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57<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
58for a really accurate description</h3>
59<p>Items floating around but not actively worked on, get in touch with me if
60you want to test those</p>
61<ul>
62<li>Implementing <a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT">XSLT</a>, this is done
63 as a separate C library on top of libxml called libxslt</li>
64<li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xptr">XPointer</a> and <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
65</li>
66<li>(seeems working but delayed from release) parsing/import of Docbook
67 SGML docs</li>
68</ul>
69<h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3>
70<ul>
71<li>added and updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
72<li>portability and configure fixes</li>
73<li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
74<li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
75<li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported fof libxml or libxslt</li>
76<li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
77</ul>
78<h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3>
79<ul>
80<li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
81<li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
82 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
83</ul>
84<h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3>
85<ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
86 portability fixes</li></ul>
87<h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
88<ul>
89<li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
90 Catalog</li>
91<li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
92<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
93</ul>
94<h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
95<ul>
96<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
97<li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
98<li>A few bug fixes</li>
99</ul>
100<h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
101<ul>
102<li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
103<li>lot of bug fixes</li>
104<li>the Microsoft MSC projects files shuld now be up to date</li>
105<li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
106<li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
107<li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
108</ul>
109<h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3>
110<ul>
111<li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
112<li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
113<li>extension of the XPath API</li>
114<li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
115<li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
116</ul>
117<h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3>
118<ul>
119<li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
120<li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a coupel of examples to the
121 regression tests</li>
122<li>A bit of cleanup</li>
123</ul>
124<h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3>
125<ul>
126<li>fixed some entities problems and reduce mem requirement when
127 substituing them</li>
128<li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
129 substancially faster</li>
130<li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
131<li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
132<li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
133<li>Fixed an URI reference computating problem when validating</li>
134</ul>
135<h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3>
136<ul>
137<li>2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser</li>
138<li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
139</ul>
140<h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3>
141<ul>
142<li>Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode</li>
143<li>Small Makefile fix</li>
144</ul>
145<h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3>
146<ul>
147<li>lots of cleanup</li>
148<li>a couple of validation fix</li>
149<li>fixed line number counting</li>
150<li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
151<li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
152<li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
153 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
154 optimizer on Tru64</li>
155<li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
156 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
157<li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
158<li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
159</ul>
160<h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3>
161<ul>
162<li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
163 problems (alpha)</li>
164<li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
165 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
166<li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
167<li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
168 parser</li>
169<li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
170 node selection)</li>
171<li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
172<li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
173<li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
174<li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
175</ul>
176<h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3>
177<ul>
178<li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
179<li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
180 XInclude processing</li>
181<li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
182</ul>
183<h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3>
184<p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p>
185<ul>
186<li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
187<li>some serious speed optimisation again</li>
188<li>some documentation cleanups</li>
189<li>trying to get better linking on solaris (-R)</li>
190<li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
191<li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
192 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
193<li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
194<li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
195<li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
196<li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
197<li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
198<li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
199<li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
200</ul>
201<h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3>
202<ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li></ul>
203<h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3>
204<ul>
205<li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
206<li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
207<li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
208 point portability issue</li>
209<li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
210 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
211<li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
212<li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
213<li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
214<li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
215</ul>
216<h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3>
217<ul>
218<li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
219<li>Non determinist content model validation support</li>
220<li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
221<li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
222<li>XPath: corrctions of namespacessupport and number formatting</li>
223<li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
224<li>HTML ouput fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
225<li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
226<li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
227<li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
228</ul>
229<h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3>
230<ul>
231<li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
232 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
233<li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
234<li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
235 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
236 them</li>
237<li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
238 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
239 broken ...</li>
240</ul>
241<h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3>
242<ul>
243<li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
244 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
245<li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
246 52299)</li>
247<li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
248</ul>
249<h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3>
250<ul>
251<li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
252<li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
253 size to be application tunable.</li>
254<li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
255 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
256<li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
257 parser</li>
258<li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
259<li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
260<li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
261<li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
262 are formatting spaces, this is for XmL conformance</li>
263</ul>
264<h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3>
265<ul>
266<li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
267<li>documentation cleanups</li>
268<li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
269<li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
270</ul>
271<h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3>
272<ul>
273<li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
274<li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
275<li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
276<li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
277</ul>
278<h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3>
279<ul>
280<li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
281<li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
282 implementation</li>
283<li>A few bug fixes</li>
284</ul>
285<h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3>
286<ul>
287<li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
288<li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
289 XSLT</li>
290<li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
291<li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
292<li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
293<li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
294<li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
295 libxml2-devel</li>
296<li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
297<li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
298<li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
299<li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
300<li>optimisation patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
301</ul>
302<h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3>
303<ul>
304<li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
305<li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
306<li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
307<li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
308<li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
309</ul>
310<h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3>
311<ul>
312<li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
313<li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
314<li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
315<li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
316<li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
317</ul>
318<h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3>
319<ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li></ul>
320<h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3>
321<ul>
322<li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
323 support</li>
324<li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
325<li>updated MS compiler project</li>
326<li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
