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  • Author : Daniel Veillard
    Date : 2003-04-24 23:12:35
    Hash : 92fc02cc
    Message : preparing release 2.5.7 updated and rebuilt the docs fixed the script * NEWS configure.in: preparing release 2.5.7 * doc/*: updated and rebuilt the docs * doc/apibuild.py: fixed the script Daniel

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  •         NEWS file for libxml2

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CVS only : check the Changelog at 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog
 file
for a really accurate description:
Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
to test those
   - More testing on RelaxNG
   - Finishing up XML
  Schemas



2.5.7: Apr 25 2003:
   - 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


2.5.5: Mar 24 2003:
   - 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


2.5.4: Feb 20 2003:
   - 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)


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 (St