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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/viewvc/libxml2/trunk/">SVN</a> code base.</p><p>Here is the list of public releases:</p><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul><li> Improvements: 16 Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard), 17 Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov) 18 </li> 19 <li> Portability: 20 relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton), 21 Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov), 22 use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard), 23 Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov), 24 Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard), 25 Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards), 26 Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel), 27 Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard), 28 Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard), 29 598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix) 30 </li> 31 <li> Bug Fixes: 32 libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler), 33 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard), 34 Fix missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch), 35 Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks), 36 fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith), 37 ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea), 38 htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov), 39 Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard), 40 Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard), 41 xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon), 42 608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard), 43 Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard), 44 Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards), 45 Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov), 46 Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov), 47 Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard), 48 Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin), 49 Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning), 50 Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard), 51 Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard), 52 Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard), 53 xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard) 54 </li> 55 <li> Cleanups: 56 Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov) 57 </li> 58</ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct 6 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes: 59 Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko), 60 URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard), 61 Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher) 62 </li> 63</ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes: 64 Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko), 65 Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards), 66 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard), 67 Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard), 68 Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard), 69 link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat), 70 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard) 71 </li> 72 <li> Cleanup: 73 Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard) 74 </li> 75</ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul><li>Improvements: 76 Switch to GIT (GNOME), 77 Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard) 78 </li> 79 <li>Portability: 80 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard), 81 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard), 82 Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards), 83 Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith), 84 Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard), 85 Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary), 86 Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice), 87 Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary), 88 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard), 89 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard), 90 Fix windows build (Rob Richards), 91 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard), 92 xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard), 93 Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard), 94 Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN), 95 Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard), 96 Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron), 97 fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey), 98 fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher) 99 </li> 100 <li>Documentation: 101 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov), 102 Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard), 103 Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard), 104 560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard), 105 Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard), 106 updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre), 107 more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard) 108 </li> 109 <li>Bug fixes: 110 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD), 111 Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard), 112 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard), 113 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard), 114 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard), 115 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard), 116 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard), 117 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard), 118 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard), 119 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard), 120 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard), 121 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard), 122 Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard), 123 Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann), 124 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel), 125 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull), 126 Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard), 127 Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam), 128 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler), 129 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard), 130 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard), 131 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard), 132 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard), 133 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost), 134 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard), 135 Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard), 136 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard), 137 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard), 138 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard), 139 Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard), 140 Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer), 141 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard), 142 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard), 143 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard), 144 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard), 145 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard), 146 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard), 147 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard), 148 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard), 149 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard), 150 574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer), 151 Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard), 152 585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen), 153 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs), 154 Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs), 155 Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos), 156 576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky), 157 Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre), 158 Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas), 159 Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk), 160 Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard), 161 potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering), 162 Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard), 163 Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard), 164 Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 165 Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin), 166 reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard), 167 use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards), 168 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch), 169 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev), 170 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson), 171 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner), 172 do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards), 173 564217 fix structured error handling problems, 174 reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards), 175 xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard), 176 add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker), 177 avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya) 178 </li> 179 <li>Cleanup: 180 Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard), 181 A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 182 Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 183 Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard), 184 Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard), 185 Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard), 186 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard), 187 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard), 188 Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard), 189 Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard), 190 Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard), 191 hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey), 192 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack), 193 cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya) 194 </li> 195</ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul><li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li> 196 <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes, 197 indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards), 198 xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn), 199 xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker), 200 avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann), 201 deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li> 202 <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk), 203 limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal 204 APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards), 205 add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions 206 parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li> 207</ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation 208 if XPath is not configured in</li> 209 <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour 210 when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing 211 bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat) 212 </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as 213 XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li> 