2.6.29: Jun 12 2007:
- Portability: patches from Andreas Stricke for WinCEi,
fix compilation warnings (William Brack), avoid warnings on Apple OS/X
(Wendy Doyle and Mark Rowe), Windows compilation and threading
improvements (Rob Richards), compilation against old Python versions,
new GNU tar changes (Ryan Hill)
- Documentation: xmlURIUnescapeString comment,
- Bugfixes: xmlBufferAdd problem (Richard Jones), 'make valgrind'
flag fix (Richard Jones), regexp interpretation of \,
htmlCreateDocParserCtxt (Jean-Daniel Dupas), configure.in
typo (Bjorn Reese), entity content failure, xmlListAppend() fix
(Georges-André Silber), XPath number serialization (William Brack),
nanohttp gzipped stream fix (William Brack and Alex Cornejo),
xmlCharEncFirstLine typo (Mark Rowe), uri bug (François Delyon),
XPath string value of PI nodes (William Brack), XPath node set
sorting bugs (William Brack), avoid outputting namespace decl
dups in the writer (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReset bug, UTF-8 encoding
error handling, recustion on next in catalogs, fix a Relax-NG crash,
workaround wrong file: URIs, htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput on attributes,
invalid character in attribute detection bug, big comments before
internal subset streaming bug, HTML parsing of attributes with : in
the name
- Improvement: keep URI query parts in raw form (Richard Jones),
embed tag support in HTML (Michael Day)
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
* Bug fixes.
* Do not output hexadecimal charrefs when serializing HTML since some version
of Netscape can't grok it, generate decimal ones.
* Moved includes to includedir/libxml2/libxml.
* Added a --convert option to xmlcatalog to convert SGML ones to the XML
syntax.
* Added a catalog PI.
