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12 to the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxslt/">CVS</a> code base.</p><p>Those are the public releases made:</p><h3>1.1.15: Sep 04 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows build cleanups and updates (Igor Zlatkovic), remove
14 <li>bug fixes: negative number formatting (William Brack), number formatting
15 per mille definition (William Brack), XInclude default values (William),
16 text copy bugs (William), bug related to xmlXPathContext size, reuse
17 libxml2 memory management for text nodes, dictionnary text bug, forbid
18 variables in match (needs libxml2-2.6.21)</li>
19 <li>improvements: EXSLT dyn:map (Mark Vakoc),
20 </li><li>documentation: EXSLT date and time functions namespace in man (Jonathan
22 </ul><h3>1.1.14: Apr 02 2005</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: text node on stylesheet document without a dictionary
23 (William Brack), more checking of XSLT syntax, calling xsltInit() multiple
24 times, mode values interning raised by Mark Vakoc, bug in pattern
25 matching with ancestors, bug in patterna matching with cascading select,
26 xinclude and document() problem, build outside of source tree (Mike
28 <li>improvement: added a --nodict mode to xsltproc to check problems for
29 docuemtns without dictionnaries
30 </li></ul><h3>1.1.13: Mar 13 2005</h3><ul><li>build fixes: 64bits cleanup (William Brack), python 2.4 test (William),
31 LIBXSLT_VERSION_EXTRA on Windows (William), Windows makefiles fixes
32 (Joel Reed), libgcrypt-devel requires for RPM spec.
33 </li><li>bug fixes: exslt day-of-week-in-month (Sal Paradise), xsl:call-template
34 should not change the current template rule (William Brack), evaluation
35 of global variables (William Brack), RVT's in XPath predicates (William),
36 namespace URI on template names (Mark Vakoc), stat() for Windows patch
37 (Aleksey Gurtovoy), pattern expression fixes (William Brack), out of
38 memory detection misses (William), parserOptions propagation (William),
39 exclude-result-prefixes fix (William), // patten fix (William).
40 </li><li>extensions: module support (Joel Reed), dictionnary based speedups
41 trying to get rid of xmlStrEqual as much as possible.
42 </li><li>documentation: added Wiki (Joel Reed)
43 </li></ul><h3>1.1.12: Oct 29 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: warnings removal (William).</li>
44 <li>bug fixes: attribute document pointer fix (Mark Vakoc), exslt date
45 negative periods (William Brack), generated tree structure fixes,
46 namespace lookup fix, use reentrant gmtime_r (William Brack),
47 exslt:funtion namespace fix (William), potential NULL pointer reference
48 (Dennis Dams, William), force string interning on generated
50 <li>documentation: update of the second tutorial (Panagiotis Louridas), add
51 exslt doc in rpm packages, fix the xsltproc man page.</li>
52 </ul><h3>1.1.11: Sep 29 2004</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: xsl:include problems (William Brack), UTF8 number pattern
53 (William), date-time validation (William), namespace fix (William),
54 various Exslt date fixes (William), error callback fixes, leak with
55 namespaced global variable, attempt to fix a weird problem #153137</li>
56 <li>improvements: exslt:date-sum tests (Derek Poon)</li>
57 <li>documentation: second tutorial by Panagiotis Lourida</li>
58 </ul><h3>1.1.10: Aug 31 2004</h3><ul><li>build fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build
60 <li>fix: key initialization problem (William Brack)</li>
61 <li>documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path</li>
62 </ul><h3>1.1.9: Aug 22 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Python
63 on 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards),</li>
64 <li>fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and Sitsofe
65 Wheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports
66 (William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespace
67 alias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document
68 (William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab)</li>
69 <li>improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for document
70 loading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTD
71 attributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William).</li>
72 <li>Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg</li>
73 </ul><h3>1.1.8: July 5 2004</h3><ul><li>build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windows
74 binary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link
76 <li>documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William)</li>
77 <li>bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine
78 (William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for key
79 evaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings,</li>
80 <li>improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William)</li>
81 </ul><h3>1.1.7: May 17 2004</h3><ul><li>build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris</li>
82 <li>bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memory
83 corruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),
84 disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deep
85 imported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,
86 libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespaced
88 </ul><h3>1.1.6: Apr 18 2004</h3><ul><li>2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc</li>
89 </ul><h3>1.1.5: Mar 23 2004</h3><ul><li>performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables</li>
90 <li>remove use of _private from source documents</li>
91 <li>cleanup of "make tests" output</li>
92 <li>bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid thread
93 troubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number of
94 stubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),
95 superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on
96 <xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference counting
98 </ul><h3>1.1.4: Feb 23 2004</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem with
99 Yelp, extension problem</li>
100 <li>display extension modules (Steve Little)</li>
101 <li>Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
102 </ul><h3>1.1.3: Feb 16 2004</h3><ul><li>Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilation
103 interfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for serious
104 performance improvements.</li>
105 <li>bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results
106 (William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems
107 (William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour on
108 unknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns
109 (William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), comments
110 with -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI
112 <li>Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William)</li>
113 <li>Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephane
115 </ul><h3>1.1.2: Dec 24 2003</h3><ul><li>Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation
117 <li>Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
118 <li>Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),
119 namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,
120 passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (William
122 </ul><h3>1.1.1: Dec 10 2003</h3><ul><li>code cleanup (William Brack)</li>
123 <li>Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
124 <li>documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (Jonathan
126 <li>param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance)</li>
127 <li>XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc)</li>
128 <li>bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (William
129 Brack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,
130 xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/include
131 recursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (William
132 Brack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),
133 entities handling when using XInclude.</li>
134 </ul><h3>1.1.0: Nov 4 2003</h3><ul><li>Removed DocBook SGML broken support</li>
135 <li>fix xsl:key to work with PIs</li>
136 <li>Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (William
137 Brack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (Roumen
139 <li>xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (Crutcher
141 <li>Python: never use stdout for error</li>
142 <li>extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder)</li>
143 <li>header path fixes (Steve Ball)</li>
144 <li>added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail)</li>
145 <li>Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (William
147 <li>Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik)</li>
148 <li>Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing</li>
149 <li>Make sure xsl:sort is empty</li>
150 <li>Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes</li>
151 <li>Removes the deprecated breakpoint library</li>
152 <li>detect invalid names on templates (William Brack)</li>
153 <li>fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem</li>
154 </ul><h3>1.0.33: Sep 12 2003</h3><p>This is a bugfix only release</p><ul><li>error message missing argument (William Brack)</li>
155 <li>mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack)</li>
156 <li>catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack)</li>
157 <li>multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack)</li>
158 <li>patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy)</li>
159 <li>header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
160 <li>cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names</li>
161 <li>compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc)</li>
162 <li>apply-templates crash (William Brack)</li>
163 <li>bug with imported templates (William Brack)</li>
164 <li>imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack)</li>
165 </ul><h3>1.0.32: Aug 9 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLT
166 function (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date
168 <p>speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space and
169 namespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (Shaun
170 McCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (William
171 Brack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (William
174 <li>Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway)</li>
175 <li>EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance)</li>
176 <li>portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack)</li>
178 </ul><h3>1.0.31: Jul 6 2003</h3><ul><li>bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix for
179 the debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h and
180 triodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),
181 xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic),
182 <p>stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),
183 RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30</p>
185 <li>avoid generating &quot; (fix in libxml2-2.5.8)</li>
186 <li>fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in
188 <li>Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic)</li>
189 <li>HP-UX portability fix</li>
190 </ul><h3>1.0.30: May 4 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks</li>
191 <li>Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), global
192 parameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on pattern
193 compilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generator
194 problem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),
195 current node when templates applies to attributes</li>
196 </ul><h3>1.0.29: Apr 1 2003</h3><ul><li>performance improvements especially for large flat documents</li>
197 <li>bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespace
198 declarations with xsl:elements.</li>
199 <li>portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris
201 </ul><h3>1.0.28: Mar 24 2003</h3><ul><li>fixed node() in patterns semantic.</li>
202 <li>fixed a memory access problem in format-number()</li>
203 <li>fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params</li>
204 <li>cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugs
206 </ul><h3>1.0.27: Feb 24 2003</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
207 libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs</li>
208 <li>Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)</li>
209 </ul><h3>1.0.26: Feb 10 2003</h3><ul><li>Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
210 could lead to a crash</li>
211 </ul><h3>1.0.25: Feb 5 2003</h3><ul><li>Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
212 syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist</li>
213 <li>Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
215 <li>Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.</li>
216 </ul><h3>1.0.24: Jan 14 2003</h3><ul><li>bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
217 EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
218 xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
219 extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
220 Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
221 numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
222 imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called</li>
223 <li>HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
224 Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)</li>
225 <li>adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)</li>
226 <li>fix the API generation scripts</li>
227 <li>API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)</li>
228 <li>added XML description of the EXSLT API</li>
229 <li>added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)</li>
230 <li>Some memory leaks have been found and fixed</li>
231 <li>document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs</li>
232 </ul><h3>1.0.23: Nov 17 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows build cleanup (Igor)</li>
233 <li>Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup</li>
234 <li>Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
