4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
9 CVS only : check the Changelog at
10 http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
12 for a really accurate description:
15 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
16 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
17 declarations with xsl:elements.
18 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
23 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
24 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
25 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
26 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
31 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
32 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
33 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
37 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
42 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
43 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
44 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
46 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
50 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
51 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
52 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
53 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
54 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
55 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
56 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
57 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
58 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
59 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
60 - fix the API generation scripts
61 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
62 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
63 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
64 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
65 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
69 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
70 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
71 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
73 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
74 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
75 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
76 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
80 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
81 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
83 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
84 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
89 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
90 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
91 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
92 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
93 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
94 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
95 Windows (Igor), Python detection
96 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
100 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
101 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
102 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
103 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
105 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
106 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
110 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
111 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
112 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
113 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
114 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
115 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
116 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
121 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
122 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
123 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
125 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
127 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
128 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
129 - specific error registration function for the python API
132 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
133 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
135 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
136 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
137 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
140 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
141 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
143 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
147 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
149 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
150 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
152 - revamp of the Windows build
156 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
157 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
158 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
163 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
164 - Improvement of the Python bindings
165 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
170 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
171 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
175 - Change of Licence to the MIT
178 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
179 extend the engine with functions written in Python
180 - A number of bug fixes
181 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
186 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
187 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
188 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
189 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
195 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
196 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
197 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
198 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
200 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
202 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
204 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
208 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
210 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
211 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
212 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
217 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
218 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
219 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
220 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
224 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
226 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
227 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
231 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
233 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
234 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
235 contribution from Darren Graves)
236 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
240 - Documentation updates from John fleck
241 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
243 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
244 Time and Date core functions support
248 - XML Catalog support see the doc
249 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
254 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
255 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
256 - improvements on the extension framework
257 - documentation improvements
258 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
259 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
263 - initial EXSLT framework
264 - better error reporting
265 - fixed the profiler on Windows
270 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
271 - added a documentation for writing
274 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
275 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
277 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
278 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
279 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
281 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
286 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
287 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
288 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
289 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
290 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
291 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
294 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
296 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
297 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
298 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
300 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
301 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
302 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
303 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
304 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
305 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
308 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
309 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
310 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
312 - William fixed some problems with document()
313 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
318 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
319 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
321 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
325 Mostly a bug fix release.
326 - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
327 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
328 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
329 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
330 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
331 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
335 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
336 - fixed URI resolution in document()
337 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
339 - Fixed HTML default output detection
340 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
341 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
342 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
343 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
344 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
345 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
346 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
347 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
348 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
353 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
354 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
355 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
356 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
358 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
359 programs should work now
360 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
361 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
365 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
366 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
367 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
368 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
369 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
370 - fixes to current() and key()
371 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
376 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
377 - command line parameter passing
378 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
379 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
384 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
385 - document() extension should function properly
386 - fixed a number or reported bugs
391 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
392 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
393 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
394 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
395 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
396 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
397 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
398 - a bug fix on for-each
402 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
405 - started implement extension support, not finished
406 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
410 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
413 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
417 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
418 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
419 and XPath support of libxml
420 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
421 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
422 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
424 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
425 key() and document() is not complete
429 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
430 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
434 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
435 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being