4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
7 Those are the public releases made:
9 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
10 - remove use of _private from source documents
11 - cleanup of "make tests" output
12 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
13 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
14 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
15 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
16 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
21 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
22 Yelp, extension problem
23 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
24 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
28 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
29 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
30 performance improvements.
31 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
32 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
33 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
34 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
35 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
36 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
38 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
39 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
44 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
46 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
47 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
48 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
49 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
54 - code cleanup (William Brack)
55 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
56 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
58 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
59 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
60 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
61 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
62 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
63 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
64 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
65 entities handling when using XInclude.
69 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
70 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
71 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
72 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
74 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
76 - Python: never use stdout for error
77 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
78 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
79 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
80 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
82 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
83 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
84 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
85 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
86 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
87 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
88 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
92 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
93 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
94 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
95 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
96 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
97 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
98 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
99 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
100 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
101 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
102 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
106 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
107 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
109 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
110 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
111 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
112 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
115 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
116 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
117 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
122 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
123 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
124 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
125 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
126 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
127 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
129 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
130 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
132 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
133 - HP-UX portability fix
137 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
138 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
139 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
140 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
141 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
142 current node when templates applies to attributes
146 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
147 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
148 declarations with xsl:elements.
149 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
154 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
155 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
156 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
157 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
162 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
163 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
164 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
168 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
169 could lead to a crash
173 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
174 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
175 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
177 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
181 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
182 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
183 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
184 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
185 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
186 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
187 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
188 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
189 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
190 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
191 - fix the API generation scripts
192 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
193 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
194 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
195 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
196 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
200 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
201 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
202 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
204 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
205 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
206 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
207 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
211 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
212 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
214 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
215 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
220 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
221 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
222 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
223 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
224 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
225 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
226 Windows (Igor), Python detection
227 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
231 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
232 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
233 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
234 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
236 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
237 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
241 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
242 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
243 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
244 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
245 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
246 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
247 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
252 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
253 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
254 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
256 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
258 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
259 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
260 - specific error registration function for the python API
263 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
264 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
266 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
267 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
268 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
271 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
272 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
274 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
278 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
280 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
281 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
283 - revamp of the Windows build
287 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
288 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
289 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
294 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
295 - Improvement of the Python bindings
296 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
301 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
302 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
306 - Change of Licence to the MIT
308 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
309 extend the engine with functions written in Python
310 - A number of bug fixes
311 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
316 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
317 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
318 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
319 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
325 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
326 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
327 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
328 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
330 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
332 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
334 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
338 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
340 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
341 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
342 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
347 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
348 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
349 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
350 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
354 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
356 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
357 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
361 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
363 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
364 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
365 contribution from Darren Graves)
366 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
370 - Documentation updates from John fleck
371 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
373 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
374 Time and Date core functions support
378 - XML Catalog support see the doc
379 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
384 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
385 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
386 - improvements on the extension framework
387 - documentation improvements
388 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
389 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
393 - initial EXSLT framework
394 - better error reporting
395 - fixed the profiler on Windows
400 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
401 - added a documentation for writing
403 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
404 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
406 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
407 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
408 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
410 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
415 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
416 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
417 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
418 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
419 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
420 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
423 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
425 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
426 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
427 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
429 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
430 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
431 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
432 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
433 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
434 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
437 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
438 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
439 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
441 - William fixed some problems with document()
442 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
446 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
447 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
449 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
453 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
454 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
455 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
456 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
457 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
458 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
462 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
463 - fixed URI resolution in document()
464 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
466 - Fixed HTML default output detection
467 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
468 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
469 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
470 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
471 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
472 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
473 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
474 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
475 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
480 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
481 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
482 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
483 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
485 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
486 programs should work now
487 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
488 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
492 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
493 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
494 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
495 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
496 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
497 - fixes to current() and key()
498 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
503 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
504 - command line parameter passing
505 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
506 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
511 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
512 - document() extension should function properly
513 - fixed a number or reported bugs
518 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
519 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
520 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
521 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
522 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
523 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
524 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
525 - a bug fix on for-each
529 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
532 - started implement extension support, not finished
533 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
537 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
540 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
544 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
545 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
546 and XPath support of libxml
547 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
548 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
549 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
551 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
552 key() and document() is not complete
556 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
557 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
561 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
562 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being