214</ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li> 215 <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner 216 case handking and leaks (Martin)</li> 217 <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li> 218 <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li> 219</ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and 220 xmlParserCleanup docs</li> 221 <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC 222 porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg), 223 non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber) 224 </li> 225 <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free 226 (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob 227 Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML 228 parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader 229 tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix 230 (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown 231 when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li> 232 <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output 233 (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups, 234 serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li> 235 <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags 236 for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986, 237 add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer), 238 new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work), 239 improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better 240 regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms 241 to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make 242 arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li> 243</ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang), 244 trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement 245 (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation, 246 XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li> 247 <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with 248 paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback 249 patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack), 250 SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan), 251 regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the 252 document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack), 253 writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding 254 detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari 255 team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing 256 (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily 257 Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem, 258 allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation 259 problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in 260 the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many 261 out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes 262 (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding 263 conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName 264 functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities 265 (Mark Rowe)</li> 266 <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless 267 mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo 268 Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need 269 a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon), 270 cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build 271 fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards), 272 duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports 273 (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li> 274 <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling 275 (Tobias Minich)</li> 276</ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul><li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li> 277 <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix 278 xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash 279 (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel), 280 XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in 281 xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type 282 parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if 283 deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt), 284 HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib 285 output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash 286 (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars. 287 </li> 288 <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste 289 copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder), 290 some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li> 291 <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack), 292 testURI --debug option, </li> 293</ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes 294 (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li> 295 <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when 296 reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas 297 xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem 298 (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment 299 detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata 300 generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import 301 problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling 302 (William Brack)</li> 303</ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi, 304 fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X 305 (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading 306 improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions, 307 new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li> 308 <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li> 309 <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind' 310 flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \, 311 htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in 312 typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix 313 (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack), 314 nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo), 315 xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon), 316 XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set 317 sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl 318 dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding 319 error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash, 320 workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes, 321 invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before 322 internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in 323 the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. MannsÃ¥ker) </li> 324 <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones), 325 embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li> 326</ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul><li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too 327 (James Dennett)</li> 328 <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage 329 (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion 330 on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath 331 principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint 332 (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day), 333 standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut 334 for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes 335 (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William), 336 concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char 337 in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in 338 python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error 339 (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel), 340 XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William), 341 fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with 342 min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li> 343 <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li> 344 <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William), 345 __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib 346 (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher), 347 Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li> 348 <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li> 349</ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel, 350 Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards), 351 AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li> 352 <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization 353 (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node 354 equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest 355 improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib 356 support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs 357 (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob 358 Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring 359 of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to 360 python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca), 361 try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri, 362 add --html --memory case to xmllint</li> 363 <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix, 364 const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen), 365 portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter 366 Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python 367 shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds 368 (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix 369 --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li> 370 <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and 371 attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode, 372 xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier), 373 missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes 374 (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style 375 serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in 376 xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate 377 allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards), 378 fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation 379 crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation 380 when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when 381 using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity 382 context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content 383 autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling, 384 fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content 385 validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute 386 XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug 387 in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML 388 meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc, 389 HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values, 390 htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in 391 xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in 392 htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer), 393 bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot) 394 </li> 395 <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik), 396 fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for 397 xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few 398 functions</li> 399</ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation 400 error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li> 401 <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in 402 xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik), 403 variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob 404 Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath 405 leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of 406 selfdocument.</li> 407 <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object 408 cache(Kasimier)</li> 409</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 410 (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher), 411 HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1 412 cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on 413 Windows (Roland Schwingel). 414 </li> 415 <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier 416 Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li> 417 <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext() 418 on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming 419 bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV & 420 Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier), 421 one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid, 422 XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug 423 left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole), 424 xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large 425 number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug 426 in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas 427 fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation, 428 xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed 429 code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady), 430 line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li> 431 <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li> 432 <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li> 433</ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows 434 (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas), 435 --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix 436 on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by 437 Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin), 438 MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick 439 Jones),</li> 440 <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose 441 (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring 442 parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li> 443 <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack), 444 combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in 445 xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo 446 Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik), 447 XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier), 448 xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in 449 xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of 450 vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF 451 split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in 452 xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards), 453 HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier), 454 exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype 455 totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an 456 xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi 457 Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix 458 XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier), 459 fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml 460 (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of 461 runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs 462 (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair), 463 compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on 464 xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath 465 pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li> 466 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier 467 Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted 468 transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no 469 standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors() 470 (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API 471 (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add 472 htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li> 473 <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save 474 function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li> 475</ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 476 <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i, 477 CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc, 478 XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some 479 output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style 480 XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD 481 (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 482 <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add 483 XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for 484 derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li> 485 <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with 486 devhelp.</li> 487</ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling 488 convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus' 489 sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings 490 on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the 491 Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko), 492 compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on 493 Z/OS,</li> 494 <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8 495 bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack), 496 htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64 497 Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all, 498 xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas 499 foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov 500 Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml: 501 namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas 502 (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William), 503 xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error 504 messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to 505 fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob 506 Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 507 serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem, 508 XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek 509 Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas 510 type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling, 511 xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in 512 error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), 513 xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns 514 bugs.</li> 515 <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports 516 (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing 517 (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though 518 not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match 519 error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged 520 yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option 521 for text nodes allocation.</li> 522 <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li> 523</ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor 524 Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and 525 andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the 526 pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling 527 of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack), 528 compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test 529 distribution.</li> 530 <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack), 531 HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer 532 overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup 533 (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch 534 (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup 535 on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in 536 exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob 537 Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type 538 QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug 539 (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob 540 Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James 541 Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections, 542 areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug 543 (William).</li> 544 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on 545 conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik, 546 Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent 547 Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist 548 (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of 549 xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert), 550 standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs 551 xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and 552 xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and 553 Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too, 554 ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the 555 standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William), 556 xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX 557 Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li> 558</ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William 559 Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX 560 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on 561 Linux/ELF/gcc4</li> 562 <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return 563 code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY 564 Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin), 565 segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation 566 (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards), 567 HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers 568 leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in 569 encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if 570 gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures, 571 switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at 572 serialization time</li> 573 <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets 574 checking and also mixed handling.</li> 575 <li></li> 576</ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, 577 Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed), 578 some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li> 579 <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and 580 xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries 581 reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL 582 saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths 583 fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix 584 (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack), 585 xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup 586 FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William), 587 xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being 588 empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows 589 (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent 590 Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug 591 (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack), 592 xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li> 593 <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for 594 hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath 595 subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical 596 values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron 597 Stansvik),</li> 598 <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li> 599</ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 600 maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory 601 (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build 602 (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan 603 McNichol)</li> 604 <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile() 605 to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak, 606 ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William), 607 warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William), 608 UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in 609 push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey 610 Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William), 611 patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number 612 sometimes missing.</li> 613 <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator 614 (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings 615 (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call 616 serialize().</li> 617 <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for 618 the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel 619 Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format 620 (Phil Shafer)</li> 621 <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries 622 (William).</li> 623</ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new 624 automated regression testing</li> 625 <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li> 626 <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding 627 conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by 628 Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li> 629 <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion 630 were updated.</li> 631 <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent 632 Hendricks)</li> 633</ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul><li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li> 634 <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the 635 source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li> 636 <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python 637 paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William), 638 saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix 639 (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build 640 fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler 641 on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported 642 by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset, 643 entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error 644 (William).</li> 645 <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging 646 module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham 647 Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li> 648</ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation 649 without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack & 650 Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li> 651 <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier 652 Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x 653 transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes 654 (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc), 655 handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas 656 date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS 657 E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li> 658 <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add 659 xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy 660 (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm 661 Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation, 662 xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li> 663</ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc, 664 Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li> 665 <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs 666 (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack 667 and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace 668 problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could 669 genrate a serialization loop.</li> 670 <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path 671 and --load-trace options to xmllint</li> 672 <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li> 673</ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter 674 Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert 675 Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li> 676 <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes 677 (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P. 678 Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support 679 (Torkel Lyng)</li> 680 <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li> 681 <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory 682 debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner), 683 xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error 684 handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows 685 memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions 686 handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug, 687 htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base 688 (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji), 689 xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity 690 (William)</li> 691 <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool 692 (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey), 693 xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude 694 to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS 695 tag (William)</li> 696 <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William) 697 schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li> 698</ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for 699 attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li> 700 <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup 701 (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li> 702 <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog 703 path on Windows</li> 704 <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code 705 (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li> 706 <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX 707 properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath 708 (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed 709 by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug 710 with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William), 711 Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader 712 streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William), 713 libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on 714 Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces 715 improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to 716 synchronous behaviour.</li> 717 <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register 718 namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression 719 test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of 720 XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine 721 Parent and William)</li> 722 <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint 723 and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize 724 the code generated in the RPM packages.</li> 725</ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li> 726 <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li> 727 <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp 728 vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not 729 use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed 730 Davis),</li> 731 <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing 732 (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add 733 xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization 734 escaping, added escaping customization</li> 735 <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William 736 Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader, 737 URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp 738 transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier 739 Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD 740 (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse 741 xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li> 742</ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li> 743 <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave 744 Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with 745 William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with 746 William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate 747 fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD 748 validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention 749 schemas</li> 750 <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting 751 save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian 752 Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM 753 dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal 754 clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li> 755 <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new 756 example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li> 757 <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft 758 compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li> 759</ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li> 760 <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam 761 Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li> 762 <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li> 763 <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li> 764 <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external 765 reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice> 766 failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li> 767 <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 768 <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William 769 Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to 770 URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William), 771 XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug 772 reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char 773 groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems, 774 do not close stderr.</li> 775 <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li> 776 <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li> 777 <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups 778 (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation 779 to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino 780 Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li> 781</ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li> 782 <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li> 783 <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li> 784 <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li> 785 <li>bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push 786 mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix 787 xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent 788 handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li> 789 <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 790 <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li> 791</ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and 792 William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li> 793 <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization 794 (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation 795 (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg 796 Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William), 797 XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization, 798 isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter 799 entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode, 800 <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li> 801 <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal 802 (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix 803 --with-minimum configuration.</li> 804 <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li> 805 <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version 806 dependancies (John Fleck)</li> 807 <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li> 808 <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function 809 prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_ 810 patch</li> 811 <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in 812 input.</li> 813</ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault 814 (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes 815 (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with 816 namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes 817 (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union 818 evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin), 819 XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument 820 callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li> 821 <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John 822 Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li> 823 <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul), 824 structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 825 <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary 826 references (William & me), recursion (William)</li> 827 <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred 828 Mickautsch),</li> 829 <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li> 830 <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li> 831 <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li> 832 <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future 833 XSLT optimizations.</li> 834</ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 835 <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li> 836 <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li> 837 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix 838 (Lucas Brasilino)</li> 839 <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of 840 NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from 841 filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable 842 again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William 843 Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas 844 double inclusion behaviour</li> 845</ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li> 846 <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji 847 Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li> 848 <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw 849 (Kenneth Haley)</li> 850 <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li> 851 <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li> 852 <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li> 853 <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li> 854 <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack), 855 xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser 856 (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization 857 cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William 858 Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter 859 (Daniel Schulman)</li> 860 <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the 861 namespace change.</li> 862 <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and 863 namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples 864 based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li> 865 <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas 866 constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument 867 when streaming.</li> 868 <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li> 869</ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li> 870 <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li> 871 <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li> 872 <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 873 <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li> 874 <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li> 875 <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li> 876 <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li> 877 <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li> 878 <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li> 879 <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx 880 functions</li> 881 <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li> 882 <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li> 883 <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li> 884 <li>HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)</li> 885 <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li> 886 <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added 887 --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML 888 serializer)</li> 889</ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul><li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li> 890 <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup 891 (William Brack)</li> 892 <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor 893 Zlatkovic)</li> 894 <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li> 895 <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li> 896 <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham 897 Bennett)</li> 898 <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li> 899 <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities 900 (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 901 <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li> 902 <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li> 903 <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li> 904 <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li> 905 <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing 906 Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik), 907 XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li> 908</ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot 909 of change</li> 910 <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out, 911 a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li> 912 <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small 913 text nodes from the dictionnary</li> 914 <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core, 915 provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory 916 allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling, 917 immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li> 918 <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be 919 intercepted at a structured level, with precise information 920 available.</li> 921 <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to 922 easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple 923 consecutive documents.</li> 924 <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new 925 functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python 926 bindings</li> 927 <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin), 928 Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code, 929 make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI 930 extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster 931 algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer 932 access</li> 933 <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li> 934 <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li> 935 <li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type 936 and charset information if available.</li> 937 <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and 938 zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li> 939 <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors 940 output</li> 941 <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling 942 convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry), 943 Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor), 944 Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul), 945 warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin 946 'Shard' Konicki)</li> 947 <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William), 948 tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li> 949 <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized 950 mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection 951 and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace 952 on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards), 953 namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks 954 (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter 955 Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push 956 mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug 957 (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP 958 error handling.</li> 959 <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat 960 testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to 961 replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace 962 declarations</li> 963 <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li> 964 <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for 965 xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less 966 allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked 967 on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li> 968 <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li> 969 <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 970 <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML 971 parser instead.</li> 972</ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li> 973 <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li> 974</ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li> 975 <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li> 976 <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw 977 on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li> 978 <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li> 979 <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li> 980 <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li> 981 <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li> 982 <li>and a couple other cleanup</li> 983</ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build 984 (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading 985 (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli), 986 xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean 987 Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed 988 content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization, 989 progressive HTML parser</li> 990 <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li> 991 <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li> 992 <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li> 993 <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li> 994 <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li> 995 <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li> 996 <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li> 997 <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William 998 Brack)</li> 999</ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark 1000 Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack), 1001 PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg 1002 Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs, 1003 rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7, 1004 xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li> 1005 <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li> 1006 <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li> 1007 <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li> 1008 <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane 1009 Bidoul)</li> 1010 <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li> 1011 <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li> 1012 <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class 1013 generator</li> 1014 <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li> 1015 <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li> 1016</ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the 1017 xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li> 1018 <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li> 1019 <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li> 1020 <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li> 1021 <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes 1022 (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser 1023 and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions, 1024 behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory" 1025 error conditions</li> 1026 <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory 1027 allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations 1028 accordingly.