lxml changelog
==============
+4.3.3 (2019-03-26)
+==================
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
+* Fix leak of output buffer and unclosed files in ``_XSLTResultTree.write_output()``.
+
+
4.3.2 (2019-02-29)
==================
Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: lxml
-Version: 4.3.2
+Version: 4.3.3
Summary: Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.
Home-page: http://lxml.de/
Author: lxml dev team
as soon as a maintenance branch has been established. Note that this
requires Cython to be installed at an appropriate version for the build.
- 4.3.2 (2019-02-29)
+ 4.3.3 (2019-03-26)
==================
Bugs fixed
----------
- * Crash in 4.3.1 when appending a child subtree with certain text nodes.
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- Other changes
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- * Built with Cython 0.29.6.
+ * Fix leak of output buffer and unclosed files in ``_XSLTResultTree.write_output()``.
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+<div class="section" id="id31">
<h1>4.0.0 (2017-09-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id30">
+<div class="section" id="id32">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The ElementPath implementation is now compiled using Cython,
output data into a file according to the <tt class="docutils literal"><xsl:output></tt> configuration.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id31">
+<div class="section" id="id33">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul>
<li><p class="first"><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/251">GH#251</a>: HTML comments were handled incorrectly by the soupparser.
</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id32">
+<div class="section" id="id34">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The main module source files were renamed from <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">lxml.*.pyx</span></tt> to plain
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id33">
+<div class="section" id="id35">
<h1>3.8.0 (2017-06-03)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id34">
+<div class="section" id="id36">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.write()</tt> has a new option <tt class="docutils literal">doctype</tt> that writes out a
a default namespace when passing a None prefix.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id35">
+<div class="section" id="id37">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/238">GH#238</a>: Character escapes were not hex-encoded in the <tt class="docutils literal">xmlfile</tt> serialiser.
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1673355">LP#1673355</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/233">GH#233</a>: <tt class="docutils literal">fromstring()</tt> html5parser failed to parse byte strings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id37">
+<div class="section" id="id39">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The previously undocumented <tt class="docutils literal">docstring</tt> option in <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.write()</tt>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id38">
+<div class="section" id="id40">
<h1>3.7.4 (2017-??-??)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id39">
+<div class="section" id="id41">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1551797">LP#1551797</a>: revert previous fix for XSLT error logging as it breaks
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id43">
+<div class="section" id="id45">
<h1>3.7.3 (2017-02-18)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id44">
+<div class="section" id="id46">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/218">GH#218</a> was ineffective in Python 3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id45">
+<div class="section" id="id47">
<h1>3.7.2 (2017-01-08)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/220">GH#220</a>: <tt class="docutils literal">xmlfile</tt> allows switching output methods at an element level.
Patch by Burak Arslan.</li>
</ul>
-<div class="section" id="id47">
+<div class="section" id="id49">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Work around installation problems in recent Python 2.7 versions
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id49">
+<div class="section" id="id51">
<h1>3.7.1 (2016-12-23)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>No source changes, issued only to solve problems with the
binary packages released for 3.7.0.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id50">
+<div class="section" id="id52">
<h1>3.7.0 (2016-12-10)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id51">
+<div class="section" id="id53">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/217">GH#217</a>: <tt class="docutils literal">XMLSyntaxError</tt> now behaves more like its <tt class="docutils literal">SyntaxError</tt>
marked as <tt class="docutils literal">disabled</tt> in HTML. Patch by Kristian Klemon.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id52">
+<div class="section" id="id54">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/206">GH#206</a>: File name and line number were missing from XSLT error messages.
Patch by Marcus Brinkmann.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id53">
+<div class="section" id="id55">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Log entries no longer allow anything but plain string objects as message text
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id54">
+<div class="section" id="id56">
<h1>3.6.4 (2016-08-20)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/204">GH#204</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1614693">LP#1614693</a>: build fix for MacOS-X.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id55">
+<div class="section" id="id57">
<h1>3.6.3 (2016-08-18)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1614603">LP#1614603</a>: change linker flags to build multi-linux wheels</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id56">
+<div class="section" id="id58">
<h1>3.6.2 (2016-08-18)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1614603">LP#1614603</a>: release without source changes to provide cleanly built Linux wheels</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id58">
+<div class="section" id="id60">
<h1>3.6.1 (2016-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id59">
+<div class="section" id="id61">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/180">GH#180</a>: Separate option <tt class="docutils literal">inline_style</tt> for Cleaner that only removes <tt class="docutils literal">style</tt>
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/196">GH#196</a>: Windows build support for Python 3.5. Contribution by Maximilian Hils.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id60">
+<div class="section" id="id62">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/199">GH#199</a>: Exclude <tt class="docutils literal">file</tt> fields from <tt class="docutils literal">FormElement.form_values</tt> (as browsers do).
