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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"><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want 11to help those</p><ul><li>More testing on RelaxNG</li> 12 <li>Finishing up <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/">XML 13 Schemas</a></li> 14</ul><p>The <a href="ChangeLog.html">change log</a> describes the recents commits 15to the <a href="http://svn.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/trunk/">SVN</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation 16 if XPath is not configured in</li> 17 <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour 18 when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing 19 bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat) 20 </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as 21 XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li> 22</ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li> 23 <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner 24 case handking and leaks (Martin)</li> 25 <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li> 26 <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li> 27</ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and 28 xmlParserCleanup docs</li> 29 <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC 30 porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg), 31 non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas F�rber) 32 </li> 33 <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free 34 (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob 35 Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML 36 parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader 37 tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix 38 (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown 39 when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li> 40 <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output 41 (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups, 42 serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li> 43 <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags 44 for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986, 45 add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer), 46 new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work), 47 improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better 48 regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms 49 to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make 50 arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li> 51</ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang), 52 trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement 53 (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation, 54 XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li> 55 <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with 56 paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback 57 patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack), 58 SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan), 59 regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the 60 document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack), 61 writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding 62 detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari 63 team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing 64 (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily 65 Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem, 66 allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation 67 problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in 68 the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many 69 out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes 70 (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding 71 conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName 72 functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities 73 (Mark Rowe)</li> 74 <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless 75 mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo 76 Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need 77 a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon), 78 cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build 79 fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards), 80 duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports 81 (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li> 82 <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling 83 (Tobias Minich)</li> 84</ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul><li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li> 85 <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix 86 xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash 87 (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel), 88 XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in 89 xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type 90 parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if 91 deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt), 92 HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib 93 output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 94 (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars. 95 </li> 96 <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste 97 copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder), 98 some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li> 99 <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack), 100 testURI --debug option, </li> 101</ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes 102 (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li> 103 <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when 104 reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas 105 xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem 106 (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment 107 detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata 108 generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import 109 problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling 110 (William Brack)</li> 111</ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi, 112 fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X 113 (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading 114 improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions, 115 new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li> 116 <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li> 117 <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind' 118 flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \, 119 htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in 120 typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix 121 (Georges-Andr� Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack), 122 nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo), 123 xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (Fran�ois Delyon), 124 XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set 125 sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl 126 dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding 127 error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash, 128 workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes, 129 invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 130 internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in 131 the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Manns�ker) </li> 132 <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones), 133 embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li> 134</ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul><li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too 135 (James Dennett)</li> 136 <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage 137 (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion 138 on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath 139 principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint 140 (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day), 141 standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut 142 for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes 143 (St�phane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William), 144 concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char 145 in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in 146 python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error 147 (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel), 148 XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William), 149 fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with 150 min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li> 151 <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li> 152 <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William), 153 __ss_familly on AIX again (Bj�rn Wiberg), compilation without zlib 154 (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher), 155 Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li> 156 <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li> 157</ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 158 Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 159 AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li> 160 <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization 161 (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node 162 equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest 163 improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 164 support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs 165 (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob 166 Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring 167 of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 168 python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 169 try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri, 170 add --html --memory case to xmllint</li> 171 <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 172 const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen), 173 portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter 174 Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python 175 shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds 176 (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix 177 --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li> 178 <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and 179 attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 180 xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier), 181 missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes 182 (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style 183 serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in 184 xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate 185 allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards), 186 fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation 187 crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation 188 when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 189 using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity 190 context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content 191 autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling, 192 fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content 193 validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 194 XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug 195 in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML 196 meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 197 HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values, 198 htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in 199 xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in 200 htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer), 201 bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot) 202 </li> 203 <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik), 204 fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for 205 xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few 206 functions</li> 207</ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation 208 error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li> 209 <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in 210 xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), 211 variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob 212 Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath 213 leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of 214 selfdocument.