2.8.0: May 23 2012
Features: - add lzma compression support (Anders F Bjorklund)
Documentation: xmlcatalog: Add uri and delegateURI to possible
add types in man page. (Ville Skyttä), Update README.tests
(Daniel Veillard), URI handling code is not OOM resilient
(Daniel Veillard), Fix an error in comment (Daniel Veillard),
Fixed bug #617016 (Daniel Mustieles), Fixed two typos in the
README document (Daniel Neel), add generated html files (Anders
F Bjorklund), Clarify the need to use xmlFreeNode after
xmlUnlinkNode (Daniel Veillard), Improve documentation a bit
(Daniel Veillard), Updated URL for lxml python bindings (Daniel
Veillard)
Portability: Restore code for Windows compilation (Daniel
Veillard), Remove git error message during configure (Christian
Dywan), xmllint: Build fix for endTimer if !defined(HAVE_GETTIMEOFDAY)
(Patrick R. Gansterer), remove a bashism in confgure.in (John
Hein), undef ERROR if already defined (Patrick R. Gansterer),
Fix library problems with mingw-w64 (Michael Cronenworth), fix
windows build. ifdef addition from bug 666491 makes no sense
(Rob Richards), prefer native threads on win32 (Sam Thursfield),
Allow to compile with Visual Studio 2010 (Thomas Lemm), Fix
mingw's snprintf configure check (Andoni Morales), fixed a
64bit big endian issue (Marcus Meissner), Fix portability
failure if netdb.h lacks NO_ADDRESS (Daniel Veillard), Fix
windows build from lzma addition (Rob Richards), autogen: Only
check for libtoolize (Colin Walters), Fix the Windows build
files (Patrick von Reth), 634846 Remove a linking option breaking
Windows VC10 (Daniel Veillard), 599241 fix an initialization
problem on Win64 (Andrew W. Nosenko), fix win build (Rob
Richards)
Bug fixes: Part for rand_r checking missing (Daniel Veillard),
Cleanup on randomization (Daniel Veillard), Fix undefined
reference in python module (Pacho Ramos), Fix a race in
xmlNewInputStream (Daniel Veillard), Fix weird streaming RelaxNG
errors (Noam), Fix various bugs in new code raised by the API
checking (Daniel Veillard), Fix various problems with "make
dist" (Daniel Veillard), Fix a memory leak in the xzlib code
(Daniel Veillard), HTML parser error with <noscript> in the
<head> (Denis Pauk), XSD: optional element in complex type
extension (Remi Gacogne), Fix html serialization error and
htmlSetMetaEncoding() (Daniel Veillard), Fix a wrong return
value in previous patch (Daniel Veillard), Fix an uninitialized
variable use (Daniel Veillard), Fix a compilation problem with
--minimum (Brandon Slack), Remove redundant and ungarded include
of resolv.h (Daniel Veillard), xinclude with parse="text" does
not use the entity loader (Shaun McCance), Allow to parse 1
byte HTML files (Denis Pauk), Patch that fixes the skipping of
the HTML_PARSE_NOIMPLIED flag (Martin Schröder), Avoid memory
leak if xmlParserInputBufferCreateIO fails (Lin Yi-Li), Prevent
an infinite loop when dumping a node with encoding problems
(Timothy Elliott), xmlParseNodeInContext problems with an empty
document (Tim Elliott), HTML element position is not detected
propperly (Pavel Andrejs), Fix an off by one pointer access
(Jüri Aedla), Try to fix a problem with entities in SAX mode
(Daniel Veillard), Fix a crash with xmllint --path on empty
results (Daniel Veillard), Fixed bug #667946 (Daniel Mustieles),
Fix a logic error in Schemas Component Constraints (Ryan Sleevi),
Fix a wrong enum type use in Schemas Types (Nico Weber), Fix
SAX2 builder in case of undefined attributes namespace (Daniel
Veillard), Fix SAX2 builder in case of undefined element
