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 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
15 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
16 declarations with xsl:elements.
17 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
22 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
23 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
24 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
25 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
30 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
31 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
32 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
36 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
41 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
42 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
43 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
45 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
49 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
50 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
51 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
52 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
53 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
54 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
55 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
56 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
57 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
58 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
59 - fix the API generation scripts
60 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
61 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
62 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
63 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
64 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
68 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
69 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
70 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
72 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
73 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
74 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
75 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
79 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
80 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
82 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
83 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
88 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
89 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
90 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
91 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
92 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
93 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
94 Windows (Igor), Python detection
95 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
99 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
100 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
101 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
102 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
104 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
105 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
109 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
110 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
111 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
112 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
113 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
114 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
115 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
120 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
121 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
122 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
124 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
126 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
127 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
128 - specific error registration function for the python API
131 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
132 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
134 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
135 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
136 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
139 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
140 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
142 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
146 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
148 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
149 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
151 - revamp of the Windows build
155 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
156 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
157 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
162 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
163 - Improvement of the Python bindings
164 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
169 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
170 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
174 - Change of Licence to the MIT
176 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
177 extend the engine with functions written in Python
178 - A number of bug fixes
179 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
184 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
185 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
186 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
187 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
193 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
194 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
195 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
196 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
198 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
200 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
202 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
206 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
208 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
209 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
210 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
215 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
216 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
217 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
218 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
222 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
224 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
225 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
229 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
231 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
232 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
233 contribution from Darren Graves)
234 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
238 - Documentation updates from John fleck
239 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
241 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
242 Time and Date core functions support
246 - XML Catalog support see the doc
247 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
252 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
253 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
254 - improvements on the extension framework
255 - documentation improvements
256 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
257 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
261 - initial EXSLT framework
262 - better error reporting
263 - fixed the profiler on Windows
268 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
269 - added a documentation for writing
271 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
272 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
274 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
275 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
276 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
278 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
283 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
284 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
285 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
286 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
287 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
288 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
291 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
293 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
294 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
295 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
297 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
298 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
299 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
300 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
301 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
302 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
305 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
306 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
307 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
309 - William fixed some problems with document()
310 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
314 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
315 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
317 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
321 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
322 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
323 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
324 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
325 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
326 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
330 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
331 - fixed URI resolution in document()
332 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
334 - Fixed HTML default output detection
335 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
336 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
337 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
338 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
339 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
340 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
341 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
342 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
343 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
348 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
349 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
350 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
351 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
353 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
354 programs should work now
355 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
356 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
360 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
361 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
362 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
363 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
364 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
365 - fixes to current() and key()
366 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
371 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
372 - command line parameter passing
373 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
374 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
379 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
380 - document() extension should function properly
381 - fixed a number or reported bugs
386 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
387 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
388 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
389 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
390 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
391 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
392 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
393 - a bug fix on for-each
397 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
400 - started implement extension support, not finished
401 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
405 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
408 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
412 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
413 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
414 and XPath support of libxml
415 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
416 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
417 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
419 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
420 key() and document() is not complete
424 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
425 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
429 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
430 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being