</li> 215 <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object 216 cache(Kasimier)</li> 217</ul><h3>2.6.25: Jun 6 2006:</h3><p>Do not use or package 2.6.25</p><h3>2.6.24: Apr 28 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows 218 (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher), 219 HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1 220 cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on 221 Windows (Roland Schwingel). 222 </li> 223 <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier 224 Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li> 225 <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext() 226 on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming 227 bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV & 228 Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier), 229 one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid, 230 XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug 231 left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole), 232 xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large 233 number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug 234 in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas 235 fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 236 xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed 237 code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady), 238 line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li> 239 <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li> 240 <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li> 241</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows 242 (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas), 243 --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix 244 on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by 245 Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin), 246 MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick 247 Jones),</li> 248 <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose 249 (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring 250 parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li> 251 <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack), 252 combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in 253 xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo 254 Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik), 255 XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier), 256 xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in 257 xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of 258 vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF 259 split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in 260 xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards), 261 HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier), 262 exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype 263 totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an 264 xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi 265 Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix 266 XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier), 267 fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml 268 (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of 269 runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs 270 (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair), 271 compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on 272 xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath 273 pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li> 274 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier 275 Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted 276 transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no 277 standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors() 278 (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API 279 (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add 280 htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li> 281 <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save 282 function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li> 283</ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: compile without schematron (St�phane Bidoul)</li> 284 <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i, 285 CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc, 286 XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some 287 output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style 288 XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD 289 (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 290 <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add 291 XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for 292 derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li> 293 <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with 294 devhelp.</li> 295</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling 296 convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus' 297 sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings 298 on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the 299 Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko), 300 compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on 301 Z/OS,</li> 302 <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8 303 bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack), 304 htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64 305 Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all, 306 xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas 307 foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov 308 Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml: 309 namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas 310 (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William), 311 xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error 312 messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to 313 fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob 314 Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 315 serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem, 316 XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek 317 Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas 318 type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling, 319 xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in 320 error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), 321 xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns 322 bugs.</li> 323 <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports 324 (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing 325 (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though 326 not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match 327 error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged 328 yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option 329 for text nodes allocation.</li> 330 <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li> 331</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor 332 Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and 333 andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the 334 pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling 335 of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack), 336 compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test 337 distribution.</li> 338 <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack), 339 HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer 340 overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup 341 (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch 342 (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup 343 on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in 344 exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob 345 Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type 346 QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug 347 (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob 348 Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James 349 Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections, 350 areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug 351 (William).</li> 352 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on 353 conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik, 354 Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent 355 Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist 356 (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of 357 xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert), 358 standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs 359 xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and 360 xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and 361 Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too, 362 ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the 363 standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William), 364 xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX 365 Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li> 366</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William 367 Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX 368 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on 369 Linux/ELF/gcc4</li> 370 <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return 371 code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY 372 Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin), 373 segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation 374 (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards), 375 HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers 376 leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in 377 encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if 378 gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures, 379 switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at 380 serialization time</li> 381 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets 382 checking and also mixed handling.