namespaces (Daniel Veillard), fix reference to STDOUT_FILENO
on MSVC (Tay Ray Chuan), fix a pair of possible out of array
char references (Daniel Veillard), Fix an allocation error when
copying entities (Daniel Veillard), Make sure the parser returns
when getting a Stop order (Chris Evans), Fix some potential
problems on reallocation failures(parser.c) (Xia Xinfeng), Fix
a schema type duration comparison overflow (Daniel Veillard),
Fix an unimplemented part in RNG value validation (Daniel
Veillard), Fix missing error status in XPath evaluation (Daniel
Veillard), Hardening of XPath evaluation (Daniel Veillard),
Fix an off by one error in encoding (Daniel Veillard), Fix
RELAX NG include bug #655288 (Shaun McCance), Fix XSD validation
bug #630130 (Toyoda Eizi), Fix some potential problems on
reallocation failures (Chris Evans), __xmlRaiseError: fix use
of the structured callback channel (Dmitry V. Levin),
__xmlRaiseError: fix the structured callback channel's data
initialization (Dmitry V. Levin), Fix memory corruption when
xmlParseBalancedChunkMemoryInternal is called from
xmlParseBalancedChunk (Rob Richards), Small fix for previous
commit (Daniel Veillard), Fix a potential freeing error in
XPath (Daniel Veillard), Fix a potential memory access error
(Daniel Veillard), Reactivate the shared library versionning
script (Daniel Veillard)
Improvements: use mingw C99 compatible functions {v}snprintf
instead those from MSVC runtime (Roumen Petrov), New symbols
added for the next release (Daniel Veillard), xmlTextReader
bails too quickly on error (Andy Lutomirski), Use a hybrid
allocation scheme in xmlNodeSetContent (Conrad Irwin), Use
buffers when constructing string node lists. (Conrad Irwin),
Add HTML parser support for HTML5 meta charset encoding
declaration (Denis Pauk), wrong message for double hyp"whereis"
command to xmllint shell (Ryan), Improve xmllint shell (Ryan),
add function xmlTextReaderRelaxNGValidateCtxt() (Noam Postavsky),
Add --system support to autogen.sh (Daniel Veillard), Add hash
randomization to hash and dict structures (Daniel Veillard),
included xzlib in dist (Anders F Bjorklund), move xz/lzma
helpers to separate included files (Anders F Bjorklund), add
generated devhelp files (Anders F Bjorklund), add XML_WITH_LZMA
to api (Anders F Bjorklund), autogen.sh: Honor NOCONFIGURE
environment variable (Colin Walters), Improve the error report
on undefined REFs (Daniel Veillard), Add exception for new W3C
PI xml-model (Daniel Veillard), Add options to ignore the
internal encoding (Daniel Veillard), testapi: use the right
type for the check (Stefan Kost), various: handle return values
of write calls (Stefan Kost), testWriter:
xmlTextWriterWriteFormatElement wants an int instead of a long
int (Stefan Kost), runxmlconf: update to latest testsuite
version (Stefan Kost), configure: add -Wno-long-long to CFLAGS
(Stefan Kost), configure: support silent automake rules if
possible (Stefan Kost), xmlmemory: add a cast as size_t has no
portable printf modifier (Stefan Kost), __xmlRaiseError: remove
redundant schannel initialization (Dmitry V. Levin), __xmlRaiseError:
do cheap code check early (Dmitry V. Levin)
Cleanups: Cleanups before 2.8.0-rc2 (Daniel Veillard), Avoid
an extra operation (Daniel Veillard), Remove vestigial
de-ANSI-fication support. (Javier Jardón), autogen.sh: Fix
typo (Javier Jardón), Do not use unsigned but unsigned int
(Daniel Veillard), Remove two references to u_short (Daniel
Veillard), Fix -Wempty-body warning from clang (Nico Weber),
Cleanups of lzma support (Daniel Veillard), Augment the list