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id62">
+<div class="section" id="id64">
<h1>3.6.0 (2016-03-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id63">
+<div class="section" id="id65">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/187">GH#187</a>: Now supports (only) version 5.x and later of PyPy.
is installed. Patch by Dirkjan Ochtman.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id64">
+<div class="section" id="id66">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/189">GH#189</a>: Static builds honour FTP proxy configurations when downloading
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id65">
+<div class="section" id="id67">
<h1>3.5.0 (2015-11-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id66">
+<div class="section" id="id68">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Unicode string results failed XPath queries in PyPy.</li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="b1-2015-09-18">
<h1>3.5.0b1 (2015-09-18)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id67">
+<div class="section" id="id69">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">cleanup_namespaces()</tt> accepts a new argument <tt class="docutils literal">keep_ns_prefixes</tt>
of version 3 if available.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id68">
+<div class="section" id="id70">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory errors that occur during tree adaptations (e.g. moving subtrees
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id69">
+<div class="section" id="id71">
<h1>3.4.4 (2015-04-25)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id70">
+<div class="section" id="id72">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>An ElementTree compatibility test added in lxml 3.4.3 that failed in
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id71">
+<div class="section" id="id73">
<h1>3.4.3 (2015-04-15)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id72">
+<div class="section" id="id74">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Expression cache in ElementPath was ignored. Fix by Changaco.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id73">
+<div class="section" id="id75">
<h1>3.4.2 (2015-02-07)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id74">
+<div class="section" id="id76">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1415907">LP#1415907</a>: Crash when creating an XMLSchema from a non-root element
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id75">
+<div class="section" id="id77">
<h1>3.4.1 (2014-11-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id76">
+<div class="section" id="id78">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New <tt class="docutils literal">htmlfile</tt> HTML generator to accompany the incremental <tt class="docutils literal">xmlfile</tt>
serialisation API. Patch by Burak Arslan.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id77">
+<div class="section" id="id79">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler</tt> did not initialise its superclass.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id78">
+<div class="section" id="id80">
<h1>3.4.0 (2014-09-10)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id79">
+<div class="section" id="id81">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">xmlfile(buffered=False)</tt> disables output buffering and flushes the
<li>Allow "bytearray" type for ASCII text input.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id80">
+<div class="section" id="id82">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id81">
+<div class="section" id="id83">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/400588">LP#400588</a>: decoding errors have become hard errors even in recovery mode.
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id82">
+<div class="section" id="id84">
<h1>3.3.6 (2014-08-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id83">
+<div class="section" id="id85">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Prevent tree cycle creation when adding Elements as siblings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id84">
+<div class="section" id="id86">
<h1>3.3.5 (2014-04-18)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id85">
+<div class="section" id="id87">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>HTML cleaning could fail to strip javascript links that mix control
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id86">
+<div class="section" id="id88">
<h1>3.3.4 (2014-04-03)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id87">
+<div class="section" id="id89">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Source line numbers above 65535 are available on Elements when
using libxml2 2.9 or later.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id88">
+<div class="section" id="id90">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.fragment_fromstring()</tt> failed for bytes input in Py3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id89">
+<div class="section" id="id91">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id90">
+<div class="section" id="id92">
<h1>3.3.3 (2014-03-04)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id91">
+<div class="section" id="id93">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1287118">LP#1287118</a>: Crash when using Element subtypes with <tt class="docutils literal">__slots__</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id92">
+<div class="section" id="id94">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The internal classes <tt class="docutils literal">_LogEntry</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">_Attrib</tt> can no longer be
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id93">
+<div class="section" id="id95">
<h1>3.3.2 (2014-02-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id94">
+<div class="section" id="id96">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The properties <tt class="docutils literal">resolvers</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">version</tt>, as well as the methods
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id95">
+<div class="section" id="id97">
<h1>3.3.1 (2014-02-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id96">
+<div class="section" id="id98">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id97">
+<div class="section" id="id99">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1014290">LP#1014290</a>: HTML documents parsed with <tt class="docutils literal">parser.feed()</tt> failed to find
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1274118">LP#1274118</a>: iterparse() failed to parse BOM prefixed files.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id98">
+<div class="section" id="id100">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id99">
+<div class="section" id="id101">
<h1>3.3.0 (2014-01-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id100">
+<div class="section" id="id102">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id101">
+<div class="section" id="id103">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The heuristic that distinguishes file paths from URLs was tightened
to produce less false negatives.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id102">
+<div class="section" id="id104">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta5-2014-01-18">
<h1>3.3.0beta5 (2014-01-18)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id103">
+<div class="section" id="id105">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The PEP 393 unicode parsing support gained a fallback for wchar strings
which might still be somewhat common on Windows systems.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id104">
+<div class="section" id="id106">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Several error handling problems were fixed throughout the code base that
parsing the string character by character.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id105">
+<div class="section" id="id107">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Document cleanup code was simplified using the new GC features in
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta4-2014-01-12">
<h1>3.3.0beta4 (2014-01-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id106">
+<div class="section" id="id108">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id107">
+<div class="section" id="id109">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The (empty) value returned by the <tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt> property of Entity and Comment
the docinfo property) lost their attribute declarations.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id108">
+<div class="section" id="id110">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Built with Cython 0.20pre (gitrev 012ae82eb) to prepare support for
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta3-2014-01-02">
<h1>3.3.0beta3 (2014-01-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id109">
+<div class="section" id="id111">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Unicode string parsing was optimised for Python 3.3 (PEP 393).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id110">
+<div class="section" id="id112">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>HTML parsing of Unicode strings could misdecode the input on some platforms.</li>
<li>Crash in xmlfile() when closing open elements out of order in an error case.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id111">
+<div class="section" id="id113">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta2-2013-12-20">
<h1>3.3.0beta2 (2013-12-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id112">
+<div class="section" id="id114">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> supports the <tt class="docutils literal">recover</tt> option.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id113">
+<div class="section" id="id115">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> for HTML parsing.</li>
<li>Crash in target parsing with attributes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id114">
+<div class="section" id="id116">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The safety check in the read-only tree implementation (e.g. used by
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2013-12-12">
<h1>3.3.0beta1 (2013-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id115">
+<div class="section" id="id117">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New option <tt class="docutils literal">handle_failures</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">make_links_absolute()</tt> and
(<tt class="docutils literal">html=True</tt>).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id116">
+<div class="section" id="id118">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1255132">LP#1255132</a>: crash when trying to run validation over non-Element (e.g.
