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 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
15 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
16 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
17 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
19 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
21 - Python: never use stdout for error
22 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
23 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
24 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
25 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
27 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
28 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
29 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
30 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
31 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
32 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
33 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
37 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
38 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
39 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
40 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
41 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
42 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
43 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
44 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
45 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
46 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
47 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
51 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
52 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
54 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
55 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
56 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
57 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
60 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
61 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
62 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
67 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
68 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
69 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
70 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
71 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
72 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
74 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
75 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
77 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
78 - HP-UX portability fix
82 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
83 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
84 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
85 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
86 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
87 current node when templates applies to attributes
91 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
92 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
93 declarations with xsl:elements.
94 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
99 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
100 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
101 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
102 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
107 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
108 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
109 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
113 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
114 could lead to a crash
118 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
119 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
120 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
122 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
126 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
127 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
128 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
129 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
130 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
131 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
132 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
133 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
134 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
135 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
136 - fix the API generation scripts
137 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
138 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
139 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
140 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
141 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
145 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
146 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
147 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
149 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
150 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
151 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
152 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
156 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
157 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
159 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
160 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
165 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
166 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
167 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
168 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
169 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
170 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
171 Windows (Igor), Python detection
172 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
176 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
177 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
178 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
179 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
181 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
182 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
186 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
187 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
188 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
189 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
190 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
191 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
192 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
197 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
198 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
199 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
201 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
203 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
204 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
205 - specific error registration function for the python API
208 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
209 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
211 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
212 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
213 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
216 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
217 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
219 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
223 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
225 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
226 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
228 - revamp of the Windows build
232 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
233 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
234 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
239 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
240 - Improvement of the Python bindings
241 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
246 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
247 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
251 - Change of Licence to the MIT
253 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
254 extend the engine with functions written in Python
255 - A number of bug fixes
256 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
261 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
262 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
263 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
264 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
270 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
271 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
272 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
273 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
275 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
277 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
279 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
283 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
285 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
286 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
287 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
292 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
293 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
294 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
295 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
299 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
301 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
302 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
306 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
308 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
309 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
310 contribution from Darren Graves)
311 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
315 - Documentation updates from John fleck
316 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
318 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
319 Time and Date core functions support
323 - XML Catalog support see the doc
324 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
329 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
330 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
331 - improvements on the extension framework
332 - documentation improvements
333 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
334 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
338 - initial EXSLT framework
339 - better error reporting
340 - fixed the profiler on Windows
345 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
346 - added a documentation for writing
348 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
349 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
351 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
352 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
353 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
355 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
360 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
361 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
362 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
363 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
364 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
365 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
368 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
370 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
371 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
372 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
374 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
375 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
376 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
377 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
378 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
379 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
382 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
383 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
384 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
386 - William fixed some problems with document()
387 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
391 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
392 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
394 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
398 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
399 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
400 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
401 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
402 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
403 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
407 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
408 - fixed URI resolution in document()
409 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
411 - Fixed HTML default output detection
412 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
413 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
414 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
415 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
416 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
417 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
418 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
419 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
420 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
425 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
426 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
427 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
428 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
430 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
431 programs should work now
432 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
433 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
437 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
438 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
439 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
440 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
441 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
442 - fixes to current() and key()
443 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
448 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
449 - command line parameter passing
450 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
451 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
456 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
457 - document() extension should function properly
458 - fixed a number or reported bugs
463 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
464 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
465 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
466 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
467 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
468 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
469 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
470 - a bug fix on for-each
474 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
477 - started implement extension support, not finished
478 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
482 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
485 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
489 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
490 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
491 and XPath support of libxml
492 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
493 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
494 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
496 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
497 key() and document() is not complete
501 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
502 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
506 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
507 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being