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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 &amp; DTDs</a></li><li><a href="encoding.html">Encodings support</a></li><li><a href="catalog.html">Catalog support</a></li><li><a href="namespaces.html">Namespaces</a></li><li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li><li><a href="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 – 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 &lt;&gt; (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 &amp;
  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 &amp; 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 &lt;xml:foo/&gt;, 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-&gt;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 &lt;group&gt; 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 &amp;
  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 &lt;choice&gt;
  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  &gt; 19 fractional (William Brack), push
  837:     mode with unescaped '&gt;' 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:     &lt;xs:all&gt; 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 &amp; 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 &lt;p&gt; 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&lt;-&gt;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 &amp;#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 &lt;style&gt; 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 &amp;#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 &amp;#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 &lt;libxml/xxx.h&gt;</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 &lt;a&gt;  &lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;jgoldberg@home.com&gt; 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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