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 - bug fixes: xsl:include problems (William Brack), UTF8 number pattern
15 (William), date-time validation (William), namespace fix (William),
16 various Exslt date fixes (William), error callback fixes, leak with
17 namespaced global variable, attempt to fix a weird problem #153137
18 - improvements: exslt:date-sum tests (Derek Poon)
19 - documentation: second tutorial by Panagiotis Lourida
23 - build fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build
25 - fix: key initialization problem (William Brack)
26 - documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path
30 - build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Python
31 on 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards),
32 - fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and Sitsofe
33 Wheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports
34 (William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespace
35 alias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document
36 (William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab)
37 - improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for document
38 loading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTD
39 attributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William).
40 - Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg
44 - build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
45 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
47 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
48 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
49 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
50 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
51 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
55 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
56 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
57 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
58 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
59 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
60 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
65 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
69 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
70 - remove use of _private from source documents
71 - cleanup of "make tests" output
72 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
73 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
74 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
75 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
76 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
81 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
82 Yelp, extension problem
83 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
84 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
88 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
89 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
90 performance improvements.
91 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
92 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
93 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
94 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
95 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
96 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
98 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
99 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
104 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
106 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
107 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
108 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
109 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
114 - code cleanup (William Brack)
115 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
116 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
118 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
119 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
120 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
121 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
122 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
123 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
124 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
125 entities handling when using XInclude.
129 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
130 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
131 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
132 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
134 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
136 - Python: never use stdout for error
137 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
138 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
139 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
140 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
142 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
143 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
144 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
145 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
146 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
147 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
148 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
152 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
153 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
154 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
155 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
156 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
157 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
158 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
159 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
160 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
161 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
162 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
166 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
167 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
169 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
170 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
171 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
172 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
175 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
176 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
177 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
182 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
183 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
184 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
185 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
186 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
187 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
189 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
190 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
192 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
193 - HP-UX portability fix
197 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
198 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
199 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
200 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
201 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
202 current node when templates applies to attributes
206 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
207 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
208 declarations with xsl:elements.
209 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
214 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
215 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
216 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
217 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
222 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
223 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
224 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
228 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
229 could lead to a crash
233 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
234 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
235 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
237 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
241 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
242 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
243 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
244 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
245 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
246 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
247 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
248 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
249 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
250 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
251 - fix the API generation scripts
252 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
253 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
254 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
255 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
256 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
260 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
261 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
262 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
264 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
265 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
266 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
267 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
271 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
272 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
274 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
275 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
280 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
281 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
282 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
283 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
284 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
285 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
286 Windows (Igor), Python detection
287 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
291 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
292 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
293 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
294 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
296 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
297 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
301 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
302 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
303 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
304 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
305 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
306 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
307 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
312 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
313 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
314 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
316 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
318 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
319 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
320 - specific error registration function for the python API
323 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
324 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
326 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
327 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
328 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
331 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
332 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
334 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
338 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
340 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
341 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
343 - revamp of the Windows build
347 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
348 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
349 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
354 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
355 - Improvement of the Python bindings
356 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
361 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
362 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
366 - Change of Licence to the MIT
368 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
369 extend the engine with functions written in Python
370 - A number of bug fixes
371 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
376 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
377 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
378 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
379 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
385 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
386 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
387 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
388 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
390 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
392 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
394 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
398 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
400 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
401 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
402 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
407 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
408 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
409 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
410 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
414 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
416 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
417 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
421 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
423 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
424 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
425 contribution from Darren Graves)
426 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
430 - Documentation updates from John fleck
431 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
433 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
434 Time and Date core functions support
438 - XML Catalog support see the doc
439 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
444 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
445 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
446 - improvements on the extension framework
447 - documentation improvements
448 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
449 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
453 - initial EXSLT framework
454 - better error reporting
455 - fixed the profiler on Windows
460 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
461 - added a documentation for writing
463 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
464 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
466 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
467 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
468 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
470 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
475 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
476 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
477 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
478 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
479 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
480 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
483 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
485 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
486 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
487 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
489 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
490 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
491 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
492 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
493 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
494 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
497 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
498 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
499 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
501 - William fixed some problems with document()
502 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
506 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
507 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
509 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
513 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
514 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
515 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
516 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
517 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
518 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
522 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
523 - fixed URI resolution in document()
524 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
526 - Fixed HTML default output detection
527 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
528 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
529 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
530 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
531 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
532 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
533 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
534 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
535 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
540 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
541 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
542 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
543 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
545 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
546 programs should work now
547 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
548 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
552 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
553 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
554 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
555 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
556 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
557 - fixes to current() and key()
558 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
563 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
564 - command line parameter passing
565 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
566 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
571 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
572 - document() extension should function properly
573 - fixed a number or reported bugs
578 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
579 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
580 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
581 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
582 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
583 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
584 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
585 - a bug fix on for-each
589 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
592 - started implement extension support, not finished
593 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
597 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
600 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
604 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
605 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
606 and XPath support of libxml
607 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
608 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
609 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
611 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
612 key() and document() is not complete
616 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
617 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
621 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
622 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being