of ignored files (Daniel Veillard), python: remove unused
variable (Stefan Kost), python: flag two unused args (Stefan
Kost), configure: acconfig.h is deprecated since autoconf-2.50
(Stefan Kost), xpath: remove unused variable (Stefan Kost)
2.6.28: Apr 17 2007:
- Documentation: comment fixes (Markus Keim), xpath comments fixes too
(James Dennett)
- Bug fixes: XPath bug (William Brack), HTML parser autoclose stack usage
(Usamah Malik), various regexp bug fixes (DV and William), path conversion
on Windows (Igor Zlatkovic), htmlCtxtReset fix (Michael Day), XPath
principal node of axis bug, HTML serialization of some codepoint
(Steven Rainwater), user data propagation in XInclude (Michael Day),
standalone and XML decl detection (Michael Day), Python id ouptut
for some id, fix the big python string memory leak, URI parsing fixes
(Stéphane Bidoul and William), long comments parsing bug (William),
concurrent threads initialization (Ted Phelps), invalid char
in text XInclude (William), XPath memory leak (William), tab in
python problems (Andreas Hanke), XPath node comparison error
(Oleg Paraschenko), cleanup patch for reader (Julien Reichel),
XML Schemas attribute group (William), HTML parsing problem (William),
fix char 0x2d in regexps (William), regexp quantifier range with
min occurs of 0 (William), HTML script/style parsing (Mike Day)
- Improvement: make xmlTextReaderSetup() public
- Compilation and postability: fix a missing include problem (William),
__ss_familly on AIX again (Björn Wiberg), compilation without zlib
(Michael Day), catalog patch for Win32 (Christian Ehrlicher),
Windows CE fixes (Andreas Stricke)
- Various CVS to SVN infrastructure changes
2.6.21: Sep 4 2005:
- build fixes: Cygwin portability fixes (Gerrit P. Haase), calling
convention problems on Windows (Marcus Boerger), cleanups based on
Linus' sparse tool, update of win32/configure.js (Rob Richards),
remove warnings on Windows(Marcus Boerger), compilation without SAX1,
detection of the Python binary, use $GCC inestad of $CC = 'gcc' (Andrew
W. Nosenko), compilation/link with threads and old gcc, compile
problem by C370 on Z/OS,
- bug fixes: http_proxy environments (Peter Breitenlohner), HTML UTF-8
bug (Jiri Netolicky), XPath NaN compare bug (William Brack),
htmlParseScript potential bug, Schemas regexp handling of spaces,
Base64 Schemas comparisons NIST passes, automata build error xsd:all,
xmlGetNodePath for namespaced attributes (Alexander Pohoyda),
xmlSchemas foreign namespaces handling, XML Schemas facet comparison
(Kupriyanov Anatolij), xmlSchemaPSimpleTypeErr error report (Kasimier
Buchcik), xml: namespace ahndling in Schemas (Kasimier), empty model
group in Schemas (Kasimier), wilcard in Schemas (Kasimier), URI
composition (William), xs:anyType in Schemas (Kasimier), Python resolver
emmitting error messages directly, Python xmlAttr.parent (Jakub Piotr
Clapa), trying to fix the file path/URI conversion,
xmlTextReaderGetAttribute fix (Rob Richards), xmlSchemaFreeAnnot memleak
(Kasimier), HTML UTF-8 serialization, streaming XPath, Schemas determinism
detection problem, XInclude bug, Schemas context type (Dean Hill),
validation fix (Derek Poon), xmlTextReaderGetAttribute[Ns] namespaces
(Rob Richards), Schemas type fix (Kuba Nowakowski), UTF-8 parser bug,
error in encoding handling, xmlGetLineNo fixes, bug on entities handling,
entity name extraction in error handling with XInclude, text nodes
in HTML body tags (Gary Coady), xml:id and IDness at the treee level
fixes, XPath streaming patterns bugs.
