4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
8 CVS only : check the Changelog at
9 http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
11 for a really accurate description:
14 - code cleanup (William Brack)
15 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
16 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
18 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
19 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
20 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
21 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
22 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
23 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
24 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
25 entities handling when using XInclude.
29 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
30 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
31 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
32 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
34 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
36 - Python: never use stdout for error
37 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
38 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
39 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
40 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
42 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
43 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
44 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
45 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
46 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
47 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
48 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
52 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
53 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
54 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
55 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
56 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
57 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
58 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
59 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
60 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
61 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
62 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
66 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
67 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
69 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
70 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
71 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
72 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
75 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
76 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
77 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
82 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
83 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
84 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
85 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
86 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
87 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
89 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
90 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
92 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
93 - HP-UX portability fix
97 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
98 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
99 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
100 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
101 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
102 current node when templates applies to attributes
106 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
107 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
108 declarations with xsl:elements.
109 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
114 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
115 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
116 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
117 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
122 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
123 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
124 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
128 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
129 could lead to a crash
133 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
134 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
135 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
137 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
141 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
142 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
143 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
144 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
145 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
146 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
147 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
148 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
149 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
150 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
151 - fix the API generation scripts
152 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
153 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
154 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
155 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
156 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
160 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
161 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
162 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
164 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
165 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
166 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
167 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
171 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
172 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
174 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
175 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
180 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
181 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
182 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
183 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
184 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
185 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
186 Windows (Igor), Python detection
187 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
191 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
192 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
193 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
194 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
196 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
197 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
201 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
202 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
203 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
204 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
205 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
206 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
207 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
212 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
213 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
214 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
216 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
218 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
219 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
220 - specific error registration function for the python API
223 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
224 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
226 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
227 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
228 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
231 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
232 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
234 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
238 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
240 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
241 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
243 - revamp of the Windows build
247 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
248 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
249 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
254 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
255 - Improvement of the Python bindings
256 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
261 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
262 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
266 - Change of Licence to the MIT
268 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
269 extend the engine with functions written in Python
270 - A number of bug fixes
271 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
276 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
277 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
278 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
279 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
285 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
286 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
287 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
288 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
290 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
292 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
294 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
298 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
300 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
301 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
302 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
307 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
308 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
309 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
310 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
314 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
316 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
317 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
321 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
323 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
324 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
325 contribution from Darren Graves)
326 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
330 - Documentation updates from John fleck
331 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
333 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
334 Time and Date core functions support
338 - XML Catalog support see the doc
339 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
344 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
345 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
346 - improvements on the extension framework
347 - documentation improvements
348 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
349 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
353 - initial EXSLT framework
354 - better error reporting
355 - fixed the profiler on Windows
360 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
361 - added a documentation for writing
363 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
364 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
366 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
367 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
368 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
370 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
375 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
376 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
377 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
378 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
379 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
380 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
383 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
385 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
386 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
387 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
389 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
390 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
391 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
392 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
393 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
394 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
397 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
398 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
399 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
401 - William fixed some problems with document()
402 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
406 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
407 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
409 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
413 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
414 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
415 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
416 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
417 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
418 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
422 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
423 - fixed URI resolution in document()
424 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
426 - Fixed HTML default output detection
427 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
428 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
429 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
430 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
431 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
432 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
433 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
434 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
435 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
440 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
441 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
442 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
443 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
445 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
446 programs should work now
447 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
448 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
452 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
453 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
454 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
455 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
456 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
457 - fixes to current() and key()
458 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
463 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
464 - command line parameter passing
465 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
466 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
471 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
472 - document() extension should function properly
473 - fixed a number or reported bugs
478 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
479 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
480 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
481 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
482 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
483 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
484 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
485 - a bug fix on for-each
489 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
492 - started implement extension support, not finished
493 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
497 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
500 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
504 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
505 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
506 and XPath support of libxml
507 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
508 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
509 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
511 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
512 key() and document() is not complete
516 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
517 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
521 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
522 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being