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 fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build
16 - fix: key initialization problem (William Brack)
17 - documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path
21 - build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Python
22 on 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards),
23 - fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and Sitsofe
24 Wheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports
25 (William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespace
26 alias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document
27 (William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab)
28 - improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for document
29 loading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTD
30 attributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William).
31 - Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg
35 - build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
36 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
38 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
39 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
40 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
41 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
42 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
46 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
47 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
48 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
49 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
50 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
51 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
56 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
60 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
61 - remove use of _private from source documents
62 - cleanup of "make tests" output
63 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
64 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
65 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
66 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
67 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
72 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
73 Yelp, extension problem
74 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
75 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
79 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
80 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
81 performance improvements.
82 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
83 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
84 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
85 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
86 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
87 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
89 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
90 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
95 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
97 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
98 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
99 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
100 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
105 - code cleanup (William Brack)
106 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
107 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
109 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
110 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
111 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
112 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
113 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
114 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
115 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
116 entities handling when using XInclude.
120 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
121 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
122 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
123 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
125 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
127 - Python: never use stdout for error
128 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
129 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
130 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
131 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
133 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
134 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
135 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
136 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
137 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
138 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
139 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
143 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
144 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
145 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
146 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
147 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
148 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
149 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
150 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
151 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
152 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
153 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
157 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
158 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
160 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
161 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
162 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
163 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
166 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
167 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
168 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
173 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
174 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
175 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
176 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
177 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
178 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
180 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
181 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
183 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
184 - HP-UX portability fix
188 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
189 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
190 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
191 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
192 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
193 current node when templates applies to attributes
197 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
198 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
199 declarations with xsl:elements.
200 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
205 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
206 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
207 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
208 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
213 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
214 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
215 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
219 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
220 could lead to a crash
224 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
225 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
226 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
228 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
232 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
233 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
234 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
235 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
236 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
237 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
238 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
239 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
240 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
241 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
242 - fix the API generation scripts
243 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
244 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
245 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
246 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
247 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
251 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
252 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
253 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
255 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
256 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
257 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
258 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
262 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
263 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
265 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
266 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
271 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
272 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
273 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
274 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
275 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
276 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
277 Windows (Igor), Python detection
278 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
282 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
283 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
284 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
285 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
287 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
288 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
292 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
293 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
294 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
295 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
296 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
297 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
298 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
303 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
304 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
305 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
307 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
309 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
310 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
311 - specific error registration function for the python API
314 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
315 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
317 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
318 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
319 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
322 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
323 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
325 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
329 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
331 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
332 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
334 - revamp of the Windows build
338 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
339 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
340 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
345 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
346 - Improvement of the Python bindings
347 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
352 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
353 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
357 - Change of Licence to the MIT
359 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
360 extend the engine with functions written in Python
361 - A number of bug fixes
362 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
367 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
368 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
369 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
370 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
376 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
377 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
378 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
379 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
381 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
383 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
385 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
389 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
391 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
392 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
393 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
398 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
399 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
400 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
401 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
405 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
407 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
408 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
412 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
414 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
415 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
416 contribution from Darren Graves)
417 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
421 - Documentation updates from John fleck
422 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
424 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
425 Time and Date core functions support
429 - XML Catalog support see the doc
430 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
435 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
436 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
437 - improvements on the extension framework
438 - documentation improvements
439 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
440 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
444 - initial EXSLT framework
445 - better error reporting
446 - fixed the profiler on Windows
451 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
452 - added a documentation for writing
454 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
455 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
457 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
458 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
459 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
461 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
466 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
467 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
468 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
469 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
470 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
471 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
474 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
476 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
477 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
478 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
480 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
481 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
482 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
483 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
484 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
485 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
488 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
489 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
490 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
492 - William fixed some problems with document()
493 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
497 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
498 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
500 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
504 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
505 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
506 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
507 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
508 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
509 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
513 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
514 - fixed URI resolution in document()
515 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
517 - Fixed HTML default output detection
518 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
519 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
520 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
521 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
522 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
523 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
524 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
525 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
526 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
531 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
532 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
533 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
534 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
536 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
537 programs should work now
538 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
539 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
543 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
544 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
545 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
546 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
547 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
548 - fixes to current() and key()
549 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
554 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
555 - command line parameter passing
556 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
557 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
562 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
563 - document() extension should function properly
564 - fixed a number or reported bugs
569 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
570 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
571 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
572 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
573 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
574 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
575 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
576 - a bug fix on for-each
580 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
583 - started implement extension support, not finished
584 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
588 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
591 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
595 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
596 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
597 and XPath support of libxml
598 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
599 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
600 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
602 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
603 key() and document() is not complete
607 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
608 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
612 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
613 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being