- improvements: structured interfaces for schemas and RNG error reports
(Marcus Boerger), optimization of the char data inner loop parsing
(thanks to Behdad Esfahbod for the idea), schematron validation
though not finished yet, xmlSaveOption to omit XML declaration,
keyref match error reports (Kasimier), formal expression handling
code not plugged yet, more lax mode for the HTML parser,
parser XML_PARSE_COMPACT option for text nodes allocation.
- documentation: xmllint man page had --nonet duplicated
This release includes a lot of fixes and improvement to existing
features plus a few new APIs:
* build fixes:
- Windows
- warnings removal (William Brack)
- maintainer-clean dependency(William)
- build in a different directory (William)
- fixing --with-minimum configure build (William)
- BeOS build (Marcin Konicki)
- compilation on AIX (Dan McNichol)
* bug fixes:
- xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards)
- xmlCtxtReadFile() to use the catalog(s)
- loop on output (William Brack)
- XPath memory leak
- ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard)
- debugDumpNode crash (William)
- warning not using error callback (William)
- xmlStopParser bug (William)
- UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William)
- namespace bug on empty elements in push mode (Rob Richards)
- line and col computations fixups (Aleksey Sanin)
- xmlURIEscape fix (William)
- xmlXPathErr on bad range (William)
- patterns with too many steps
- bug in RNG choice optimization
- line number sometimes missing.
* improvements:
- XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik)
- xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William)
- XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik)
* new APIs:
- added xmlDictExists()
- GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber for the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin)
- Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs (mostly Joel Reed)
- error extraction API from regexps
- new XMLSave option for format (Phil Shafer)
* documentation:
- site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries (William).
All library names listed by *.la files no longer need to be listed
in the PLIST, e.g., instead of:
lib/libfoo.a
lib/libfoo.la
lib/libfoo.so
lib/libfoo.so.0
lib/libfoo.so.0.1
one simply needs:
lib/libfoo.la
and bsd.pkg.mk will automatically ensure that the additional library
names are listed in the installed package +CONTENTS file.
Also make LIBTOOLIZE_PLIST default to "yes".
2.6.11: July 5 2004:
- Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
attributes, namespaces and simple types.
- build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack), some gcc cleanup
(William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
- portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
path on Windows
- documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
(John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
- bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
(William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
improvement (with Stéphane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
synchronous behaviour.
- improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
Parent and William)
- performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
the code generated in the RPM packages.
use xmlsoft's FTP since GNOME's hasn't got this version
2.6.10: May 17 2004
- build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
- portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++
do not use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5
(Ed Davis),
- improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
(Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of
serialization escaping, added escaping customization
- bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs
(William Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with
reader, URI escaping and filemanes, XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer),
regexp transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
(William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'
2.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
- First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
- XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
- Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
- xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
- Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
- xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
- bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William), regexps char
groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
do not close stderr.
- performance patches from Petr Pajas
- Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
- compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
(Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
to Windows (Christophe de Vienne), --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)
Changes:
- Bugfixes: dictionnaries for schemas (William Brack), regexp segfault
(William), xs:all problem (William), a number of XPointer bugfixes
(William), xmllint error go to stderr, DTD validation problem with
namespace, memory leak (William), SAX1 cleanup and minimal options fixes
(Mark Vadoc), parser context reset on error (Shaun McCance), XPath union
evaluation problem (William) , xmlReallocLoc with NULL (Aleksey Sanin),
XML Schemas double free (Steve Ball), XInclude with no href, argument
callbacks order for XPath callbacks (Frederic Peters)
- Documentation: python scripts (William Brack), xslt stylesheets (John
Fleck), doc (Sven Zimmerman), I/O example.
- XInclude: various fixes for conformance, problem related to dictionnary
references (William & me), recursion (William)
- xmlWriter: indentation (Lucas Brasilino), memory leaks (Alfred
Mickautsch),
- xmlSchemas: normalizedString datatype (John Belmonte)
- code cleanup for strings functions (William)
- Windows: compiler patches (Mark Vakoc)
- Parser optimizations, a few new XPath and dictionnary APIs for future
XSLT optimizations.
