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 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
15 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
16 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
17 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
18 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
19 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
20 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
21 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
22 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
23 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
24 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
28 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
29 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
31 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
32 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
33 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
34 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
37 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
38 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
39 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
44 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
45 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
46 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
47 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
48 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
49 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
51 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
52 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
54 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
55 - HP-UX portability fix
59 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
60 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
61 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
62 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
63 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
64 current node when templates applies to attributes
68 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
69 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
70 declarations with xsl:elements.
71 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
76 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
77 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
78 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
79 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
84 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
85 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
86 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
90 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
95 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
96 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
97 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
99 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
103 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
104 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
105 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
106 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
107 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
108 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
109 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
110 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
111 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
112 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
113 - fix the API generation scripts
114 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
115 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
116 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
117 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
118 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
122 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
123 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
124 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
126 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
127 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
128 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
129 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
133 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
134 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
136 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
137 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
142 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
143 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
144 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
145 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
146 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
147 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
148 Windows (Igor), Python detection
149 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
153 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
154 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
155 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
156 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
158 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
159 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
163 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
164 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
165 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
166 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
167 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
168 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
169 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
174 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
175 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
176 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
178 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
180 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
181 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
182 - specific error registration function for the python API
185 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
186 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
188 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
189 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
190 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
193 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
194 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
196 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
200 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
202 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
203 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
205 - revamp of the Windows build
209 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
210 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
211 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
216 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
217 - Improvement of the Python bindings
218 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
223 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
224 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
228 - Change of Licence to the MIT
230 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
231 extend the engine with functions written in Python
232 - A number of bug fixes
233 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
238 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
239 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
240 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
241 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
247 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
248 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
249 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
250 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
252 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
254 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
256 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
260 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
262 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
263 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
264 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
269 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
270 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
271 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
272 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
276 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
278 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
279 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
283 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
285 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
286 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
287 contribution from Darren Graves)
288 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
292 - Documentation updates from John fleck
293 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
295 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
296 Time and Date core functions support
300 - XML Catalog support see the doc
301 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
306 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
307 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
308 - improvements on the extension framework
309 - documentation improvements
310 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
311 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
315 - initial EXSLT framework
316 - better error reporting
317 - fixed the profiler on Windows
322 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
323 - added a documentation for writing
325 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
326 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
328 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
329 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
330 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
332 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
337 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
338 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
339 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
340 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
341 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
342 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
345 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
347 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
348 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
349 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
351 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
352 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
353 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
354 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
355 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
356 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
359 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
360 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
361 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
363 - William fixed some problems with document()
364 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
368 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
369 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
371 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
375 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
376 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
377 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
378 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
379 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
380 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
384 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
385 - fixed URI resolution in document()
386 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
388 - Fixed HTML default output detection
389 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
390 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
391 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
392 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
393 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
394 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
395 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
396 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
397 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
402 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
403 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
404 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
405 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
407 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
408 programs should work now
409 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
410 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
414 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
415 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
416 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
417 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
418 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
419 - fixes to current() and key()
420 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
425 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
426 - command line parameter passing
427 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
428 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
433 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
434 - document() extension should function properly
435 - fixed a number or reported bugs
440 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
441 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
442 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
443 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
444 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
445 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
446 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
447 - a bug fix on for-each
451 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
454 - started implement extension support, not finished
455 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
459 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
462 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
466 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
467 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
468 and XPath support of libxml
469 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
470 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
471 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
473 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
474 key() and document() is not complete
478 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
479 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
483 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
484 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being