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 - performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables
15 - remove use of _private from source documents
16 - cleanup of "make tests" output
17 - bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
18 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
19 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
20 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
21 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
26 - bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
27 Yelp, extension problem
28 - display extension modules (Steve Little)
29 - Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
33 - Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
34 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
35 performance improvements.
36 - bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
37 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
38 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
39 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
40 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
41 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
43 - Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)
44 - Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
49 - Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
51 - Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)
52 - Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
53 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
54 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
59 - code cleanup (William Brack)
60 - Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)
61 - documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
63 - param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)
64 - XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)
65 - bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
66 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
67 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
68 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
69 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
70 entities handling when using XInclude.
74 - Removed DocBook SGML broken support
75 - fix xsl:key to work with PIs
76 - Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
77 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
79 - xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
81 - Python: never use stdout for error
82 - extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)
83 - header path fixes (Steve Ball)
84 - added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)
85 - Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
87 - Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)
88 - Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing
89 - Make sure xsl:sort is empty
90 - Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes
91 - Removes the deprecated breakpoint library
92 - detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)
93 - fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem
97 This is a bugfix only release - error message missing argument (William Brack)
98 - mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)
99 - catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)
100 - multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)
101 - patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)
102 - header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
103 - cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names
104 - compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)
105 - apply-templates crash (William Brack)
106 - bug with imported templates (William Brack)
107 - imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)
111 - bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
112 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
114 speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
115 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
116 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
117 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
120 - Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)
121 - EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)
122 - portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)
127 - bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
128 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
129 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
130 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
131 stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
132 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30
134 - avoid generating " (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)
135 - fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
137 - Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)
138 - HP-UX portability fix
142 - Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks
143 - Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
144 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
145 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
146 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
147 current node when templates applies to attributes
151 - performance improvements especially for large flat documents
152 - bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
153 declarations with xsl:elements.
154 - portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
159 - fixed node() in patterns semantic.
160 - fixed a memory access problem in format-number()
161 - fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params
162 - cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
167 - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
168 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
169 - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
173 - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
174 could lead to a crash
178 - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
179 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
180 - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
182 - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
186 - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
187 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
188 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
189 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
190 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
191 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
192 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
193 - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
194 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
195 - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
196 - fix the API generation scripts
197 - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
198 - added XML description of the EXSLT API
199 - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
200 - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
201 - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
205 - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
206 - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
207 - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
209 - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
210 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
211 - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
212 - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
216 - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
217 - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
219 - Allowed per transformation error handler.
220 - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
225 - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
226 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
227 - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
228 - Logos from Marc Liyanage
229 - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
230 - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
231 Windows (Igor), Python detection
232 - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
236 - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
237 - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
238 - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
239 - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
241 - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
242 - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
246 - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
247 - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
248 - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
249 - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
250 - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
251 - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
252 - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
257 - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
258 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
259 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
261 - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
263 - there is a new API to save directly to a string
264 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
265 - specific error registration function for the python API
268 1.0.17: April 29 2002:
269 - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
271 - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
272 - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
273 - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
276 1.0.16: April 15 2002:
277 - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
279 - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
283 - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
285 - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
286 - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
288 - revamp of the Windows build
292 - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
293 - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
294 - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
299 - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
300 - Improvement of the Python bindings
301 - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
306 - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
307 - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
311 - Change of Licence to the MIT
313 - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
314 extend the engine with functions written in Python
315 - A number of bug fixes
316 - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
321 - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
322 - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
323 - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
324 - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
330 - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
331 - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
332 - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
333 - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
335 - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
337 - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
339 - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
343 - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
345 - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
346 - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
347 - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
352 - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
353 - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
354 - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
355 - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
359 - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
361 - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
362 - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
366 - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
368 - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
369 - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
370 contribution from Darren Graves)
371 - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
375 - Documentation updates from John fleck
376 - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
378 - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
379 Time and Date core functions support
383 - XML Catalog support see the doc
384 - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
389 - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
390 - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
391 - improvements on the extension framework
392 - documentation improvements
393 - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
394 - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
398 - initial EXSLT framework
399 - better error reporting
400 - fixed the profiler on Windows
405 - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
406 - added a documentation for writing
408 - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
409 - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
411 - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
412 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
413 - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
415 - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
420 - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
421 - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
422 - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
423 - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
424 - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
425 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
428 0.13.0: June 26 2001:
430 - fixed a C++ compilation problem
431 - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
432 - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
434 - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
435 - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
436 - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
437 - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
438 - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
439 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
442 0.12.0: June 18 2001:
443 - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
444 - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
446 - William fixed some problems with document()
447 - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
451 - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
452 - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
454 - made xsltproc --version more detailed
458 Mostly a bug fix release. - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
459 - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
460 - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
461 - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
462 - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
463 - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
467 - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
468 - fixed URI resolution in document()
469 - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
471 - Fixed HTML default output detection
472 - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
473 - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
474 - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
475 - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
476 - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
477 - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
478 - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
479 - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
480 - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
485 - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
486 - xsltproc should work with multiple params
487 - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
488 - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
490 - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
491 programs should work now
492 - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
493 - Implemented multiple level of sorting
497 - fixed ansidecl.h problem
498 - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
499 - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
500 - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
501 (requires libxml-2.3.7)
502 - fixes to current() and key()
503 - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
508 - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
509 - command line parameter passing
510 - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
511 - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
516 - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
517 - document() extension should function properly
518 - fixed a number or reported bugs
523 - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
524 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
525 - fixed problems with handling of tree results
526 - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
527 - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
528 - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
529 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
530 - a bug fix on for-each
534 - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
537 - started implement extension support, not finished
538 - implemented but not tested multiple file output
542 - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
545 - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
549 - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
550 - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
551 and XPath support of libxml
552 - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
553 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
554 stylesheets (in section I of the XML
556 - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
557 key() and document() is not complete
561 - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
562 - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
566 - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
567 - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being