-Sun Jan 7 14:54:28 CET 2001
- Creating libxslt project in Gnome CVS base
-Fri Jan 5
- Started reading the XSLT 1.0 spec:
- http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt
- W3C Recommendation 16 November 1999
+ NEWS file for libxslt
+
+ Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
+ http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/news.html
+
+
+
+CVS only : check the Changelog at
+http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog
+ file
+for a really accurate description:
+
+1.0.27: Feb 24 2003:
+ - bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (in
+ libxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs
+ - Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor)
+
+
+1.0.26: Feb 10 2003:
+ - Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation which
+ could lead to a crash
+
+
+1.0.25: Feb 5 2003:
+ - Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, C
+ syntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist
+ - Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed in
+ libxml2-2.5.2
+ - Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs.
+
+
+1.0.24: Jan 14 2003:
+ - bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),
+ EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation on
+ xsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),
+ extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (Matt
+ Sergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug for
+ numbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation on
+ imports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called
+ - HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and Stephane
+ Bidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry)
+ - adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell)
+ - fix the API generation scripts
+ - API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks)
+ - added XML description of the EXSLT API
+ - added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter)
+ - Some memory leaks have been found and fixed
+ - document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs
+
+
+1.0.23: Nov 17 2002:
+ - Windows build cleanup (Igor)
+ - Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup
+ - Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
+ EXSLT
+ - various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
+ functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns
+ - Documentation improvements (John Fleck)
+ - added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)
+
+
+1.0.22: Oct 18 2002:
+ - Updates on the Windows Makefiles
+ - Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
+ xsltproc
+ - Allowed per transformation error handler.
+ - Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
+ lists
+
+
+1.0.21: Sep 26 2002:
+ - Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
+ Bozeman), disable-output-escaping
+ - Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes
+ - Logos from Marc Liyanage
+ - Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers
+ - Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
+ Windows (Igor), Python detection
+ - Documentation improvements: John Fleck
+
+
+1.0.20: Aug 23 2002:
+ - Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)
+ - fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users
+ - possible leak patches from Nathan Myers
+ - try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
+ cases
+ - Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem
+ - Fixed a few XSLT reported errors
+
+
+1.0.19: July 6 2002:
+ - EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)
+ - xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks
+ - xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors
+ - document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist
+ - xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack
+ - xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors
+ - a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
+ libxml2
+
+
+1.0.18: May 27 2002:
+ - a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
+ (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
+ Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (Richard
+ Jinks)
+ - xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
+ Vakoc
+ - there is a new API to save directly to a string
+ xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter
+ - specific error registration function for the python API
+
+
+1.0.17: April 29 2002:
+ - cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
+ Igor
+ - a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc
+ - EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman
+ - attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal
+
+
+1.0.16: April 15 2002:
+ - Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
+ save
+ - portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings
+
+
+1.0.15: Mar 25 2002:
+ - Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
+ templates
+ - Debug of memory alocation with valgind
+ - serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
+ processing
+ - revamp of the Windows build
+
+
+1.0.14: Mar 18 2002:
+ - Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)
+ - Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set
+ - Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
+ portability fixes
+
+
+1.0.13: Mar 8 2002:
+ - a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents"
+ - Improvement of the Python bindings
+ - Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
+ functions.