2.6.4: Dec 24 2003:
- Windows build fixes (Igor Zlatkovic)
- Some serious XInclude problems reported by Oleg Paraschenko and
- Unix and Makefile packaging fixes (me, William Brack,
- Documentation improvements (John Fleck, William Brack), example fix
(Lucas Brasilino)
- bugfixes: xmlTextReaderExpand() with xmlReaderWalker, XPath handling of
NULL strings (William Brack) , API building reader or parser from
filedescriptor should not close it, changed XPath sorting to be stable
again (William Brack), xmlGetNodePath() generating '(null)' (William
Brack), DTD validation and namespace bug (William Brack), XML Schemas
double inclusion behaviour
2.6.3: Dec 10 2003:
- documentation updates and cleanup (DV, William Brack, John Fleck)
- added a repository of examples, examples from Aleksey Sanin, Dodji
Seketeli, Alfred Mickautsch
- Windows updates: Mark Vakoc, Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher, Mingw
(Kenneth Haley)
- Unicode range checking (William Brack)
- code cleanup (William Brack)
- Python bindings: doc (John Fleck), bug fixes
- UTF-16 cleanup and BOM issues (William Brack)
- bug fixes: ID and xmlReader validation, XPath (William Brack),
xmlWriter (Alfred Mickautsch), hash.h inclusion problem, HTML parser
(James Bursa), attribute defaulting and validation, some serialization
cleanups, XML_GET_LINE macro, memory debug when using threads (William
Brack), serialization of attributes and entities content, xmlWriter
(Daniel Schulman)
- XInclude bugfix, new APIs and update to the last version including the
namespace change.
- XML Schemas improvements: include (Robert Stepanek), import and
namespace handling, fixed the regression tests troubles, added examples
based on Eric van der Vlist book, regexp fixes
- preliminary pattern support for streaming (needed for schemas
constraints), added xmlTextReaderPreservePattern() to collect subdocument
when streaming.
- various fixes in the structured error handling
Changes:
2.6.2: Nov 4 2003:
- XPath context unregistration fixes
- text node coalescing fixes (Mark Lilback)
- API to screate a W3C Schemas from an existing document (Steve Ball)
- BeOS patches (Marcin 'Shard' Konicki)
- xmlStrVPrintf function added (Aleksey Sanin)
- compilation fixes (Mark Vakoc)
- stdin parsing fix (William Brack)
- a posteriori DTD validation fixes
- xmlReader bug fixes: Walker fixes, python bindings
- fixed xmlStopParser() to really stop the parser and errors
- always generate line numbers when using the new xmlReadxxx
functions
- added XInclude support to the xmlReader interface
- implemented XML_PARSE_NONET parser option
- DocBook XSLT processing bug fixed
- HTML serialization for <p> elements (William Brack and me)
- XPointer failure in XInclude are now handled as resource errors
- fixed xmllint --html to use the HTML serializer on output (added
--xmlout to implement the previous behaviour of saving it using the XML
serializer)
2.6.1: Oct 28 2003:
- Mostly bugfixes after the big 2.6.0 changes
- Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
(William Brack)
- Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
Zlatkovic)
- xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
- chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
- context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham
Bennett)
- context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
- defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities
(Stephane Bidoul)
- Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
- Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
- xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
- testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
- general bug fixes: mandatory encoding in text decl, serializing
Document Fragment nodes, xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik),
XPath errors not reported, slow HTML parsing of large documents.
2.6.0: Oct 20 2003:
- Major revision release: should be API and ABI compatible but got a lot
of change
- Increased the library modularity, far more options can be stripped out,
a --with-minimum configuration will weight around 160KBytes
- Use per parser and per document dictionnary, allocate names and small
text nodes from the dictionnary
- Switch to a SAX2 like parser rewrote most of the XML parser core,
provides namespace resolution and defaulted attributes, minimize memory
allocations and copies, namespace checking and specific error handling,
immutable buffers, make predefined entities static structures, etc...
