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  • Author : Daniel Veillard
    Date : 2003-12-10 13:24:38
    Hash : c480c4ea
    Message : preparing release of libxml2-2.6.3, updated and regenerated the docs. * configure.in doc/* libxml.spec.in: preparing release of libxml2-2.6.3, updated and regenerated the docs. 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


2.6.3: 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


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
   - New xmlWriter API provided by Alfred Mickautsch
   - Schemas: base64 support by Anthony Carrico
   - Parser<->HTTP integration fix, proper processing of the Mime-Type
    and charset informations if available.
   - Relax-NG: bug fixes including the one reported by Martijn Faassen and
    zeroOrMore, better error reporting.
   - Python bindings (St