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85 <h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
86 for a really accurate description</h3>
87 <h3>1.0.28: Mar 24 2003</h3>
89 <li>fixed node() in patterns semantic.</li>
90 <li>fixed a memory access problem in format-number()</li>
91 <li>fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params</li>
92 <li>cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
95 <h3>1.0.27: Feb 24 2003</h3>
97 <li>bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
98 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs</li>
99 <li>Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)</li>
101 <h3>1.0.26: Feb 10 2003</h3>
103 <li>Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
104 could lead to a crash</li>
106 <h3>1.0.25: Feb 5 2003</h3>
108 <li>Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
109 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist</li>
110 <li>Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
112 <li>Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.</li>
114 <h3>1.0.24: Jan 14 2003</h3>
116 <li>bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
117 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
118 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
119 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
120 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
121 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
122 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called</li>
123 <li>HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
124 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)</li>
125 <li>adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)</li>
126 <li>fix the API generation scripts</li>
127 <li>API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)</li>
128 <li>added XML description of the EXSLT API</li>
129 <li>added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)</li>
130 <li>Some memory leaks have been found and fixed</li>
131 <li>document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs</li>
133 <h3>1.0.23: Nov 17 2002</h3>
135 <li>Windows build cleanup (Igor)</li>
136 <li>Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup</li>
137 <li>Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
139 <li>various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
140 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns</li>
141 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
142 <li>added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)</li>
144 <h3>1.0.22: Oct 18 2002</h3>
146 <li>Updates on the Windows Makefiles</li>
147 <li>Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
149 <li>Allowed per transformation error handler.</li>
150 <li>Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
153 <h3>1.0.21: Sep 26 2002</h3>
155 <li>Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
156 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping</li>
157 <li>Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes</li>
158 <li>Logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
159 <li>Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers</li>
160 <li>Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
161 Windows (Igor), Python detection</li>
162 <li>Documentation improvements: John Fleck</li>
164 <h3>1.0.20: Aug 23 2002</h3>
166 <li>Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)</li>
167 <li>fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users</li>
168 <li>possible leak patches from Nathan Myers</li>
169 <li>try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
171 <li>Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem</li>
172 <li>Fixed a few XSLT reported errors</li>
174 <h3>1.0.19: July 6 2002</h3>
176 <li>EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
177 <li>xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks</li>
178 <li>xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors</li>
179 <li>document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist</li>
180 <li>xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack</li>
181 <li>xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors</li>
182 <li>a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
185 <h3>1.0.18: May 27 2002</h3>
187 <li>a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
188 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
189 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
191 <li>xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
193 <li>there is a new API to save directly to a string
194 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter</li>
195 <li>specific error registration function for the python API</li>
197 <h3>1.0.17: April 29 2002</h3>
199 <li>cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
201 <li>a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc</li>
202 <li>EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman</li>
203 <li>attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal</li>
205 <h3>1.0.16: April 15 2002</h3>
207 <li>Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
209 <li>portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings</li>
211 <h3>1.0.15: Mar 25 2002</h3>
213 <li>Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
215 <li>Debug of memory alocation with valgind</li>
216 <li>serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
218 <li>revamp of the Windows build</li>
220 <h3>1.0.14: Mar 18 2002</h3>
222 <li>Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)</li>
223 <li>Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set</li>
224 <li>Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
225 portability fixes</li>
227 <h3>1.0.13: Mar 8 2002</h3>
229 <li>a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"</li>
230 <li>Improvement of the Python bindings</li>
231 <li>Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
234 <h3>1.0.12: Feb 11 2002</h3>
236 <li>Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones</li>
237 <li>half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones</li>
239 <h3>1.0.11: Feb 8 2002</h3>
241 <li>Change of Licence to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
244 <li>Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
245 extend the engine with functions written in Python</li>
246 <li>A number of bug fixes</li>
247 <li>Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions</li>
248 <li>Portability fixes</li>
250 <h3>1.0.10: Jan 14 2002</h3>
252 <li>Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor</li>
253 <li>Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)</li>
254 <li>Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck</li>
255 <li>Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
257 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
259 <h3>1.0.9: Dec 7 2001</h3>
261 <li>Makefile patches from Peter Williams</li>
262 <li>attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking</li>
263 <li>obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API</li>
264 <li>xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
266 <li>patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
267 made dynamic really</li>
268 <li>fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
270 <li>patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger</li>
272 <h3>1.0.8: Nov 26 2001</h3>
274 <li>fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
276 <li>patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor</li>
277 <li>OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
278 <li>fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
281 <h3>1.0.7: Nov 10 2001</h3>
283 <li>remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC</li>
284 <li>Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger</li>
285 <li>fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output</li>
286 <li>fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file</li>
288 <h3>1.0.6: Oct 30 2001</h3>
290 <li>bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
292 <li>update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)</li>
293 <li>fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)</li>
295 <h3>1.0.5: Oct 10 2001</h3>
297 <li>some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
299 <li>fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)</li>