which removed the name attribute.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id117">
+<div class="section" id="id119">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Some basic API classes use freelists internally for faster
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id118">
+<div class="section" id="id120">
<h1>3.2.5 (2014-01-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id119">
+<div class="section" id="id121">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id120">
+<div class="section" id="id122">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in xmlfile() when closing open elements out of order in an error case.</li>
comment or PI).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id122">
+<div class="section" id="id124">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id123">
+<div class="section" id="id125">
<h1>3.2.4 (2013-11-07)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id124">
+<div class="section" id="id126">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id125">
+<div class="section" id="id127">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory leak when creating an XPath evaluator in a thread.</li>
<li>Compressed plain-text serialisation to file-like objects was broken.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id128">
+<div class="section" id="id130">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id129">
+<div class="section" id="id131">
<h1>3.2.3 (2013-07-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id130">
+<div class="section" id="id132">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix support for Python 2.4 which was lost in 3.2.2.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id131">
+<div class="section" id="id133">
<h1>3.2.2 (2013-07-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id132">
+<div class="section" id="id134">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id133">
+<div class="section" id="id135">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1185701">LP#1185701</a>: spurious XMLSyntaxError after finishing iterparse().</li>
<li>Crash in lxml.objectify during xsi annotation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id134">
+<div class="section" id="id136">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Return values of user provided element class lookup methods are now
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id135">
+<div class="section" id="id137">
<h1>3.2.1 (2013-05-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id136">
+<div class="section" id="id138">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The methods <tt class="docutils literal">apply_templates()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">process_children()</tt> of XSLT
strings from the result list.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id137">
+<div class="section" id="id139">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>When moving Elements to another tree, the namespace cleanup mechanism
crashed.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id138">
+<div class="section" id="id140">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id139">
+<div class="section" id="id141">
<h1>3.2.0 (2013-04-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id140">
+<div class="section" id="id142">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id141">
+<div class="section" id="id143">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/690319">LP#690319</a>: Leading whitespace could change the behaviour of the string
allowed by the user provided whitelist. Patch by Christine Koppelt.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id142">
+<div class="section" id="id144">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id143">
+<div class="section" id="id145">
<h1>3.1.2 (2013-04-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id144">
+<div class="section" id="id146">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id145">
+<div class="section" id="id147">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1136509">LP#1136509</a>: Passing attributes through the namespace-unaware API of
by properly exported API function <tt class="docutils literal">xmlBufUse()</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id146">
+<div class="section" id="id148">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id147">
+<div class="section" id="id149">
<h1>3.1.1 (2013-03-29)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id148">
+<div class="section" id="id150">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id149">
+<div class="section" id="id151">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1160386">LP#1160386</a>: Write access to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.FormElement.fields</tt> raised
<li>Illegal memory access during cleanup in incremental xmlfile writer.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id150">
+<div class="section" id="id152">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree._BaseParser</tt> was removed
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id151">
+<div class="section" id="id153">
<h1>3.1.0 (2013-02-10)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id152">
+<div class="section" id="id154">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/89">GH#89</a>: lxml.html.clean allows overriding the set of attributes that it
considers 'safe'. Patch by Francis Devereux.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id153">
+<div class="section" id="id155">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1104370">LP#1104370</a>: <tt class="docutils literal">copy.copy(el.attrib)</tt> raised an exception. It now returns
without threading support. Patch by Ulrich Seidl.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id154">
+<div class="section" id="id156">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2012-12-21">
<h1>3.1beta1 (2012-12-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id155">
+<div class="section" id="id157">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New build-time option <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-unicode-strings</span></tt> for Python 2 that
tags with non-identifier names without having to resort to getattr().</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id156">
+<div class="section" id="id158">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>When starting from a non-namespaced element in lxml.objectify, searching
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1080792">LP#1080792</a>: Static build of libxml2 2.9.0 failed due to missing file.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id157">
+<div class="section" id="id159">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">_ObjectifyElementMakerCaller</tt> was
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id158">
+<div class="section" id="id160">
<h1>3.0.2 (2012-12-14)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id159">
+<div class="section" id="id161">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id160">
+<div class="section" id="id162">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix crash during interpreter shutdown by switching to Cython 0.17.3 for building.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id161">
+<div class="section" id="id163">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id162">
+<div class="section" id="id164">
<h1>3.0.1 (2012-10-14)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id163">
+<div class="section" id="id165">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id164">
+<div class="section" id="id166">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1065924">LP#1065924</a>: Element proxies could disappear during garbage collection
<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1065139">LP#1065139</a>: static MacOS-X build failed in Py3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id165">
+<div class="section" id="id167">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id166">
+<div class="section" id="id168">
<h1>3.0 (2012-10-08)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id167">
+<div class="section" id="id169">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id168">
+<div class="section" id="id170">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>End-of-file handling was incorrect in iterparse() when reading from
