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 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
15 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
16 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
17 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
18 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
19 current node when templates applies to attributes
23 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
24 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
25 declarations with xsl:elements.
26 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
31 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
32 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
33 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
34 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
39 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
40 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
41 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
45 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
50 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
51 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
52 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
54 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
58 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
59 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
60 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
61 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
62 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
63 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
64 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
65 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
66 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
67 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
68 - fix the API generation scripts
69 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
70 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
71 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
72 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
73 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
77 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
78 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
79 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
81 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
82 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
83 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
84 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
88 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
89 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
91 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
92 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
97 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
98 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
99 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
100 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
101 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
102 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
103 Windows (Igor), Python detection
104 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
108 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
109 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
110 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
111 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
113 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
114 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
118 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
119 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
120 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
121 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
122 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
123 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
124 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
129 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
130 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
131 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
133 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
135 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
136 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
137 - specific error registration function for the python API
140 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
141 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
143 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
144 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
145 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
148 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
149 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
151 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
155 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
157 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
158 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
160 - revamp of the Windows build
164 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
165 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
166 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
171 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
172 - Improvement of the Python bindings
173 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
178 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
179 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
183 - Change of Licence to the MIT
185 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
186 extend the engine with functions written in Python
187 - A number of bug fixes
188 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
193 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
194 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
195 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
196 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
202 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
203 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
204 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
205 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
207 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
209 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
211 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
215 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
217 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
218 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
219 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
224 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
225 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
226 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
227 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
231 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
233 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
234 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
238 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
240 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
241 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
242 contribution from Darren Graves)
243 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
247 - Documentation updates from John fleck
248 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
250 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
251 Time and Date core functions support
255 - XML Catalog support see the doc
256 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
261 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
262 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
263 - improvements on the extension framework
264 - documentation improvements
265 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
266 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
270 - initial EXSLT framework
271 - better error reporting
272 - fixed the profiler on Windows
277 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
278 - added a documentation for writing
280 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
281 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
283 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
284 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
285 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
287 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
292 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
293 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
294 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
295 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
296 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
297 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
300 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
302 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
303 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
304 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
306 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
307 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
308 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
309 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
310 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
311 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
314 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
315 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
316 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
318 - William fixed some problems with document()
319 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
323 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
324 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
326 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
330 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
331 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
332 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
333 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
334 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
335 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
339 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
340 - fixed URI resolution in document()
341 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
343 - Fixed HTML default output detection
344 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
345 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
346 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
347 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
348 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
349 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
350 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
351 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
352 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
357 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
358 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
359 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
360 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
362 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
363 programs should work now
364 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
365 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
369 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
370 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
371 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
372 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
373 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
374 - fixes to current() and key()
375 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
380 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
381 - command line parameter passing
382 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
383 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
388 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
389 - document() extension should function properly
390 - fixed a number or reported bugs
395 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
396 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
397 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
398 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
399 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
400 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
401 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
402 - a bug fix on for-each
406 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
409 - started implement extension support, not finished
410 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
414 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
417 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
421 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
422 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
423 and XPath support of libxml
424 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
425 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
426 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
428 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
429 key() and document() is not complete
433 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
434 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
438 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
439 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being