NEWS file for libxml2
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http://xmlsoft.org/news.html
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
2.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
- documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
- xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
- XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
- DTD ID handling optimization
- bugfixes: xpath number with > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
- python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
- Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell
2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
- nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
- bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
(William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
(Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
<xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
- Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
(Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
--with-minimum configuration.
- XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
- Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
dependancies (John Fleck)
- reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
- Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy), function
prototype (Cameron Johnson), MSVC6 compiler warnings, _WINSOCKAPI_
patch
- Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
input.
2.6.5: Jan 25 2004:
- 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.
- Python bindings: fixes (William), enum support (St