improved consistency checks.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id169">
+<div class="section" id="id171">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The build no longer uses Cython by default unless the generated C files
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2012-09-26">
<h1>3.0beta1 (2012-09-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id170">
+<div class="section" id="id172">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Python level access to (optional) libxml2 memory debugging features
to simplify debugging of memory leaks etc.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id171">
+<div class="section" id="id173">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fix a memory leak in XPath by switching to Cython 0.17.1.</li>
<li>Some tests were adapted to work with PyPy.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id172">
+<div class="section" id="id174">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The code was adapted to work with the upcoming libxml2 2.9.0 release.</li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha2-2012-08-23">
<h1>3.0alpha2 (2012-08-23)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id173">
+<div class="section" id="id175">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">.iter()</tt> method of elements now accepts <tt class="docutils literal">tag</tt> arguments like
to top-level during exclusive serialisation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id174">
+<div class="section" id="id176">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Passing long Unicode strings into the <tt class="docutils literal">feed()</tt> parser interface
failed to read the entire string.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id175">
+<div class="section" id="id177">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha1-2012-07-31">
<h1>3.0alpha1 (2012-07-31)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id176">
+<div class="section" id="id178">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Initial support for building in PyPy (through cpyext).</li>
returned by the iterators if they match any of the tags.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id177">
+<div class="section" id="id179">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.find*()</span></tt> methods in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> no longer use XPath
cannot be modified.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id178">
+<div class="section" id="id180">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The code base was overhauled to properly use 'const' where the API
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id179">
+<div class="section" id="id181">
<h1>2.3.6 (2012-09-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id180">
+<div class="section" id="id182">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id181">
+<div class="section" id="id183">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Passing long Unicode strings into the <tt class="docutils literal">feed()</tt> parser interface
failed to read the entire string.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id182">
+<div class="section" id="id184">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id183">
+<div class="section" id="id185">
<h1>2.3.5 (2012-07-31)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id184">
+<div class="section" id="id186">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id185">
+<div class="section" id="id187">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when merging text nodes in <tt class="docutils literal">element.remove()</tt>.</li>
<li>Crash in sax/target parser when reporting empty doctype.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id186">
+<div class="section" id="id188">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id187">
+<div class="section" id="id189">
<h1>2.3.4 (2012-03-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id188">
+<div class="section" id="id190">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id189">
+<div class="section" id="id191">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when building an nsmap (Element property) with empty
<li>XSLT stylesheet compilation could ignore compilation errors.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id190">
+<div class="section" id="id192">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id191">
+<div class="section" id="id193">
<h1>2.3.3 (2012-01-04)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id192">
+<div class="section" id="id194">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.tostring()</tt> gained new serialisation options
<tt class="docutils literal">with_tail</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">doctype</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id193">
+<div class="section" id="id195">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed a crash when using <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> for HTML parsing and
'img' tags without 'src' attribute.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id194">
+<div class="section" id="id196">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id195">
+<div class="section" id="id197">
<h1>2.3.2 (2011-11-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id196">
+<div class="section" id="id198">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify.deannotate()</tt> has a new boolean option
of <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> on the user side.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id197">
+<div class="section" id="id199">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed the "descendant" bug in cssselect a second time (after a first
"div>* .foo" instead of "div>.foo". Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id198">
+<div class="section" id="id200">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id199">
+<div class="section" id="id201">
<h1>2.3.1 (2011-09-25)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id200">
+<div class="section" id="id202">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New option <tt class="docutils literal">kill_tags</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean</tt> to remove specific
as the user is not expected to keep a reference to it.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id201">
+<div class="section" id="id203">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>HTML cleaning didn't remove 'data:' links.</li>
field properly selects them and unselects them.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id202">
+<div class="section" id="id204">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Static builds can specify the download directory with the
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id203">
+<div class="section" id="id205">
<h1>2.3 (2011-02-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id204">
+<div class="section" id="id206">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>When looking for children, <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> takes '{}tag' as
meaning an empty namespace, as opposed to the parent namespace.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id205">
+<div class="section" id="id207">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>When finished reading from a file-like object, the parser
<li><tt class="docutils literal">marque</tt> tag in HTML cleanup code is correctly named <tt class="docutils literal">marquee</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id206">
+<div class="section" id="id208">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Some public functions in the Cython-level C-API have more explicit
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2010-09-06">
<h1>2.3beta1 (2010-09-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id207">
+<div class="section" id="id209">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id208">
+<div class="section" id="id210">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
use of os.tempnam. It now takes an optional 'encoding' parameter.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id209">
+<div class="section" id="id211">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha2-2010-07-24">
<h1>2.3alpha2 (2010-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id210">
