4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
9 CVS only : check the Changelog at
10 http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
12 for a really accurate description:
15 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
16 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
17 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
18 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
23 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
24 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
25 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
29 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
34 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
35 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
36 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
38 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
42 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
43 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
44 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
45 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
46 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
47 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
48 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
49 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
50 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
51 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
52 - fix the API generation scripts
53 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
54 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
55 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
56 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
57 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
61 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
62 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
63 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
65 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
66 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
67 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
68 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
72 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
73 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
75 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
76 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
81 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
82 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
83 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
84 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
85 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
86 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
87 Windows (Igor), Python detection
88 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
92 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
93 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
94 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
95 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
97 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
98 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
102 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
103 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
104 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
105 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
106 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
107 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
108 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
113 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
114 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
115 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
117 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
119 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
120 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
121 - specific error registration function for the python API
124 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
125 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
127 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
128 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
129 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
132 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
133 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
135 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
139 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
141 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
142 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
144 - revamp of the Windows build
148 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
149 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
150 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
155 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
156 - Improvement of the Python bindings
157 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
162 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
163 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
167 - Change of Licence to the MIT
170 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
171 extend the engine with functions written in Python
172 - A number of bug fixes
173 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
178 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
179 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
180 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
181 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
187 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
188 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
189 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
190 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
192 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
194 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
196 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
200 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
202 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
203 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
204 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
209 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
210 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
211 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
212 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
216 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
218 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
219 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
223 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
225 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
226 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
227 contribution from Darren Graves)
228 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
232 - Documentation updates from John fleck
233 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
235 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
236 Time and Date core functions support
240 - XML Catalog support see the doc
241 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
246 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
247 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
248 - improvements on the extension framework
249 - documentation improvements
250 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
251 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
255 - initial EXSLT framework
256 - better error reporting
257 - fixed the profiler on Windows
262 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
263 - added a documentation for writing
266 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
267 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
269 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
270 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
271 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
273 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
278 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
279 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
280 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
281 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
282 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
283 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
286 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
288 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
289 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
290 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
292 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
293 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
294 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
295 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
296 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
297 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
300 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
301 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
302 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
304 - William fixed some problems with document()
305 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
310 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
311 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
313 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
317 Mostly a bug fix release.
318 - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
319 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
320 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
321 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
322 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
323 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
327 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
328 - fixed URI resolution in document()
329 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
331 - Fixed HTML default output detection
332 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
333 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
334 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
335 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
336 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
337 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
338 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
339 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
340 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
345 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
346 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
347 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
348 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
350 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
351 programs should work now
352 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
353 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
357 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
358 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
359 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
360 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
361 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
362 - fixes to current() and key()
363 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
368 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
369 - command line parameter passing
370 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
371 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
376 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
377 - document() extension should function properly
378 - fixed a number or reported bugs
383 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
384 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
385 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
386 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
387 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
388 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
389 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
390 - a bug fix on for-each
394 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
397 - started implement extension support, not finished
398 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
402 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
405 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
409 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
410 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
411 and XPath support of libxml
412 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
413 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
414 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
416 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
417 key() and document() is not complete
421 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
422 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
426 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
427 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being