327<li>added an URI escaping function</li>
328<li>some other bug fixes</li>
329</ul>
330<h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3>
331<ul>
332<li>added message redirection</li>
333<li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
334<li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
335<li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
336<li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
337</ul>
338<h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3>
339<ul>
340<li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
341 those</li>
342<li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
343<li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
344<li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
345 normalization)</li>
346<li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
347<li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
348</ul>
349<h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3>
350<ul>
351<li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
352<li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
353 tests</li>
354<li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
355 and release</li>
356<li>Late validation fixes</li>
357<li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
358<li>added memory management docs</li>
359<li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
360</ul>
361<h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3>
362<ul>
363<li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
364<li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
365<li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
366</ul>
367<h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3>
368<ul>
369<li>bug fixes</li>
370<li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
371<li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
372 checked too</li>
373<li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against Docbook XML Dtd
374 works smoothly now.</li>
375</ul>
376<h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3>
377<ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li></ul>
378<h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3>
379<ul>
380<li>mostly bug fixes</li>
381<li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
382</ul>
383<h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3>
384<ul>
385<li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
386<li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
387<li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
388<li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
389 allocation routines</li>
390</ul>
391<h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3>
392<ul>
393<li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
394<li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
395 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
396<li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
397<li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
398<li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
399<li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
400<li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
401<li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
402 support</a>
403</li>
404</ul>
405<h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3>
406<ul>
407<li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
408<li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
409 rpmfind users problem</li>
410</ul>
411<h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3>
412<ul>
413<li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
414<li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
415</ul>
416<h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3>
417<ul>
418<li>1.8.8 is mostly a comodity package for upgrading to libxml2 accoding to
419 <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
420 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
421<li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
422 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
423 <ul>
424<li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
425<li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
426<li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
427<li>tried to fix as much as possible DtD validation and namespace
428 related problems</li>
429<li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
430<li>lot of various fixes</li>
431</ul>
432</li>
433</ul>
434<h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3>
435<ul>
436<li>First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
437 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initally
438 scheduled for Apr 3 the relase occured only on Apr 12 due to massive
439 workload.</li>
440<li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
441 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
442 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
443<p>instead of</p>
444<pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
445</li>
446<li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
447<li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
448 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
449<li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
450 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
451 package</li>
452<li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
453 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
454 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
455 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
456<li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
457 number of the libxml module in use</li>
458<li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
459 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
460</ul>
461<h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3>
462<ul>
463<li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
464<li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
465 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
466 RPMs</li>
467<li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
468 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
469<li>This includes a very large set of changes. Froma programmatic point of
470 view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a>
471</li>
472<li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
473<li>the updates includes:
474 <ul>
475<li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
476 handled now</li>
477<li>Better handling of entities, especially well formedness checking
478 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
479<li>DTD conditional sections</li>
480<li>Validation now correcly handle entities content</li>
481<li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
482 structures to accomodate DOM</a></li>
483</ul>
484</li>
485<li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
486 OASIS testsuite (except the japanese tests since I don't support that
487 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
488 head version.</li>
489</ul>
490<h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3>
491<ul>
492<li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
493<li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
494 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
495 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
496 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
497 old code.</li>
498<li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
499 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
500<li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
501 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
502<li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
503 URIs</li>
504</ul>
505<h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3>
506<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
507 it without troubles</li></ul>
508<h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3>
509<ul>
510<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
511 XML spec)</li>
512<li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
513<li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
514 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
515<li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
516 gnumeric soon</li>
517</ul>
518<h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3>
519<ul>
520<li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
521<li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
522<li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
523<li>added newDocFragment()</li>
524</ul>
525<h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3>
526<ul>
527<li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
528<li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
529<li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas hollidays</li>
530<li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
531<li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
532<li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
533<li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
534 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
535<li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
536</ul>
537<h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3>
538<ul>
539<li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
540 for good this time</li>
541<li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
542 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
543 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
544<li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a>
545</li>
546</ul>
547<h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3>
548<ul>
549<li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
550 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
551<li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
552<li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
553 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
554<li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
555 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
556<li>fixed a bug in</li>
557</ul>
558<h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3>
559<ul>
560<li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
561<li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
562 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
563<li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
564 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
565 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
566<li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
567<li>attributes defaulted from Dtds should be available, xmlSetProp() now
568 does entities escapting by default.</li>
569</ul>
570<h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3>
571<ul>
572<li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
573<li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
574<li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
575<li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
576</ul>
577<h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3>
578<ul>
579<li>portability problems fixed</li>
580<li>snprintf was used unconditionnally, leading to link problems on system
581 were it's not available, fixed</li>
582</ul>
583<h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3>
584<ul>
585<li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
586 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
587 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
588 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
589 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
590<li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
591 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
592</ul>
593<h3>1.7.0: sep 23 1999</h3>
594<ul>
595<li>Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the <a href="html/libxml-nanohttp.html">nanohttp</a> module.</li>
596<li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
597 like callback</li>
598<li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
599<li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
600<li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
601 implementation</li>
602<li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
603</ul>
604<p><a href="mailto:daniel@veillard.com">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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