4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
9 describes the recents commits
11 http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxslt/
12 code base.Those are the public releases made:
14 - portability fixes: python detection
15 - bug fixes: some regression tests, attribute/namespaces output (Kasimier
16 Buchcik), problem in mixed xsl:value-of and xsl:text uses (Kasimier)
17 - improvements: internal refactoring (Kasimier Buchcik), use of the XPath
18 object cache in libxml2-2.6.25 (Kasimier)
22 - portability fixes: EXSLT date/time on Solaris and IRIX (Albert Chin),
23 HP-UX build (Albert Chin),
25 - build fixes: Python detection(Joseph Sacco), plugin configurei
27 - bug fixes: pattern compilation fix(William Brack), EXSLT date/time
28 fix (Thomas Broyer), EXSLT function bug, potential loop on variable
29 eval, startup race (Christopher Palmer), debug statement left in python
30 (Nic Ferrier), various cleanup based on Coverity reports), error on
31 Out of memory condition (Charles Hardin), various namespace prefixes
32 fixes (Kasimier Buchcik),
33 - improvement: speed up sortingi, start of internals refactoring (Kasimier
35 - documentation: man page fixes and updates (Daniel Leidert)
40 - build fixes: Windows build cleanups and updates (Igor Zlatkovic),
41 remove jhbuild warnings
42 - bug fixes: negative number formatting (William Brack), number
43 formatting per mille definition (William Brack), XInclude default values
44 (William), text copy bugs (William), bug related to xmlXPathContext size,
45 reuse libxml2 memory management for text nodes, dictionnary text bug,
46 forbid variables in match (needs libxml2-2.6.21)
47 - improvements: EXSLT dyn:map (Mark Vakoc),
48 - documentation: EXSLT date and time functions namespace in man (Jonathan
53 - bug fixes: text node on stylesheet document without a dictionary
54 (William Brack), more checking of XSLT syntax, calling xsltInit()
55 multiple times, mode values interning raised by Mark Vakoc, bug in
56 pattern matching with ancestors, bug in patterna matching with cascading
57 select, xinclude and document() problem, build outside of source tree
59 - improvement: added a --nodict mode to xsltproc to check problems for
60 docuemtns without dictionnaries
64 - build fixes: 64bits cleanup (William Brack), python 2.4 test (William),
65 LIBXSLT_VERSION_EXTRA on Windows (William), Windows makefiles fixes (Joel
66 Reed), libgcrypt-devel requires for RPM spec.
67 - bug fixes: exslt day-of-week-in-month (Sal Paradise), xsl:call-template
68 should not change the current template rule (William Brack), evaluation
69 of global variables (William Brack), RVT's in XPath predicates (William),
70 namespace URI on template names (Mark Vakoc), stat() for Windows patch
71 (Aleksey Gurtovoy), pattern expression fixes (William Brack), out of
72 memory detection misses (William), parserOptions propagation (William),
73 exclude-result-prefixes fix (William), // patten fix (William).
74 - extensions: module support (Joel Reed), dictionnary based speedups
75 trying to get rid of xmlStrEqual as much as possible.
76 - documentation: added Wiki (Joel Reed)
80 - build fixes: warnings removal (William).
81 - bug fixes: attribute document pointer fix (Mark Vakoc), exslt date
82 negative periods (William Brack), generated tree structure fixes,
83 namespace lookup fix, use reentrant gmtime_r (William Brack),
84 exslt:funtion namespace fix (William), potential NULL pointer reference
85 (Dennis Dams, William), force string interning on generated
87 - documentation: update of the second tutorial (Panagiotis Louridas), add
88 exslt doc in rpm packages, fix the xsltproc man page.
92 - bug fixes: xsl:include problems (William Brack), UTF8 number pattern
93 (William), date-time validation (William), namespace fix (William),
94 various Exslt date fixes (William), error callback fixes, leak with
95 namespaced global variable, attempt to fix a weird problem #153137
96 - improvements: exslt:date-sum tests (Derek Poon)
97 - documentation: second tutorial by Panagiotis Lourida
101 - build fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build
103 - fix: key initialization problem (William Brack)
104 - documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path
108 - build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Python
109 on 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards),
110 - fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and Sitsofe
111 Wheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports
112 (William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespace
113 alias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document
114 (William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab)
115 - improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for document
116 loading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTD
117 attributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William).