</li> 383 <li></li> 384</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, 385 Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed), 386 some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li> 387 <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and 388 xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries 389 reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL 390 saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths 391 fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix 392 (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack), 393 xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup 394 FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William), 395 xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being 396 empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows 397 (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent 398 Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug 399 (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack), 400 xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li> 401 <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for 402 hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath 403 subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical 404 values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron 405 Stansvik),</li> 406 <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li> 407</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 408 maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory 409 (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build 410 (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan 411 McNichol)</li> 412 <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile() 413 to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak, 414 ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William), 415 warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William), 416 UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in 417 push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey 418 Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William), 419 patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number 420 sometimes missing.</li> 421 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator 422 (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings 423 (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call 424 serialize().</li> 425 <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for 426 the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel 427 Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format 428 (Phil Shafer)</li> 429 <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries 430 (William).</li> 431</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new 432 automated regression testing</li> 433 <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li> 434 <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding 435 conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by 436 Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li> 437 <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion 438 were updated.</li> 439 <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent 440 Hendricks)</li> 441</ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul><li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li> 442 <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the 443 source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li> 444 <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python 445 paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William), 446 saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix 447 (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build 448 fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler 449 on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported 450 by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset, 451 entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error 452 (William).</li> 453 <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging 454 module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham 455 Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li> 456</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation 457 without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack & 458 Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li> 459 <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier 460 Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x 461 transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes 462 (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc), 463 handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas 464 date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS 465 E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li> 466 <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add 467 xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy 468 (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm 469 Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation, 470 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 471</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc, 472 Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li> 473 <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs 474 (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack 475 and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace 476 problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could 477 genrate a serialization loop.</li> 478 <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path 479 and --load-trace options to xmllint</li> 480 <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li> 481</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter 482 Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert 483 Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li> 484 <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes 485 (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P. 486 Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support 487 (Torkel Lyng)</li> 488 <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li> 489 <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory 490 debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner), 491 xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error 492 handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows 493 memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions 494 handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug, 495 htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base 496 (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji), 497 xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity 498 (William)</li> 499 <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool 500 (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey), 501 xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude 502 to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS 503 tag (William)</li> 504 <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William) 505 schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li> 506</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for 507 attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li> 508 <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup 509 (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li> 510 <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog 511 path on Windows</li> 512 <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code 513 (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li> 514 <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX 515 properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath 516 (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed 517 by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug 518 with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William), 519 Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader 520 streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William), 521 libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on 522 Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces 523 improvement (with St�phane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to 524 synchronous behaviour.</li> 525 <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register 526 namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression 527 test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of 528 XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine 529 Parent and William)</li> 530 <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint 531 and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize 532 the code generated in the RPM packages.</li> 533</ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li> 534 <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li> 535 <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp 536 vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not 537 use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed 538 Davis),</li> 539 <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing 540 (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add 541 xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization 542 escaping, added escaping customization</li> 543 <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William 544 Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader, 545 URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp 546 transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier 547 Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD 548 (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse 549 xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li> 550</ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li> 551 <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave 552 Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with 553 William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with 554 William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate 555 fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD 556 validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention 557 schemas</li> 558 <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting 559 save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian 560 Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM 561 dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal 562 clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li> 563 <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new 564 example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li> 565 <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft 566 compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li> 567</ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li> 568 <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam 569 Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li> 570 <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li> 571 <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li> 572 <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external 573 reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> 574 failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li> 575 <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 576 <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William 577 Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to 578 URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), 579 XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug 580 reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char 581 groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems, 582 do not close stderr.