236 <li>various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
237 functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns</li>
238 <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
239 <li>added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)</li>
240 </ul><h3>1.0.22: Oct 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Updates on the Windows Makefiles</li>
241 <li>Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
243 <li>Allowed per transformation error handler.</li>
244 <li>Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
246 </ul><h3>1.0.21: Sep 26 2002</h3><ul><li>Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
247 Bozeman), disable-output-escaping</li>
248 <li>Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes</li>
249 <li>Logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
250 <li>Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers</li>
251 <li>Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
252 Windows (Igor), Python detection</li>
253 <li>Documentation improvements: John Fleck</li>
254 </ul><h3>1.0.20: Aug 23 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)</li>
255 <li>fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users</li>
256 <li>possible leak patches from Nathan Myers</li>
257 <li>try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
259 <li>Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem</li>
260 <li>Fixed a few XSLT reported errors</li>
261 </ul><h3>1.0.19: July 6 2002</h3><ul><li>EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
262 <li>xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks</li>
263 <li>xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors</li>
264 <li>document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist</li>
265 <li>xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack</li>
266 <li>xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors</li>
267 <li>a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
269 </ul><h3>1.0.18: May 27 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
270 (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
271 Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
273 <li>xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
275 <li>there is a new API to save directly to a string
276 xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter</li>
277 <li>specific error registration function for the python API</li>
278 </ul><h3>1.0.17: April 29 2002</h3><ul><li>cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
280 <li>a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc</li>
281 <li>EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman</li>
282 <li>attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal</li>
283 </ul><h3>1.0.16: April 15 2002</h3><ul><li>Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
285 <li>portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings</li>
286 </ul><h3>1.0.15: Mar 25 2002</h3><ul><li>Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
288 <li>Debug of memory alocation with valgind</li>
289 <li>serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
291 <li>revamp of the Windows build</li>
292 </ul><h3>1.0.14: Mar 18 2002</h3><ul><li>Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)</li>
293 <li>Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set</li>
294 <li>Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
295 portability fixes</li>
296 </ul><h3>1.0.13: Mar 8 2002</h3><ul><li>a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"</li>
297 <li>Improvement of the Python bindings</li>
298 <li>Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
300 </ul><h3>1.0.12: Feb 11 2002</h3><ul><li>Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones</li>
301 <li>half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones</li>
302 </ul><h3>1.0.11: Feb 8 2002</h3><ul><li>Change of Licence to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
304 <li>Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
305 extend the engine with functions written in Python</li>
306 <li>A number of bug fixes</li>
307 <li>Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions</li>
308 <li>Portability fixes</li>
309 </ul><h3>1.0.10: Jan 14 2002</h3><ul><li>Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor</li>
310 <li>Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)</li>
311 <li>Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck</li>
312 <li>Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
314 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
315 </ul><h3>1.0.9: Dec 7 2001</h3><ul><li>Makefile patches from Peter Williams</li>
316 <li>attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking</li>
317 <li>obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API</li>
318 <li>xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
320 <li>patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
321 made dynamic really</li>
322 <li>fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
324 <li>patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger</li>
325 </ul><h3>1.0.8: Nov 26 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
327 <li>patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor</li>
328 <li>OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
329 <li>fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
331 </ul><h3>1.0.7: Nov 10 2001</h3><ul><li>remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC</li>
332 <li>Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger</li>
333 <li>fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output</li>
334 <li>fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file</li>
335 </ul><h3>1.0.6: Oct 30 2001</h3><ul><li>bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
337 <li>update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)</li>
338 <li>fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)</li>
339 </ul><h3>1.0.5: Oct 10 2001</h3><ul><li>some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
341 <li>fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)</li>
342 <li>support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
343 contribution from Darren Graves)</li>
344 <li>better handling of XPath evaluation errors</li>
345 </ul><h3>1.0.4: Sep 12 2001</h3><ul><li>Documentation updates from John fleck</li>
346 <li>bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
348 <li>Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
349 Time and Date core functions support</li>
350 </ul><h3>1.0.3: Aug 23 2001</h3><ul><li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
351 <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
352 <li>A few bug fixes</li>
353 </ul><h3>1.0.2: Aug 15 2001</h3><ul><li>lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite</li>
354 <li>a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented</li>
355 <li>improvements on the extension framework</li>
356 <li>documentation improvements</li>
357 <li>Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date</li>
358 <li>handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default</li>