- rewrote all the error handling in the library, all errors can be
intercepted at a structured level, with precise information
available.
- New simpler and more generic XML and HTML parser APIs, allowing to
easilly modify the parsing options and reuse parser context for multiple
consecutive documents.
- Similar new APIs for the xmlReader, for options and reuse, provided new
functions to access content as const strings, use them for Python
bindings
- a lot of other smaller API improvements: xmlStrPrintf (Aleksey Sanin),
Walker i.e. reader on a document tree based on Alfred Mickautsch code,
make room in nodes for line numbers, reference counting and future PSVI
extensions, generation of character ranges to be checked with faster
algorithm (William), xmlParserMaxDepth (Crutcher Dunnavant), buffer
access
Changes:
2.5.10: Aug 15 2003:
A bugfixes only release - Windows Makefiles (William Brack)
- UTF-16 support fixes (Mark Itzcovitz)
- Makefile and portability (William Brack) automake, Linux alpha, Mingw
on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
- HTML parser (Oliver Stoeneberg)
- XInclude performance problem reported by Kevin Ruscoe
- XML parser performance problem reported by Grant Goodale
- xmlSAXParseDTD() bug fix from Malcolm Tredinnick
- and a couple other cleanup
2.5.9: Aug 9 2003:
- bugfixes: IPv6 portability, xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim), Windows build
(Wiliam Brake, Jesse Pelton, Igor), Schemas (Peter Sobisch), threading
(Rob Richards), hexBinary type (), UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli),
xmlReader, Relax-NG schemas compilation, namespace handling, EXSLT (Sean
Griffin), HTML parsing problem (William Brack), DTD validation for mixed
content + namespaces, HTML serialization, library initialization,
progressive HTML parser
- better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch, )
- adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
- doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
- configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
- couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
- general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
- xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
- general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/... (William
Brack)
Changes since 2.5.7:
- bugfixes: XPath, XInclude, file/URI mapping, UTF-16 save (Mark
Itzcovitz), UTF-8 checking, URI saving, error printing (William Brack),
PI related memleak, compilation without schemas or without xpath (Joerg
Schmitz-Linneweber/Garry Pennington), xmlUnlinkNode problem with DTDs,
rpm problem on , i86_64, removed a few compilation problems from 2.5.7,
xmlIOParseDTD, and xmlSAXParseDTD (Malcolm Tredinnick)
- portability: DJGPP (MsDos) , OpenVMS (Craig A. Berry)
- William Brack fixed multithreading lock problems
- IPv6 patch for FTP and HTTP accesses (Archana Shah/Wipro)
- Windows fixes (Igor Zlatkovic, Eric Zurcher), threading (Stéphane
Bidoul)
- A few W3C Schemas Structure improvements
- W3C Schemas Datatype improvements (Charlie Bozeman)
- Python bindings for thread globals (Stéphane Bidoul), and method/class
generator
- added --nonet option to xmllint
- documentation improvements (John Fleck)
- Relax-NG: Compiling to regexp and streaming validation on top of the
xmlReader interface, added to xmllint --stream
- xmlReader: Expand(), Next() and DOM access glue, bug fixes
- Support for large files: RGN validated a 4.5GB instance
- Thread support is now configured in by default
- Fixes: update of the Trio code (Bjorn), WXS Date and Duration fixes
(Charles Bozeman), DTD and namespaces (Brent Hendricks), HTML push parser
and zero bytes handling, some missing Windows file path conversions,
behaviour of the parser and validator in the presence of "out of memory"
error conditions
- extended the API to be able to plug a garbage collecting memory
allocator, added xmlMallocAtomic() and modified the allocations
accordingly.
