4 Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
5 http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
7 Those are the public releases made:
9 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
10 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
11 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
12 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
13 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
14 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
19 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
23 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
24 - remove use of _private from source documents
25 - cleanup of "make tests" output
26 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
27 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
28 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
29 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
30 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
35 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
36 Yelp, extension problem
37 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
38 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
42 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
43 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
44 performance improvements.
45 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
46 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
47 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
48 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
49 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
50 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
52 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
53 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
58 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
60 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
61 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
62 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
63 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
68 - code cleanup (William Brack)
69 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
70 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
72 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
73 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
74 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
75 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
76 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
77 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
78 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
79 entities handling when using XInclude.
83 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
84 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
85 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
86 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
88 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
90 - Python: never use stdout for error
91 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
92 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
93 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
94 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
96 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
97 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
98 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
99 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
100 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
101 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
102 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
106 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
107 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
108 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
109 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
110 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
111 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
112 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
113 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
114 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
115 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
116 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
120 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
121 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
123 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
124 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
125 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
126 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
129 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
130 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
131 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
136 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
137 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
138 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
139 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
140 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
141 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
143 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
144 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
146 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
147 - HP-UX portability fix
151 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
152 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
153 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
154 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
155 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
156 current node when templates applies to attributes
160 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
161 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
162 declarations with xsl:elements.
163 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
168 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
169 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
170 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
171 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
176 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
177 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
178 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
182 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
183 could lead to a crash
187 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
188 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
189 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
191 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
195 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
196 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
197 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
198 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
199 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
200 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
201 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
202 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
203 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
204 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
205 - fix the API generation scripts
206 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
207 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
208 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
209 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
210 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
214 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
215 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
216 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
218 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
219 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
220 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
221 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
225 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
226 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
228 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
229 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
234 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
235 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
236 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
237 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
238 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
239 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
240 Windows (Igor), Python detection
241 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
245 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
246 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
247 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
248 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
250 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
251 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
255 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
256 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
257 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
258 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
259 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
260 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
261 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
266 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
267 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
268 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
270 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
272 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
273 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
274 - specific error registration function for the python API
277 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
278 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
280 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
281 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
282 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
285 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
286 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
288 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
292 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
294 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
295 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
297 - revamp of the Windows build
301 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
302 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
303 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
308 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
309 - Improvement of the Python bindings
310 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
315 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
316 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
320 - Change of Licence to the MIT
322 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
323 extend the engine with functions written in Python
324 - A number of bug fixes
325 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
330 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
331 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
332 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
333 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
339 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
340 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
341 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
342 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
344 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
346 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
348 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
352 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
354 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
355 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
356 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
361 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
362 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
363 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
364 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
368 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
370 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
371 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
375 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
377 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
378 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
379 contribution from Darren Graves)
380 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
384 - Documentation updates from John fleck
385 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
387 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
388 Time and Date core functions support
392 - XML Catalog support see the doc
393 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
398 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
399 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
400 - improvements on the extension framework
401 - documentation improvements
402 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
403 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
407 - initial EXSLT framework
408 - better error reporting
409 - fixed the profiler on Windows
414 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
415 - added a documentation for writing
417 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
418 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
420 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
421 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
422 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
424 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
429 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
430 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
431 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
432 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
433 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
434 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
437 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
439 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
440 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
441 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
443 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
444 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
445 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
446 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
447 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
448 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
451 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
452 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
453 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
455 - William fixed some problems with document()
456 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
460 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
461 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
463 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
467 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
468 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
469 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
470 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
471 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
472 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
476 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
477 - fixed URI resolution in document()
478 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
480 - Fixed HTML default output detection
481 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
482 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
483 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
484 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
485 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
486 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
487 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
488 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
489 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
494 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
495 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
496 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
497 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
499 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
500 programs should work now
501 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
502 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
506 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
507 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
508 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
509 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
510 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
511 - fixes to current() and key()
512 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
517 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
518 - command line parameter passing
519 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
520 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
525 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
526 - document() extension should function properly
527 - fixed a number or reported bugs
532 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
533 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
534 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
535 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
536 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
537 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
538 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
539 - a bug fix on for-each
543 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
546 - started implement extension support, not finished
547 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
551 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
554 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
558 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
559 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
560 and XPath support of libxml
561 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
562 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
563 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
565 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
566 key() and document() is not complete
570 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
571 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
575 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
576 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being