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 - build fixes: warnings removal (William).
15 - bug fixes: attribute document pointer fix (Mark Vakoc), exslt date
16 negative periods (William Brack), generated tree structure fixes,
17 namespace lookup fix, use reentrant gmtime_r (William Brack),
18 exslt:funtion namespace fix (William), potential NULL pointer reference
19 (Dennis Dams, William), force string interning on generated
21 - documentation: update of the second tutorial (Panagiotis Louridas), add
22 exslt doc in rpm packages, fix the xsltproc man page.
26 - bug fixes: xsl:include problems (William Brack), UTF8 number pattern
27 (William), date-time validation (William), namespace fix (William),
28 various Exslt date fixes (William), error callback fixes, leak with
29 namespaced global variable, attempt to fix a weird problem #153137
30 - improvements: exslt:date-sum tests (Derek Poon)
31 - documentation: second tutorial by Panagiotis Lourida
35 - build fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build
37 - fix: key initialization problem (William Brack)
38 - documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path
42 - build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Python
43 on 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards),
44 - fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and Sitsofe
45 Wheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports
46 (William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespace
47 alias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document
48 (William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab)
49 - improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for document
50 loading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTD
51 attributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William).
52 - Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg
56 - build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
57 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
59 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
60 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
61 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
62 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
63 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
67 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
68 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
69 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
70 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
71 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
72 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
77 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
81 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
82 - remove use of _private from source documents
83 - cleanup of "make tests" output
84 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
85 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
86 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
87 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
88 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
93 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
94 Yelp, extension problem
95 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
96 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
100 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
101 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
102 performance improvements.
103 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
104 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
105 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
106 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
107 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
108 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
110 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
111 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
116 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
118 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
119 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
120 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
121 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
126 - code cleanup (William Brack)
127 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
128 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
130 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
131 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
132 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
133 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
134 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
135 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
136 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
137 entities handling when using XInclude.
141 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
142 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
143 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
144 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
146 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
148 - Python: never use stdout for error
149 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
150 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
151 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
152 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
154 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
155 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
156 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
157 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
158 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
159 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
160 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
164 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
165 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
166 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
167 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
168 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
169 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
170 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
171 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
172 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
173 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
174 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
178 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
179 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
181 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
182 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
183 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
184 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
187 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
188 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
189 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
194 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
195 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
196 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
197 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
198 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
199 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
201 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
202 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
204 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
205 - HP-UX portability fix
209 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
210 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
211 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
212 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
213 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
214 current node when templates applies to attributes
218 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
219 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
220 declarations with xsl:elements.
221 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
226 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
227 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
228 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
229 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
234 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
235 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
236 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
240 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
241 could lead to a crash
245 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
246 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
247 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
249 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
253 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
254 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
255 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
256 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
257 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
258 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
259 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
260 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
261 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
262 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
263 - fix the API generation scripts
264 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
265 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
266 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
267 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
268 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
272 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
273 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
274 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
276 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
277 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
278 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
279 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
283 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
284 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
286 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
287 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
292 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
293 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
294 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
295 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
296 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
297 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
298 Windows (Igor), Python detection
299 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
303 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
304 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
305 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
306 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
308 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
309 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
313 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
314 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
315 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
316 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
317 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
318 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
319 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
324 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
325 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
326 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
328 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
330 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
331 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
332 - specific error registration function for the python API
335 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
336 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
338 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
339 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
340 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
343 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
344 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
346 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
350 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
352 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
353 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
355 - revamp of the Windows build
359 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
360 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
361 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
366 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
367 - Improvement of the Python bindings
368 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
373 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
374 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
378 - Change of Licence to the MIT
380 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
381 extend the engine with functions written in Python
382 - A number of bug fixes
383 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
388 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
389 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
390 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
391 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
397 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
398 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
399 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
400 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
402 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
404 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
406 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
410 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
412 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
413 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
414 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
419 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
420 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
421 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
422 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
426 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
428 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
429 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
433 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
435 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
436 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
437 contribution from Darren Graves)
438 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
442 - Documentation updates from John fleck
443 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
445 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
446 Time and Date core functions support
450 - XML Catalog support see the doc
451 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
456 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
457 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
458 - improvements on the extension framework
459 - documentation improvements
460 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
461 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
465 - initial EXSLT framework
466 - better error reporting
467 - fixed the profiler on Windows
472 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
473 - added a documentation for writing
475 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
476 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
478 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
479 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
480 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
482 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
487 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
488 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
489 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
490 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
491 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
492 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
495 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
497 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
498 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
499 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
501 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
502 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
503 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
504 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
505 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
506 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
509 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
510 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
511 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
513 - William fixed some problems with document()
514 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
518 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
519 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
521 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
525 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
526 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
527 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
528 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
529 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
530 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
534 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
535 - fixed URI resolution in document()
536 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
538 - Fixed HTML default output detection
539 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
540 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
541 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
542 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
543 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
544 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
545 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
546 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
547 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
552 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
553 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
554 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
555 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
557 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
558 programs should work now
559 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
560 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
564 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
565 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
566 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
567 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
568 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
569 - fixes to current() and key()
570 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
575 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
576 - command line parameter passing
577 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
578 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
583 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
584 - document() extension should function properly
585 - fixed a number or reported bugs
590 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
591 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
592 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
593 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
594 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
595 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
596 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
597 - a bug fix on for-each
601 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
604 - started implement extension support, not finished
605 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
609 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
612 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
616 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
617 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
618 and XPath support of libxml
619 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
620 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
621 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
623 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
624 key() and document() is not complete
628 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
629 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
633 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
634 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being