+<div class="section" id="id212">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id211">
+<div class="section" id="id213">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in XSLT when generating text-only result documents with a
stylesheet created in a different thread.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id212">
+<div class="section" id="id214">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">repr()</tt> of Element objects shows the hex ID with leading 0x
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha1-2010-06-19">
<h1>2.3alpha1 (2010-06-19)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id213">
+<div class="section" id="id215">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Keyword argument <tt class="docutils literal">namespaces</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect.CSSSelector()</tt>
(compatible with ElementTree).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id214">
+<div class="section" id="id216">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>API is hardened against invalid proxy instances to prevent crashes
called after parsing, regardless of the outcome.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id215">
+<div class="section" id="id217">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Official support for Python 3.1.2 and later.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id216">
+<div class="section" id="id218">
<h1>2.2.8 (2010-09-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id217">
+<div class="section" id="id219">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id218">
+<div class="section" id="id220">
<h1>2.2.7 (2010-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id219">
+<div class="section" id="id221">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in XSLT when generating text-only result documents with a
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id220">
+<div class="section" id="id222">
<h1>2.2.6 (2010-03-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id221">
+<div class="section" id="id223">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Fixed several Python 3 regressions by building with Cython 0.11.3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id222">
+<div class="section" id="id224">
<h1>2.2.5 (2010-02-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id223">
+<div class="section" id="id225">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support for running XSLT extension elements on the input root node
(e.g. in a template matching on "/").</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id224">
+<div class="section" id="id226">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in XPath evaluation when reading smart strings from a document
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id225">
+<div class="section" id="id227">
<h1>2.2.4 (2009-11-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id226">
+<div class="section" id="id228">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Static build of libxml2/libxslt was broken.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id227">
+<div class="section" id="id229">
<h1>2.2.3 (2009-10-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id228">
+<div class="section" id="id230">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id229">
+<div class="section" id="id231">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">resolve_entities</tt> option did not work in the incremental feed
<li>Diverting the error logging to Python's logging system was broken.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id230">
+<div class="section" id="id232">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id231">
+<div class="section" id="id233">
<h1>2.2.2 (2009-06-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id232">
+<div class="section" id="id234">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New helper functions <tt class="docutils literal">strip_attributes()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">strip_elements()</tt>,
from a subtree.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id233">
+<div class="section" id="id235">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Namespace cleanup on subtree insertions could result in missing
behaviour.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id234">
+<div class="section" id="id236">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id235">
+<div class="section" id="id237">
<h1>2.2.1 (2009-06-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id236">
+<div class="section" id="id238">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Injecting default attributes into a document during XML Schema
restrictions imposed by libxml2 2.7.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id237">
+<div class="section" id="id239">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The script for statically building libxml2 and libxslt didn't work
for parsing (which could lead to a crash before release 2.6.24).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id238">
+<div class="section" id="id240">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id239">
+<div class="section" id="id241">
<h1>2.2 (2009-03-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id240">
+<div class="section" id="id242">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support for <tt class="docutils literal">standalone</tt> flag in XML declaration through
on serialisation.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id241">
+<div class="section" id="id243">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when parsing an XML Schema with external imports from a
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta4-2009-02-27">
<h1>2.2beta4 (2009-02-27)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id242">
+<div class="section" id="id244">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support strings and instantiable Element classes as child arguments
objects.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id243">
+<div class="section" id="id245">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Deep-copying an ElementTree copied neither its sibling PIs and
was evaluated incorrectly.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id244">
+<div class="section" id="id246">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Official support for Python 3.0.1.</li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta3-2009-02-17">
<h1>2.2beta3 (2009-02-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id245">
+<div class="section" id="id247">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">XSLT.strparam()</tt> class method to wrap quoted string parameters
that require escaping.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id246">
+<div class="section" id="id248">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory leak in XPath evaluators.</li>
<li>Minor fixes for Python 3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id247">
+<div class="section" id="id249">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The global error log (which is copied into the exception log) is now
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta2-2009-01-25">
<h1>2.2beta2 (2009-01-25)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id248">
+<div class="section" id="id250">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id249">
+<div class="section" id="id251">
<h1>2.1.5 (2009-01-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id250">
+<div class="section" id="id252">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2008-12-12">
<h1>2.2beta1 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id251">
+<div class="section" id="id253">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Allow <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.diff.htmldiff</tt> to accept Element objects, not
just HTML strings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id252">
+<div class="section" id="id254">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when using an XPath evaluator in multiple threads.</li>
<li>Fixed missing whitespace before <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Link:...</span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.diff</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id253">
