NEWS file for libxslt

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CVS only : check the Changelog at 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
 file
for a really accurate description:

1.1.5: Mar 23 2004:
   - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
   - remove use of _private from source documents
   - cleanup of "make tests" output
   - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
    troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
    stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
    superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
    <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
    change.


1.1.4: Feb 23 2004:
   - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
    Yelp, extension problem
   - display extension modules (Steve Little)
   - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)


1.1.3: Feb 16 2004:
   - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
    interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
    performance improvements.
   - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
    (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
    (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
    unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
    (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
    with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
    (William)
   - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
   - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
    bidoul)


1.1.2: Dec 24 2003:
   - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
    (William Brack)
   - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
   - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
    namespaces output (William Brack),  key and namespace definition problem,
    passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
    Brack)


1.1.1: Dec 10 2003:
   - code cleanup (William Brack)
   - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
   - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
    Wakely)
   - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
   - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
   - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
    Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
    xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
    recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
    Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
    entities handling when using XInclude.


1.1.0: Nov 4 2003:
   - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
   - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
   - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
    Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
    Petrov)
   - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
    Dunnavant)
   - Python: never use stdout for error
   - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
   - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
   - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
   - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
    Brack)
   - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
   - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
   - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
   - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
   - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
   - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
   - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem


1.0.33: Sep 12 2003:
This is a bugfix only release   - error message missing argument (William Brack)
   - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
   - catch redefinition of parameter/variables  (William Brack)
   - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
   - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
   - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
   - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
   - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
   - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
   - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
   - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)


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 &quot; (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

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