</li> 1029 <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and 1030 xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li> 1031 <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li> 1032 <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li> 1033</ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for 1034 binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li> 1035 <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and 1036 XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML 1037 Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li> 1038 <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li> 1039 <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li> 1040 <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG 1041 errors</li> 1042</ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including 1043 DocBook and TEI examples.</li> 1044 <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li> 1045 <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li> 1046 <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding 1047 conversion, line counting in the parser.</li> 1048 <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li> 1049 <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li> 1050</ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude 1051 implementation</li> 1052 <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li> 1053 <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on 1054 namespaces, 1055 <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp 1056 generation problem.</p> 1057 </li> 1058 <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li> 1059 <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li> 1060 <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li> 1061</ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first 1062 version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li> 1063 <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for 1064 serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1 1065 serialization</li> 1066 <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li> 1067</ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li> 1068 <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li> 1069 <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities, 1070 delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul), 1071 XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory 1072 consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of 1073 namespaces</li> 1074 <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li> 1075 <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc 1076 patches (Stefan Kost)</li> 1077 <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li> 1078 <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting 1079 (Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1080 <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li> 1081</ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li> 1082 <li>documentation updates (John)</li> 1083 <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li> 1084</ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C# 1085 API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li> 1086 <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li> 1087 <li>XInclude fallback fix</li> 1088 <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul), 1089 drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup 1090 and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li> 1091 <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update 1092 (John)</li> 1093 <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li> 1094 <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li> 1095 <li>Entities handling fixes</li> 1096 <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas 1097 Schroeder)</li> 1098 <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li> 1099</ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li> 1100 <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code 1101 fixes.</li> 1102</ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings 1103 (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li> 1104 <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li> 1105 <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li> 1106 <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1 1107 dump</li> 1108 <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li> 1109 <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li> 1110 <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li> 1111 <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves 1112 more information needed for C# bindings</li> 1113</ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li> 1114 <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li> 1115 <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li> 1116 <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li> 1117 <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li> 1118 <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li> 1119 <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li> 1120</ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li> 1121 <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(), 1122 HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support 1123 (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer, 1124 xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr 1125 Pajas), entities processing</li> 1126 <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li> 1127 <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li> 1128 <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor), 1129 better thread support on Windows</li> 1130 <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li> 1131 <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li> 1132</ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li> 1133 <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() , 1134 HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small 1135 problems</li> 1136</ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and 1137 tree, xmlI/O, Html</li> 1138 <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li> 1139 <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix 1140 and improvement of the regexp core</li> 1141 <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li> 1142 <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor, 1143 Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li> 1144 <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp 1145 APIs</li> 1146 <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li> 1147 <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li> 1148 <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe 1149 Merlet)</li> 1150 <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li> 1151 <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li> 1152 <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li> 1153</ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li> 1154 <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 1155 (fcrozat)</li> 1156 <li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li> 1157 <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li> 1158 <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li> 1159 <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li> 1160 <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li> 1161</ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li> 1162 <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li> 1163 <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li> 1164 <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li> 1165 <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from 1166 Peter Jacobi</li> 1167 <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and 1168 HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li> 1169 <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li> 1170</ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory 1171 usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen), 1172 indentation, URI parsing</li> 1173 <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network 1174 protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li> 1175 <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li> 1176 <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas 1177 datatypes</li> 1178</ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML 1179Schemas <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 1180interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in 1181progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system, 1182it'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> 1183 <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li> 1184 <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard 1185 Jinks</li> 1186 <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li> 1187 <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li> 1188</ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li> 1189 <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li> 1190 <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings, 1191 libxml.m4</li> 1192</ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8 1193 encoder</li> 1194 <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li> 1195 <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li> 1196 <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li> 1197</ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability, 1198 XPath</li> 1199 <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li> 1200 <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li> 1201 <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li> 1202 <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li> 1203</ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in 1204 XPath"</li> 1205 <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more 1206 regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li> 1207 <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li> 1208</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 1209 from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li> 1210 <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li> 1211</ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li> 1212 <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li> 1213 <li>Includes cleanup</li> 1214</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 1215 License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing 1216 confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li> 1217 <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite 1218 complete</li> 1219 <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree 1220 manipulations</li> 1221 <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in 1222 XML</li> 1223</ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li> 1224 <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li> 1225 <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei 1226 Narojnyi</li> 1227 <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li> 1228 <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li> 1229</ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman), 1230 XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups 1231 (robert)</li> 1232 <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li> 1233 <li>some makefiles cleanups</li> 1234</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 1235 cleanups</li> 1236 <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li> 1237 <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li> 1238 <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li> 1239</ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li> 1240 <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li> 1241 <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li> 1242 <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and 1243 --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li> 1244 <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li> 1245 <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li> 1246</ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li> 1247 <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li> 1248</ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog 1249 tool</li> 1250 <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li> 1251</ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li> 1252 <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li> 1253 <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option 1254 and regression tests</li> 1255 <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li> 1256 <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li> 1257 <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li> 1258 <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li> 1259 <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li> 1260 <li>general bug fixes</li> 1261 <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li> 1262 <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li> 1263</ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li> 1264 <li>portability and configure fixes</li> 1265 <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li> 1266 <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li> 1267 <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li> 1268 <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li> 1269</ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li> 1270 <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some 1271 version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li> 1272</ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and 1273 portability fixes</li> 1274</ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML 1275 Catalog</li> 1276 <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li> 1277 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 1278</ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li> 1279 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li> 1280 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 1281</ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li> 1282 <li>lot of bug fixes</li> 1283 <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li> 1284 <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li> 1285 <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li> 1286 <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li> 1287</ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li> 1288 <li>some computation NaN fixes</li> 1289 <li>extension of the XPath API</li> 1290 <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li> 1291 <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li> 1292</ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li> 1293 <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the 1294 regression tests</li> 1295 <li>A bit of cleanup</li> 1296</ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when 1297 substituting them</li> 1298 <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be 1299 substantially faster</li> 1300 <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li> 1301 <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li> 1302 <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li> 1303 <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li> 1304</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> 1305 <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li> 1306</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> 1307 <li>Small Makefile fix</li> 1308</ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li> 1309 <li>a couple of validation fix</li> 1310 <li>fixed line number counting</li> 1311 <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li> 1312 <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li> 1313 <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0 1314 miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the 1315 optimizer on Tru64</li> 1316 <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for 1317 compilation on Windows MSC</li> 1318 <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li> 1319 <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li> 1320</ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability 1321 problems (alpha)</li> 1322 <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline 1323 handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li> 1324 <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li> 1325 <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML 1326 parser</li> 1327 <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces 1328 node selection)</li> 1329 <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li> 1330 <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li> 1331 <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li> 1332 <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li> 1333</ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li> 1334 <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection, 1335 XInclude processing</li> 1336 <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li> 1337</ul><h3>2.3.9: May 19 2001</h3><p>Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:</p><ul><li>HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgström</li> 1338 <li>some serious speed optimization again</li> 1339 <li>some documentation cleanups</li> 1340 <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li> 1341 <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li> 1342 <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed 1343 xmlValidGetValidElements()</li> 1344 <li>Added an INSTALL file</li> 1345 <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li> 1346 <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li> 1347 <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li> 1348 <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li> 1349 <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li> 1350 <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li> 1351</ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li> 1352</ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li> 1353 <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li> 1354 <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating 1355 point portability issue</li> 1356 <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for 1357 DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li> 1358 <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li> 1359 <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li> 1360 <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li> 1361 <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li> 1362</ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li> 1363 <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li> 1364 <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li> 1365 <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li> 1366 <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li> 1367 <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li> 1368 <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li> 1369 <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li> 1370 <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li> 1371 <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li> 1372</ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and 1373 cleared half a dozen potential problem</li> 1374 <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li> 1375 <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the 1376 trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing 1377 them</li> 1378 <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation 1379 problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems 1380 broken ...</li> 1381</ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions, 1382 there is some new APIs for this too</li> 1383 <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations, 1384 52299)</li> 1385 <li>Fixed some portability issues</li> 1386</ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li> 1387 <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer 1388 size to be application tunable.</li> 1389 <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part 1390 should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li> 1391 <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3 1392 parser</li> 1393 <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li> 1394 <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li> 1395 <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li> 1396 <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they 1397 are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li> 1398</ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li> 1399 <li>documentation cleanups</li> 1400 <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li> 1401 <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li> 1402</ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li> 1403 <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li> 1404 <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li> 1405 <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li> 1406</ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li> 1407 <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2 1408 implementation</li> 1409 <li>A few bug fixes</li> 1410</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> 1411 <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for 1412 XSLT</li> 1413 <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li> 1414 <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li> 1415 <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li> 1416 <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li> 1417 <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and 1418 libxml2-devel</li> 1419 <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li> 1420 <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li> 1421 <li>tree copying bugfixes</li> 1422 <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li> 1423 <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li> 1424</ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li> 1425 <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li> 1426 <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li> 1427 <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li> 1428 <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li> 1429</ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li> 1430 <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li> 1431 <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li> 1432 <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li> 1433 <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li> 1434</ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li> 1435</ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a> 1436 support</li> 1437 <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li> 1438 <li>updated MS compiler project</li> 1439 <li>fixed some XPath problems</li> 1440 <li>added an URI escaping function</li> 1441 <li>some other bug fixes</li> 1442</ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li> 1443 <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li> 1444 <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li> 1445 <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li> 1446 <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li> 1447</ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to 1448 those</li> 1449 <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li> 1450 <li>HTTP module cleanups</li> 1451 <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute 1452 normalization)</li> 1453 <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li> 1454 <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li> 1455</ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li> 1456 <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more 1457 tests</li> 1458 <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build 1459 and release</li> 1460 <li>Late validation fixes</li> 1461 <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li> 1462 <li>added memory management docs</li> 1463 <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li> 1464</ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li> 1465 <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li> 1466 <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li> 1467</ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li> 1468 <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li> 1469 <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been 1470 checked too</li> 1471 <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd 1472 works smoothly now.</li> 1473</ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li> 1474</ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li> 1475 <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li> 1476</ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li> 1477 <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li> 1478 <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li> 1479 <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory 1480 allocation routines</li> 1481</ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li> 1482 <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always 1483 encoded in UTF-8)</li> 1484 <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li> 1485 <li>added xmlHasProp()</li> 1486 <li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li> 1487 <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li> 1488 <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li> 1489 <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization 1490 support</a></li> 1491</ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li> 1492 <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve 1493 rpmfind users problem</li> 1494</ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li> 1495 <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li> 1496</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 1497 to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem 1498 about &#38; charref parsing</li> 1499 <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it 1500 also contains numerous fixes and enhancements: 1501 <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li> 1502 <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li> 1503 <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li> 1504 <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace 1505 related problems</li> 1506 <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li> 1507 <li>lot of various fixes</li> 1508 </ul></li> 1509</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 1510 idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially 1511 scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive 1512 workload.</li> 1513 <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of 1514 $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by 1515 <pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre> 1516 <p>instead of</p> 1517 <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre> 1518 </li> 1519 <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li> 1520 <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded 1521 dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li> 1522 <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed 1523 <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2 1524 package</li> 1525 <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in 1526 specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using 1527 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a 1528 parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li> 1529 <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version 1530 number of the libxml module in use</li> 1531 <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at 1532 configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li> 1533</ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li> 1534 <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org 1535 FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and 1536 RPMs</li> 1537 <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is 1538 available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li> 1539 <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point 1540 of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the 1541 <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li> 1542 <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li> 1543 <li>the updates includes: 1544 <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly 1545 handled now</li> 1546 <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking 1547 and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li> 1548 <li>DTD conditional sections</li> 1549 <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li> 1550 <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change 1551 structures to accommodate DOM</a></li> 1552 </ul></li> 1553 <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the 1554 OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that 1555 encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS 1556 head version.</li> 1557</ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li> 1558 <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by 1559 libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note 1560 that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by 1561 default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for 1562 old code.</li> 1563 <li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore, 1564 avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li> 1565 <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6 1566 compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li> 1567 <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing 1568 URIs</li> 1569</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 1570 it without troubles</li> 1571</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 1572 XML spec)</li> 1573 <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li> 1574 <li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying 1575 to solve the zlib checks problems</li> 1576 <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with 1577 gnumeric soon</li> 1578</ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li> 1579 <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li> 1580 <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li> 1581 <li>added newDocFragment()</li> 1582</ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li> 1583 <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li> 1584 <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li> 1585 <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li> 1586 <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li> 1587 <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li> 1588 <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses 1589 xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li> 1590 <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li> 1591</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 1592 for good this time</li> 1593 <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode, 1594 xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and 1595 xmlDocSetRootElement</li> 1596 <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li> 1597</ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers 1598 the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li> 1599 <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li> 1600 <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing, 1601 and more specifically the Dia application</li> 1602 <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a 1603 Dtd not specified in the original document)</li> 1604 <li>fixed a bug in</li> 1605</ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li> 1606 <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should 1607 not crash, whatever the input !</li> 1608 <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large 1609 dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>, 1610 configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li> 1611 <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li> 1612 <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now 1613 does entities escaping by default.</li> 1614</ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li> 1615 <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li> 1616 <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li> 1617 <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li> 1618</ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li> 1619 <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system 1620 were it's not available, fixed</li> 1621</ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in 1622 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason 1623 is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However 1624 on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a 1625 <strong>#define </strong>.</li> 1626 <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and 1627 leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li> 1628</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> 1629 <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf 1630 like callback</li> 1631 <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li> 1632 <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li> 1633 <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a> 1634 implementation</li> 1635 <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li> 1636</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> 1637
