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Daniel Veillard6c57dca2003-09-03 10:10:51 +0000[diff] [blame]10</style><title>News</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>News</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">News</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]11for a really accurate description</h3><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
12to test those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000[diff] [blame]13 <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]14 Schemas</a></li>
Daniel Veillardeec1ae92003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000[diff] [blame]15</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
16 <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
Daniel Veillardcfba2fe2003-08-15 00:33:43 +0000[diff] [blame]17</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
18 <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
19 <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
Daniel Veillardeec1ae92003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000[diff] [blame]20 on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
Daniel Veillardcfba2fe2003-08-15 00:33:43 +0000[diff] [blame]21 <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
22 <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
23 <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
24 <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
Daniel Veillardeec1ae92003-09-09 13:11:01 +0000[diff] [blame]25 <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard83ee40d2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]26</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
27 (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
28 (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
29 xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
30 Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
31 content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
32 progressive HTML parser</li>
33 <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
34 <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
35 <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
36 <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
37 <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
38 <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
39 <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
40 <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
41 Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +0000[diff] [blame]42</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
43 Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
44 PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
45 Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
46 rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
47 xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
48 <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
49 <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
50 <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
51 <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
52 Bidoul)</li>
53 <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
54 <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
55 <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
Daniel Veillard83ee40d2003-08-09 22:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]56 generator</li>
57 <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard95c09d92003-07-07 12:11:06 +0000[diff] [blame]58 <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]59</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
Daniel Veillard92fc02c2003-04-24 23:12:35 +0000[diff] [blame]60 xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
61 <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
62 <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
63 <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
64 <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
65 (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
66 and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
67 behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of &quot;out of memory&quot;
Daniel Veillard93d95252003-04-29 20:25:40 +0000[diff] [blame]68 error conditions</li>
Daniel Veillard92fc02c2003-04-24 23:12:35 +0000[diff] [blame]69 <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
70 allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
71 accordingly.</li>
72 <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
73 xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
74 <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
75 <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]76</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
Daniel Veillardc2d4a932003-04-01 11:13:05 +0000[diff] [blame]77 binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
78 <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
79 XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
80 Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
81 <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
82 <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
83 <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
84 errors</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]85</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
Daniel Veillardd8da01c2003-03-24 15:58:23 +0000[diff] [blame]86 DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
87 <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
88 <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
89 <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
90 conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
91 <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
92 <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]93</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
Daniel Veillard17bed982003-02-24 20:11:43 +0000[diff] [blame]94 implementation</li>
95 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
96 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
97 namespaces,
98 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
99 generation problem.</p>
100 </li>
101 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
102 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
103 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]104</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
Daniel Veillard1d788d22003-02-10 16:21:58 +0000[diff] [blame]105 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
106 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
107 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
108 serialization</li>
109 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]110</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard72fef162003-02-05 14:31:19 +0000[diff] [blame]111 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
112 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
113 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
114 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
115 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
116 namespaces</li>
117 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
118 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
119 patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
120 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
121 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
122 (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
123 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]124</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
Daniel Veillarde2830f12003-01-08 17:47:49 +0000[diff] [blame]125 <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
126 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]127</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
Daniel Veillard7b4b2f92003-01-06 13:11:20 +0000[diff] [blame]128 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
129 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
130 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
131 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
132 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
133 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
134 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
135 (John)</li>
136 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
137 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
138 <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
139 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
140 Schroeder)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]141 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
142</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
Daniel Veillardc1eed322002-12-12 11:01:32 +0000[diff] [blame]143 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
144 fixes.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]145</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]146 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
147 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
148 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
149 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
150 dump</li>
151 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
152 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
153 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
154 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
155 more informations needed for C# bindings</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]156</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
Daniel Veillardf9c4cad2002-11-22 15:57:07 +0000[diff] [blame]157 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
158 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
159 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
160 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse=&quot;text&quot;</li>
161 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
Daniel Veillard9b4bb4d2002-12-11 19:28:47 +0000[diff] [blame]162 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]163</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
Daniel Veillarddad3f682002-11-17 16:47:27 +0000[diff] [blame]164 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
165 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
166 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
167 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
168 Pajas), entities processing</li>
169 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
170 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
171 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
172 better thread support on Windows</li>
173 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
174 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]175</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
Daniel Veillarde645e8c2002-10-22 17:35:37 +0000[diff] [blame]176 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
177 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
178 problems</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]179</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]180 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
181 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
182 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
183 and improvement of the regexp core</li>
184 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
185 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
186 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
187 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
Daniel Veillard321be0c2002-10-08 21:26:42 +0000[diff] [blame]188 APIs</li>
Daniel Veillarde16b5742002-09-26 17:50:03 +0000[diff] [blame]189 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
190 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
191 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
192 Merlet)</li>
193 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
194 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
195 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]196</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]197 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
198 (fcrozat)</li>
199 <li>HTML &lt;style&gt; and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
200 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
Daniel Veillarde1662542002-08-28 11:50:59 +0000[diff] [blame]201 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
Daniel Veillard42766c02002-08-22 20:52:17 +0000[diff] [blame]202 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
203 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]204</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]205 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
206 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
207 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
208 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]209 Peter Jacobi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]210 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
Daniel Veillard782afda2002-07-08 15:12:49 +0000[diff] [blame]211 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]212 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]213</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]214 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
Daniel Veillard21473672002-06-17 07:29:22 +0000[diff] [blame]215 indentation, URI parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]216 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]217 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]218 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
219 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]220 datatypes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]221</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]222Schemas <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
223interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
224progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]225it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:</p><ul><li>a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]226 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
227 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
Daniel Veillardcf27f7c2002-04-30 07:12:39 +0000[diff] [blame]228 Jinks</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]229 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