+<div class="section" id="id255">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Export <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.parse</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id254">
+<div class="section" id="id256">
<h1>2.1.4 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id255">
+<div class="section" id="id257">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when using an XPath evaluator in multiple threads.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id256">
+<div class="section" id="id258">
<h1>2.0.11 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id257">
+<div class="section" id="id259">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when using an XPath evaluator in multiple threads.</li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha1-2008-11-23">
<h1>2.2alpha1 (2008-11-23)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id258">
+<div class="section" id="id260">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support for XSLT result tree fragments in XPath/XSLT extension
<li>Instantiating a custom Element classes creates a new Element.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id259">
+<div class="section" id="id261">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>XSLT didn't inherit the parse options of the input document.</li>
with Wikipedia links).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id260">
+<div class="section" id="id262">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id261">
+<div class="section" id="id263">
<h1>2.1.3 (2008-11-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id262">
+<div class="section" id="id264">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id263">
+<div class="section" id="id265">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
<li>Overriding the parser encoding didn't work for many encodings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id264">
+<div class="section" id="id266">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id265">
+<div class="section" id="id267">
<h1>2.0.10 (2008-11-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id266">
+<div class="section" id="id268">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id267">
+<div class="section" id="id269">
<h1>2.1.2 (2008-09-05)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id268">
+<div class="section" id="id270">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml.etree now tries to find the absolute path name of files when
of the source document.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id269">
+<div class="section" id="id271">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
exception instead of calling <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id270">
+<div class="section" id="id272">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id271">
+<div class="section" id="id273">
<h1>2.0.9 (2008-09-05)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id272">
+<div class="section" id="id274">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id273">
+<div class="section" id="id275">
<h1>2.1.1 (2008-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id274">
+<div class="section" id="id276">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id275">
+<div class="section" id="id277">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
Python 3.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id276">
+<div class="section" id="id278">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id277">
+<div class="section" id="id279">
<h1>2.0.8 (2008-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id278">
+<div class="section" id="id280">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.rewrite_links()</tt> strips links to work around documents
with whitespace in URL attributes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id279">
+<div class="section" id="id281">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
with parameters.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id280">
+<div class="section" id="id282">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id281">
+<div class="section" id="id283">
<h1>2.1 (2008-07-09)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id282">
+<div class="section" id="id284">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Smart strings can be switched off in XPath (<tt class="docutils literal">smart_strings</tt>
with whitespace in URL attributes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id283">
+<div class="section" id="id285">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Custom resolvers were not used for XMLSchema includes/imports and
with parameters.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id284">
+<div class="section" id="id286">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.enableRecursiveStr()</tt> was removed, use
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id285">
+<div class="section" id="id287">
<h1>2.0.7 (2008-06-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id286">
+<div class="section" id="id288">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Pickling <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree</tt> objects in lxml.objectify.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id287">
+<div class="section" id="id289">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Descending dot-separated classes in CSS selectors were not resolved
the super class is not called from Python subclasses.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id288">
+<div class="section" id="id290">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta3-2008-06-19">
<h1>2.1beta3 (2008-06-19)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id289">
+<div class="section" id="id291">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Major overhaul of <tt class="docutils literal">tools/xpathgrep.py</tt> script.</li>
(experimental).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id290">
+<div class="section" id="id292">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.parse()</tt> didn't handle target parser result.</li>
<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id291">
+<div class="section" id="id293">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id292">
+<div class="section" id="id294">
<h1>2.0.6 (2008-05-31)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id293">
+<div class="section" id="id295">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id294">
+<div class="section" id="id296">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Incorrect evaluation of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find("tag[child]")</span></tt>.</li>
<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id295">
+<div class="section" id="id297">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml should now build without problems on MacOS-X.</li>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta2-2008-05-02">
<h1>2.1beta2 (2008-05-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id296">
+<div class="section" id="id298">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>All parse functions in lxml.html take a <tt class="docutils literal">parser</tt> keyword argument.</li>
pre-configured for the lxml.html package.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id297">
+<div class="section" id="id299">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Moving a subtree from a document created in one thread into a
of more than one prefix for a namespace on the same Element.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id298">
+<div class="section" id="id300">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>If the default namespace is redundantly defined with a prefix on the
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id299">
+<div class="section" id="id301">
<h1>2.0.5 (2008-05-01)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id300">
+<div class="section" id="id302">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id301">
+<div class="section" id="id303">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
<li>Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id302">
+<div class="section" id="id304">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="beta1-2008-04-15">
<h1>2.1beta1 (2008-04-15)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id303">
