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 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
13 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
14 - remove use of _private from source documents
15 - cleanup of "make tests" output
16 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
17 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
18 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
19 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
20 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
25 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
26 Yelp, extension problem
27 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
28 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
32 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
33 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
34 performance improvements.
35 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
36 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
37 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
38 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
39 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
40 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
42 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
43 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
48 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
50 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
51 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
52 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
53 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
58 - code cleanup (William Brack)
59 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
60 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
62 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
63 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
64 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
65 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
66 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
67 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
68 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
69 entities handling when using XInclude.
73 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
74 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
75 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
76 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
78 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
80 - Python: never use stdout for error
81 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
82 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
83 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
84 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
86 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
87 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
88 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
89 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
90 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
91 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
92 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
96 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
97 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
98 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
99 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
100 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
101 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
102 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
103 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
104 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
105 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
106 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
110 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
111 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
113 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
114 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
115 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
116 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
119 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
120 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
121 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
126 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
127 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
128 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
129 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
130 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
131 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
133 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
134 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
136 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
137 - HP-UX portability fix
141 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
142 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
143 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
144 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
145 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
146 current node when templates applies to attributes
150 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
151 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
152 declarations with xsl:elements.
153 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
158 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
159 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
160 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
161 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
166 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
167 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
168 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
172 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
173 could lead to a crash
177 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
178 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
179 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
181 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
185 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
186 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
187 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
188 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
189 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
190 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
191 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
192 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
193 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
194 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
195 - fix the API generation scripts
196 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
197 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
198 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
199 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
200 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
204 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
205 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
206 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
208 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
209 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
210 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
211 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
215 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
216 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
218 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
219 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
224 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
225 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
226 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
227 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
228 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
229 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
230 Windows (Igor), Python detection
231 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
235 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
236 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
237 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
238 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
240 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
241 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
245 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
246 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
247 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
248 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
249 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
250 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
251 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
256 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
257 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
258 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
260 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
262 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
263 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
264 - specific error registration function for the python API
267 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
268 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
270 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
271 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
272 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
275 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
276 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
278 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
282 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
284 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
285 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
287 - revamp of the Windows build
291 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
292 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
293 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
298 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
299 - Improvement of the Python bindings
300 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
305 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
306 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
310 - Change of Licence to the MIT
312 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
313 extend the engine with functions written in Python
314 - A number of bug fixes
315 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
320 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
321 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
322 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
323 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
329 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
330 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
331 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
332 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
334 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
336 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
338 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
342 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
344 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
345 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
346 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
351 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
352 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
353 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
354 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
358 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
360 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
361 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
365 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
367 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
368 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
369 contribution from Darren Graves)
370 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
374 - Documentation updates from John fleck
375 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
377 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
378 Time and Date core functions support
382 - XML Catalog support see the doc
383 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
388 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
389 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
390 - improvements on the extension framework
391 - documentation improvements
392 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
393 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
397 - initial EXSLT framework
398 - better error reporting
399 - fixed the profiler on Windows
404 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
405 - added a documentation for writing
407 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
408 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
410 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
411 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
412 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
414 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
419 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
420 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
421 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
422 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
423 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
424 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
427 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
429 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
430 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
431 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
433 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
434 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
435 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
436 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
437 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
438 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
441 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
442 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
443 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
445 - William fixed some problems with document()
446 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
450 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
451 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
453 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
457 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
458 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
459 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
460 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
461 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
462 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
466 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
467 - fixed URI resolution in document()
468 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
470 - Fixed HTML default output detection
471 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
472 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
473 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
474 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
475 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
476 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
477 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
478 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
479 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
484 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
485 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
486 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
487 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
489 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
490 programs should work now
491 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
492 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
496 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
497 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
498 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
499 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
500 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
501 - fixes to current() and key()
502 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
507 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
508 - command line parameter passing
509 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
510 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
515 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
516 - document() extension should function properly
517 - fixed a number or reported bugs
522 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
523 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
524 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
525 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
526 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
527 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
528 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
529 - a bug fix on for-each
533 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
536 - started implement extension support, not finished
537 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
541 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
544 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
548 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
549 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
550 and XPath support of libxml
551 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
552 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
553 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
555 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
556 key() and document() is not complete
560 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
561 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
565 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
566 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being