
275<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
276 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]277 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
278 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]279</ul>
280<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
281<ul>
282<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]283 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
284 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]285</ul>
286<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
287<ul>
288<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]289 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
290 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
291 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
292 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
293 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]294</ul>
295<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
296<ul>
297<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]298 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
299 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
300 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
301 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]302</ul>
303<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
304<ul>
305<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]306 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]307 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]308 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]309</ul>
310<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
311<ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]312<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
313 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]314 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]315 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]316 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
317 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
318 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
319 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]320</ul>
321<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
322<ul>
323<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]324 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]325</ul>
326<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
327<ul>
328<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]329 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]330</ul>
331<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
332<ul>
333<li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]334 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
335 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
336 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
337 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
338 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]339 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
340 optimizer on Tru64</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]341 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]342 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]343 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
344 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]345</ul>
346<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
347<ul>
348<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
349 problems (alpha)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]350 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]351 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]352 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
353 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]354 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]355 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]356 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]357 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
358 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
359 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
360 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]361</ul>
362<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
363<ul>
364<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]365 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]366 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]367 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]368</ul>
369<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
370<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
371<ul>
372<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]373 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
374 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
375 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
376 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
377 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]378 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]379 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
380 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
381 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
382 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
383 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
384 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
385 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]386</ul>
387<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]388<ul>
389<li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
390</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]391<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
392<ul>
393<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]394 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
395 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]396 point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]397 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]398 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]399 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
400 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
401 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
402 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]403</ul>
404<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
405<ul>
406<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]407 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
408 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
409 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
410 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
411 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
412 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
413 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
414 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
415 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]416</ul>
417<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
418<ul>
419<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
420 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]421 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
422 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]423 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
424 them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]425 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]426 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
427 broken ...</li>
428</ul>
429<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
430<ul>
431<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
432 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]433 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]434 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]435 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]436</ul>
437<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
438<ul>
439<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]440 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]441 size to be application tunable.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]442 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]443 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]444 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]445 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]446 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
447 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
448 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
449 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]450 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]451</ul>
452<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
453<ul>
454<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]455 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
456 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
457 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]458</ul>
459<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
460<ul>
461<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]462 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
463 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
464 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]465</ul>
466<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
467<ul>
468<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]469 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]470 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]471 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]472</ul>
473<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
474<ul>
475<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]476 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]477 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]478 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
479 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
480 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
481 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
482 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]483 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]484 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
485 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
486 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
487 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
488 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]489</ul>
490<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
491<ul>
492<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]493 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
494 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
495 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
496 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]497</ul>
498<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
499<ul>
500<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]501 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
502 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
503 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
504 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]505</ul>
506<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]507<ul>
508<li>erroneous release :-(</li>
509</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]510<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
511<ul>
512<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
513 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]514 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
515 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
516 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
517 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
518 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]519</ul>
520<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
521<ul>
522<li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]523 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
524 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
525 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
526 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]527</ul>
528<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
529<ul>
530<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
531 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]532 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
533 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
534 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]535 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]536 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
537 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]538</ul>
539<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
540<ul>
541<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]542 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]543 tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]545 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]546 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
547 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
548 <li>added memory management docs</li>
549 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]550</ul>
551<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
552<ul>
553<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]554 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
555 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]556</ul>
557<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
558<ul>
559<li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]560 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
561 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]562 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]563 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]564 works smoothly now.</li>
565</ul>
566<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]567<ul>
568<li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
569</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]570<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
571<ul>
572<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]573 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]574</ul>
575<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
576<ul>
577<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]578 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
579 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
580 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]581 allocation routines</li>
582</ul>
583<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
584<ul>
585<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]586 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]587 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]588 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
589 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
590 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
591 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
592 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
593 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]594 support</a>
595</li>
596</ul>
597<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
598<ul>
599<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]600 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]601 rpmfind users problem</li>
602</ul>
603<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
604<ul>
605<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]606 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]607</ul>
608<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
609<ul>
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]610<li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
611 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]612 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]613 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]614 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
615 <ul>
616<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]617 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
618 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
619 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]620 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]621 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
622 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
623 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]624</li>
625</ul>
626<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
627<ul>
628<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]629 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
630 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]631 workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]632 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]633 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
634 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]635 <p>instead of</p>
636 <pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
637 </li>
638 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
639 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]640 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]641 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]642 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
643 package</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]644 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]645 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
646 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
647 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]648 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]649 number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]650 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]651 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
652</ul>
653<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
654<ul>
655<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]656 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]657 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
658 RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]659 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]660 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]661 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]662 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
663 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]664</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]665 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
666 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]667 <ul>
668<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
669 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]670 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]671 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]672 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
673 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
674 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]675 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]676 </ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]677</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]678 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]679 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]680 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
681 head version.</li>
682</ul>
683<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
684<ul>
685<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]686 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]687 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
688 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
689 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
690 old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]691 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]692 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]693 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]694 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]695 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]696 URIs</li>
697</ul>
698<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]699<ul>
700<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
701 it without troubles</li>
702</ul>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]703<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
704<ul>
705<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
706 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]707 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
708 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]709 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]710 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]711 gnumeric soon</li>
712</ul>
713<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
714<ul>
715<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]716 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
717 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
718 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]719</ul>
720<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
721<ul>
722<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]723 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
724 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
725 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
726 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
727 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
728 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]729 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]730 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]731</ul>
732<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
733<ul>
734<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
735 for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]736 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]737 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
738 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]739 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]740</li>
741</ul>
742<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
743<ul>
744<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
745 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]746 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
747 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]748 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]749 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]750 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]751 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]752</ul>
753<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
754<ul>
755<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]756 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]757 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]758 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]759 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
760 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]761 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
762 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]763 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]764</ul>
765<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
766<ul>
767<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]768 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
769 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
770 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]771</ul>
772<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
773<ul>
774<li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]775 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]776 were it's not available, fixed</li>
777</ul>
778<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
779<ul>
780<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
781 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
782 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
783 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
784 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]785 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]786 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
787</ul>
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]788<h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]789<ul>
790<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]791 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]792 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]793 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
794 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
795 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]796 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]797 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]798</ul>
Daniel Veillard3f4c40f2002-02-13 09:19:28 +0000[diff] [blame]799<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]800</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
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