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: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
15 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
16 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
17 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
18 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
19 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
21 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
22 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
24 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
25 - HP-UX portability fix
29 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
30 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
31 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
32 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
33 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
34 current node when templates applies to attributes
38 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
39 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
40 declarations with xsl:elements.
41 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
46 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
47 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
48 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
49 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
54 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
55 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
56 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
60 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
65 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
66 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
67 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
69 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
73 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
74 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
75 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
76 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
77 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
78 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
79 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
80 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
81 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
82 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
83 - fix the API generation scripts
84 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
85 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
86 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
87 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
88 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
92 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
93 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
94 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
96 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
97 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
98 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
99 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
103 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
104 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
106 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
107 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
112 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
113 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
114 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
115 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
116 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
117 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
118 Windows (Igor), Python detection
119 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
123 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
124 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
125 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
126 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
128 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
129 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
133 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
134 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
135 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
136 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
137 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
138 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
139 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
144 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
145 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
146 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
148 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
150 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
151 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
152 - specific error registration function for the python API
155 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
156 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
158 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
159 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
160 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
163 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
164 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
166 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
170 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
172 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
173 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
175 - revamp of the Windows build
179 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
180 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
181 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
186 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
187 - Improvement of the Python bindings
188 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
193 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
194 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
198 - Change of Licence to the MIT
200 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
201 extend the engine with functions written in Python
202 - A number of bug fixes
203 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
208 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
209 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
210 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
211 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
217 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
218 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
219 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
220 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
222 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
224 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
226 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
230 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
232 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
233 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
234 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
239 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
240 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
241 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
242 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
246 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
248 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
249 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
253 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
255 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
256 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
257 contribution from Darren Graves)
258 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
262 - Documentation updates from John fleck
263 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
265 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
266 Time and Date core functions support
270 - XML Catalog support see the doc
271 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
276 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
277 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
278 - improvements on the extension framework
279 - documentation improvements
280 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
281 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
285 - initial EXSLT framework
286 - better error reporting
287 - fixed the profiler on Windows
292 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
293 - added a documentation for writing
295 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
296 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
298 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
299 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
300 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
302 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
307 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
308 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
309 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
310 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
311 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
312 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
315 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
317 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
318 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
319 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
321 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
322 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
323 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
324 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
325 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
326 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
329 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
330 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
331 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
333 - William fixed some problems with document()
334 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
338 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
339 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
341 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
345 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
346 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
347 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
348 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
349 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
350 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
354 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
355 - fixed URI resolution in document()
356 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
358 - Fixed HTML default output detection
359 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
360 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
361 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
362 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
363 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
364 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
365 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
366 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
367 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
372 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
373 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
374 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
375 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
377 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
378 programs should work now
379 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
380 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
384 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
385 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
386 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
387 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
388 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
389 - fixes to current() and key()
390 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
395 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
396 - command line parameter passing
397 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
398 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
403 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
404 - document() extension should function properly
405 - fixed a number or reported bugs
410 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
411 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
412 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
413 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
414 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
415 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
416 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
417 - a bug fix on for-each
421 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
424 - started implement extension support, not finished
425 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
429 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
432 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
436 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
437 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
438 and XPath support of libxml
439 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
440 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
441 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
443 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
444 key() and document() is not complete
448 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
449 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
453 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
454 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being