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NEWS file for libxml2
Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
to help those - More testing on RelaxNG
- Finishing up XML
Schemas
The change log at
ChangeLog.html
describes the recents commits
to the SVN at
http://svn.gnome.org/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/
code base.Here is the list of public releases:
2.7.6: Oct 6 2009:
- Bug Fixes:
Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
2.7.5: Sep 24 2009:
- Bug Fixes:
Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
- Cleanup:
Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
2.7.4: Sep 10 2009:
- Improvements:
Switch to GIT (GNOME),
Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
- Portability:
593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
- Documentation:
544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
- Bug fixes:
594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),
Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
564217 fix structured error handling problems,
reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
- Cleanup:
Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
2.7.3: Jan 18 2009:
- Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.
- Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).
- Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).
2.7.2: Oct 3 2008:
- Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
if XPath is not configured in
- Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
- Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents
2.7.1: Sep 1 2008:
- Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)
- Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
case handking and leaks (Martin)
- Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees
- Cleanup: python serialization wrappers
2.7.0: Aug 30 2008:
- Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
xmlParserCleanup docs
- Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
- Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
(Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
(Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
when encoder cant serialize characters on output
- Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
(Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
serious cleanup of the entity handling code
- Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option
2.6.32: Apr 8 2008:
- Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
(Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)
- Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
(Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
(Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
(Mark Rowe)
- Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
(Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)
- improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
(Tobias Minich)
2.6.31: Jan 11 2008:
- Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing
- Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
(Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash
(Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
- Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)
- Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
testURI --debug option,
2.6.30: Aug 23 2007:
- Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
(Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)
- Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
(Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
(William Brack)
2.6.29: Jun 12 2007:
- Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
(Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)
- Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment,
- Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
(Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before
internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker)
- Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day)
2.6.28: Apr 17 2007:
- Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
(James Dennett)
- Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
(Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
(Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
(Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
(Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)
- Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public
- Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
__ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
(Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)
- Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes
2.6.27: Oct 25 2006:
- Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel,
Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards),
AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive
- improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
(Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib
support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
(Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to
python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca),
try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
add --html --memory case to xmllint
- building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix,
const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python
shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
(Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
--with-minimum --with-schemas builds
- bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode,
xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
(Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when
using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute
XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc,
HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
- documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
functions
2.6.26: Jun 6 2006:
- portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)
- bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
selfdocument.
- improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
cache(Kasimier)
2.6.25: Jun 6 2006::
Do not use or package 2.6.25
2.6.24: Apr 28 2006:
- Portability fixes: configure on Windows, testapi compile on windows
(Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
Windows (Roland Schwingel).
- Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.
- Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &
Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation,
xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers).
- Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
- New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.
2.6.23: Jan 5 2006:
- portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
(Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
--with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
Jones),
- code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
(Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
parsing code (Bjorn Reese)
- bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
(Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
(Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)
- improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
(Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
(Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),
- documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),
2.6.22: Sep 12 2005:
- build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)
- bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
(Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
- improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
derive (Kasimier Buchcik).
- documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
devhelp.
2.6.21: Sep 4 2005:
- build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
Z/OS,
- bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
(Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
bugs.
- improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
for text nodes allocation.
- documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
2.6.20: Jul 10 2005:
- build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
[email protected]), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
distribution.
- bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
(Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
(Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
(Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
(William).
- improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
(Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.
2.6.19: Apr 02 2005:
- build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
Linux/ELF/gcc4
- bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
(Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
serialization time
- improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
checking and also mixed handling.
-
2.6.18: Mar 13 2005:
- build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
- bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
(Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
(Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
(Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
- improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
Stansvik),
- Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)
2.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
- build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
(William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
(Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
McNichol)
- bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
sometimes missing.
- improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
(William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
(William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
serialize().
- new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
(Phil Shafer)
- documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
(William).
2.6.16: Nov 10 2004:
- general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
automated regression testing
- build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
- bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding
conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
- documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
were updated.
- improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
Hendricks)
2.6.15: Oct 27 2004:
- security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
- build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
- bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
(Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
(William).
- improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.
2.6.14: Sep 29 2004:
- build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
- bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
(Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
- improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
(Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)
2.6.13: Aug 31 2004:
- build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
- fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
(Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
genrate a serialization loop.
- Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
and --load-trace options to xmllint
- documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)
2.6.12: Aug 22 2004:
- build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
- Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
(William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
(Torkel Lyng)
- Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
- fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
(William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
(William)
- improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
(Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
tag (William)
- documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)
2.6.11: July 5 2004:
- Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
attributes, namespaces and simple types.
- build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
(William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
- portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
path on Windows
- documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
- bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
synchronous behaviour.
- improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
Parent and William)
- performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
the code generated in the RPM packages.
2.6.10: May 17 2004:
- Web page generated for ChangeLog
- build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
- portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
Davis),
- improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
escaping, added escaping customization
- bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
(William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
2.6.9: Apr 18 2004:
- implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
- bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
schemas
- improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian
Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
- documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
- Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)
2.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
- First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
- XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
- Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
- xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
- Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
- xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
- bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
do not close stderr.
- performance patches from Petr Pajas
- Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
- compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
2.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
- documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
- xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
- XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
- DTD ID handling optimization
- bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
- python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
- nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
- bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
<xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
- Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
(Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
--with-minimum configuration.
- XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
- Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
dependancies (John Fleck)
- reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
- Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
patch
- Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
input.
2.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
- Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
- Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
- Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)
- XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
references (William & me), recursion (William)
- xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
Mickautsch),
- xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
- code cleanup for strings functions (William)
- Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
- Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
XSLT optimizations.
2.6.4: Dec 24 2003:
- Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
- Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
- Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
- Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
(Lucas Brasilino)
- bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
double inclusion behaviour
2.6.3: Dec 10 2003:
- documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
- added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
- Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
(Kenneth Haley)
- Unicode range checking (William Brack)
- code cleanup (William Brack)
- Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes
- UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
- bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
(James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
(Daniel Schulman)
- XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
namespace change.
- XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
- preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
when streaming.
- various fixes in the structured error handling
2.6.2: Nov 4 2003:
- XPath context unregistration fixes
- text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
- API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
- BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
- xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
- compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
- stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
- a posteriori DTD validation fixes
- xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
- fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
- always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
functions
- added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
- implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
- DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
- HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
- XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
- fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
--xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
serializer)
2.6.1: Oct 28 2003:
- Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
- Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
(William Brack)
- Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
Zlatkovic)
- xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
- chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
- context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
Bennett)
- context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
- defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
(Stephane Bidoul)
- Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
- Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
- xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
- testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
- general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.
2.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
- Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
of change
- Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
- Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
text nodes from the dictionnary
- Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
- rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
available.
- New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple