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! 10: </style><title>Releases</title></head><body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#a06060" vlink="#000000"><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr><td width="120"><a href="http://swpat.ffii.org/"><img src="epatents.png" alt="Action against software patents" /></a></td><td width="180"><a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.w3.org/Status"><img src="w3c.png" alt="W3C Logo" /></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com/"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo" /></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/"><img src="Libxml2-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxml2 Logo" /></a></div></td><td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center"><h1>The XML C parser and toolkit of Gnome</h1><h2>Releases</h2></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr><td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="get"><input name="query" type="text" size="20" value="" /><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ..." /></form><ul><li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html">Reference Manual</a></li><li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li><li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li><li><a href="docs.html" style="font-weight:bold">Developer Menu</a></li><li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li><li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li><li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li><li><a href="news.html">Releases</a></li><li><a href="XMLinfo.html">XML</a></li><li><a href="XSLT.html">XSLT</a></li><li><a href="xmldtd.html">Validation & DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="examples/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">Code Examples</a></li><li><a href="html/index.html" style="font-weight:bold">API Menu</a></li><li><a href="guidelines.html">XML Guidelines</a></li><li><a href="ChangeLog.html">Recent Changes</a></li></ul></td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3"><tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul><li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xml/">Mail archive</a></li><li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/">XSLT libxslt</a></li><li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li><li><a href="http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/">XML-DSig xmlsec</a></li><li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zlatkovic.com/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://opencsw.org/packages/libxml2">Solaris binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://www.explain.com.au/oss/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li><li><a href="http://codespeak.net/lxml/">lxml Python bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/dist/XML-LibXML">Perl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxmlplusplus.sourceforge.net/">C++ bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://www.zend.com/php5/articles/php5-xmlphp.php#Heading4">PHP bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://libxml.rubyforge.org/">Ruby bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://tclxml.sourceforge.net/">Tcl bindings</a></li><li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxml2">Bug Tracker</a></li></ul></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td><td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><p>Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
! 11: to 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
! 15: to 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>2.7.8: Nov 4 2010</h3><ul><li> Features:
! 16: 480323 add code to plug in ICU converters by default (Giuseppe Iuculano),
! 17: Add xmlSaveOption XML_SAVE_WSNONSIG (Adam Spragg)
! 18: </li>
! 19: <li> Documentation:
! 20: Fix devhelp documentation installation (Mike Hommey),
! 21: Fix web site encoding problems (Daniel Veillard),
! 22: Fix a couple of typo in HTML parser error messages (Michael Day),
! 23: Forgot to update the news page for 0.7.7 (Daniel Veillard)
! 24: </li>
! 25: <li> Portability:
! 26: 607273 Fix python detection on MSys/Windows (LRN),
! 27: 614087 Fix Socket API usage to allow Windows64 compilation (Ozkan Sezer),
! 28: Fix compilation with Clang (Koop Mast),
! 29: Fix Win32 build (Rob Richards)
! 30: </li>
! 31: <li> Bug Fixes:
! 32: 595789 fix a remaining potential Solaris problem (Daniel Veillard),
! 33: 617468 fix progressive HTML parsing with style using "'" (Denis Pauk),
! 34: 616478 Fix xmllint shell write command (Gwenn Kahz),
! 35: 614005 Possible erroneous HTML parsing on unterminated script (Pierre Belzile),
! 36: 627987 Fix XSD IDC errors in imported schemas (Jim Panetta),
! 37: 629325 XPath rounding errors first cleanup (Phil Shafer),
! 38: 630140 fix iso995x encoding error (Daniel Veillard),
! 39: make sure htmlCtxtReset do reset the disableSAX field (Daniel Veillard),
! 40: Fix a change of semantic on XPath preceding and following axis (Daniel Veillard),
! 41: Fix a potential segfault due to weak symbols on pthreads (Mike Hommey),
! 42: Fix a leak in XPath compilation (Daniel Veillard),
! 43: Fix the semantic of XPath axis for namespace/attribute context nodes (Daniel Veillard),
! 44: Avoid a descriptor leak in catalog loading code (Carlo Bramini),
! 45: Fix a small bug in XPath evaluation code (Marius Wachtler),
! 46: Fix handling of XML-1.0 XML namespace declaration (Daniel Veillard),
! 47: Fix errors in XSD double validation check (Csaba Raduly),
! 48: Fix handling of apos in URIs (Daniel Veillard),
! 49: xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml should handle DTD (Rob Richards),
! 50: Autogen.sh needs to create m4 directory (Rob Richards)
! 51: </li>
! 52: <li> Improvements:
! 53: 606592 update language ID parser to RFC 5646 (Daniel Veillard),
! 54: Sort python generated stubs (Mike Hommey),
! 55: Add an HTML parser option to avoid a default doctype (Daniel Veillard)
! 56: </li>
! 57: <li> Cleanups:
! 58: 618831 don't ship generated files in git (Adrian Bunk),
! 59: Switch from the obsolete mkinstalldirs to AC_PROG_MKDIR_P (Adrian Bunk),
! 60: Various cleanups on encoding handling (Daniel Veillard),
! 61: Fix xmllint to use format=1 for default formatting (Adam Spragg),
! 62: Force _xmlSaveCtxt.format to be 0 or 1 (Adam Spragg),
! 63: Cleanup encoding pointer comparison (Nikolay Sivov),
! 64: Small code cleanup on previous patch (Daniel Veillard)
! 65: </li>
! 66: </ul><h3>2.7.7: Mar 15 2010</h3><ul><li> Improvements:
! 67: Adding a --xpath option to xmllint (Daniel Veillard),
! 68: Make HTML parser non-recursive (Eugene Pimenov)
! 69: </li>
! 70: <li> Portability:
! 71: relaxng.c: cast to allow compilation with sun studio 11 (Ben Walton),
! 72: Fix build failure on Sparc solaris (Roumen Petrov),
! 73: use autoreconf in autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard),
! 74: Fix build with mingw (Roumen Petrov),
! 75: Upgrade some of the configure and autogen (Daniel Veillard),
! 76: Fix relaxNG tests in runtest for Windows runtest.c: initialize ret (Rob Richards),
! 77: Fix a const warning in xmlNodeSetBase (Martin Trappel),
! 78: Fix python generator to not use deprecated xmllib (Daniel Veillard),
! 79: Update some automake files (Daniel Veillard),
! 80: 598785 Fix nanohttp on Windows (spadix)
! 81: </li>
! 82: <li> Bug Fixes:
! 83: libxml violates the zlib interface and crashes (Mark Adler),
! 84: Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
! 85: Fix missing win32 libraries in libxml-2.0.pc (Volker Grabsch),
! 86: Fix detection of python linker flags (Daniel Macks),
! 87: fix build error in libxml2/python (Paul Smith),
! 88: ChunkParser: Incorrect decoding of small xml files (Raul Hudea),
! 89: htmlCheckEncoding doesn't update input-end after shrink (Eugene Pimenov),
! 90: Fix a missing #ifdef (Daniel Veillard),
! 91: Fix encoding selection for xmlParseInNodeContext (Daniel Veillard),
! 92: xmlPreviousElementSibling mistake (François Delyon),
! 93: 608773 add a missing check in xmlGROW (Daniel Veillard),
! 94: Fix xmlParseInNodeContext for HTML content (Daniel Veillard),
! 95: Fix lost namespace when copying node * tree.c: reconcile namespace if not found (Rob Richards),
! 96: Fix some missing commas in HTML element lists (Eugene Pimenov),
! 97: Correct variable type to unsigned (Nikolay Sivov),
! 98: Recognize ID attribute in HTML without DOCTYPE (Daniel Veillard),
! 99: Fix memory leak in xmlXPathEvalExpression() (Martin),
! 100: Fix an init bug in global.c (Kai Henning),
! 101: Fix xmlNodeSetBase() comment (Daniel Veillard),
! 102: Fix broken escape behaviour in regexp ranges (Daniel Veillard),
! 103: Don't give default HTML boolean attribute values in parser (Daniel Veillard),
! 104: xmlCtxtResetLastError should reset ctxt-errNo (Daniel Veillard)
! 105: </li>
! 106: <li> Cleanups:
! 107: Cleanup a couple of weirdness in HTML parser (Eugene Pimenov)
! 108: </li>
! 109: </ul><h3>2.7.6: Oct 6 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes:
! 110: Restore thread support in default configuration (Andrew W. Nosenko),
! 111: URI with no path parsing problem (Daniel Veillard),
! 112: Minor patch for conditional defines in threads.c (Eric Zurcher)
! 113: </li>
! 114: </ul><h3>2.7.5: Sep 24 2009</h3><ul><li> Bug Fixes:
! 115: Restore behavior of --with-threads without argument (Andrew W. Nosenko),
! 116: Fix memory leak when doc is NULL (Rob Richards),
! 117: 595792 fixing a RelaxNG bug introduced in 2.7.4 (Daniel Veillard),
! 118: Fix a Relaxng bug raised by libvirt test suite (Daniel Veillard),
! 119: Fix a parsing problem with little data at startup (Daniel Veillard),
! 120: link python module with python library (Frederic Crozat),
! 121: 594874 Forgot an fclose in xmllint (Daniel Veillard)
! 122: </li>
! 123: <li> Cleanup:
! 124: Adding symbols.xml to EXTRA_DIST (Daniel Veillard)
! 125: </li>
! 126: </ul><h3>2.7.4: Sep 10 2009</h3><ul><li>Improvements:
! 127: Switch to GIT (GNOME),
! 128: Add symbol versioning to libxml2 shared libs (Daniel Veillard)
! 129: </li>
! 130: <li>Portability:
! 131: 593857 try to work around thread pbm MinGW 4.4 (Daniel Veillard),
! 132: 594250 rename ATTRIBUTE_ALLOC_SIZE to avoid clashes (Daniel Veillard),
! 133: Fix Windows build * relaxng.c: fix windows build (Rob Richards),
! 134: Fix the globals.h to use XMLPUBFUN (Paul Smith),
! 135: Problem with extern extern in header (Daniel Veillard),
! 136: Add -lnetwork for compiling on Haiku (Scott McCreary),
! 137: Runtest portability patch for Solaris (Tim Rice),
! 138: Small patch to accomodate the Haiku OS (Scott McCreary),
! 139: 584605 package VxWorks folder in the distribution (Daniel Veillard),
! 140: 574017 Realloc too expensive on most platform (Daniel Veillard),
! 141: Fix windows build (Rob Richards),
! 142: 545579 doesn't compile without schema support (Daniel Veillard),
! 143: xmllint use xmlGetNodePath when not compiled in (Daniel Veillard),
! 144: Try to avoid __imp__xmlFree link trouble on msys (Daniel Veillard),
! 145: Allow to select the threading system on Windows (LRN),
! 146: Fix Solaris binary links, cleanups (Daniel Veillard),
! 147: Bug 571059 â MSVC doesn't work with the bakefile (Intron),
! 148: fix ATTRIBUTE_PRINTF header clash (Belgabor and Mike Hommey),
! 149: fixes for Borland/CodeGear/Embarcadero compilers (Eric Zurcher)
! 150: </li>
! 151: <li>Documentation:
! 152: 544910 typo: "renciliateNs" (Leonid Evdokimov),
! 153: Add VxWorks to list of OSes (Daniel Veillard),
! 154: Regenerate the documentation and update for git (Daniel Veillard),
! 155: 560524 ¿ xmlTextReaderLocalName description (Daniel Veillard),
! 156: Added sponsoring by AOE media for the server (Daniel Veillard),
! 157: updated URLs for GNOME (Vincent Lefevre),
! 158: more warnings about xmlCleanupThreads and xmlCleanupParser (Daniel Veillard)
! 159: </li>
! 160: <li>Bug fixes:
! 161: 594514 memory leaks - duplicate initialization (MOD),
! 162: Wrong block opening in htmlNodeDumpOutputInternal (Daniel Veillard),
! 163: 492317 Fix Relax-NG validation problems (Daniel Veillard),
! 164: 558452 fight with reg test and error report (Daniel Veillard),
! 165: 558452 RNG compilation of optional multiple child (Daniel Veillard),
! 166: 579746 XSD validation not correct / nilable groups (Daniel Veillard),
! 167: 502960 provide namespace stack when parsing entity (Daniel Veillard),
! 168: 566012 part 2 fix regresion tests and push mode (Daniel Veillard),
! 169: 566012 autodetected encoding and encoding conflict (Daniel Veillard),
! 170: 584220 xpointer(/) and xinclude problems (Daniel Veillard),
! 171: 587663 Incorrect Attribute-Value Normalization (Daniel Veillard),
! 172: 444994 HTML chunked failure for attribute with <> (Daniel Veillard),
! 173: Fix end of buffer char being split in XML parser (Daniel Veillard),
! 174: Non ASCII character may be split at buffer end (Adiel Mittmann),
! 175: 440226 Add xmlXIncludeProcessTreeFlagsData API (Stefan Behnel),
! 176: 572129 speed up parsing of large HTML text nodes (Markus Kull),
! 177: Fix HTML parsing with 0 character in CDATA (Daniel Veillard),
! 178: Fix SetGenericErrorFunc and SetStructured clash (Wang Lam),
! 179: 566012 Incomplete EBCDIC parsing support (Martin Kogler),
! 180: 541335 HTML avoid creating 2 head or 2 body element (Daniel Veillard),
! 181: 541237 error correcting missing end tags in HTML (Daniel Veillard),
! 182: 583439 missing line numbers in push mode (Daniel Veillard),
! 183: 587867 xmllint --html --xmlout serializing as HTML (Daniel Veillard),
! 184: 559501 avoid select and use poll for nanohttp (Raphael Prevost),
! 185: 559410 - Regexp bug on (...)? constructs (Daniel Veillard),
! 186: Fix a small problem on previous HTML parser patch (Daniel Veillard),
! 187: 592430 - HTML parser runs into endless loop (Daniel Veillard),
! 188: 447899 potential double free in xmlFreeTextReader (Daniel Veillard),
! 189: 446613 small validation bug mixed content with NS (Daniel Veillard),
! 190: Fix the problem of revalidating a doc with RNG (Daniel Veillard),
! 191: Fix xmlKeepBlanksDefault to not break indent (Nick Wellnhofer),
! 192: 512131 refs from externalRef part need to be added (Daniel Veillard),
! 193: 512131 crash in xmlRelaxNGValidateFullElement (Daniel Veillard),
! 194: 588441 allow '.' in HTML Names even if invalid (Daniel Veillard),
! 195: 582913 Fix htmlSetMetaEncoding() to be nicer (Daniel Veillard),
! 196: 579317 Try to find the HTML encoding information (Daniel Veillard),
! 197: 575875 don't output charset=html (Daniel Veillard),
! 198: 571271 fix semantic of xsd:all with minOccurs=0 (Daniel Veillard),
! 199: 570702 fix a bug in regexp determinism checking (Daniel Veillard),
! 200: 567619 xmlValidateNotationUse missing param test (Daniel Veillard),
! 201: 574393 ¿ utf-8 filename magic for compressed files (Hans Breuer),
! 202: Fix a couple of problems in the parser (Daniel Veillard),
! 203: 585505 ¿ Document ids and refs populated by XSD (Wayne Jensen),
! 204: 582906 XSD validating multiple imports of the same schema (Jason Childs),
! 205: Bug 582887 ¿ problems validating complex schemas (Jason Childs),
! 206: Bug 579729 ¿ fix XSD schemas parsing crash (Miroslav Bajtos),
! 207: 576368 ¿ htmlChunkParser with special attributes (Jiri Netolicky),
! 208: Bug 565747 ¿ relax anyURI data character checking (Vincent Lefevre),
! 209: Preserve attributes of include start on tree copy (Petr Pajas),
! 210: Skip silently unrecognized XPointer schemes (Jakub Wilk),
! 211: Fix leak on SAX1, xmllint --sax1 option and debug (Daniel Veillard),
! 212: potential NULL dereference on non-glibc (Jim Meyering),
! 213: Fix an XSD validation crash (Daniel Veillard),
! 214: Fix a regression in streaming entities support (Daniel Veillard),
! 215: Fix a couple of ABI issues with C14N 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
! 216: Aleksey Sanin support for c14n 1.1 (Aleksey Sanin),
! 217: reader bug fix with entities (Daniel Veillard),
! 218: use options from current parser ctxt for external entities (Rob Richards),
! 219: 581612 use %s to printf strings (Christian Persch),
! 220: 584605 change the threading initialization sequence (Igor Novoseltsev),
! 221: 580705 keep line numbers in HTML parser (Aaron Patterson),
! 222: 581803 broken HTML table attributes init (Roland Steiner),
! 223: do not set error code in xmlNsWarn (Rob Richards),
! 224: 564217 fix structured error handling problems,
! 225: reuse options from current parser for entities (Rob Richards),
! 226: xmlXPathRegisterNs should not allow enpty prefixes (Daniel Veillard),
! 227: add a missing check in xmlAddSibling (Kris Breuker),
! 228: avoid leaks on errors (Jinmei Tatuya)
! 229: </li>
! 230: <li>Cleanup:
! 231: Chasing dead assignments reported by clang-scan (Daniel Veillard),
! 232: A few more safety cleanup raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
! 233: Fixing assorted potential problems raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
! 234: Potential uninitialized arguments raised by scan (Daniel Veillard),
! 235: Fix a bunch of scan 'dead increments' and cleanup (Daniel Veillard),
! 236: Remove a pedantic warning (Daniel Veillard),
! 237: 555833 always use rm -f in uninstall-local (Daniel Veillard),
! 238: 542394 xmlRegisterOutputCallbacks MAX_INPUT_CALLBACK (Daniel Veillard),
! 239: Autoregenerate libxml2.syms automated checkings (Daniel Veillard),
! 240: Make xmlRecoverDoc const (Martin Trappel) (Daniel Veillard),
! 241: Both args of xmlStrcasestr are const (Daniel Veillard),
! 242: hide the nbParse* variables used for debugging (Mike Hommey),
! 243: 570806 changed include of config.h (William M. Brack),
! 244: cleanups and error reports when xmlTextWriterVSprintf fails (Jinmei Tatuya)
! 245: </li>
! 246: </ul><h3>2.7.3: Jan 18 2009</h3><ul><li>Build fix: fix build when HTML support is not included.</li>
! 247: <li>Bug fixes: avoid memory overflow in gigantic text nodes,
! 248: indentation problem on the writed (Rob Richards),
! 249: xmlAddChildList pointer problem (Rob Richards and Kevin Milburn),
! 250: xmlAddChild problem with attribute (Rob Richards and Kris Breuker),
! 251: avoid a memory leak in an edge case (Daniel Zimmermann),
! 252: deallocate some pthread data (Alex Ott).</li>
! 253: <li>Improvements: configure option to avoid rebuilding docs (Adrian Bunk),
! 254: limit text nodes to 10MB max by default, add element traversal
! 255: APIs, add a parser option to enable pre 2.7 SAX behavior (Rob Richards),
! 256: add gcc malloc checking (Marcus Meissner), add gcc printf like functions
! 257: parameters checking (Marcus Meissner).</li>
! 258: </ul><h3>2.7.2: Oct 3 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: fix solaris compilation problem, fix compilation
! 259: if XPath is not configured in</li>
! 260: <li>Bug fixes: nasty entity bug introduced in 2.7.0, restore old behaviour
! 261: when saving an HTML doc with an xml dump function, HTML UTF-8 parsing
! 262: bug, fix reader custom error handlers (Riccardo Scussat)
! 263: </li><li>Improvement: xmlSave options for more flexibility to save as
! 264: XML/HTML/XHTML, handle leading BOM in HTML documents</li>
! 265: </ul><h3>2.7.1: Sep 1 2008</h3><ul><li>Portability fix: Borland C fix (Moritz Both)</li>
! 266: <li>Bug fixes: python serialization wrappers, XPath QName corner
! 267: case handking and leaks (Martin)</li>
! 268: <li>Improvement: extend the xmlSave to handle HTML documents and trees</li>
! 269: <li>Cleanup: python serialization wrappers</li>
! 270: </ul><h3>2.7.0: Aug 30 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: switch ChangeLog to UTF-8, improve mutithreads and
! 271: xmlParserCleanup docs</li>
! 272: <li>Portability fixes: Older Win32 platforms (Rob Richards), MSVC
! 273: porting fix (Rob Richards), Mac OS X regression tests (Sven Herzberg),
! 274: non GNUCC builds (Rob Richards), compilation on Haiku (Andreas Färber)
! 275: </li>
! 276: <li>Bug fixes: various realloc problems (Ashwin), potential double-free
! 277: (Ashwin), regexp crash, icrash with invalid whitespace facets (Rob
! 278: Richards), pattern fix when streaming (William Brack), various XML
! 279: parsing and validation fixes based on the W3C regression tests, reader
! 280: tree skipping function fix (Ashwin), Schemas regexps escaping fix
! 281: (Volker Grabsch), handling of entity push errors (Ashwin), fix a slowdown
! 282: when encoder cant serialize characters on output</li>
! 283: <li>Code cleanup: compilation fix without the reader, without the output
! 284: (Robert Schwebel), python whitespace (Martin), many space/tabs cleanups,
! 285: serious cleanup of the entity handling code</li>
! 286: <li>Improvement: switch parser to XML-1.0 5th edition, add parsing flags
! 287: for old versions, switch URI parsing to RFC 3986,
! 288: add xmlSchemaValidCtxtGetParserCtxt (Holger Kaelberer),
! 289: new hashing functions for dictionnaries (based on Stefan Behnel work),
! 290: improve handling of misplaced html/head/body in HTML parser, better
! 291: regression test tools and code coverage display, better algorithms
! 292: to detect various versions of the billion laughts attacks, make
! 293: arbitrary parser limits avoidable as a parser option</li>
! 294: </ul><h3>2.6.32: Apr 8 2008</h3><ul><li>Documentation: returning heap memory to kernel (Wolfram Sang),
! 295: trying to clarify xmlCleanupParser() use, xmlXPathContext improvement
! 296: (Jack Jansen), improve the *Recover* functions documentation,
! 297: XmlNodeType doc link fix (Martijn Arts)</li>
! 298: <li>Bug fixes: internal subset memory leak (Ashwin), avoid problem with
! 299: paths starting with // (Petr Sumbera), streaming XSD validation callback
! 300: patches (Ashwin), fix redirection on port other than 80 (William Brack),
! 301: SAX2 leak (Ashwin), XInclude fragment of own document (Chris Ryan),
! 302: regexp bug with '.' (Andrew Tosh), flush the writer at the end of the
! 303: document (Alfred Mickautsch), output I/O bug fix (William Brack),
! 304: writer CDATA output after a text node (Alex Khesin), UTF-16 encoding
! 305: detection (William Brack), fix handling of empty CDATA nodes for Safari
! 306: team, python binding problem with namespace nodes, improve HTML parsing
! 307: (Arnold Hendriks), regexp automata build bug, memory leak fix (Vasily
! 308: Chekalkin), XSD test crash, weird system parameter entity parsing problem,
! 309: allow save to file:///X:/ windows paths, various attribute normalisation
! 310: problems, externalSubsetSplit fix (Ashwin), attribute redefinition in
! 311: the DTD (Ashwin), fix in char ref parsing check (Alex Khesin), many
! 312: out of memory handling fixes (Ashwin), XPath out of memory handling fixes
! 313: (Alvaro Herrera), various realloc problems (Ashwin), UCS4 encoding
! 314: conversion buffer size (Christian Fruth), problems with EatName
! 315: functions on memory errors, BOM handling in external parsed entities
! 316: (Mark Rowe)</li>
! 317: <li>Code cleanup: fix build under VS 2008 (David Wimsey), remove useless
! 318: mutex in xmlDict (Florent Guilian), Mingw32 compilation fix (Carlo
! 319: Bramini), Win and MacOS EOL cleanups (Florent Guiliani), iconv need
! 320: a const detection (Roumen Petrov), simplify xmlSetProp (Julien Charbon),
! 321: cross compilation fixes for Mingw (Roumen Petrov), SCO Openserver build
! 322: fix (Florent Guiliani), iconv uses const on Win32 (Rob Richards),
! 323: duplicate code removal (Ashwin), missing malloc test and error reports
! 324: (Ashwin), VMS makefile fix (Tycho Hilhorst)</li>
! 325: <li>improvements: better plug of schematron in the normal error handling
! 326: (Tobias Minich)</li>
! 327: </ul><h3>2.6.31: Jan 11 2008</h3><ul><li>Security fix: missing of checks in UTF-8 parsing</li>
! 328: <li>Bug fixes: regexp bug, dump attribute from XHTML document, fix
! 329: xmlFree(NULL) to not crash in debug mode, Schematron parsing crash
! 330: (Rob Richards), global lock free on Windows (Marc-Antoine Ruel),
! 331: XSD crash due to double free (Rob Richards), indentation fix in
! 332: xmlTextWriterFullEndElement (Felipe Pena), error in attribute type
! 333: parsing if attribute redeclared, avoid crash in hash list scanner if
! 334: deleting elements, column counter bug fix (Christian Schmidt),
! 335: HTML embed element saving fix (Stefan Behnel), avoid -L/usr/lib
! 336: output from xml2-config (Fred Crozat), avoid an xmllint crash
! 337: (Stefan Kost), don't stop HTML parsing on out of range chars.
! 338: </li>
! 339: <li>Code cleanup: fix open() call third argument, regexp cut'n paste
! 340: copy error, unused variable in __xmlGlobalInitMutexLock (Hannes Eder),
! 341: some make distcheck realted fixes (John Carr)</li>
! 342: <li>Improvements: HTTP Header: includes port number (William Brack),
! 343: testURI --debug option, </li>
! 344: </ul><h3>2.6.30: Aug 23 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: Solaris crash on error handling, windows path fixes
! 345: (Roland Schwarz and Rob Richards), mingw build (Roland Schwarz)</li>
! 346: <li>Bugfixes: xmlXPathNodeSetSort problem (William Brack), leak when
! 347: reusing a writer for a new document (Dodji Seketeli), Schemas
! 348: xsi:nil handling patch (Frank Gross), relative URI build problem
! 349: (Patrik Fimml), crash in xmlDocFormatDump, invalid char in comment
! 350: detection bug, fix disparity with xmlSAXUserParseMemory, automata
! 351: generation for complex regexp counts problems, Schemas IDC import
! 352: problems (Frank Gross), xpath predicate evailation error handling
! 353: (William Brack)</li>
! 354: </ul><h3>2.6.29: Jun 12 2007</h3><ul><li>Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
! 355: fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
! 356: (Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
! 357: improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
! 358: new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)</li>
! 359: <li>Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment, </li>
! 360: <li>Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
! 361: flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
! 362: htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
! 363: typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
! 364: (Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
! 365: nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
! 366: xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
! 367: XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
! 368: sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
! 369: dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
! 370: error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
! 371: workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
! 372: invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before
! 373: internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
! 374: the name, IDness of name in HTML (Dagfinn I. Mannsåker) </li>
! 375: <li>Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
! 376: embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day) </li>
! 377: </ul><h3>2.6.28: Apr 17 2007</h3><ul><li>Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
! 378: (James Dennett)</li>
! 379: <li>Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
! 380: (Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
! 381: on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
! 382: principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
! 383: (Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
! 384: standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
! 385: for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
! 386: (Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
! 387: concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
! 388: in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
! 389: python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
! 390: (Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
! 391: XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
! 392: fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
! 393: min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)</li>
! 394: <li>Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public</li>
! 395: <li>Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
! 396: __ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
! 397: (Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
! 398: Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)</li>
! 399: <li>Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes</li>
! 400: </ul><h3>2.6.27: Oct 25 2006</h3><ul><li>Portability fixes: file names on windows (Roland Schwingel,
! 401: Emelyanov Alexey), windows compile fixup (Rob Richards),
! 402: AIX iconv() is apparently case sensitive</li>
! 403: <li>improvements: Python XPath types mapping (Nic Ferrier), XPath optimization
! 404: (Kasimier), add xmlXPathCompiledEvalToBoolean (Kasimier), Python node
! 405: equality and comparison (Andreas Pakulat), xmlXPathCollectAndTest
! 406: improvememt (Kasimier), expose if library was compiled with zlib
! 407: support (Andrew Nosenko), cache for xmlSchemaIDCMatcher structs
! 408: (Kasimier), xmlTextConcat should work with comments and PIs (Rob
! 409: Richards), export htmlNewParserCtxt needed by Michael Day, refactoring
! 410: of catalog entity loaders (Michael Day), add XPointer support to
! 411: python bindings (Ross Reedstrom, Brian West and Stefan Anca),
! 412: try to sort out most file path to URI conversions and xmlPathToUri,
! 413: add --html --memory case to xmllint</li>
! 414: <li>building fix: fix --with-minimum (Felipe Contreras), VMS fix,
! 415: const'ification of HTML parser structures (Matthias Clasen),
! 416: portability fix (Emelyanov Alexey), wget autodetection (Peter
! 417: Breitenlohner), remove the build path recorded in the python
! 418: shared module, separate library flags for shared and static builds
! 419: (Mikhail Zabaluev), fix --with-minimum --with-sax1 builds, fix
! 420: --with-minimum --with-schemas builds</li>
! 421: <li>bug fix: xmlGetNodePath fix (Kasimier), xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode and
! 422: attribute (Kasimier), crash when using the recover mode,
! 423: xmlXPathEvalExpr problem (Kasimier), xmlXPathCompExprAdd bug (Kasimier),
! 424: missing destry in xmlFreeRMutex (Andrew Nosenko), XML Schemas fixes
! 425: (Kasimier), warning on entities processing, XHTML script and style
! 426: serialization (Kasimier), python generator for long types, bug in
! 427: xmlSchemaClearValidCtxt (Bertrand Fritsch), xmlSchemaXPathEvaluate
! 428: allocation bug (Marton Illes), error message end of line (Rob Richards),
! 429: fix attribute serialization in writer (Rob Richards), PHP4 DTD validation
! 430: crasher, parser safety patch (Ben Darnell), _private context propagation
! 431: when parsing entities (with Michael Day), fix entities behaviour when
! 432: using SAX, URI to file path fix (Mikhail Zabaluev), disapearing validity
! 433: context, arg error in SAX callback (Mike Hommey), fix mixed-content
! 434: autodetect when using --noblanks, fix xmlIOParseDTD error handling,
! 435: fix bug in xmlSplitQName on special Names, fix Relax-NG element content
! 436: validation bug, fix xmlReconciliateNs bug, fix potential attribute
! 437: XML parsing bug, fix line/column accounting in XML parser, chunking bug
! 438: in the HTML parser on script, try to detect obviously buggy HTML
! 439: meta encoding indications, bugs with encoding BOM and xmlSaveDoc,
! 440: HTML entities in attributes parsing, HTML minimized attribute values,
! 441: htmlReadDoc and htmlReadIO were broken, error handling bug in
! 442: xmlXPathEvalExpression (Olaf Walkowiak), fix a problem in
! 443: htmlCtxtUseOptions, xmlNewInputFromFile could leak (Marius Konitzer),
! 444: bug on misformed SSD regexps (Christopher Boumenot)
! 445: </li>
! 446: <li>documentation: warning about XML_PARSE_COMPACT (Kasimier Buchcik),
! 447: fix xmlXPathCastToString documentation, improve man pages for
! 448: xmllitn and xmlcatalog (Daniel Leidert), fixed comments of a few
! 449: functions</li>
! 450: </ul><h3>2.6.26: Jun 6 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Python detection (Joseph Sacco), compilation
! 451: error(William Brack and Graham Bennett), LynxOS patch (Olli Savia)</li>
! 452: <li>bug fixes: encoding buffer problem, mix of code and data in
! 453: xmlIO.c(Kjartan Maraas), entities in XSD validation (Kasimier Buchcik),
! 454: variousXSD validation fixes (Kasimier), memory leak in pattern (Rob
! 455: Richards andKasimier), attribute with colon in name (Rob Richards), XPath
! 456: leak inerror reporting (Aleksey Sanin), XInclude text include of
! 457: selfdocument.</li>
! 458: <li>improvements: Xpath optimizations (Kasimier), XPath object
! 459: cache(Kasimier)</li>
! 460: </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
! 461: (Kasimier Buchcik, venkat naidu), Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher),
! 462: HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones), xml2-config bugfix, gcc-4.1
! 463: cleanups, Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco), UTF-8 file paths on
! 464: Windows (Roland Schwingel).
! 465: </li>
! 466: <li>Improvements: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier
! 467: Buchcik), XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones), update to Unicode 4.01.</li>
! 468: <li>Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23, xmlParseInNodeContext()
! 469: on HTML docs, URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards), comment streaming
! 470: bug, xmlParseComment (with William Brack), regexp bug fixes (DV &
! 471: Youri Golovanov), xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier),
! 472: one Relax-NG interleave bug, xmllint --path and --valid,
! 473: XSD bugfixes (Kasimier), remove debug
! 474: left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier), xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole),
! 475: xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards), HTML IDness (Rob Richards), a large
! 476: number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports, bug
! 477: in character ranges, Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans), schemas
! 478: fix (Stefan Kost), xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation,
! 479: xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation, error handling on unallowed
! 480: code point, ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady),
! 481: line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers). </li>
! 482: <li>Documentation: man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).</li>
! 483: <li>New features: Relax NG structure error handlers.</li>
! 484: </ul><h3>2.6.23: Jan 5 2006</h3><ul><li>portability fixes: Windows (Rob Richards), getaddrinfo on Windows
! 485: (Kolja Nowak, Rob Richards), icc warnings (Kjartan Maraas),
! 486: --with-minimum compilation fixes (William Brack), error case handling fix
! 487: on Solaris (Albert Chin), don't use 'list' as parameter name reported by
! 488: Samuel Diaz Garcia, more old Unices portability fixes (Albert Chin),
! 489: MinGW compilation (Mark Junker), HP-UX compiler warnings (Rick
! 490: Jones),</li>
! 491: <li>code cleanup: xmlReportError (Adrian Mouat), remove xmlBufferClose
! 492: (Geert Jansen), unreachable code (Oleksandr Kononenko), refactoring
! 493: parsing code (Bjorn Reese)</li>
! 494: <li>bug fixes: xmlBuildRelativeURI and empty path (William Brack),
! 495: combinatory explosion and performances in regexp code, leak in
! 496: xmlTextReaderReadString(), xmlStringLenDecodeEntities problem (Massimo
! 497: Morara), Identity Constraints bugs and a segfault (Kasimier Buchcik),
! 498: XPath pattern based evaluation bugs (DV & Kasimier),
! 499: xmlSchemaContentModelDump() memory leak (Kasimier), potential leak in
! 500: xmlSchemaCheckCSelectorXPath(), xmlTextWriterVSprintf() misuse of
! 501: vsnprintf (William Brack), XHTML serialization fix (Rob Richards), CRLF
! 502: split problem (William), issues with non-namespaced attributes in
! 503: xmlAddChild() xmlAddNextSibling() and xmlAddPrevSibling() (Rob Richards),
! 504: HTML parsing of script, Python must not output to stdout (Nic Ferrier),
! 505: exclusive C14N namespace visibility (Aleksey Sanin), XSD dataype
! 506: totalDigits bug (Kasimier Buchcik), error handling when writing to an
! 507: xmlBuffer (Rob Richards), runtest schemas error not reported (Hisashi
! 508: Fujinaka), signed/unsigned problem in date/time code (Albert Chin), fix
! 509: XSI driven XSD validation (Kasimier), parsing of xs:decimal (Kasimier),
! 510: fix DTD writer output (Rob Richards), leak in xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml
! 511: (Gary Coady), regexp bug affecting schemas (Kasimier), configuration of
! 512: runtime debugging (Kasimier), xmlNodeBufGetContent bug on entity refs
! 513: (Oleksandr Kononenko), xmlRegExecPushString2 bug (Sreeni Nair),
! 514: compilation and build fixes (Michael Day), removed dependancies on
! 515: xmlSchemaValidError (Kasimier), bug with <xml:foo/>, more XPath
! 516: pattern based evaluation fixes (Kasimier)</li>
! 517: <li>improvements: XSD Schemas redefinitions/restrictions (Kasimier
! 518: Buchcik), node copy checks and fix for attribute (Rob Richards), counted
! 519: transition bug in regexps, ctxt->standalone = -2 to indicate no
! 520: standalone attribute was found, add xmlSchemaSetParserStructuredErrors()
! 521: (Kasimier Buchcik), add xmlTextReaderSchemaValidateCtxt() to API
! 522: (Kasimier), handle gzipped HTTP resources (Gary Coady), add
! 523: htmlDocDumpMemoryFormat. (Rob Richards),</li>
! 524: <li>documentation: typo (Michael Day), libxml man page (Albert Chin), save
! 525: function to XML buffer (Geert Jansen), small doc fix (Aron Stansvik),</li>
! 526: </ul><h3>2.6.22: Sep 12 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: compile without schematron (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
! 527: <li>bug fixes: xmlDebugDumpNode on namespace node (Oleg Paraschenko)i,
! 528: CDATA push parser bug, xmlElemDump problem with XHTML1 doc,
! 529: XML_FEATURE_xxx clash with expat headers renamed XML_WITH_xxx, fix some
! 530: output formatting for meta element (Rob Richards), script and style
! 531: XHTML1 serialization (David Madore), Attribute derivation fixups in XSD
! 532: (Kasimier Buchcik), better IDC error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
! 533: <li>improvements: add XML_SAVE_NO_EMPTY xmlSaveOption (Rob Richards), add
! 534: XML_SAVE_NO_XHTML xmlSaveOption, XML Schemas improvements preparing for
! 535: derive (Kasimier Buchcik).</li>
! 536: <li>documentation: generation of gtk-doc like docs, integration with
! 537: devhelp.</li>
! 538: </ul><h3>2.6.21: Sep 4 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
! 539: convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on Linus'
! 540: sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards), remove warnings
! 541: on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1, detection of the
! 542: Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew W. Nosenko),
! 543: compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile problem by C370 on
! 544: Z/OS,</li>
! 545: <li>bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
! 546: bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
! 547: htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces, Base64
! 548: Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
! 549: xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda), xmlSchemas
! 550: foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison (Kupriyanov
! 551: Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier Buchcik), xml:
! 552: namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model group in Schemas
! 553: (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI composition (William),
! 554: xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver emmitting error
! 555: messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr Clapa), trying to
! 556: fix the file path/URI conversion, xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob
! 557: Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak (Kasimier), HTML UTF-8
! 558: serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism detection problem,
! 559: XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill), validation fix (Derek
! 560: Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces (Rob Richards), Schemas
! 561: type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug, error in encoding handling,
! 562: xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling, entity name extraction in
! 563: error handling with XInclude, text nodes in HTML body tags (Gary Coady),
! 564: xml:id and IDness at the treee level fixes, XPath streaming patterns
! 565: bugs.</li>
! 566: <li>improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
! 567: (Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
! 568: (thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation though
! 569: not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration, keyref match
! 570: error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling code not plugged
! 571: yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser, parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option
! 572: for text nodes allocation.</li>
! 573: <li>documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated</li>
! 574: </ul><h3>2.6.20: Jul 10 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build (Rob Richards), Mingw compilation (Igor
! 575: Zlatkovic), Windows Makefile (Igor), gcc warnings (Kasimier and
! 576: andriy@google.com), use gcc weak references to pthread to avoid the
! 577: pthread dependancy on Linux, compilation problem (Steve Nairn), compiling
! 578: of subset (Morten Welinder), IPv6/ss_family compilation (William Brack),
! 579: compilation when disabling parts of the library, standalone test
! 580: distribution.</li>
! 581: <li>bug fixes: bug in lang(), memory cleanup on errors (William Brack),
! 582: HTTP query strings (Aron Stansvik), memory leak in DTD (William), integer
! 583: overflow in XPath (William), nanoftp buffer size, pattern "." apth fixup
! 584: (Kasimier), leak in tree reported by Malcolm Rowe, replaceNode patch
! 585: (Brent Hendricks), CDATA with NULL content (Mark Vakoc), xml:base fixup
! 586: on XInclude (William), pattern fixes (William), attribute bug in
! 587: exclusive c14n (Aleksey Sanin), xml:space and xml:lang with SAX2 (Rob
! 588: Richards), namespace trouble in complex parsing (Malcolm Rowe), XSD type
! 589: QNames fixes (Kasimier), XPath streaming fixups (William), RelaxNG bug
! 590: (Rob Richards), Schemas for Schemas fixes (Kasimier), removal of ID (Rob
! 591: Richards), a small RelaxNG leak, HTML parsing in push mode bug (James
! 592: Bursa), failure to detect UTF-8 parsing bugs in CDATA sections,
! 593: areBlanks() heuristic failure, duplicate attributes in DTD bug
! 594: (William).</li>
! 595: <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik both on
! 596: conformance and streaming, Schemas validation messages (Kasimier Buchcik,
! 597: Matthew Burgess), namespace removal at the python level (Brent
! 598: Hendricks), Update to new Schemas regression tests from W3C/Nist
! 599: (Kasimier), xmlSchemaValidateFile() (Kasimier), implementation of
! 600: xmlTextReaderReadInnerXml and xmlTextReaderReadOuterXml (James Wert),
! 601: standalone test framework and programs, new DOM import APIs
! 602: xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces() xmlDOMWrapAdoptNode() and
! 603: xmlDOMWrapRemoveNode(), extension of xmllint capabilities for SAX and
! 604: Schemas regression tests, xmlStopParser() available in pull mode too,
! 605: ienhancement to xmllint --shell namespaces support, Windows port of the
! 606: standalone testing tools (Kasimier and William),
! 607: xmlSchemaValidateStream() xmlSchemaSAXPlug() and xmlSchemaSAXUnplug() SAX
! 608: Schemas APIs, Schemas xmlReader support.</li>
! 609: </ul><h3>2.6.19: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: drop .la from RPMs, --with-minimum build fix (William
! 610: Brack), use XML_SOCKLEN_T instead of SOCKLEN_T because it breaks with AIX
! 611: 5.3 compiler, fixed elfgcchack.h generation and PLT reduction code on
! 612: Linux/ELF/gcc4</li>
! 613: <li>bug fixes: schemas type decimal fixups (William Brack), xmmlint return
! 614: code (Gerry Murphy), small schemas fixes (Matthew Burgess and GUY
! 615: Fabrice), workaround "DAV:" namespace brokeness in c14n (Aleksey Sanin),
! 616: segfault in Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas attribute validation
! 617: (Kasimier), Prop related functions and xmlNewNodeEatName (Rob Richards),
! 618: HTML serialization of name attribute on a elements, Python error handlers
! 619: leaks and improvement (Brent Hendricks), uninitialized variable in
! 620: encoding code, Relax-NG validation bug, potential crash if
! 621: gnorableWhitespace is NULL, xmlSAXParseDoc and xmlParseDoc signatures,
! 622: switched back to assuming UTF-8 in case no encoding is given at
! 623: serialization time</li>
! 624: <li>improvements: lot of work on Schemas by Kasimier Buchcik on facets
! 625: checking and also mixed handling.</li>
! 626: <li></li>
! 627: </ul><h3>2.6.18: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation,
! 628: Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
! 629: some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).</li>
! 630: <li>bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
! 631: xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
! 632: reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, URL
! 633: saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python paths
! 634: fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, xmlSetNsProp fix
! 635: (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error (William Brack),
! 636: xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser flags (William), cleanup
! 637: FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing and IPv6 (William),
! 638: xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards), XMLLINT_INDENT being
! 639: empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards), multithreading on Windows
! 640: (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier), Python binding leak (Brent
! 641: Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4 on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug
! 642: (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type fixes (William Brack),
! 643: xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).</li>
! 644: <li>improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
! 645: hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
! 646: subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
! 647: values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
! 648: Stansvik),</li>
! 649: <li>Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)</li>
! 650: </ul><h3>2.6.17: Jan 16 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack),
! 651: maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
! 652: (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS build
! 653: (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation on AIX (Dan
! 654: McNichol)</li>
! 655: <li>bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
! 656: to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
! 657: ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
! 658: warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
! 659: UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements in
! 660: push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
! 661: Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
! 662: patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line number
! 663: sometimes missing.</li>
! 664: <li>improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator
! 665: (William), xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings
! 666: (William), XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call
! 667: serialize().</li>
! 668: <li>new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for
! 669: the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel
! 670: Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave option for format
! 671: (Phil Shafer)</li>
! 672: <li>documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries
! 673: (William).</li>
! 674: </ul><h3>2.6.16: Nov 10 2004</h3><ul><li>general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
! 675: automated regression testing</li>
! 676: <li>build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)</li>
! 677: <li>bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas, encoding
! 678: conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
! 679: Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)</li>
! 680: <li>documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
! 681: were updated.</li>
! 682: <li>improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
! 683: Hendricks)</li>
! 684: </ul><h3>2.6.15: Oct 27 2004</h3><ul><li>security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules</li>
! 685: <li>build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
! 686: source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)</li>
! 687: <li>bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
! 688: paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
! 689: saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
! 690: (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
! 691: fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
! 692: on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
! 693: by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
! 694: entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
! 695: (William).</li>
! 696: <li>improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
! 697: module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
! 698: Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.</li>
! 699: </ul><h3>2.6.14: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
! 700: without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
! 701: Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),</li>
! 702: <li>bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
! 703: Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
! 704: transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
! 705: (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
! 706: handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
! 707: date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
! 708: E20 validation fix (Malcolm),</li>
! 709: <li>improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
! 710: xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
! 711: (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
! 712: Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
! 713: xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
! 714: </ul><h3>2.6.13: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
! 715: Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,</li>
! 716: <li>fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
! 717: (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
! 718: and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
! 719: problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
! 720: genrate a serialization loop.</li>
! 721: <li>Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
! 722: and --load-trace options to xmllint</li>
! 723: <li>documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)</li>
! 724: </ul><h3>2.6.12: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
! 725: Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
! 726: Chin), some 64bits cleanups.</li>
! 727: <li>Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
! 728: (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
! 729: Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
! 730: (Torkel Lyng)</li>
! 731: <li>Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik</li>
! 732: <li>fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
! 733: debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
! 734: xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
! 735: handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
! 736: memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
! 737: handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
! 738: htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
! 739: (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
! 740: xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
! 741: (William)</li>
! 742: <li>improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
! 743: (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
! 744: xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
! 745: to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
! 746: tag (William)</li>
! 747: <li>documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
! 748: schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)</li>
! 749: </ul><h3>2.6.11: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
! 750: attributes, namespaces and simple types.</li>
! 751: <li>build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
! 752: (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)</li>
! 753: <li>portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
! 754: path on Windows</li>
! 755: <li>documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
! 756: (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),</li>
! 757: <li>bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
! 758: properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
! 759: (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
! 760: by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
! 761: with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
! 762: Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
! 763: streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
! 764: libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
! 765: Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
! 766: improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
! 767: synchronous behaviour.</li>
! 768: <li>improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
! 769: namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
! 770: test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
! 771: XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
! 772: Parent and William)</li>
! 773: <li>performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
! 774: and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
! 775: the code generated in the RPM packages.</li>
! 776: </ul><h3>2.6.10: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>Web page generated for ChangeLog</li>
! 777: <li>build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all</li>
! 778: <li>portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
! 779: vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
! 780: use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
! 781: Davis),</li>
! 782: <li>improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
! 783: (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
! 784: xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
! 785: escaping, added escaping customization</li>
! 786: <li>bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
! 787: Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
! 788: URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
! 789: transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
! 790: Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
! 791: (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
! 792: xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'</li>
! 793: </ul><h3>2.6.9: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking</li>
! 794: <li>bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
! 795: Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
! 796: William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
! 797: William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
! 798: fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
! 799: validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
! 800: schemas</li>
! 801: <li>improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
! 802: save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian
! 803: Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
! 804: dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
! 805: clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs</li>
! 806: <li>documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
! 807: example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,</li>
! 808: <li>Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
! 809: compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)</li>
! 810: </ul><h3>2.6.8: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs</li>
! 811: <li>XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
! 812: Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)</li>
! 813: <li>Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)</li>
! 814: <li>xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)</li>
! 815: <li>Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
! 816: reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
! 817: failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.</li>
! 818: <li>xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
! 819: <li>bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
! 820: Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
! 821: URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
! 822: XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
! 823: reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
! 824: groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
! 825: do not close stderr.</li>
! 826: <li>performance patches from Petr Pajas</li>
! 827: <li>Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)</li>
! 828: <li>compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
! 829: (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
! 830: to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
! 831: Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)</li>
! 832: </ul><h3>2.6.7: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results</li>
! 833: <li>xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)</li>
! 834: <li>XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)</li>
! 835: <li>DTD ID handling optimization</li>
! 836: <li>bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
! 837: mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
! 838: xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
! 839: handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.</li>
! 840: <li>python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
! 841: <li>Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell</li>
! 842: </ul><h3>2.6.6: Feb 12 2004</h3><ul><li>nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
! 843: William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi</li>
! 844: <li>bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
! 845: (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
! 846: (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
! 847: Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
! 848: XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
! 849: isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
! 850: entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
! 851: <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)</li>
! 852: <li>Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
! 853: (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
! 854: --with-minimum configuration.</li>
! 855: <li>XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.</li>
! 856: <li>Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
! 857: dependancies (John Fleck)</li>
! 858: <li>reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)</li>
! 859: <li>Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
! 860: prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
! 861: patch</li>
! 862: <li>Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
! 863: input.</li>
! 864: </ul><h3>2.6.5: Jan 25 2004</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
! 865: (William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
! 866: (William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
! 867: namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
! 868: (Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
! 869: evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
! 870: XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
! 871: callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)</li>
! 872: <li>Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
! 873: Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.</li>
! 874: <li>Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (Stéphane Bidoul),
! 875: structured error reporting (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
! 876: <li>XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
! 877: references (William & me), recursion (William)</li>
! 878: <li>xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
! 879: Mickautsch),</li>
! 880: <li>xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)</li>
! 881: <li>code cleanup for strings functions (William)</li>
! 882: <li>Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)</li>
! 883: <li>Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
! 884: XSLT optimizations.</li>
! 885: </ul><h3>2.6.4: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
! 886: <li>Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and</li>
! 887: <li>Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,</li>
! 888: <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
! 889: (Lucas Brasilino)</li>
! 890: <li>bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
! 891: NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
! 892: filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
! 893: again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
! 894: Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
! 895: double inclusion behaviour</li>
! 896: </ul><h3>2.6.3: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)</li>
! 897: <li>added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
! 898: Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch</li>
! 899: <li>Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
! 900: (Kenneth Haley)</li>
! 901: <li>Unicode range checking (William Brack)</li>
! 902: <li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
! 903: <li>Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes</li>
! 904: <li>UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)</li>
! 905: <li>bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
! 906: xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
! 907: (James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
! 908: cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
! 909: Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
! 910: (Daniel Schulman)</li>
! 911: <li>XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
! 912: namespace change.</li>
! 913: <li>XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
! 914: namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
! 915: based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes</li>
! 916: <li>preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
! 917: constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
! 918: when streaming.</li>
! 919: <li>various fixes in the structured error handling</li>
! 920: </ul><h3>2.6.2: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>XPath context unregistration fixes</li>
! 921: <li>text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)</li>
! 922: <li>API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)</li>
! 923: <li>BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
! 924: <li>xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)</li>
! 925: <li>compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
! 926: <li>stdin parsing fix (William Brack)</li>
! 927: <li>a posteriori DTD validation fixes</li>
! 928: <li>xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings</li>
! 929: <li>fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors</li>
! 930: <li>always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
! 931: functions</li>
! 932: <li>added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface</li>
! 933: <li>implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option</li>
! 934: <li>DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed</li>
! 935: <li>HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)</li>
! 936: <li>XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors</li>
! 937: <li>fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
! 938: --xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
! 939: serializer)</li>
! 940: </ul><h3>2.6.1: Oct 28 2003</h3><ul><li>Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes</li>
! 941: <li>Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
! 942: (William Brack)</li>
! 943: <li>Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
! 944: Zlatkovic)</li>
! 945: <li>xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)</li>
! 946: <li>chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul</li>
! 947: <li>context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
! 948: Bennett)</li>
! 949: <li>context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable</li>
! 950: <li>defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
! 951: (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
! 952: <li>Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)</li>
! 953: <li>Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0</li>
! 954: <li>xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field</li>
! 955: <li>testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)</li>
! 956: <li>general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
! 957: Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
! 958: XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.</li>
! 959: </ul><h3>2.6.0: Oct 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
! 960: of change</li>
! 961: <li>Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
! 962: a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes</li>
! 963: <li>Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
! 964: text nodes from the dictionnary</li>
! 965: <li>Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
! 966: provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
! 967: allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
! 968: immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...</li>
! 969: <li>rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
! 970: intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
! 971: available.</li>
! 972: <li>New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
! 973: easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
! 974: consecutive documents.</li>
! 975: <li>Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
! 976: functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
! 977: bindings</li>
! 978: <li>a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
! 979: Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
! 980: make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
! 981: extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
! 982: algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
! 983: access</li>
! 984: <li>New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch</li>
! 985: <li>Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico</li>
! 986: <li>Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
! 987: and charset information if available.</li>
! 988: <li>Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
! 989: zeroOrMore, better error reporting.</li>
! 990: <li>Python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), never use stdout for errors
! 991: output</li>
! 992: <li>Portability: all the headers have macros for export and calling
! 993: convention definitions (Igor Zlatkovic), VMS update (Craig A. Berry),
! 994: Windows: threads (Jesse Pelton), Borland compiler (Eric Zurcher, Igor),
! 995: Mingw (Igor), typos (Mark Vakoc), beta version (Stephane Bidoul),
! 996: warning cleanups on AIX and MIPS compilers (William Brack), BeOS (Marcin
! 997: 'Shard' Konicki)</li>
! 998: <li>Documentation fixes and README (William Brack), search fix (William),
! 999: tutorial updates (John Fleck), namespace docs (Stefan Kost)</li>
! 1000: <li>Bug fixes: xmlCleanupParser (Dave Beckett), threading uninitialized
! 1001: mutexes, HTML doctype lowercase, SAX/IO (William), compression detection
! 1002: and restore (William), attribute declaration in DTDs (William), namespace
! 1003: on attribute in HTML output (William), input filename (Rob Richards),
! 1004: namespace DTD validation, xmlReplaceNode (Chris Ryland), I/O callbacks
! 1005: (Markus Keim), CDATA serialization (Shaun McCance), xmlReader (Peter
! 1006: Derr), high codepoint charref like &#x10FFFF;, buffer access in push
! 1007: mode (Justin Fletcher), TLS threads on Windows (Jesse Pelton), XPath bug
! 1008: (William), xmlCleanupParser (Marc Liyanage), CDATA output (William), HTTP
! 1009: error handling.</li>
! 1010: <li>xmllint options: --dtdvalidfpi for Tobias Reif, --sax1 for compat
! 1011: testing, --nodict for building without tree dictionnary, --nocdata to
! 1012: replace CDATA by text, --nsclean to remove surperfluous namespace
! 1013: declarations</li>
! 1014: <li>added xml2-config --libtool-libs option from Kevin P. Fleming</li>
! 1015: <li>a lot of profiling and tuning of the code, speedup patch for
! 1016: xmlSearchNs() by Luca Padovani. The xmlReader should do far less
! 1017: allocation and it speed should get closer to SAX. Chris Anderson worked
! 1018: on speeding and cleaning up repetitive checking code.</li>
! 1019: <li>cleanup of "make tests"</li>
! 1020: <li>libxml-2.0-uninstalled.pc from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
! 1021: <li>deactivated the broken docBook SGML parser code and plugged the XML
! 1022: parser instead.</li>
! 1023: </ul><h3>2.5.11: Sep 9 2003</h3><p>A bugfix only release:</p><ul><li>risk of crash in Relax-NG</li>
! 1024: <li>risk of crash when using multithreaded programs</li>
! 1025: </ul><h3>2.5.10: Aug 15 2003</h3><p>A bugfixes only release</p><ul><li>Windows Makefiles (William Brack)</li>
! 1026: <li>UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)</li>
! 1027: <li>Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
! 1028: on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
! 1029: <li>HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)</li>
! 1030: <li>XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe</li>
! 1031: <li>XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale</li>
! 1032: <li>xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick</li>
! 1033: <li>and a couple other cleanup</li>
! 1034: </ul><h3>2.5.9: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
! 1035: (Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
! 1036: (Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
! 1037: xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
! 1038: Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
! 1039: content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
! 1040: progressive HTML parser</li>
! 1041: <li>better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )</li>
! 1042: <li>adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree</li>
! 1043: <li>doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)</li>
! 1044: <li>configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++</li>
! 1045: <li>couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)</li>
! 1046: <li>general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)</li>
! 1047: <li>xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)</li>
! 1048: <li>general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
! 1049: Brack)</li>
! 1050: </ul><h3>2.5.8: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
! 1051: Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
! 1052: PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
! 1053: Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
! 1054: rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
! 1055: xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)</li>
! 1056: <li>portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)</li>
! 1057: <li>William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems</li>
! 1058: <li>IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)</li>
! 1059: <li>Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
! 1060: Bidoul)</li>
! 1061: <li>A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements</li>
! 1062: <li>W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)</li>
! 1063: <li>Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
! 1064: generator</li>
! 1065: <li>added --nonet option to xmllint</li>
! 1066: <li>documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
! 1067: </ul><h3>2.5.7: Apr 25 2003</h3><ul><li>Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
! 1068: xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream</li>
! 1069: <li>xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes</li>
! 1070: <li>Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance</li>
! 1071: <li>Thread support is now configured in by default</li>
! 1072: <li>Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
! 1073: (Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
! 1074: and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
! 1075: behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
! 1076: error conditions</li>
! 1077: <li>extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
! 1078: allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
! 1079: accordingly.</li>
! 1080: <li>Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
! 1081: xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking</li>
! 1082: <li>Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation</li>
! 1083: <li>Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)</li>
! 1084: </ul><h3>2.5.6: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
! 1085: binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.</li>
! 1086: <li>bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
! 1087: XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
! 1088: Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)</li>
! 1089: <li>portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings</li>
! 1090: <li>documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)</li>
! 1091: <li>improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
! 1092: errors</li>
! 1093: </ul><h3>2.5.5: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
! 1094: DocBook and TEI examples.</li>
! 1095: <li>Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype</li>
! 1096: <li>Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer</li>
! 1097: <li>Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
! 1098: conversion, line counting in the parser.</li>
! 1099: <li>Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete</li>
! 1100: <li>Fixed the RPM spec file name</li>
! 1101: </ul><h3>2.5.4: Feb 20 2003</h3><ul><li>Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
! 1102: implementation</li>
! 1103: <li>Implementation of XPointer element() scheme</li>
! 1104: <li>Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
! 1105: namespaces,
! 1106: <p>2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
! 1107: generation problem.</p>
! 1108: </li>
! 1109: <li>Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)</li>
! 1110: <li>A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)</li>
! 1111: <li>Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)</li>
! 1112: </ul><h3>2.5.3: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
! 1113: version of RelaxNG Python bindings</li>
! 1114: <li>Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
! 1115: serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
! 1116: serialization</li>
! 1117: <li>Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file</li>
! 1118: </ul><h3>2.5.2: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint</li>
! 1119: <li>Schemas support now compiled in by default.</li>
! 1120: <li>Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
! 1121: delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
! 1122: XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
! 1123: consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
! 1124: namespaces</li>
! 1125: <li>added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.</li>
! 1126: <li>Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
! 1127: patches (Stefan Kost)</li>
! 1128: <li>Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
! 1129: <li>Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
! 1130: (Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
! 1131: <li>URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)</li>
! 1132: </ul><h3>2.5.1: Jan 8 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0</li>
! 1133: <li>documentation updates (John)</li>
! 1134: <li>a couple of XmlTextReader fixes</li>
! 1135: </ul><h3>2.5.0: Jan 6 2003</h3><ul><li>New <a href="xmlreader.html">XmltextReader interface</a> based on C#
! 1136: API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)</li>
! 1137: <li>Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)</li>
! 1138: <li>XInclude fallback fix</li>
! 1139: <li>Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
! 1140: drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
! 1141: and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)</li>
! 1142: <li>Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
! 1143: (John)</li>
! 1144: <li>Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura</li>
! 1145: <li>Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)</li>
! 1146: <li>Entities handling fixes</li>
! 1147: <li>new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
! 1148: Schroeder)</li>
! 1149: <li>Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some <a href="guidelines.html">XML guidelines</a></li>
! 1150: </ul><h3>2.4.30: Dec 12 2002</h3><ul><li>2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing</li>
! 1151: <li>Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
! 1152: fixes.</li>
! 1153: </ul><h3>2.4.29: Dec 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
! 1154: (Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates</li>
! 1155: <li>Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)</li>
! 1156: <li>Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)</li>
! 1157: <li>Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
! 1158: dump</li>
! 1159: <li>Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers</li>
! 1160: <li>Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem</li>
! 1161: <li>added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)</li>
! 1162: <li>Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
! 1163: more information needed for C# bindings</li>
! 1164: </ul><h3>2.4.28: Nov 22 2002</h3><ul><li>a couple of python binding fixes</li>
! 1165: <li>2 bug fixes in the XML push parser</li>
! 1166: <li>potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)</li>
! 1167: <li>fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)</li>
! 1168: <li>added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"</li>
! 1169: <li>autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added</li>
! 1170: <li>nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)</li>
! 1171: </ul><h3>2.4.27: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>fixes for the Python bindings</li>
! 1172: <li>a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
! 1173: HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
! 1174: (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
! 1175: xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
! 1176: Pajas), entities processing</li>
! 1177: <li>added grep to xmllint --shell</li>
! 1178: <li>VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry</li>
! 1179: <li>cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
! 1180: better thread support on Windows</li>
! 1181: <li>cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file</li>
! 1182: <li>Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)</li>
! 1183: </ul><h3>2.4.26: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling</li>
! 1184: <li>Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
! 1185: HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
! 1186: problems</li>
! 1187: </ul><h3>2.4.25: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
! 1188: tree, xmlI/O, Html</li>
! 1189: <li>Serious rewrite of XInclude</li>
! 1190: <li>Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
! 1191: and improvement of the regexp core</li>
! 1192: <li>Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs</li>
! 1193: <li>Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
! 1194: Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)</li>
! 1195: <li>Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
! 1196: APIs</li>
! 1197: <li>New logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
! 1198: <li>Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris</li>
! 1199: <li>Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
! 1200: Merlet)</li>
! 1201: <li>removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting</li>
! 1202: <li>Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation</li>
! 1203: <li>update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)</li>
! 1204: </ul><p><strong>2.4.24: Aug 22 2002</strong></p><ul><li>XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)</li>
! 1205: <li>Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
! 1206: (fcrozat)</li>
! 1207: <li>HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes</li>
! 1208: <li>C14N improvements by Aleksey</li>
! 1209: <li>doc cleanups: Rick Jones</li>
! 1210: <li>Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham</li>
! 1211: <li>XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added</li>
! 1212: </ul><h3>2.4.23: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>performances patches: Peter Jacobi</li>
! 1213: <li>c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin</li>
! 1214: <li>added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio</li>
! 1215: <li>new tutorial: John Fleck</li>
! 1216: <li>new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
! 1217: Peter Jacobi</li>
! 1218: <li>a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
! 1219: HTML parsers, ID lookup function</li>
! 1220: <li>removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin</li>
! 1221: </ul><h3>2.4.22: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
! 1222: usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
! 1223: indentation, URI parsing</li>
! 1224: <li>Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
! 1225: protocol handlers (Aleksey)</li>
! 1226: <li>performance patch from Gary Pennington</li>
! 1227: <li>Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
! 1228: datatypes</li>
! 1229: </ul><h3>2.4.21: Apr 29 2002</h3><p>This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
! 1230: Schemas <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
! 1231: interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
! 1232: progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
! 1233: it'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>
! 1234: <li>patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor</li>
! 1235: <li>some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
! 1236: Jinks</li>
! 1237: <li>patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification</li>
! 1238: <li>OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn</li>
! 1239: </ul><h3>2.4.20: Apr 15 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation</li>
! 1240: <li>XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks</li>
! 1241: <li>Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
! 1242: libxml.m4</li>
! 1243: </ul><h3>2.4.19: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
! 1244: encoder</li>
! 1245: <li>portability fixes in the HTTP code</li>
! 1246: <li>memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests</li>
! 1247: <li>revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles</li>
! 1248: </ul><h3>2.4.18: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
! 1249: XPath</li>
! 1250: <li>removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable</li>
! 1251: <li>serious cleanup of the Python makefiles</li>
! 1252: <li>speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets</li>
! 1253: <li>Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation</li>
! 1254: </ul><h3>2.4.17: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
! 1255: XPath"</li>
! 1256: <li>fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
! 1257: regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets</li>
! 1258: <li>added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin</li>
! 1259: </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
! 1260: from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.</li>
! 1261: <li>a couple of portability fixes too.</li>
! 1262: </ul><h3>2.4.15: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones</li>
! 1263: <li>A few bug fixes and cleanup</li>
! 1264: <li>Includes cleanup</li>
! 1265: </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
! 1266: License</a> basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
! 1267: confusion around the previous dual-licensing</li>
! 1268: <li>added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
! 1269: complete</li>
! 1270: <li>a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
! 1271: manipulations</li>
! 1272: <li>cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
! 1273: XML</li>
! 1274: </ul><h3>2.4.13: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman</li>
! 1275: <li>cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher</li>
! 1276: <li>fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
! 1277: Narojnyi</li>
! 1278: <li>Cygwin patch from Robert Collins</li>
! 1279: <li>added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg</li>
! 1280: </ul><h3>2.4.12: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
! 1281: XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
! 1282: (robert)</li>
! 1283: <li>Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS</li>
! 1284: <li>some makefiles cleanups</li>
! 1285: </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
! 1286: cleanups</li>
! 1287: <li>xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp</li>
! 1288: <li>updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
! 1289: <li>Windows Makefiles updates from Igor</li>
! 1290: </ul><h3>2.4.10: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>URI escaping fix (Joel Young)</li>
! 1291: <li>added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)</li>
! 1292: <li>Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation</li>
! 1293: <li>improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
! 1294: --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell</li>
! 1295: <li>fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao</li>
! 1296: <li>fixes to the HTML parser</li>
! 1297: </ul><h3>2.4.9: Nov 6 2001</h3><ul><li>fixes more catalog bugs</li>
! 1298: <li>avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()</li>
! 1299: </ul><h3>2.4.8: Nov 4 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
! 1300: tool</li>
! 1301: <li>fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.</li>
! 1302: </ul><h3>2.4.7: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>exported some debugging interfaces</li>
! 1303: <li>serious rewrite of the catalog code</li>
! 1304: <li>integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
! 1305: and regression tests</li>
! 1306: <li>removed an HTML parser bug</li>
! 1307: <li>fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs</li>
! 1308: <li>integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint</li>
! 1309: <li>changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd</li>
! 1310: <li>some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper</li>
! 1311: <li>general bug fixes</li>
! 1312: <li>updated xmllint man page by John Fleck</li>
! 1313: <li>some VMS and Windows updates</li>
! 1314: </ul><h3>2.4.6: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>added an updated man pages by John Fleck</li>
! 1315: <li>portability and configure fixes</li>
! 1316: <li>an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)</li>
! 1317: <li>Windows makefile patches from Igor</li>
! 1318: <li>fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt</li>
! 1319: <li>updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs</li>
! 1320: </ul><h3>2.4.5: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4</li>
! 1321: <li>forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
! 1322: version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones</li>
! 1323: </ul><h3>1.8.16: Sep 14 2001</h3><ul><li>maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
! 1324: portability fixes</li>
! 1325: </ul><h3>2.4.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
! 1326: Catalog</li>
! 1327: <li>a few bug fixes and some portability changes</li>
! 1328: <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
! 1329: </ul><h3>2.4.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
! 1330: <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
! 1331: <li>A few bug fixes</li>
! 1332: </ul><h3>2.4.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation</li>
! 1333: <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
! 1334: <li>the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date</li>
! 1335: <li>inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes</li>
! 1336: <li>fixes a serious potential security bug</li>
! 1337: <li>added a --format option to xmllint</li>
! 1338: </ul><h3>2.4.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>possibility to keep line numbers in the tree</li>
! 1339: <li>some computation NaN fixes</li>
! 1340: <li>extension of the XPath API</li>
! 1341: <li>cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets</li>
! 1342: <li>patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST</li>
! 1343: </ul><h3>2.4.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.</li>
! 1344: <li>Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
! 1345: regression tests</li>
! 1346: <li>A bit of cleanup</li>
! 1347: </ul><h3>2.3.14: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
! 1348: substituting them</li>
! 1349: <li>lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
! 1350: substantially faster</li>
! 1351: <li>Makefiles and configure cleanups</li>
! 1352: <li>Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set</li>
! 1353: <li>HTML tag closing bug fixed</li>
! 1354: <li>Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating</li>
! 1355: </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>
! 1356: <li>a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek</li>
! 1357: </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>
! 1358: <li>Small Makefile fix</li>
! 1359: </ul><h3>2.3.12: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanup</li>
! 1360: <li>a couple of validation fix</li>
! 1361: <li>fixed line number counting</li>
! 1362: <li>fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing</li>
! 1363: <li>added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities</li>
! 1364: <li>fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
! 1365: miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
! 1366: optimizer on Tru64</li>
! 1367: <li>incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic fixes and improvements for
! 1368: compilation on Windows MSC</li>
! 1369: <li>update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)</li>
! 1370: <li>fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code</li>
! 1371: </ul><h3>2.3.11: June 17 2001</h3><ul><li>updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
! 1372: problems (alpha)</li>
! 1373: <li>fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
! 1374: handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code</li>
! 1375: <li>added xmlHasNsProp()</li>
! 1376: <li>implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
! 1377: parser</li>
! 1378: <li>some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
! 1379: node selection)</li>
! 1380: <li>fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code</li>
! 1381: <li>fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour</li>
! 1382: <li>fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice</li>
! 1383: <li>added --version to xmllint for bug reports</li>
! 1384: </ul><h3>2.3.10: June 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed the SGML catalog support</li>
! 1385: <li>a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
! 1386: XInclude processing</li>
! 1387: <li>XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly</li>
! 1388: </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>
! 1389: <li>some serious speed optimization again</li>
! 1390: <li>some documentation cleanups</li>
! 1391: <li>trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)</li>
! 1392: <li>XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer</li>
! 1393: <li>Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
! 1394: xmlValidGetValidElements()</li>
! 1395: <li>Added an INSTALL file</li>
! 1396: <li>Attribute removal added to API: #54433</li>
! 1397: <li>added a basic support for SGML catalogs</li>
! 1398: <li>fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API</li>
! 1399: <li>bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()</li>
! 1400: <li>fixed a small configure portability problem</li>
! 1401: <li>fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document</li>
! 1402: </ul><h3>1.8.13: May 14 2001</h3><ul><li>bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome</li>
! 1403: </ul><h3>2.3.8: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project</li>
! 1404: <li>Fixed a few things in the HTML parser</li>
! 1405: <li>Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
! 1406: point portability issue</li>
! 1407: <li>Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
! 1408: DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).</li>
! 1409: <li>incorporated more Windows cleanup</li>
! 1410: <li>added xmlSaveFormatFile()</li>
! 1411: <li>fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)</li>
! 1412: <li>removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module</li>
! 1413: </ul><h3>2.3.7: April 22 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer</li>
! 1414: <li>Non deterministic content model validation support</li>
! 1415: <li>added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2</li>
! 1416: <li>revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags</li>
! 1417: <li>XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting</li>
! 1418: <li>Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation</li>
! 1419: <li>HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack</li>
! 1420: <li>Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook</li>
! 1421: <li>fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities</li>
! 1422: <li>portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese</li>
! 1423: </ul><h3>2.3.6: April 8 2001</h3><ul><li>Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
! 1424: cleared half a dozen potential problem</li>
! 1425: <li>the Eazel team found an XML parser bug</li>
! 1426: <li>cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
! 1427: trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
! 1428: them</li>
! 1429: <li>xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
! 1430: problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
! 1431: broken ...</li>
! 1432: </ul><h3>2.3.5: Mar 23 2001</h3><ul><li>Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
! 1433: there is some new APIs for this too</li>
! 1434: <li>included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
