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 fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
10 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
12 - documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)
13 - bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
14 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
15 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,
16 - improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)
20 - build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris
21 - bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
22 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
23 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
24 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
25 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
30 - 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc
34 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
35 - remove use of _private from source documents
36 - cleanup of "make tests" output
37 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
38 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
39 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
40 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
41 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
46 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
47 Yelp, extension problem
48 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
49 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
53 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
54 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
55 performance improvements.
56 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
57 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
58 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
59 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
60 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
61 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
63 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
64 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
69 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
71 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
72 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
73 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
74 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
79 - code cleanup (William Brack)
80 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
81 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
83 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
84 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
85 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
86 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
87 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
88 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
89 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
90 entities handling when using XInclude.
94 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
95 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
96 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
97 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
99 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
101 - Python: never use stdout for error
102 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
103 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
104 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
105 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
107 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
108 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
109 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
110 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
111 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
112 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
113 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
117 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
118 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
119 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
120 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
121 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
122 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
123 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
124 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
125 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
126 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
127 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
131 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
132 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
134 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
135 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
136 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
137 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
140 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
141 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
142 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
147 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
148 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
149 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
150 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
151 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
152 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
154 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
155 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
157 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
158 - HP-UX portability fix
162 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
163 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
164 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
165 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
166 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
167 current node when templates applies to attributes
171 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
172 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
173 declarations with xsl:elements.
174 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
179 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
180 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
181 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
182 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
187 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
188 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
189 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
193 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
194 could lead to a crash
198 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
199 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
200 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
202 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
206 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
207 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
208 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
209 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
210 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
211 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
212 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
213 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
214 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
215 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
216 - fix the API generation scripts
217 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
218 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
219 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
220 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
221 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
225 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
226 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
227 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
229 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
230 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
231 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
232 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
236 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
237 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
239 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
240 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
245 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
246 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
247 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
248 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
249 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
250 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
251 Windows (Igor), Python detection
252 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
256 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
257 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
258 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
259 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
261 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
262 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
266 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
267 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
268 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
269 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
270 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
271 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
272 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
277 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
278 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
279 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
281 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
283 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
284 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
285 - specific error registration function for the python API
288 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
289 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
291 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
292 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
293 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
296 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
297 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
299 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
303 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
305 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
306 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
308 - revamp of the Windows build
312 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
313 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
314 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
319 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
320 - Improvement of the Python bindings
321 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
326 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
327 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
331 - Change of Licence to the MIT
333 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
334 extend the engine with functions written in Python
335 - A number of bug fixes
336 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
341 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
342 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
343 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
344 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
350 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
351 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
352 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
353 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
355 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
357 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
359 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
363 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
365 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
366 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
367 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
372 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
373 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
374 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
375 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
379 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
381 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
382 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
386 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
388 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
389 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
390 contribution from Darren Graves)
391 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
395 - Documentation updates from John fleck
396 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
398 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
399 Time and Date core functions support
403 - XML Catalog support see the doc
404 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
409 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
410 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
411 - improvements on the extension framework
412 - documentation improvements
413 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
414 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
418 - initial EXSLT framework
419 - better error reporting
420 - fixed the profiler on Windows
425 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
426 - added a documentation for writing
428 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
429 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
431 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
432 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
433 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
435 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
440 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
441 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
442 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
443 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
444 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
445 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
448 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
450 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
451 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
452 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
454 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
455 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
456 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
457 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
458 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
459 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
462 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
463 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
464 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
466 - William fixed some problems with document()
467 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
471 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
472 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
474 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
478 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
479 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
480 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
481 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
482 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
483 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
487 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
488 - fixed URI resolution in document()
489 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
491 - Fixed HTML default output detection
492 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
493 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
494 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
495 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
496 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
497 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
498 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
499 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
500 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
505 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
506 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
507 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
508 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
510 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
511 programs should work now
512 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
513 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
517 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
518 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
519 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
520 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
521 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
522 - fixes to current() and key()
523 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
528 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
529 - command line parameter passing
530 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
531 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
536 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
537 - document() extension should function properly
538 - fixed a number or reported bugs
543 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
544 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
545 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
546 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
547 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
548 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
549 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
550 - a bug fix on for-each
554 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
557 - started implement extension support, not finished
558 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
562 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
565 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
569 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
570 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
571 and XPath support of libxml
572 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
573 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
574 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
576 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
577 key() and document() is not complete
581 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
582 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
586 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
587 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being