</li> 583 <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li> 584 <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li> 585 <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups 586 (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation 587 to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino 588 Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li> 589</ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li> 590 <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li> 591 <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li> 592 <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li> 593 <li>bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push 594 mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix 595 xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent 596 handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li> 597 <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 598 <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li> 599</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and 600 William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li> 601 <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization 602 (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation 603 (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg 604 Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), 605 XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, 606 isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter 607 entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, 608 <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li> 609 <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal 610 (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix 611 --with-minimum configuration.</li> 612 <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li> 613 <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version 614 dependancies (John Fleck)</li> 615 <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li> 616 <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function 617 prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ 618 patch</li> 619 <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in 620 input.</li> 621</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault 622 (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes 623 (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with 624 namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes 625 (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union 626 evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), 627 XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument 628 callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li> 629 <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John 630 Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li> 631 <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (St�phane Bidoul), 632 structured error reporting (St�phane Bidoul)</li> 633 <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary 634 references (William & me), recursion (William)</li> 635 <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred 636 Mickautsch),</li> 637 <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li> 638 <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li> 639 <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li> 640 <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future 641 XSLT optimizations.</li> 642</ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 643 <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li> 644 <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li> 645 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix 646 (Lucas Brasilino)</li> 647 <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of 648 NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from 649 filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable 650 again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William 651 Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas 652 double inclusion behaviour</li> 653</ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li> 654 <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji 655 Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li> 656 <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw 657 (Kenneth Haley)</li> 658 <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li> 659 <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li> 660 <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li> 661 <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li> 662 <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), 663 xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser 664 (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization 665 cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William 666 Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter 667 (Daniel Schulman)</li> 668 <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the 669 namespace change.</li> 670 <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and 671 namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples 672 based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li> 673 <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas 674 constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument 675 when streaming.</li> 676 <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li> 677</ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li> 678 <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li> 679 <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li> 680 <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 681 <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li> 682 <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li> 683 <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li> 684 <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li> 685 <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li> 686 <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li> 687 <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx 688 functions</li> 689 <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li> 690 <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li> 691 <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li> 692 <li>HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)</li> 693 <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li> 694 <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added 695 --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML 696 serializer)</li> 697</ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul><li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li> 698 <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup 699 (William Brack)</li> 700 <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor 701 Zlatkovic)</li> 702 <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 703 <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li> 704 <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham 705 Bennett)</li> 706 <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li> 707 <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities 708 (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 709 <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li> 710 <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li> 711 <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li> 712 <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li> 713 <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing 714 Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), 715 XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li> 716</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot 717 of change</li> 718 <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, 719 a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li> 720 <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small 721 text nodes from the dictionnary</li> 722 <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, 723 provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory 724 allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, 725 immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li> 726 <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be 727 intercepted at a structured level, with precise information 728 available.</li> 729 <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to 730 easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple 731 consecutive documents.</li> 732 <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new 733 functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python 734 bindings</li> 735 <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), 736 Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, 737 make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI 738 extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster 739 algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer 740 access</li> 741 <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li> 742 <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li> 743 <li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type 744 and charset information if available.</li> 745 <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and 746 zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li> 747 <li>Python bindings (St�phane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors 748 output</li> 749 <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling 750 convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), 751 Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), 752 Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), 753 warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin 754 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 755 <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), 756 tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li> 757 <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized 758 mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection 759 and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace 760 on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), 761 namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks 762 (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter 763 Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push 764 mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug 765 (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP 766 error handling.</li> 767 <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat 768 testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to 769 replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace 770 declarations</li> 771 <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li> 772 <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for 773 xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less 774 allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked 775 on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li> 776 <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li> 777 <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 778 <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML 779 parser instead.</li> 780</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li> 781 <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li> 782</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li> 783 <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li> 784 <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw 785 on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li> 786 <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li> 787 <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li> 788 <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li> 789 <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 790 <li>and a couple other cleanup</li> 791</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build 792 (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading 793 (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), 794 xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean 795 Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed 796 content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, 797 progressive HTML parser</li> 798 <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li> 799 <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li> 800 <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li> 801 <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li> 802 <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li> 803 <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li> 804 <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li> 805 <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William 806 Brack)</li> 807</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark 808 Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), 809 PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg 810 Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, 811 rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, 812 xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 813 <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li> 814 <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li> 815 <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li> 816 <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (St�phane 817 Bidoul)</li> 818 <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li> 819 <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li> 820 <li>Python bindings for thread globals (St�phane Bidoul), and method/class 821 generator</li> 822 <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li> 823 <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li> 824</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the 825 xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li> 826 <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li> 827 <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li> 828 <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li> 829 <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes 830 (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser 831 and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, 832 behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" 833 error conditions</li> 834 <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory 835 allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations 836 accordingly.</li> 837 <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and 838 xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li> 839 <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li> 840 <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li> 841</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for 842 binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li> 843 <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and 844 XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML 845 Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li> 846 <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li> 847 <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li> 848 <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG 849 errors</li> 850</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including 851 DocBook and TEI examples.</li> 852 <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li> 853 <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li> 854 <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding 855 conversion, line counting in the parser.</li> 856 <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li> 857 <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li> 858</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude 859 implementation</li> 860 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li> 861 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on 862 namespaces, 863 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp 864 generation problem.</p> 865 </li> 866 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li> 867 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li> 868 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 869</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first 870 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li> 871 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for 872 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 873 serialization</li> 874 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li> 875</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li> 876 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li> 877 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, 878 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (St�phane Bidoul), 879 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory 880 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of 881 namespaces</li> 882 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li> 883 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc 884 patches (Stefan Kost)</li> 885 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 886 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting 887 (St�phane Bidoul)</li> 888 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li> 889</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li> 890 <li>documentation updates (John)</li> 891 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li> 892</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C# 893 API (with help of St�phane Bidoul)</li> 894 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li> 895 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li> 896 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (St�phane Bidoul), 897 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (St�phane Bidoul), fixes, speedup 898 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li> 899 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update 900 (John)</li> 901 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li> 902 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li> 903 <li>Entities handling fixes</li> 904 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas 905 Schroeder)</li> 906 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li> 907</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li> 908 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code 909 fixes.</li> 910</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings 911 (St�phane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li> 912 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li> 913 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li> 914 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 915 dump</li> 916 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li> 917 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li> 918 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li> 919 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves 920 more information needed for C# bindings</li> 921</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li> 922 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li> 923 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li> 924 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li> 925 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li> 926 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li> 927 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li> 928</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li> 929 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), 930 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support 931 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, 932 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr 933 Pajas), entities processing</li> 934 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li> 935 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li> 936 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), 937 better thread support on Windows</li> 938 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li> 939 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li> 940</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li> 941 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , 942 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small 943 problems</li> 944</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and 945 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li> 946 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li> 947 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix 948 and improvement of the regexp core</li> 949 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li> 950 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, 951 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li> 952 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp 953 APIs</li> 954 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li> 955 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li> 956 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe 957 Merlet)</li> 958 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li> 959 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li> 960 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li> 961</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li> 962 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 963 (fcrozat)</li> 964 <li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li> 965 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li> 966 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li> 967 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li> 968 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li> 969</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li> 970 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li> 971 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li> 972 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li> 973 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from 974 Peter Jacobi</li> 975 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and 976 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li> 977 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li> 978</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory 979 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), 980 indentation, URI parsing</li> 981 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network 982 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li> 983 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li> 984 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas 985 datatypes</li> 986</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML 987Schemas <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 988interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in 989progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, 990it'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> 991 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li> 992 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard 993 Jinks</li> 994 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li> 995 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li> 996</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li> 997 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li> 998 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, 999 libxml.m4</li> 1000</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 1001 encoder</li> 1002 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li> 1003 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li> 1004 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li> 1005</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, 1006 XPath</li> 1007 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li> 1008 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li> 1009 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li> 1010 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li> 1011</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in 1012 XPath"</li> 1013 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more 1014 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li> 1015 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li> 