! 1435: 52299)</li>
! 1436: <li>Fixed some portability issues</li>
! 1437: </ul><h3>2.3.4: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861</li>
! 1438: <li>Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
! 1439: size to be application tunable.</li>
! 1440: <li>Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
! 1441: should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\</li>
! 1442: <li>Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
! 1443: parser</li>
! 1444: <li>Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()</li>
! 1445: <li>Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting</li>
! 1446: <li>Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing</li>
! 1447: <li>blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
! 1448: are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance</li>
! 1449: </ul><h3>2.3.3: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>small change in XPath for XSLT</li>
! 1450: <li>documentation cleanups</li>
! 1451: <li>fix in validation by Gary Pennington</li>
! 1452: <li>serious parsing performances improvements</li>
! 1453: </ul><h3>2.3.2: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO</li>
! 1454: <li>fixed a Dtd parsing bug</li>
! 1455: <li>fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent</li>
! 1456: <li>ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington</li>
! 1457: </ul><h3>2.3.1: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT</li>
! 1458: <li>small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
! 1459: implementation</li>
! 1460: <li>A few bug fixes</li>
! 1461: </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>
! 1462: <li>Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
! 1463: XSLT</li>
! 1464: <li>Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)</li>
! 1465: <li>bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename</li>
! 1466: <li>validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington</li>
! 1467: <li>Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization</li>
! 1468: <li>Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
! 1469: libxml2-devel</li>
! 1470: <li>the example Makefile is now fixed</li>
! 1471: <li>added HTML to the RPM packages</li>
! 1472: <li>tree copying bugfixes</li>
! 1473: <li>updates to Windows makefiles</li>
! 1474: <li>optimization patch from Bjorn Reese</li>
! 1475: </ul><h3>2.2.11: Jan 4 2001</h3><ul><li>bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)</li>
! 1476: <li>added htmlHandleOmittedElem()</li>
! 1477: <li>Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch</li>
! 1478: <li>Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results</li>
! 1479: <li>added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support</li>
! 1480: </ul><h3>2.2.10: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8</li>
! 1481: <li>integrate OpenVMS patches</li>
! 1482: <li>better handling of some nasty HTML input</li>
! 1483: <li>Improved the XPointer implementation</li>
! 1484: <li>integrate a number of provided patches</li>
! 1485: </ul><h3>2.2.9: Nov 25 2000</h3><ul><li>erroneous release :-(</li>
! 1486: </ul><h3>2.2.8: Nov 13 2000</h3><ul><li>First version of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xinclude">XInclude</a>
! 1487: support</li>
! 1488: <li>Patch in conditional section handling</li>
! 1489: <li>updated MS compiler project</li>
! 1490: <li>fixed some XPath problems</li>
! 1491: <li>added an URI escaping function</li>
! 1492: <li>some other bug fixes</li>
! 1493: </ul><h3>2.2.7: Oct 31 2000</h3><ul><li>added message redirection</li>
! 1494: <li>XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)</li>
! 1495: <li>xmlIOParseDTD() added</li>
! 1496: <li>various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support</li>
! 1497: <li>some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content</li>
! 1498: </ul><h3>2.2.6: Oct 25 2000:</h3><ul><li>Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
! 1499: those</li>
! 1500: <li>Fixed a posteriori validation problems</li>
! 1501: <li>HTTP module cleanups</li>
! 1502: <li>HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
! 1503: normalization)</li>
! 1504: <li>coalescing of adjacent text nodes</li>
! 1505: <li>couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API</li>
! 1506: </ul><h3>2.2.5: Oct 15 2000:</h3><ul><li>XPointer implementation and testsuite</li>
! 1507: <li>Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
! 1508: tests</li>
! 1509: <li>Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
! 1510: and release</li>
! 1511: <li>Late validation fixes</li>
! 1512: <li>Integrated a lot of contributed patches</li>
! 1513: <li>added memory management docs</li>
! 1514: <li>a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed</li>
! 1515: </ul><h3>2.2.4: Oct 1 2000:</h3><ul><li>main XPath problem fixed</li>
! 1516: <li>Integrated portability patches for Windows</li>
! 1517: <li>Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code</li>
! 1518: </ul><h3>2.2.3: Sep 17 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes</li>
! 1519: <li>cleanup of entity handling code</li>
! 1520: <li>overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
! 1521: checked too</li>
! 1522: <li>Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
! 1523: works smoothly now.</li>
! 1524: </ul><h3>1.8.10: Sep 6 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fix release for some Gnome projects</li>
! 1525: </ul><h3>2.2.2: August 12 2000</h3><ul><li>mostly bug fixes</li>
! 1526: <li>started adding routines to access xml parser context options</li>
! 1527: </ul><h3>2.2.1: July 21 2000</h3><ul><li>a purely bug fixes release</li>
! 1528: <li>fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block</li>
! 1529: <li>fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem</li>
! 1530: <li>removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
! 1531: allocation routines</li>
! 1532: </ul><h3>2.2.0: July 14 2000</h3><ul><li>applied a lot of portability fixes</li>
! 1533: <li>better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
! 1534: encoded in UTF-8)</li>
! 1535: <li>the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings</li>
! 1536: <li>added xmlHasProp()</li>
! 1537: <li>fixed a serious problem with &#38;</li>
! 1538: <li>propagated the fix to FTP client</li>
! 1539: <li>cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...</li>
! 1540: <li>Added a page about <a href="encoding.html">libxml Internationalization
! 1541: support</a></li>
! 1542: </ul><h3>1.8.9: July 9 2000</h3><ul><li>fixed the spec the RPMs should be better</li>
! 1543: <li>fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
! 1544: rpmfind users problem</li>
! 1545: </ul><h3>2.1.1: July 1 2000</h3><ul><li>fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging</li>
! 1546: <li>improvements on the HTML parser</li>
! 1547: </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
! 1548: to <a href="upgrade.html">new instructions</a>. It fixes a nasty problem
! 1549: about &#38; charref parsing</li>
! 1550: <li>2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
! 1551: also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
! 1552: <ul><li>added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing</li>
! 1553: <li>improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs</li>
! 1554: <li>includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology</li>
! 1555: <li>tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
! 1556: related problems</li>
! 1557: <li>output to a given encoding has been added/tested</li>
! 1558: <li>lot of various fixes</li>
! 1559: </ul></li>
! 1560: </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
! 1561: idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
! 1562: scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
! 1563: workload.</li>
! 1564: <li>The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
! 1565: $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
! 1566: <pre>#include <libxml/xxx.h></pre>
! 1567: <p>instead of</p>
! 1568: <pre>#include "xxx.h"</pre>
! 1569: </li>
! 1570: <li>a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396</li>
! 1571: <li>the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
! 1572: dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()</li>
! 1573: <li>The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
! 1574: <strong>xmllint</strong> and is now installed as part of the libxml2
! 1575: package</li>
! 1576: <li>The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
! 1577: specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
! 1578: xmlRegisterInputCallbacks() or by passing I/O functions when creating a
! 1579: parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()</li>
! 1580: <li>there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
! 1581: number of the libxml module in use</li>
! 1582: <li>a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
! 1583: configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)</li>
! 1584: </ul><h3>2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2</li>
! 1585: <li>It's available only from<a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/">xmlsoft.org
! 1586: FTP</a>, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
! 1587: RPMs</li>
! 1588: <li>This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
! 1589: available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X</li>
! 1590: <li>This includes a very large set of changes. From a programmatic point
! 1591: of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
! 1592: <a href="upgrade.html">upgrade page</a></li>
! 1593: <li>Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).</li>
! 1594: <li>the updates includes:
! 1595: <ul><li>fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
! 1596: handled now</li>
! 1597: <li>Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
! 1598: and proper PEref extensions in external subsets</li>
! 1599: <li>DTD conditional sections</li>
! 1600: <li>Validation now correctly handle entities content</li>
! 1601: <li><a href="http://rpmfind.net/tools/gdome/messages/0039.html">change
! 1602: structures to accommodate DOM</a></li>
! 1603: </ul></li>
! 1604: <li>Serious progress were made toward compliance, <a href="conf/result.html">here are the result of the test</a> against the
! 1605: OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
! 1606: encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
! 1607: head version.</li>
! 1608: </ul><h3>1.8.7: Mar 6 2000</h3><ul><li>This is a bug fix release:</li>
! 1609: <li>It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
! 1610: libxml-1.x, a new function xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
! 1611: that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
! 1612: default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
! 1613: old code.</li>
! 1614: <li>Blanks in <a> </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
! 1615: avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\</li>
! 1616: <li>The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
! 1617: compilation on some platforms has been fixed</li>
! 1618: <li>nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
! 1619: URIs</li>
! 1620: </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
! 1621: it without troubles</li>
! 1622: </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
! 1623: XML spec)</li>
! 1624: <li>fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no</li>
! 1625: <li>Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
! 1626: to solve the zlib checks problems</li>
! 1627: <li>The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
! 1628: gnumeric soon</li>
! 1629: </ul><h3>1.8.4: Jan 13 2000</h3><ul><li>bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()</li>
! 1630: <li>all exit() call should have been removed from libxml</li>
! 1631: <li>fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform</li>
! 1632: <li>added newDocFragment()</li>
! 1633: </ul><h3>1.8.3: Jan 5 2000</h3><ul><li>a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers</li>
! 1634: <li>a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)</li>
! 1635: <li>lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays</li>
! 1636: <li>fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD</li>
! 1637: <li>added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()</li>
! 1638: <li>Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()</li>
! 1639: <li>External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
! 1640: xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added</li>
! 1641: <li>cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff</li>
! 1642: </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
! 1643: for good this time</li>
! 1644: <li>Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
! 1645: xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
! 1646: xmlDocSetRootElement</li>
! 1647: <li>Tried to improve the HTML output with help from <a href="mailto:clahey@umich.edu">Chris Lahey</a></li>
! 1648: </ul><h3>1.8.1: Dec 18 1999</h3><ul><li>various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
! 1649: the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files</li>
! 1650: <li>a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected</li>
! 1651: <li>fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
! 1652: and more specifically the Dia application</li>
! 1653: <li>fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
! 1654: Dtd not specified in the original document)</li>
! 1655: <li>fixed a bug in</li>
! 1656: </ul><h3>1.8.0: Dec 12 1999</h3><ul><li>cleanup, especially memory wise</li>
! 1657: <li>the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
! 1658: not crash, whatever the input !</li>
! 1659: <li>Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
! 1660: dataset from <a href="mailto:cnygard@bellatlantic.net">Carl Nygard</a>,
! 1661: configure with --with-buffers to enable them.</li>
! 1662: <li>attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !</li>
! 1663: <li>attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
! 1664: does entities escaping by default.</li>
! 1665: </ul><h3>1.7.4: Oct 25 1999</h3><ul><li>Lots of HTML improvement</li>
! 1666: <li>Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML</li>
! 1667: <li>More examples, the regression tests should now look clean</li>
! 1668: <li>Fixed a bug with contiguous charref</li>
! 1669: </ul><h3>1.7.3: Sep 29 1999</h3><ul><li>portability problems fixed</li>
! 1670: <li>snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
! 1671: were it's not available, fixed</li>
! 1672: </ul><h3>1.7.1: Sep 24 1999</h3><ul><li>The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
! 1673: 1.7.1 from <strong>CHAR</strong> to <strong>xmlChar</strong>. The reason
! 1674: is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
! 1675: on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of a
! 1676: <strong>#define </strong>.</li>
! 1677: <li>Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
! 1678: leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro</li>
! 1679: </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>
! 1680: <li>Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
! 1681: like callback</li>
! 1682: <li>Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation</li>
! 1683: <li>Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a <a href="html/libxml-xmlmemory.html">memory wrapper</a> module)</li>
! 1684: <li>Improvement of <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath">XPath</a>
! 1685: implementation</li>
! 1686: <li>Added an HTML parser front-end</li>
! 1687: </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>
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