- Performances: removed excessive malloc() calls, speedup of the push and
xmlReader interfaces, removed excessive thread locking
- Documentation: man page (John Fleck), xmlReader documentation
- Python: adding binding for xmlCatalogAddLocal (Brent M Hendricks)
2.5.6: Apr 1 2003:
- Fixed W3C XML Schemas datatype, should be compliant now except for
binHex and base64 which are not supported yet.
- bug fixes: non-ASCII IDs, HTML output, XInclude on large docs and
XInclude entities handling, encoding detection on external subsets, XML
Schemas bugs and memory leaks, HTML parser (James Bursa)
- portability: python/trio (Albert Chin), Sun compiler warnings
- documentation: added --relaxng option to xmllint man page (John)
- improved error reporting: xml:space, start/end tag mismatches, Relax NG
errors
* Lot of fixes on the Relax NG implementation. More testing including
DocBook and TEI examples.
* Increased the support for W3C XML Schemas datatype.
* Several bug fixes in the URI handling layer.
* Bug fixes: HTML parser, xmlReader, DTD validation, XPath, encoding
conversion, line counting in the parser.
* Added support for $XMLLINT_INDENT environment variable, FTP delete
* Fixed the RPM spec file name.
* Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude implementation
* Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
* Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on namespaces,
2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp generation problem.
* Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
* A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
* Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)
Changes in the package:
- Enable threading.
- Move html documentation and examples where they should be.
- Use catalogs.mk to get and set default system-wide catalogs.
Changes since 2.4.25:
2.5.3: Feb 10 2003:
- RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
version of RelaxNG Python bindings
- Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
serialization
- Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file
2.5.2: Feb 5 2003:
- First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
- Schemas support now compiled in by default.
- Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (Stéphane Bidoul),
XPath parser and evaluation, UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
namespaces
- added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
- Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
patches (Stefan Kost)
- Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
- Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
(Stéphane Bidoul)
- URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)
2.5.1: Jan 8 2003:
- Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
- documentation updates (John)
- a couple of XmlTextReader fixes
2.5.0: Jan 6 2003:
- New XmltextReader interface based on C#
API (with help of Stéphane Bidoul)
- Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
- XInclude fallback fix
- Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
- Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
(John)
- Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
- Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
- Entities handling fixes
- new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
Schroeder)
- Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines
2.4.30: Dec 12 2002:
- 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
- Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
fixes.
2.4.29: Dec 11 2002:
- Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
(Stéphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
- Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
- Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
- Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
dump
- Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
- Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
- added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
- Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
more informations needed for C# bindings
2.4.28: Nov 22 2002:
- a couple of python binding fixes
- 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
- potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
- fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
- added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
- autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
- nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)
2.4.27: Nov 17 2002:
- fixes for the Python bindings
- a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
HTML parser, Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
(Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
Pajas), entities processing
- added grep to xmllint --shell
- VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
- cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
better thread support on Windows
- cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
- Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)
2.4.26: Oct 18 2002:
- Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
- Fixes to the validation code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
HTML serialization, Namespace compliance, and a number of small
problems
* XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
* Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64 (fcrozat)
* HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
* C14N improvements by Aleksey
* doc cleanups: Rick Jones
* Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
* XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added
buildlink2.mk files back into the main trunk. This provides sufficient
buildlink2 infrastructure to start merging other packages from the
buildlink2 branch that have already been converted to use the buildlink2
framework.
Changes since 2.4.21:
* performances patches: Peter Jacobi
* c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
* added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
* new tutorial: John Fleck
* new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix
from Peter Jacobi
* a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
HTML parsers, ID lookup function
* removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin
* a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
indentation, URI parsing
* Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
protocol handlers (Aleksey)
* performance patch from Gary Pennington
* Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas datatypes
- URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
- added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
- Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
--encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
- fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
- fixes to the HTML parser
- fixes more catalog bugs
- avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()
- fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
tool
- fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.
- exported some debugging interfaces
- serious rewrite of the catalog code
- integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
and regression tests
- removed an HTML parser bug
- fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
- integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
- changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
- some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
- general bug fixes
- updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
- some VMS and Windows updates
This will hopefully fix PR pkg/14336.
