4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
9 CVS only : check the Changelog at
10 http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
12 for a really accurate description:
15 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
16 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
17 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
21 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
26 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
27 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
28 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
30 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
34 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
35 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
36 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
37 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
38 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
39 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
40 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
41 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
42 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
43 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
44 - fix the API generation scripts
45 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
46 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
47 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
48 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
49 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
53 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
54 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
55 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
57 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
58 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
59 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
60 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
64 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
65 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
67 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
68 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
73 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
74 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
75 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
76 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
77 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
78 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
79 Windows (Igor), Python detection
80 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
84 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
85 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
86 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
87 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
89 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
90 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
94 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
95 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
96 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
97 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
98 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
99 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
100 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
105 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
106 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
107 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
109 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
111 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
112 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
113 - specific error registration function for the python API
116 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
117 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
119 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
120 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
121 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
124 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
125 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
127 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
131 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
133 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
134 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
136 - revamp of the Windows build
140 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
141 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
142 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
147 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
148 - Improvement of the Python bindings
149 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
154 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
155 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
159 - Change of Licence to the MIT
162 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
163 extend the engine with functions written in Python
164 - A number of bug fixes
165 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
170 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
171 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
172 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
173 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
179 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
180 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
181 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
182 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
184 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
186 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
188 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
192 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
194 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
195 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
196 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
201 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
202 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
203 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
204 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
208 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
210 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
211 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
215 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
217 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
218 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
219 contribution from Darren Graves)
220 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
224 - Documentation updates from John fleck
225 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
227 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
228 Time and Date core functions support
232 - XML Catalog support see the doc
233 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
238 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
239 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
240 - improvements on the extension framework
241 - documentation improvements
242 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
243 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
247 - initial EXSLT framework
248 - better error reporting
249 - fixed the profiler on Windows
254 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
255 - added a documentation for writing
258 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
259 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
261 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
262 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
263 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
265 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
270 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
271 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
272 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
273 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
274 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
275 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
278 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
280 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
281 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
282 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
284 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
285 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
286 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
287 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
288 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
289 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
292 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
293 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
294 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
296 - William fixed some problems with document()
297 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
302 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
303 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
305 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
309 Mostly a bug fix release.
310 - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
311 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
312 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
313 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
314 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
315 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
319 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
320 - fixed URI resolution in document()
321 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
323 - Fixed HTML default output detection
324 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
325 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
326 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
327 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
328 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
329 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
330 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
331 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
332 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
337 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
338 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
339 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
340 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
342 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
343 programs should work now
344 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
345 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
349 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
350 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
351 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
352 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
353 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
354 - fixes to current() and key()
355 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
360 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
361 - command line parameter passing
362 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
363 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
368 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
369 - document() extension should function properly
370 - fixed a number or reported bugs
375 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
376 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
377 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
378 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
379 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
380 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
381 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
382 - a bug fix on for-each
386 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
389 - started implement extension support, not finished
390 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
394 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
397 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
401 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
402 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
403 and XPath support of libxml
404 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
405 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
406 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
408 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
409 key() and document() is not complete
413 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
414 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
418 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
419 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being