+<div class="section" id="id305">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Error logging in Schematron (requires libxml2 2.6.32 or later).</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">CDATA()</tt> factory to wrap string content as CDATA section.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id304">
+<div class="section" id="id306">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
<li>lxml.etree accepted non well-formed namespace prefix names.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id305">
+<div class="section" id="id307">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Major cleanup in internal <tt class="docutils literal">moveNodeToDocument()</tt> function, which
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id306">
+<div class="section" id="id308">
<h1>2.0.4 (2008-04-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id307">
+<div class="section" id="id309">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id308">
+<div class="section" id="id310">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Hanging thread in conjunction with GTK threading.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">ElementTree.find*()</span></tt> didn't accept QName objects.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id309">
+<div class="section" id="id311">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
</div>
</div>
<div class="section" id="alpha1-2008-03-27">
<h1>2.1alpha1 (2008-03-27)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id310">
+<div class="section" id="id312">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>New event types 'comment' and 'pi' in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt>.</li>
<li><tt class="docutils literal">docinfo.URL</tt> property is writable.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id311">
+<div class="section" id="id313">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Default encoding for plain text serialisation was different from
that of XML serialisation (UTF-8 instead of ASCII).</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id312">
+<div class="section" id="id314">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Minor API speed-ups.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id313">
+<div class="section" id="id315">
<h1>2.0.3 (2008-03-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id314">
+<div class="section" id="id316">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>soupparser.parse() allows passing keyword arguments on to
<li><tt class="docutils literal">fromstring()</tt> method in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.soupparser</tt>.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id315">
+<div class="section" id="id317">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.diff</tt> didn't treat empty tags properly (e.g.,
correctly serialise the value to a string.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id316">
+<div class="section" id="id318">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.ElementSoup</tt> was replaced by a new module
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id317">
+<div class="section" id="id319">
<h1>2.0.2 (2008-02-22)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id318">
+<div class="section" id="id320">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support passing <tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> to file parser functions to override
the filename of the file(-like) object.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id319">
+<div class="section" id="id321">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The prefix for objectify's pytype namespace was missing from the set
<li>Slice deletion bug fixed in objectify.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id320">
+<div class="section" id="id322">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Enabled doctests for some Python modules (especially <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>).</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id321">
+<div class="section" id="id323">
<h1>2.0.1 (2008-02-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id322">
+<div class="section" id="id324">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Child iteration in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt>.</li>
methods to make them visible in API docs and <tt class="docutils literal">help()</tt></li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id323">
+<div class="section" id="id325">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.builder</tt> was duplicated as
elements at the wrong position.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id324">
+<div class="section" id="id326">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The generated API documentation was cleaned up and disburdened from
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id325">
+<div class="section" id="id327">
<h1>2.0 (2008-02-01)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id326">
+<div class="section" id="id328">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Passing the <tt class="docutils literal">unicode</tt> type as <tt class="docutils literal">encoding</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> will
<li>EXSLT RegExp support in standard XPath (not only XSLT)</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id327">
+<div class="section" id="id329">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Missing import in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean</tt>.</li>
<li>Thread safety in XPath evaluators</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id328">
+<div class="section" id="id330">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Exceptions carry only the part of the error log that is related to
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id329">
+<div class="section" id="id331">
<h1>1.3.6 (2007-10-29)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id330">
+<div class="section" id="id332">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Backported decref crash fix from 2.0</li>
<li>Well hidden free-while-in-use crash bug in ObjectPath</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id331">
+<div class="section" id="id333">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The test suites now run <tt class="docutils literal">gc.collect()</tt> in the <tt class="docutils literal">tearDown()</tt>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id332">
+<div class="section" id="id334">
<h1>1.3.5 (2007-10-22)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id333">
+<div class="section" id="id335">
<h2>Features added</h2>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id334">
+<div class="section" id="id336">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml.etree could crash when adding more than 10000 namespaces to a
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id335">
+<div class="section" id="id337">
<h1>1.3.4 (2007-08-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id336">
+<div class="section" id="id338">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">ElementMaker</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.builder</tt> now accepts the keyword arguments
root node.</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id337">
+<div class="section" id="id339">
<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Parsing with the <tt class="docutils literal">no_network</tt> option could fail</li>
</ul>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id338">
+<div class="section" id="id340">
<h2>Other changes</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml now raises a TagNameWarning about tag names containing ':' instead of
</ul>
</div>
</div>
-<div class="section" id="id339">
+<div class="section" id="id341">
<h1>1.3.3 (2007-07-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id340">
+<div class="section" id="id342">
<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
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<li>Parsing from Python Unicode strings failed on some platforms</li>
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<li>"deallocating None" crash bug</li>
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<li>objectify.DataElement now supports setting values from existing data
<li>E-factory support for lxml.objectify (<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.E</tt>)</li>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt> module implements an Element class lookup