230 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]231</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]232 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
233 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
Daniel Veillardc3975342002-04-15 18:54:52 +0000[diff] [blame]234 libxml.m4</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]235</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
Daniel Veillard19274092002-03-25 16:48:03 +0000[diff] [blame]236 encoder</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]237 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
238 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
239 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]240</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]241 XPath</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]242 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
243 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
244 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
245 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]246</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including &quot;namespace nodes have no parents in
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]247 XPath&quot;</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]248 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
Daniel Veillardaf43f632002-03-08 15:05:20 +0000[diff] [blame]249 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]250 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]251</ul><h3>2.4.16: Feb 20 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
Daniel Veillard5f4b5992002-02-20 10:22:49 +0000[diff] [blame]252 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]253 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]254</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]255 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
256 <li>Includes cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]257</ul><h3>2.4.14: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of License to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]258 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
259 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]260 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]261 complete</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]262 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]263 manipulations</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]264 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
Daniel Veillardb6c1e2f2002-02-08 14:52:52 +0000[diff] [blame]265 XML</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]266</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]267 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
268 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
Daniel Veillard744683d2002-01-14 17:30:20 +0000[diff] [blame]269 Narojnyi</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]270 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
271 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]272</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
Daniel Veillardef90ba72001-12-07 14:24:22 +0000[diff] [blame]273 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
274 (robert)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]275 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
276 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]277</ul><h3>2.4.11: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
Daniel Veillarda4871052001-11-26 13:19:48 +0000[diff] [blame]278 cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]279 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
280 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
281 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]282</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]283 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
284 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
285 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
Daniel Veillard43d3f612001-11-10 11:57:23 +0000[diff] [blame]286 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]287 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
288 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]289</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]290 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]291</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
Daniel Veillarded421aa2001-11-04 21:22:45 +0000[diff] [blame]292 tool</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]293 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]294</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]295 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
296 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
Daniel Veillard5540daa2001-10-30 15:14:36 +0000[diff] [blame]297 and regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]298 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
299 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
300 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
301 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
302 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
303 <li>general bug fixes</li>
304 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
305 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]306</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]307 <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
308 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
309 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
310 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
311 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]312</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]313 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]314 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]315</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]316 portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]317</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]318 Catalog</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]319 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
320 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]321</ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]322 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
323 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]324</ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]325 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
326 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
327 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
328 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
329 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]330</ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]331 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
332 <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
333 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
334 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]335</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]336 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]337 regression tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]338 <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]339</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]340 substituting them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]341 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]342 substantially faster</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]343 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
344 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
345 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
346 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]347</ul><h3>2.3.13: June 28 2001</h3><ul><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]348 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]349</ul><h3>1.8.14: June 28 2001</h3><ul><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]350 <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]351</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]352 <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
353 <li>fixed line number counting</li>
354 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
355 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
356 <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]357 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
358 optimizer on Tru64</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]359 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]360 compilation on Windows MSC</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]361 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
362 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]363</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]364 problems (alpha)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]365 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]366 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]367 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
368 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]369 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]370 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]371 node selection)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]372 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
373 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
374 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
375 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]376</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]377 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]378 XInclude processing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]379 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]380</ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p><ul><li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]381 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
382 <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
383 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
384 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
385 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]386 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]387 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
388 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
389 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
390 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
391 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
392 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
393 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]394</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
395</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]396 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
397 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]398 point portability issue</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]399 <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]400 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]401 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
402 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
403 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
404 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]405</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]406 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
407 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
408 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
409 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
410 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
411 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
412 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
413 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
414 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]415</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]416 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]417 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
418 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]419 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
420 them</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]421 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]422 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
423 broken ...</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]424</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]425 there is some new APIs for this too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]426 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]427 52299)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]428 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]429</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]430 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]431 size to be application tunable.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]432 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]433 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]434 <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]435 parser</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]436 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
437 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
438 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
439 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]440 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]441</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]442 <li>documentation cleanups</li>
443 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
444 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]445</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]446 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
447 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
448 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]449</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]450 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]451 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]452 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]453</ul><h3>2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track)</h3><ul><li>Lots of XPath bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]454 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]455 XSLT</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]456 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