1016</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 1017 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li> 1018 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li> 1019</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li> 1020 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li> 1021 <li>Includes cleanup</li> 1022</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 1023 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing 1024 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li> 1025 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite 1026 complete</li> 1027 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree 1028 manipulations</li> 1029 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in 1030 XML</li> 1031</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li> 1032 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li> 1033 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei 1034 Narojnyi</li> 1035 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li> 1036 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li> 1037</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), 1038 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups 1039 (robert)</li> 1040 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li> 1041 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li> 1042</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 1043 cleanups</li> 1044 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li> 1045 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li> 1046 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li> 1047</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li> 1048 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li> 1049 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li> 1050 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and 1051 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li> 1052 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li> 1053 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li> 1054</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li> 1055 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li> 1056</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog 1057 tool</li> 1058 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li> 1059</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li> 1060 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li> 1061 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option 1062 and regression tests</li> 1063 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li> 1064 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li> 1065 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li> 1066 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li> 1067 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li> 1068 <li>general bug fixes</li> 1069 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li> 1070 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li> 1071</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li> 1072 <li>portability and configure fixes</li> 1073 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li> 1074 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li> 1075 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li> 1076 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li> 1077</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li> 1078 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some 1079 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li> 1080</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and 1081 portability fixes</li> 1082</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML 1083 Catalog</li> 1084 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li> 1085 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 1086</ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li> 1087 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li> 1088 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 1089</ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li> 1090 <li>lot of bug fixes</li> 1091 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li> 1092 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li> 1093 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li> 1094 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li> 1095</ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li> 1096 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li> 1097 <li>extension of the XPath API</li> 1098 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li> 1099 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li> 1100</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li> 1101 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the 1102 regression tests</li> 1103 <li>A bit of cleanup</li> 1104</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when 1105 substituting them</li> 1106 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be 1107 substantially faster</li> 1108 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li> 1109 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li> 1110 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li> 1111 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li> 1112</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> 1113 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li> 1114</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> 1115 <li>Small Makefile fix</li> 1116</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li> 1117 <li>a couple of validation fix</li> 1118 <li>fixed line number counting</li> 1119 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li> 1120 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li> 1121 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 1122 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the 1123 optimizer on Tru64</li> 1124 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for 1125 compilation on Windows MSC</li> 1126 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li> 1127 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li> 1128</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability 1129 problems (alpha)</li> 1130 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline 1131 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li> 1132 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li> 1133 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML 1134 parser</li> 1135 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces 1136 node selection)</li> 1137 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li> 1138 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li> 1139 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li> 1140 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li> 1141</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li> 1142 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, 1143 XInclude processing</li> 1144 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li> 1145</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 Borgstr�m</li> 1146 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li> 1147 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 1148 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li> 1149 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li> 1150 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed 1151 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li> 1152 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li> 1153 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li> 1154 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li> 1155 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li> 1156 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li> 1157 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li> 1158 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li> 1159</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li> 1160</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li> 1161 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li> 1162 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating 1163 point portability issue</li> 1164 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for 1165 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li> 1166 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li> 1167 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li> 1168 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li> 1169 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li> 1170</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li> 1171 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li> 1172 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li> 1173 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li> 1174 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li> 1175 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li> 1176 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li> 1177 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li> 1178 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li> 1179 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li> 1180</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and 1181 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li> 1182 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li> 1183 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the 1184 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing 1185 them</li> 1186 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation 1187 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems 1188 broken ...</li> 1189</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, 1190 there is some new APIs for this too</li> 1191 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, 1192 52299)</li> 1193 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li> 1194</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li> 1195 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer 1196 size to be application tunable.</li> 1197 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part 1198 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li> 1199 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 1200 parser</li> 1201 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li> 1202 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li> 1203 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li> 1204 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they 1205 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li> 1206</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li> 1207 <li>documentation cleanups</li> 1208 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li> 1209 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li> 1210</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li> 1211 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li> 1212 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li> 1213 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li> 1214</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li> 1215 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 1216 implementation</li> 1217 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 1218</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> 1219 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for 1220 XSLT</li> 1221 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li> 1222 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li> 1223 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li> 1224 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li> 1225 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and 1226 libxml2-devel</li> 1227 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li> 1228 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li> 