a better handling of namespaces when moving elements between documents.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Removing Elements from a tree could make them lose their namespace
documents</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>major restructuring in the documentation</li>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Build fixes for MS compiler</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Rich comparison of QName objects</li>
shadowed.</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Element instantiation now uses locks to prevent race conditions with threads</li>
<li>Element.find*() did not accept QName objects as path</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>code cleanup: redundant _NodeBase super class merged into _Element class
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Data elements in objectify support repr(), which is now used by dump()</li>
<li>Simplified support for handling XSLT processing instructions</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Parser resources were not freed before the next parser run</li>
</ul>
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<li>Support custom elements for tree nodes in lxml.objectify</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml.objectify failed to support long data values (e.g., "123L")</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>Comments and processing instructions return '<!-- comment -->' and
element</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>filenames with local 8-bit encoding were not supported</li>
</ul>
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<ul class="simple">
<li>List-like <tt class="docutils literal">Element.extend()</tt> method</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash in tail handling in <tt class="docutils literal">Element.replace()</tt></li>
</ul>
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<h1>1.0.3 (2006-08-08)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Element.replace(old, new) method to replace a subelement by another one</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Crash when mixing elements from XSLT results into other trees</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>1.0.2 (2006-06-27)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support for setting a custom default Element class as opposed to namespace
specific classes (which still override the default class)</li>
</ul>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Rare exceptions in Python list functions were not handled</li>
</ul>
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<h1>1.0.1 (2006-06-09)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Repeated calls to Element.attrib now efficiently return the same instance</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Document deallocation could crash in certain garbage collection scenarios</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>1.0 (2006-06-01)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Element.getiterator() and the findall() methods support finding arbitrary
implementation of libxml2 (as opposed to ET compatible XMLID)</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory leak in Element.__setitem__</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>0.9.2 (2006-05-10)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Speedup for Element.makeelement(): the new element reuses the original
<li>RelaxNG and XMLSchema accept any Element, not only ElementTrees</li>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>str(xslt_result) was broken for XSLT output other than UTF-8</li>
</ul>
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<h1>0.9.1 (2006-03-30)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler checks closing elements and raises
<li>Minor API performance improvements</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Memory deallocation bug when using XSLT output method "html"</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>0.9 (2006-03-20)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Error logging API for libxml2 error messages</li>
doc/sax.txt for more information.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Segfaults and memory leaks in various API functions of Element</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>0.8 (2005-11-03)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Support for copy.deepcopy() on elements. copy.copy() works also, but
SubElement.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Use xslt-config instead of xml2-config to find out libxml2
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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<h1>0.7 (2005-06-15)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>parameters (XPath expressions) can be passed to XSLT using keyword
in XML serialization.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Killed yet another memory management related bug: trees created
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>0.6 (2005-05-14)</h1>
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<h2>Features added</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Changed setup.py so that library_dirs is also guessed. This should
<li>Tweaked setup.py so that it picks up the version from version.txt.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Do the right thing when handling namespaced attributes.</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
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<h1>0.5.1 (2005-04-09)</h1>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Python 2.2 compatibility fixes.</li>
input wasn't properly being UTF-8 encoded.</li>
</ul>
</div>
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<h1>0.5 (2005-04-08)</h1>
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<p>lxml supports XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0 and the EXSLT extensions through
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-The latest version is `lxml 4.3.2`_, released 2019-02-29
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* `lxml 4.3.2`_, released 2019-02-29 (`changes for 4.3.2`_)
* `older releases <http://lxml.de/3.7/#old-versions>`_
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.. _`changes for 4.3.2`: /changes-4.3.2.html
.. _`changes for 4.3.1`: /changes-4.3.1.html
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Home-page: http://lxml.de/
Author: lxml dev team
as soon as a maintenance branch has been established. Note that this
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+ 4.3.3 (2019-03-26)
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Bugs fixed
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#ifndef LXML_VERSION_STRING
-#define LXML_VERSION_STRING "4.3.2"
+#define LXML_VERSION_STRING "4.3.3"
#endif
"""
cdef _FilelikeWriter writer = None
cdef _Document doc
- cdef int r, c_compression
+ cdef int r, rclose, c_compression
cdef const_xmlChar* c_encoding = NULL
cdef tree.xmlOutputBuffer* c_buffer
if doc is None:
raise XSLTSaveError("No document to serialise")
c_compression = compression or 0
- if _isString(file):
- file_path = _encodeFilename(file)
- c_filename = _cstr(file_path)
+ xslt.LXML_GET_XSLT_ENCODING(c_encoding, self._xslt._c_style)
+ writer = _create_output_buffer(file, <const_char*>c_encoding, compression, &c_buffer, close=False)
+ if writer is None:
with nogil:
- r = xslt.xsltSaveResultToFilename(
- c_filename, doc._c_doc, self._xslt._c_style, c_compression)
- else:
- xslt.LXML_GET_XSLT_ENCODING(c_encoding, self._xslt._c_style)
- writer = _create_output_buffer(file, <const_char*>c_encoding, compression, &c_buffer, close=False)
- if writer is None:
- with nogil:
- r = xslt.xsltSaveResultTo(c_buffer, doc._c_doc, self._xslt._c_style)
- else:
r = xslt.xsltSaveResultTo(c_buffer, doc._c_doc, self._xslt._c_style)
+ rclose = tree.xmlOutputBufferClose(c_buffer)
+ else:
+ r = xslt.xsltSaveResultTo(c_buffer, doc._c_doc, self._xslt._c_style)
+ rclose = tree.xmlOutputBufferClose(c_buffer)
if writer is not None:
writer._exc_context._raise_if_stored()
- if r == -1:
+ if r < 0 or rclose < 0:
python.PyErr_SetFromErrno(XSLTSaveError) # raises
cdef _saveToStringAndSize(self, xmlChar** s, int* l):
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