457 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
458 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
459 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
460 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]461 libxml2-devel</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]462 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
463 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
464 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
465 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
466 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]467</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]468 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
469 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
470 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
471 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]472</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]473 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
474 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
475 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
476 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]477</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li>
478</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]479 support</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]480 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
481 <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
482 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
483 <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
484 <li>some other bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]485</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]486 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
487 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
488 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
489 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]490</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]491 those</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]492 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
493 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
494 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]495 normalization)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]496 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
497 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]498</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]499 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]500 tests</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]501 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]502 and release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]503 <li>Late validation fixes</li>
504 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
505 <li>added memory management docs</li>
506 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]507</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]508 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
509 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]510</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]511 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
512 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]513 checked too</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]514 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]515 works smoothly now.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]516</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
517</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]518 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]519</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]520 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
521 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
522 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]523 allocation routines</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]524</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]525 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]526 encoded in UTF-8)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]527 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
528 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
529 <li>fixed a serious problem with &amp;#38;</li>
530 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
531 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
532 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]533 support</a></li>
534</ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]535 <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]536 rpmfind users problem</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]537</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]538 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]539</ul><h3>2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000</h3><ul><li>1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]540 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]541 about &amp;#38; charref parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]542 <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]543 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]544 <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]545 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
546 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
547 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]548 related problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]549 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
550 <li>lot of various fixes</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]551 </ul></li>
552</ul><h3>2.0.0: Apr 12 2000</h3><ul><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]553 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
554 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]555 workload.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]556 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]557 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
558 <pre>#include &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</pre>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]559 <p>instead of</p>
560 <pre>#include &quot;xxx.h&quot;</pre>
561 </li>
562 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
563 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]564 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]565 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]566 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
567 package</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]568 <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]569 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
570 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
571 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]572 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]573 number of the libxml module in use</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]574 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]575 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]576</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]577 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">xmlsoft.org
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]578 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
579 RPMs</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]580 <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]581 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]582 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
Daniel Veillardc0801af2002-05-28 16:28:42 +0000[diff] [blame]583 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]584 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]585 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
586 <li>the updates includes:
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]587 <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]588 handled now</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]589 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]590 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]591 <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
592 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
593 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]594 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]595 </ul></li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]596 <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]597 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]598 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
599 head version.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]600</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]601 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]602 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
603 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
604 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
605 old code.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]606 <li>Blanks in &lt;a&gt; &lt;/a&gt; constructs are not ignored anymore,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]607 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]608 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]609 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]610 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]611 URIs</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]612</ul><h3>1.8.6: Jan 31 2000</h3><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
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]613 it without troubles</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]614</ul><h3>1.8.5: Jan 21 2000</h3><ul><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
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]615 XML spec)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]616 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
617 <li>Jody Goldberg &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; provided another patch trying
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]618 to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]619 <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]620 gnumeric soon</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]621</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]622 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
623 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
624 <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]625</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]626 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
627 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
628 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
629 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
630 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
631 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]632 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]633 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]634</ul><h3>1.8.2: Dec 21 1999</h3><ul><li>I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]635 for good this time</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]636 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]637 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
638 xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]639 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
640</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]641 the &quot;namespace&quot; keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]642 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
643 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]644 and more specifically the Dia application</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]645 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]646 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]647 <li>fixed a bug in</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]648</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]649 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]650 not crash, whatever the input !</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]651 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]652 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
653 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]654 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
655 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
Daniel Veillard63d83142002-05-20 06:51:05 +0000[diff] [blame]656 does entities escaping by default.</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]657</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]658 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
659 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
660 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]661</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]662 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]663 were it's not available, fixed</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]664</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]665 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
666 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
667 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
668 <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]669 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]670 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]671</ul><h3>1.7.0: Sep 23 1999</h3><ul><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]672 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]673 like callback</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]674 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
675 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
676 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
Daniel Veillardc9484202001-10-24 12:35:52 +0000[diff] [blame]677 implementation</li>
Daniel Veillard0b28e882002-07-24 23:47:05 +0000[diff] [blame]678 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
Daniel Veillard1177ca42003-04-26 22:29:54 +0000[diff] [blame]679</ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>