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 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
15 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
17 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
18 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
19 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
20 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
23 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
24 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
25 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
30 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
31 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
32 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
33 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
34 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
35 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
37 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
38 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
40 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
41 - HP-UX portability fix
45 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
46 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
47 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
48 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
49 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
50 current node when templates applies to attributes
54 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
55 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
56 declarations with xsl:elements.
57 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
62 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
63 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
64 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
65 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
70 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
71 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
72 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
76 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
81 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
82 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
83 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
85 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
89 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
90 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
91 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
92 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
93 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
94 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
95 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
96 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
97 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
98 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
99 - fix the API generation scripts
100 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
101 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
102 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
103 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
104 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
108 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
109 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
110 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
112 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
113 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
114 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
115 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
119 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
120 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
122 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
123 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
128 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
129 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
130 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
131 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
132 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
133 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
134 Windows (Igor), Python detection
135 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
139 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
140 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
141 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
142 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
144 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
145 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
149 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
150 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
151 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
152 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
153 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
154 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
155 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
160 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
161 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
162 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
164 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
166 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
167 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
168 - specific error registration function for the python API
171 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
172 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
174 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
175 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
176 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
179 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
180 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
182 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
186 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
188 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
189 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
191 - revamp of the Windows build
195 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
196 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
197 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
202 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
203 - Improvement of the Python bindings
204 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
209 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
210 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
214 - Change of Licence to the MIT
216 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
217 extend the engine with functions written in Python
218 - A number of bug fixes
219 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
224 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
225 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
226 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
227 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
233 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
234 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
235 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
236 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
238 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
240 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
242 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
246 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
248 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
249 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
250 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
255 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
256 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
257 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
258 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
262 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
264 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
265 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
269 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
271 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
272 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
273 contribution from Darren Graves)
274 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
278 - Documentation updates from John fleck
279 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
281 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
282 Time and Date core functions support
286 - XML Catalog support see the doc
287 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
292 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
293 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
294 - improvements on the extension framework
295 - documentation improvements
296 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
297 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
301 - initial EXSLT framework
302 - better error reporting
303 - fixed the profiler on Windows
308 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
309 - added a documentation for writing
311 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
312 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
314 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
315 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
316 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
318 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
323 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
324 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
325 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
326 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
327 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
328 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
331 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
333 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
334 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
335 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
337 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
338 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
339 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
340 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
341 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
342 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
345 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
346 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
347 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
349 - William fixed some problems with document()
350 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
354 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
355 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
357 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
361 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
362 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
363 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
364 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
365 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
366 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
370 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
371 - fixed URI resolution in document()
372 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
374 - Fixed HTML default output detection
375 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
376 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
377 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
378 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
379 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
380 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
381 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
382 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
383 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
388 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
389 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
390 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
391 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
393 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
394 programs should work now
395 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
396 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
400 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
401 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
402 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
403 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
404 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
405 - fixes to current() and key()
406 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
411 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
412 - command line parameter passing
413 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
414 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
419 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
420 - document() extension should function properly
421 - fixed a number or reported bugs
426 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
427 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
428 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
429 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
430 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
431 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
432 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
433 - a bug fix on for-each
437 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
440 - started implement extension support, not finished
441 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
445 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
448 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
452 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
453 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
454 and XPath support of libxml
455 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
456 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
457 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
459 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
460 key() and document() is not complete
464 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
465 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
469 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
470 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being