NEWS file for libxslt Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at: http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html CVS only : check the Changelog at http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog file for a really accurate description: 1.0.32: Aug 9 2003: - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date (William Brack), speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William Brack) - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway) - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance) - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack) - doc cleanup 1.0.31: Jul 6 2003: - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner), xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic), stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack), RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8) - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in 1.0.30 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic) - HP-UX portability fix 1.0.30: May 4 2003: - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor), current node when templates applies to attributes 1.0.29: Apr 1 2003: - performance improvements especially for large flat documents - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace declarations with xsl:elements. - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris (Ben Phillips) 1.0.28: Mar 24 2003: - fixed node() in patterns semantic. - fixed a memory access problem in format-number() - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs in the process 1.0.27: Feb 24 2003: - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor) 1.0.26: Feb 10 2003: - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which could lead to a crash 1.0.25: Feb 5 2003: - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in libxml2-2.5.2 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs. 1.0.24: Jan 14 2003: - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul), EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden), extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry) - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell) - fix the API generation scripts - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks) - added XML description of the EXSLT API - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter) - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs 1.0.23: Nov 17 2002: - Windows build cleanup (Igor) - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating EXSLT - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns - Documentation improvements (John Fleck) - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle) 1.0.22: Oct 18 2002: - Updates on the Windows Makefiles - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to xsltproc - Allowed per transformation error handler. - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute lists 1.0.21: Sep 26 2002: - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie Bozeman), disable-output-escaping - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes - Logos from Marc Liyanage - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), Windows (Igor), Python detection - Documentation improvements: John Fleck 1.0.20: Aug 23 2002: - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat) - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the cases - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors 1.0.19: July 6 2002: - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc) - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of libxml2 1.0.18: May 27 2002: - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen, Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard Jinks) - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark Vakoc - there is a new API to save directly to a string xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter - specific error registration function for the python API 1.0.17: April 29 2002: - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by Igor - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal 1.0.16: April 15 2002: - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't save - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings 1.0.15: Mar 25 2002: - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..] templates - Debug of memory alocation with valgind - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook processing - revamp of the Windows build 1.0.14: Mar 18 2002: - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18) - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows portability fixes 1.0.13: Mar 8 2002: - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents" - Improvement of the Python bindings - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date functions. 1.0.12: Feb 11 2002: - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones 1.0.11: Feb 8 2002: - Change of Licence to the MIT Licence - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to extend the engine with functions written in Python - A number of bug fixes - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions - Portability fixes 1.0.10: Jan 14 2002: - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert) - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell level - A few bug fixes 1.0.9: Dec 7 2001: - Makefile patches from Peter Williams - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the documentation - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be made dynamic really - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML output - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger 1.0.8: Nov 26 2001: - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code cleanup - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking informations 1.0.7: Nov 10 2001: - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file 1.0.6: Oct 30 2001: - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce Miller) - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor) - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me) 1.0.5: Oct 10 2001: - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from Igor - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer) - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial contribution from Darren Graves) - better handling of XPath evaluation errors 1.0.4: Sep 12 2001: - Documentation updates from John fleck - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability improvements - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String, Time and Date core functions support 1.0.3: Aug 23 2001: - XML Catalog support see the doc - New NaN/Infinity floating point code - A few bug fixes 1.0.2: Aug 15 2001: - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented - improvements on the extension framework - documentation improvements - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default 1.0.1: July 24 2001: - initial EXSLT framework - better error reporting - fixed the profiler on Windows - bug fixes 1.0.0: July 10 2001: - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed - added a documentation for writing extensions - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William) - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc --profile option - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as expected - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the spec 0.14.0: July 5 2001: - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer - the Windows MSC environment should be complete - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads 0.13.0: June 26 2001: - lots of cleanups - fixed a C++ compilation problem - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo() - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test with them - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc 0.12.0: June 18 2001: - fixed a dozen of bugs reported - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too) - William fixed some problems with document() - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too) - John Fleck added a tutorial - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if requested - made xsltproc --version more detailed 0.11.0: June 1 2001: Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities - document() should hopefully work correctly but ... - fixed bug with PI and comments processing - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode 0.10.0: May 19 2001: - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete) - fixed URI resolution in document() - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time, even if unused ... - Fixed HTML default output detection - Fixed double attribute generation #54446 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList() - added a documentation on the libxslt internals - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number() - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish) - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were submitting them 0.9.0: May 3 2001: - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite - xsltproc should work with multiple params - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets should be faster - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded programs should work now - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems - Implemented multiple level of sorting 0.8.0: Apr 22 2001: - fixed ansidecl.h problem - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id() - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations (requires libxml-2.3.7) - fixes to current() and key() - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML stylesheets 0.7.0: Apr 10 2001: - cleanup using stricter compiler flags - command line parameter passing - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document() 0.6.0: Mar 22 2001: - another beta - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support - document() extension should function properly - fixed a number or reported bugs 0.5.0: Mar 10 2001: - fifth beta - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed) - fixed problems with handling of tree results - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates - a bug fix on for-each 0.4.0: Mar 1 2001: - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3 - bug fixes - some optimization - started implement extension support, not finished - implemented but not tested multiple file output 0.3.0: Feb 24 2001: - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2 - lot of bug fixes - some optimization - added DocBook XSL based testsuite 0.2.0: Feb 15 2001: - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML and XPath support of libxml - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated stylesheets (in section I of the XML REC) - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of key() and document() is not complete 0.1.0: Feb 8 2001: - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete 0.0.1: Jan 25 2001: - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being feature complete Daniel Veillard at bugs.html