+
+
+1.0.12: Feb 11 2002:
+ - Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones
+ - half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones
+
+
+1.0.11: Feb 8 2002:
+ - Change of Licence to the MIT
+ Licence
+
+ - Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
+ extend the engine with functions written in Python
+ - A number of bug fixes
+ - Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions
+ - Portability fixes
+
+
+1.0.10: Jan 14 2002:
+ - Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor
+ - Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)
+ - Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck
+ - Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
+ level
+ - A few bug fixes
+
+
+1.0.9: Dec 7 2001:
+ - Makefile patches from Peter Williams
+ - attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking
+ - obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API
+ - xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
+ documentation
+ - patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
+ made dynamic really
+ - fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
+ output
+ - patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger
+
+
+1.0.8: Nov 26 2001:
+ - fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
+ cleanup
+ - patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
+ - OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
+ - fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
+ informations
+
+
+1.0.7: Nov 10 2001:
+ - remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC
+ - Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger
+ - fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output
+ - fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file
+
+
+1.0.6: Oct 30 2001:
+ - bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
+ Miller)
+ - update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)
+ - fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)
+
+
+1.0.5: Oct 10 2001:
+ - some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
+ Igor
+ - fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
+ - support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
+ contribution from Darren Graves)
+ - better handling of XPath evaluation errors
+
+
+1.0.4: Sep 12 2001:
+ - Documentation updates from John fleck
+ - bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portability
+ improvements
+ - Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
+ Time and Date core functions support
+
+
+1.0.3: Aug 23 2001:
+ - XML Catalog support see the doc
+ - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
+ - A few bug fixes
+
+
+1.0.2: Aug 15 2001:
+ - lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite
+ - a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented
+ - improvements on the extension framework
+ - documentation improvements
+ - Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date
+ - handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default
+
+
+1.0.1: July 24 2001:
+ - initial EXSLT framework
+ - better error reporting
+ - fixed the profiler on Windows
+ - bug fixes
+
+
+1.0.0: July 10 2001:
+ - a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed
+ - added a documentation for writing
+ extensions
+
+ - fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)
+ - added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
+ --profile option
+ - fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
+ chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
+ - exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
+ expected
+ - added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
+ spec
+
+
+0.14.0: July 5 2001:
+ - lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup
+ - completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented
+ - Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer
+ - the Windows MSC environment should be complete
+ - tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
+ Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads
+
+
+0.13.0: June 26 2001:
+ - lots of cleanups
+ - fixed a C++ compilation problem
+ - couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()
+ - try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
+ with them
+ - fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems
+ - Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek
+ - update to the Tutorial by John Fleck
+ - William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions
+ - added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
+ (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc
+
+
+0.12.0: June 18 2001:
+ - fixed a dozen of bugs reported
+ - HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
+ too)
+ - William fixed some problems with document()
+ - Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
+ too)
+ - John Fleck added a
+ tutorial
+
+ - Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
+ - XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
+ requested
+ - made xsltproc --version more detailed
+
+
+0.11.0: June 1 2001:
+Mostly a bug fix release.
+ - integration of catalogs from xsltproc
+ - added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting
+ - fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities
+ - document() should hopefully work correctly but ...
+ - fixed bug with PI and comments processing
+ - William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode
+
+
+0.10.0: May 19 2001:
+ - cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)
+ - fixed URI resolution in document()
+ - force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
+ even if unused ...
+ - Fixed HTML default output detection
+ - Fixed double attribute generation #54446
+ - Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451
+ - More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations
+ - Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()
+ - added a documentation on the libxslt internals
+ - William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()
+ - Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now
+ - added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)
+ - a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
+ submitting them
+
+
+0.9.0: May 3 2001:
+ - lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite
+ - xsltproc should work with multiple params
+ - added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input
+ - improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
+ should be faster
+ - using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
+ programs should work now
+ - fixed another batch of namespace handling problems
+ - Implemented multiple level of sorting
+
+
+0.8.0: Apr 22 2001:
+ - fixed ansidecl.h problem
+ - fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()
+ - sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack
+ - fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
+ (requires libxml-2.3.7)
+ - fixes to current() and key()
+ - other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
+ stylesheets
+
+
+0.7.0: Apr 10 2001:
+ - cleanup using stricter compiler flags
+ - command line parameter passing
+ - fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack
+ - added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()
+
+
+0.6.0: Mar 22 2001:
+ - another beta
+ - requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support
+ - document() extension should function properly
+ - fixed a number or reported bugs
+
+
+0.5.0: Mar 10 2001:
+ - fifth beta
+ - some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
+ same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)
+ - fixed problems with handling of tree results
+ - fixed a reported strip-spaces problem
+ - added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite
+ - incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
+ well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates
+ - a bug fix on for-each
+
+
+0.4.0: Mar 1 2001:
+ - fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3
+ - bug fixes
+ - some optimization
+ - started implement extension support, not finished
+ - implemented but not tested multiple file output
+
+
+0.3.0: Feb 24 2001:
+ - third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2
+ - lot of bug fixes
+ - some optimization
+ - added DocBook XSL based testsuite
+
+
+0.2.0: Feb 15 2001:
+ - second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1
+ - getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
+ and XPath support of libxml
+ - start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
+ the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
+ stylesheets (in section I of the XML
+ REC)
+ - Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
+ key() and document() is not complete
+
+
+0.1.0: Feb 8 2001:
+ - first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0
+ - lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete
+
+
+0.0.1: Jan 25 2001:
+ - first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12
+ - Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being
+ feature complete
+
+Daniel Veillard at
+bugs.html
+