118 - Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg
122 - build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
123 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
125 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
126 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
127 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
128 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
129 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
133 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
134 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
135 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
136 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
137 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
138 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
143 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
147 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
148 - remove use of _private from source documents
149 - cleanup of "make tests" output
150 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
151 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
152 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
153 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
154 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
159 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
160 Yelp, extension problem
161 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
162 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
166 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
167 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
168 performance improvements.
169 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
170 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
171 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
172 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
173 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
174 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
176 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
177 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
182 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
184 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
185 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
186 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
187 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
192 - code cleanup (William Brack)
193 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
194 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
196 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
197 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
198 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
199 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
200 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
201 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
202 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
203 entities handling when using XInclude.
207 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
208 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
209 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
210 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
212 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
214 - Python: never use stdout for error
215 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
216 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
217 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
218 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
220 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
221 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
222 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
223 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
224 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
225 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
226 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
230 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
231 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
232 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
233 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
234 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
235 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
236 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
237 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
238 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
239 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
240 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
244 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
245 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
247 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
248 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
249 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
250 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
253 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
254 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
255 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
260 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
261 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
262 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
263 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
264 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
265 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
267 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
268 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
270 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
271 - HP-UX portability fix
275 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
276 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
277 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
278 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
279 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
280 current node when templates applies to attributes
284 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
285 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
286 declarations with xsl:elements.
287 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
292 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
293 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
294 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
295 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
300 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
301 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
302 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
306 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
307 could lead to a crash
311 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
312 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
313 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
315 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
319 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
320 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
321 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
322 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
323 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
324 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
325 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
326 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
327 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
328 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
329 - fix the API generation scripts
330 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
331 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
332 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
333 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
334 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
338 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
339 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
340 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
342 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
343 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
344 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
345 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
349 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
350 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
352 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
353 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
358 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
359 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
360 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
361 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
362 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
363 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
364 Windows (Igor), Python detection
365 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
369 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
370 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
371 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
372 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
374 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
375 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
379 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
380 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
381 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
382 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
383 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
384 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
385 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
390 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
391 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
392 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
394 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
396 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
397 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
398 - specific error registration function for the python API
401 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
402 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
404 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
405 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
406 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
409 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
410 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
412 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
416 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
418 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
419 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
421 - revamp of the Windows build
425 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
426 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
427 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
432 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
433 - Improvement of the Python bindings
434 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
439 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
440 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
444 - Change of Licence to the MIT
446 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
447 extend the engine with functions written in Python
448 - A number of bug fixes
449 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
454 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
455 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
456 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
457 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
463 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
464 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
465 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
466 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
468 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
470 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
472 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
476 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
478 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
479 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
480 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
485 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
486 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
487 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
488 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
492 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
494 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
495 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
499 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
501 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
502 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
503 contribution from Darren Graves)
504 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
508 - Documentation updates from John fleck
509 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
511 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
512 Time and Date core functions support
516 - XML Catalog support see the doc
517 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
522 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
523 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
524 - improvements on the extension framework
525 - documentation improvements
526 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
527 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
531 - initial EXSLT framework
532 - better error reporting
533 - fixed the profiler on Windows
538 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
539 - added a documentation for writing
541 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
542 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
544 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
545 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
546 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
548 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
553 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
554 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
555 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
556 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
557 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
558 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
561 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
563 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
564 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
565 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
567 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
568 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
569 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
570 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
571 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
572 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
575 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
576 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
577 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
579 - William fixed some problems with document()
580 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
584 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
585 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
587 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
591 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
592 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
593 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
594 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
595 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
596 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
600 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
601 - fixed URI resolution in document()
602 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
604 - Fixed HTML default output detection
605 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
606 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
607 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
608 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
609 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
610 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
611 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
612 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
613 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
618 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
619 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
620 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
621 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
623 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
624 programs should work now
625 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
626 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
630 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
631 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
632 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
633 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
634 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
635 - fixes to current() and key()
636 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
641 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
642 - command line parameter passing
643 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
644 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
649 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
650 - document() extension should function properly
651 - fixed a number or reported bugs
656 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
657 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
658 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
659 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
660 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
661 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
662 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
663 - a bug fix on for-each
667 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
670 - started implement extension support, not finished
671 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
675 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
678 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
682 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
683 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
684 and XPath support of libxml
685 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
686 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
687 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
689 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
690 key() and document() is not complete
694 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
695 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
699 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
700 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being