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 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
15 Yelp, extension problem
16 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
17 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
21 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
22 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
23 performance improvements.
24 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
25 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
26 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
27 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
28 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
29 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
31 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
32 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
37 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
39 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
40 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
41 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
42 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
47 - code cleanup (William Brack)
48 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
49 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
51 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
52 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
53 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
54 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
55 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
56 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
57 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
58 entities handling when using XInclude.
62 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
63 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
64 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
65 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
67 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
69 - Python: never use stdout for error
70 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
71 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
72 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
73 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
75 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
76 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
77 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
78 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
79 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
80 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
81 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
85 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
86 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
87 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
88 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
89 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
90 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
91 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
92 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
93 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
94 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
95 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
99 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
100 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
102 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
103 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
104 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
105 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
108 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
109 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
110 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
115 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
116 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
117 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
118 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
119 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
120 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
122 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
123 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
125 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
126 - HP-UX portability fix
130 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
131 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
132 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
133 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
134 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
135 current node when templates applies to attributes
139 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
140 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
141 declarations with xsl:elements.
142 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
147 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
148 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
149 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
150 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
155 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
156 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
157 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
161 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
162 could lead to a crash
166 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
167 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
168 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
170 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
174 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
175 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
176 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
177 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
178 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
179 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
180 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
181 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
182 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
183 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
184 - fix the API generation scripts
185 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
186 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
187 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
188 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
189 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
193 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
194 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
195 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
197 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
198 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
199 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
200 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
204 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
205 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
207 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
208 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
213 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
214 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
215 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
216 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
217 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
218 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
219 Windows (Igor), Python detection
220 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
224 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
225 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
226 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
227 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
229 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
230 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
234 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
235 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
236 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
237 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
238 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
239 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
240 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
245 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
246 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
247 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
249 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
251 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
252 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
253 - specific error registration function for the python API
256 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
257 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
259 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
260 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
261 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
264 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
265 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
267 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
271 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
273 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
274 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
276 - revamp of the Windows build
280 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
281 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
282 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
287 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
288 - Improvement of the Python bindings
289 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
294 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
295 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
299 - Change of Licence to the MIT
301 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
302 extend the engine with functions written in Python
303 - A number of bug fixes
304 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
309 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
310 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
311 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
312 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
318 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
319 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
320 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
321 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
323 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
325 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
327 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
331 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
333 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
334 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
335 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
340 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
341 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
342 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
343 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
347 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
349 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
350 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
354 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
356 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
357 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
358 contribution from Darren Graves)
359 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
363 - Documentation updates from John fleck
364 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
366 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
367 Time and Date core functions support
371 - XML Catalog support see the doc
372 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
377 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
378 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
379 - improvements on the extension framework
380 - documentation improvements
381 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
382 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
386 - initial EXSLT framework
387 - better error reporting
388 - fixed the profiler on Windows
393 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
394 - added a documentation for writing
396 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
397 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
399 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
400 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
401 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
403 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
408 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
409 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
410 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
411 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
412 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
413 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
416 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
418 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
419 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
420 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
422 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
423 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
424 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
425 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
426 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
427 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
430 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
431 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
432 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
434 - William fixed some problems with document()
435 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
439 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
440 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
442 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
446 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
447 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
448 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
449 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
450 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
451 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
455 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
456 - fixed URI resolution in document()
457 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
459 - Fixed HTML default output detection
460 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
461 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
462 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
463 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
464 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
465 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
466 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
467 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
468 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
473 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
474 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
475 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
476 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
478 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
479 programs should work now
480 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
481 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
485 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
486 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
487 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
488 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
489 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
490 - fixes to current() and key()
491 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
496 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
497 - command line parameter passing
498 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
499 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
504 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
505 - document() extension should function properly
506 - fixed a number or reported bugs
511 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
512 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
513 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
514 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
515 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
516 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
517 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
518 - a bug fix on for-each
522 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
525 - started implement extension support, not finished
526 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
530 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
533 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
537 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
538 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
539 and XPath support of libxml
540 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
541 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
542 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
544 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
545 key() and document() is not complete
549 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
550 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
554 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
555 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being