1229 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li> 1230 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li> 1231 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li> 1232</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li> 1233 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li> 1234 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li> 1235 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li> 1236 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li> 1237</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li> 1238 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li> 1239 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li> 1240 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li> 1241 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li> 1242</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li> 1243</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> 1244 support</li> 1245 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li> 1246 <li>updated MS compiler project</li> 1247 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li> 1248 <li>added an URI escaping function</li> 1249 <li>some other bug fixes</li> 1250</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li> 1251 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li> 1252 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li> 1253 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li> 1254 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li> 1255</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to 1256 those</li> 1257 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li> 1258 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li> 1259 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute 1260 normalization)</li> 1261 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li> 1262 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li> 1263</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li> 1264 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more 1265 tests</li> 1266 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build 1267 and release</li> 1268 <li>Late validation fixes</li> 1269 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li> 1270 <li>added memory management docs</li> 1271 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li> 1272</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li> 1273 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li> 1274 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li> 1275</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li> 1276 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li> 1277 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been 1278 checked too</li> 1279 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd 1280 works smoothly now.</li> 1281</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li> 1282</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li> 1283 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li> 1284</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li> 1285 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li> 1286 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li> 1287 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory 1288 allocation routines</li> 1289</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li> 1290 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always 1291 encoded in UTF-8)</li> 1292 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li> 1293 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li> 1294 <li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li> 1295 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li> 1296 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li> 1297 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization 1298 support</a></li> 1299</ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li> 1300 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve 1301 rpmfind users problem</li> 1302</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li> 1303 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li> 1304</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 1305 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem 1306 about &#38; charref parsing</li> 1307 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it 1308 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: 1309 <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li> 1310 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li> 1311 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li> 1312 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace 1313 related problems</li> 1314 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li> 1315 <li>lot of various fixes</li> 1316 </ul></li> 1317</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 1318 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially 1319 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive 1320 workload.</li> 1321 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of 1322 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by 1323 <pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre> 1324 <p>instead of</p> 1325 <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre> 1326 </li> 1327 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li> 1328 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded 1329 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li> 1330 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed 1331 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2 1332 package</li> 1333 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in 1334 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using 1335 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a 1336 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li> 1337 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version 1338 number of the libxml module in use</li> 1339 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at 1340 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li> 1341</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li> 1342 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org 1343 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and 1344 RPMs</li> 1345 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is 1346 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li> 1347 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point 1348 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the 1349 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li> 1350 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li> 1351 <li>the updates includes: 1352 <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly 1353 handled now</li> 1354 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking 1355 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li> 1356 <li>DTD conditional sections</li> 1357 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li> 1358 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change 1359 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li> 1360 </ul></li> 1361 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the 1362 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that 1363 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS 1364 head version.</li> 1365</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li> 1366 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by 1367 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note 1368 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by 1369 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for 1370 old code.</li> 1371 <li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, 1372 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li> 1373 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 1374 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li> 1375 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing 1376 URIs</li> 1377</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 1378 it without troubles</li> 1379</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 1380 XML spec)</li> 1381 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li> 1382 <li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying 1383 to solve the zlib checks problems</li> 1384 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with 1385 gnumeric soon</li> 1386</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li> 1387 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li> 1388 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li> 1389 <li>added newDocFragment()</li> 1390</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li> 1391 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li> 1392 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li> 1393 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li> 1394 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li> 1395 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li> 1396 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses 1397 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li> 1398 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li> 1399</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 1400 for good this time</li> 1401 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, 1402 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and 1403 xmlDocSetRootElement</li> 1404 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li> 1405</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers 1406 the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li> 1407 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li> 1408 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, 1409 and more specifically the Dia application</li> 1410 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a 1411 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li> 1412 <li>fixed a bug in</li> 1413</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li> 1414 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should 1415 not crash, whatever the input !</li> 1416 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large 1417 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>, 1418 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li> 1419 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li> 1420 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now 1421 does entities escaping by default.</li> 1422</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li> 1423 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li> 1424 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li> 1425 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li> 1426</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li> 1427 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system 1428 were it's not available, fixed</li> 1429</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in 1430 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason 1431 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However 1432 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a 1433 <strong>#define </strong>.</li> 1434 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and 1435 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li> 1436</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> 1437 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf 1438 like callback</li> 1439 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li> 1440 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li> 1441 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a> 1442 implementation</li> 1443 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li> 1444</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> 1445
