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 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
16 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
17 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
18 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
19 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
24 - code cleanup (William Brack)
25 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
26 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
28 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
29 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
30 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
31 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
32 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
33 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
34 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
35 entities handling when using XInclude.
39 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
40 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
41 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
42 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
44 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
46 - Python: never use stdout for error
47 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
48 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
49 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
50 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
52 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
53 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
54 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
55 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
56 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
57 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
58 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
62 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
63 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
64 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
65 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
66 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
67 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
68 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
69 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
70 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
71 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
72 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
76 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
77 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
79 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
80 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
81 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
82 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
85 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
86 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
87 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
92 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
93 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
94 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
95 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
96 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
97 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
99 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
100 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
102 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
103 - HP-UX portability fix
107 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
108 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
109 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
110 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
111 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
112 current node when templates applies to attributes
116 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
117 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
118 declarations with xsl:elements.
119 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
124 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
125 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
126 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
127 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
132 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
133 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
134 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
138 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
139 could lead to a crash
143 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
144 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
145 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
147 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
151 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
152 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
153 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
154 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
155 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
156 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
157 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
158 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
159 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
160 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
161 - fix the API generation scripts
162 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
163 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
164 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
165 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
166 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
170 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
171 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
172 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
174 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
175 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
176 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
177 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
181 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
182 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
184 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
185 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
190 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
191 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
192 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
193 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
194 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
195 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
196 Windows (Igor), Python detection
197 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
201 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
202 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
203 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
204 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
206 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
207 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
211 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
212 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
213 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
214 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
215 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
216 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
217 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
222 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
223 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
224 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
226 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
228 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
229 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
230 - specific error registration function for the python API
233 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
234 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
236 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
237 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
238 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
241 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
242 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
244 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
248 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
250 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
251 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
253 - revamp of the Windows build
257 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
258 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
259 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
264 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
265 - Improvement of the Python bindings
266 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
271 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
272 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
276 - Change of Licence to the MIT
278 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
279 extend the engine with functions written in Python
280 - A number of bug fixes
281 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
286 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
287 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
288 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
289 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
295 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
296 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
297 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
298 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
300 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
302 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
304 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
308 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
310 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
311 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
312 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
317 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
318 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
319 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
320 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
324 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
326 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
327 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
331 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
333 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
334 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
335 contribution from Darren Graves)
336 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
340 - Documentation updates from John fleck
341 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
343 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
344 Time and Date core functions support
348 - XML Catalog support see the doc
349 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
354 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
355 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
356 - improvements on the extension framework
357 - documentation improvements
358 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
359 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
363 - initial EXSLT framework
364 - better error reporting
365 - fixed the profiler on Windows
370 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
371 - added a documentation for writing
373 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
374 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
376 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
377 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
378 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
380 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
385 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
386 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
387 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
388 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
389 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
390 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
393 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
395 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
396 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
397 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
399 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
400 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
401 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
402 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
403 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
404 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
407 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
408 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
409 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
411 - William fixed some problems with document()
412 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
416 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
417 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
419 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
423 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
424 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
425 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
426 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
427 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
428 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
432 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
433 - fixed URI resolution in document()
434 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
436 - Fixed HTML default output detection
437 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
438 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
439 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
440 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
441 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
442 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
443 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
444 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
445 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
450 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
451 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
452 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
453 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
455 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
456 programs should work now
457 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
458 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
462 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
463 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
464 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
465 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
466 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
467 - fixes to current() and key()
468 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
473 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
474 - command line parameter passing
475 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
476 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
481 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
482 - document() extension should function properly
483 - fixed a number or reported bugs
488 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
489 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
490 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
491 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
492 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
493 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
494 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
495 - a bug fix on for-each
499 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
502 - started implement extension support, not finished
503 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
507 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
510 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
514 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
515 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
516 and XPath support of libxml
517 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
518 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
519 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
521 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
522 key() and document() is not complete
526 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
527 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
531 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
532 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being