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 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
15 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
16 performance improvements.
17 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
18 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
19 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
20 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
21 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
22 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
24 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
25 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
30 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
32 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
33 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
34 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
35 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
40 - code cleanup (William Brack)
41 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
42 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
44 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
45 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
46 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
47 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
48 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
49 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
50 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
51 entities handling when using XInclude.
55 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
56 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
57 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
58 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
60 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
62 - Python: never use stdout for error
63 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
64 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
65 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
66 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
68 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
69 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
70 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
71 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
72 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
73 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
74 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
78 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
79 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
80 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
81 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
82 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
83 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
84 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
85 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
86 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
87 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
88 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
92 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
93 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
95 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
96 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
97 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
98 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
101 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
102 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
103 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
108 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
109 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
110 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
111 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
112 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
113 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
115 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
116 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
118 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
119 - HP-UX portability fix
123 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
124 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
125 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
126 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
127 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
128 current node when templates applies to attributes
132 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
133 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
134 declarations with xsl:elements.
135 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
140 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
141 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
142 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
143 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
148 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
149 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
150 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
154 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
155 could lead to a crash
159 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
160 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
161 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
163 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
167 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
168 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
169 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
170 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
171 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
172 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
173 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
174 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
175 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
176 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
177 - fix the API generation scripts
178 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
179 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
180 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
181 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
182 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
186 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
187 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
188 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
190 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
191 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
192 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
193 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
197 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
198 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
200 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
201 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
206 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
207 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
208 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
209 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
210 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
211 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
212 Windows (Igor), Python detection
213 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
217 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
218 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
219 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
220 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
222 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
223 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
227 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
228 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
229 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
230 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
231 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
232 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
233 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
238 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
239 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
240 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
242 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
244 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
245 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
246 - specific error registration function for the python API
249 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
250 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
252 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
253 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
254 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
257 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
258 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
260 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
264 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
266 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
267 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
269 - revamp of the Windows build
273 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
274 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
275 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
280 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
281 - Improvement of the Python bindings
282 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
287 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
288 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
292 - Change of Licence to the MIT
294 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
295 extend the engine with functions written in Python
296 - A number of bug fixes
297 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
302 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
303 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
304 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
305 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
311 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
312 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
313 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
314 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
316 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
318 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
320 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
324 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
326 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
327 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
328 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
333 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
334 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
335 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
336 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
340 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
342 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
343 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
347 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
349 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
350 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
351 contribution from Darren Graves)
352 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
356 - Documentation updates from John fleck
357 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
359 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
360 Time and Date core functions support
364 - XML Catalog support see the doc
365 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
370 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
371 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
372 - improvements on the extension framework
373 - documentation improvements
374 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
375 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
379 - initial EXSLT framework
380 - better error reporting
381 - fixed the profiler on Windows
386 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
387 - added a documentation for writing
389 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
390 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
392 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
393 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
394 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
396 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
401 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
402 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
403 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
404 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
405 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
406 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
409 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
411 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
412 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
413 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
415 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
416 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
417 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
418 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
419 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
420 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
423 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
424 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
425 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
427 - William fixed some problems with document()
428 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
432 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
433 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
435 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
439 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
440 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
441 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
442 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
443 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
444 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
448 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
449 - fixed URI resolution in document()
450 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
452 - Fixed HTML default output detection
453 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
454 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
455 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
456 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
457 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
458 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
459 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
460 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
461 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
466 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
467 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
468 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
469 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
471 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
472 programs should work now
473 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
474 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
478 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
479 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
480 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
481 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
482 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
483 - fixes to current() and key()
484 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
489 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
490 - command line parameter passing
491 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
492 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
497 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
498 - document() extension should function properly
499 - fixed a number or reported bugs
504 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
505 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
506 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
507 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
508 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
509 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
510 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
511 - a bug fix on for-each
515 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
518 - started implement extension support, not finished
519 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
523 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
526 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
530 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
531 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
532 and XPath support of libxml
533 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
534 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
535 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
537 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
538 key() and document() is not complete
542 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
543 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
547 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
548 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being