300 <li>support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
301 contribution from Darren Graves)</li>
302 <li>better handling of XPath evaluation errors</li>
304 <h3>1.0.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
306 <li>Documentation updates from John fleck</li>
307 <li>bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
309 <li>Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
310 Time and Date core functions support</li>
312 <h3>1.0.3: Aug 23 2001</h3>
314 <li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
315 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
316 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
318 <h3>1.0.2: Aug 15 2001</h3>
320 <li>lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite</li>
321 <li>a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented</li>
322 <li>improvements on the extension framework</li>
323 <li>documentation improvements</li>
324 <li>Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date</li>
325 <li>handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default</li>
327 <h3>1.0.1: July 24 2001</h3>
329 <li>initial EXSLT framework</li>
330 <li>better error reporting</li>
331 <li>fixed the profiler on Windows</li>
334 <h3>1.0.0: July 10 2001</h3>
336 <li>a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed</li>
337 <li>added a documentation for <a href="extensions.html">writing
340 <li>fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)</li>
341 <li>added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
342 --profile option</li>
343 <li>fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
344 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback</li>
345 <li>exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
347 <li>added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
350 <h3>0.14.0: July 5 2001</h3>
352 <li>lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup</li>
353 <li>completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented</li>
354 <li>Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer</li>
355 <li>the Windows MSC environment should be complete</li>
356 <li>tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
357 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads</li>
359 <h3>0.13.0: June 26 2001</h3>
361 <li>lots of cleanups</li>
362 <li>fixed a C++ compilation problem</li>
363 <li>couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()</li>
364 <li>try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
366 <li>fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems</li>
367 <li>Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek</li>
368 <li>update to the Tutorial by John Fleck</li>
369 <li>William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions</li>
370 <li>added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
371 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc</li>
373 <h3>0.12.0: June 18 2001</h3>
375 <li>fixed a dozen of bugs reported</li>
376 <li>HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
378 <li>William fixed some problems with document()</li>
379 <li>Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
381 <li>John Fleck added a<a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">
384 <li>Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables</li>
385 <li>XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
387 <li>made xsltproc --version more detailed</li>
389 <h3>0.11.0: June 1 2001</h3>
390 <p>Mostly a bug fix release.</p>
392 <li>integration of catalogs from xsltproc</li>
393 <li>added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting</li>
394 <li>fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities</li>
395 <li>document() should hopefully work correctly but ...</li>
396 <li>fixed bug with PI and comments processing</li>
397 <li>William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode</li>
399 <h3>0.10.0: May 19 2001</h3>
401 <li>cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)</li>
402 <li>fixed URI resolution in document()</li>
403 <li>force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
404 even if unused ...</li>
405 <li>Fixed HTML default output detection</li>
406 <li>Fixed double attribute generation #54446</li>
407 <li>Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451</li>
408 <li>More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations</li>
409 <li>Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()</li>
410 <li>added a documentation on the libxslt internals</li>
411 <li>William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()</li>
412 <li>Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now</li>
413 <li>added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)</li>
414 <li>a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
417 <h3>0.9.0: May 3 2001</h3>
419 <li>lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite</li>
420 <li>xsltproc should work with multiple params</li>
421 <li>added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input</li>
422 <li>improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
423 should be faster</li>
424 <li>using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
425 programs should work now</li>
426 <li>fixed another batch of namespace handling problems</li>
427 <li>Implemented multiple level of sorting</li>
429 <h3>0.8.0: Apr 22 2001</h3>
431 <li>fixed ansidecl.h problem</li>
432 <li>fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()</li>
433 <li>sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack</li>
434 <li>fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
435 (requires libxml-2.3.7)</li>
436 <li>fixes to current() and key()</li>
437 <li>other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
440 <h3>0.7.0: Apr 10 2001</h3>
442 <li>cleanup using stricter compiler flags</li>
443 <li>command line parameter passing</li>
444 <li>fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack</li>
445 <li>added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()</li>
447 <h3>0.6.0: Mar 22 2001</h3>
449 <li>another beta</li>
450 <li>requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support</li>
451 <li>document() extension should function properly</li>
452 <li>fixed a number or reported bugs</li>
454 <h3>0.5.0: Mar 10 2001</h3>
457 <li>some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
458 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)</li>
459 <li>fixed problems with handling of tree results</li>
460 <li>fixed a reported strip-spaces problem</li>
461 <li>added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite</li>
462 <li>incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
463 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates</li>
464 <li>a bug fix on for-each</li>
466 <h3>0.4.0: Mar 1 2001</h3>
468 <li>fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3</li>
470 <li>some optimization</li>
471 <li>started implement extension support, not finished</li>
472 <li>implemented but not tested multiple file output</li>
474 <h3>0.3.0: Feb 24 2001</h3>
476 <li>third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2</li>
477 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
478 <li>some optimization</li>
479 <li>added DocBook XSL based testsuite</li>
481 <h3>0.2.0: Feb 15 2001</h3>
483 <li>second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1</li>
484 <li>getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
485 and XPath support of libxml</li>
486 <li>start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
487 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
488 stylesheets (in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#b4d250b6c21">section I of the XML
490 <li>Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
491 key() and document() is not complete</li>
493 <h3>0.1.0: Feb 8 2001</h3>
495 <li>first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0</li>
496 <li>lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete</li>
498 <h3>0.0.1: Jan 25 2001</h3>
500 <li>first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12</li>
501 <li>Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being
502 feature complete</li>
504 <p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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