359 </ul><h3>1.0.1: July 24 2001</h3><ul><li>initial EXSLT framework</li>
360 <li>better error reporting</li>
361 <li>fixed the profiler on Windows</li>
363 </ul><h3>1.0.0: July 10 2001</h3><ul><li>a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed</li>
364 <li>added a documentation for <a href="extensions.html">writing
366 <li>fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)</li>
367 <li>added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
368 --profile option</li>
369 <li>fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
370 chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback</li>
371 <li>exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
373 <li>added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
375 </ul><h3>0.14.0: July 5 2001</h3><ul><li>lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup</li>
376 <li>completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented</li>
377 <li>Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer</li>
378 <li>the Windows MSC environment should be complete</li>
379 <li>tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
380 Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads</li>
381 </ul><h3>0.13.0: June 26 2001</h3><ul><li>lots of cleanups</li>
382 <li>fixed a C++ compilation problem</li>
383 <li>couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()</li>
384 <li>try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
386 <li>fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems</li>
387 <li>Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek</li>
388 <li>update to the Tutorial by John Fleck</li>
389 <li>William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions</li>
390 <li>added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
391 (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc</li>
392 </ul><h3>0.12.0: June 18 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed a dozen of bugs reported</li>
393 <li>HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
395 <li>William fixed some problems with document()</li>
396 <li>Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
398 <li>John Fleck added a<a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">
400 <li>Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables</li>
401 <li>XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
403 <li>made xsltproc --version more detailed</li>
404 </ul><h3>0.11.0: June 1 2001</h3><p>Mostly a bug fix release.</p><ul><li>integration of catalogs from xsltproc</li>
405 <li>added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting</li>
406 <li>fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities</li>
407 <li>document() should hopefully work correctly but ...</li>
408 <li>fixed bug with PI and comments processing</li>
409 <li>William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode</li>
410 </ul><h3>0.10.0: May 19 2001</h3><ul><li>cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)</li>
411 <li>fixed URI resolution in document()</li>
412 <li>force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
413 even if unused ...</li>
414 <li>Fixed HTML default output detection</li>
415 <li>Fixed double attribute generation #54446</li>
416 <li>Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451</li>
417 <li>More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations</li>
418 <li>Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()</li>
419 <li>added a documentation on the libxslt internals</li>
420 <li>William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()</li>
421 <li>Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now</li>
422 <li>added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)</li>
423 <li>a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
425 </ul><h3>0.9.0: May 3 2001</h3><ul><li>lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite</li>
426 <li>xsltproc should work with multiple params</li>
427 <li>added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input</li>
428 <li>improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
429 should be faster</li>
430 <li>using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
431 programs should work now</li>
432 <li>fixed another batch of namespace handling problems</li>
433 <li>Implemented multiple level of sorting</li>
434 </ul><h3>0.8.0: Apr 22 2001</h3><ul><li>fixed ansidecl.h problem</li>
435 <li>fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()</li>
436 <li>sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack</li>
437 <li>fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
438 (requires libxml-2.3.7)</li>
439 <li>fixes to current() and key()</li>
440 <li>other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
442 </ul><h3>0.7.0: Apr 10 2001</h3><ul><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>
446 </ul><h3>0.6.0: Mar 22 2001</h3><ul><li>another beta</li>
447 <li>requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support</li>
448 <li>document() extension should function properly</li>
449 <li>fixed a number or reported bugs</li>
450 </ul><h3>0.5.0: Mar 10 2001</h3><ul><li>fifth beta</li>
451 <li>some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
452 same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)</li>
453 <li>fixed problems with handling of tree results</li>
454 <li>fixed a reported strip-spaces problem</li>
455 <li>added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite</li>
456 <li>incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
457 well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates</li>
458 <li>a bug fix on for-each</li>
459 </ul><h3>0.4.0: Mar 1 2001</h3><ul><li>fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3</li>
461 <li>some optimization</li>
462 <li>started implement extension support, not finished</li>
463 <li>implemented but not tested multiple file output</li>
464 </ul><h3>0.3.0: Feb 24 2001</h3><ul><li>third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2</li>
465 <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
466 <li>some optimization</li>
467 <li>added DocBook XSL based testsuite</li>
468 </ul><h3>0.2.0: Feb 15 2001</h3><ul><li>second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1</li>
469 <li>getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
470 and XPath support of libxml</li>
471 <li>start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
472 the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
473 stylesheets (in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#b4d250b6c21">section I of the XML
475 <li>Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
476 key() and document() is not complete</li>
477 </ul><h3>0.1.0: Feb 8 2001</h3><ul><li>first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0</li>
478 <li>lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete</li>
479 </ul><h3>0.0.1: Jan 25 2001</h3><ul><li>first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12</li>
480 <li>Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being
481 feature complete</li>
482 </ul><p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td></tr></table></body></html>