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: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
15 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
17 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
18 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
19 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
20 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
21 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
25 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
26 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
27 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
28 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
29 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
30 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
35 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
39 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
40 - remove use of _private from source documents
41 - cleanup of "make tests" output
42 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
43 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
44 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
45 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
46 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
51 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
52 Yelp, extension problem
53 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
54 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
58 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
59 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
60 performance improvements.
61 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
62 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
63 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
64 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
65 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
66 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
68 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
69 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
74 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
76 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
77 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
78 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
79 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
84 - code cleanup (William Brack)
85 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
86 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
88 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
89 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
90 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
91 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
92 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
93 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
94 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
95 entities handling when using XInclude.
99 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
100 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
101 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
102 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
104 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
106 - Python: never use stdout for error
107 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
108 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
109 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
110 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
112 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
113 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
114 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
115 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
116 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
117 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
118 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
122 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
123 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
124 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
125 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
126 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
127 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
128 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
129 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
130 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
131 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
132 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
136 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
137 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
139 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
140 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
141 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
142 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
145 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
146 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
147 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
152 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
153 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
154 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
155 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
156 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
157 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
159 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
160 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
162 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
163 - HP-UX portability fix
167 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
168 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
169 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
170 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
171 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
172 current node when templates applies to attributes
176 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
177 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
178 declarations with xsl:elements.
179 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
184 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
185 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
186 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
187 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
192 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
193 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
194 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
198 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
199 could lead to a crash
203 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
204 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
205 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
207 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
211 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
212 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
213 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
214 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
215 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
216 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
217 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
218 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
219 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
220 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
221 - fix the API generation scripts
222 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
223 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
224 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
225 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
226 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
230 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
231 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
232 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
234 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
235 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
236 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
237 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
241 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
242 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
244 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
245 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
250 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
251 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
252 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
253 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
254 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
255 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
256 Windows (Igor), Python detection
257 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
261 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
262 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
263 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
264 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
266 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
267 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
271 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
272 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
273 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
274 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
275 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
276 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
277 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
282 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
283 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
284 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
286 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
288 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
289 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
290 - specific error registration function for the python API
293 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
294 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
296 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
297 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
298 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
301 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
302 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
304 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
308 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
310 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
311 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
313 - revamp of the Windows build
317 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
318 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
319 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
324 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
325 - Improvement of the Python bindings
326 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
331 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
332 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
336 - Change of Licence to the MIT
338 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
339 extend the engine with functions written in Python
340 - A number of bug fixes
341 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
346 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
347 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
348 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
349 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
355 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
356 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
357 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
358 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
360 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
362 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
364 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
368 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
370 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
371 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
372 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
377 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
378 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
379 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
380 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
384 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
386 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
387 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
391 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
393 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
394 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
395 contribution from Darren Graves)
396 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
400 - Documentation updates from John fleck
401 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
403 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
404 Time and Date core functions support
408 - XML Catalog support see the doc
409 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
414 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
415 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
416 - improvements on the extension framework
417 - documentation improvements
418 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
419 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
423 - initial EXSLT framework
424 - better error reporting
425 - fixed the profiler on Windows
430 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
431 - added a documentation for writing
433 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
434 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
436 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
437 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
438 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
440 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
445 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
446 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
447 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
448 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
449 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
450 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
453 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
455 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
456 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
457 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
459 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
460 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
461 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
462 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
463 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
464 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
467 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
468 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
469 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
471 - William fixed some problems with document()
472 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
476 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
477 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
479 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
483 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
484 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
485 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
486 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
487 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
488 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
492 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
493 - fixed URI resolution in document()
494 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
496 - Fixed HTML default output detection
497 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
498 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
499 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
500 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
501 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
502 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
503 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
504 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
505 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
510 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
511 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
512 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
513 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
515 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
516 programs should work now
517 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
518 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
522 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
523 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
524 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
525 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
526 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
527 - fixes to current() and key()
528 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
533 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
534 - command line parameter passing
535 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
536 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
541 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
542 - document() extension should function properly
543 - fixed a number or reported bugs
548 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
549 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
550 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
551 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
552 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
553 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
554 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
555 - a bug fix on for-each
559 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
562 - started implement extension support, not finished
563 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
567 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
570 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
574 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
575 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
576 and XPath support of libxml
577 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
578 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
579 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
581 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
582 key() and document() is not complete
586 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
587 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
591 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
592 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being