lxml changelog
==============
+3.2.3 (2013-07-28)
+==================
+
+Bugs fixed
+----------
+
+* Fix support for Python 2.4 which was lost in 3.2.2.
+
+
3.2.2 (2013-07-28)
==================
Metadata-Version: 1.1
Name: lxml
-Version: 3.2.2
+Version: 3.2.3
Summary: Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.
Home-page: http://lxml.de/
Author: lxml dev team
Author-email: lxml-dev@lxml.de
License: UNKNOWN
-Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-3.2.2.tar.gz
+Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-3.2.3.tar.gz
Description: lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It
provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree
API.
as soon as a maintenance branch has been established. Note that this
requires Cython to be installed at an appropriate version for the build.
- 3.2.2 (2013-07-28)
+ 3.2.3 (2013-07-28)
==================
- Features added
- --------------
-
Bugs fixed
----------
- * LP#1185701: spurious XMLSyntaxError after finishing iterparse().
-
- * Crash in lxml.objectify during xsi annotation.
-
- Other changes
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- * Return values of user provided element class lookup methods are now
- validated against the type of the XML node they represent to prevent
- API class mismatches.
+ * Fix support for Python 2.4 which was lost in 3.2.2.
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<p>lxml.etree tries to follow established APIs wherever possible. Sometimes,
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<a href="lxml.etree-module.html#__pyx_capi__" class="summary-name" onclick="show_private();">__pyx_capi__</a> = <code title="{'appendChild': <capsule object "void (struct LxmlElement *, struct Lx\
-mlElement *)" at 0x23d6f00>,
+mlElement *)" at 0x14d4f00>,
'attributeValue': <capsule object "PyObject *(xmlNode *, xmlAttr *)" \
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+at 0x14d4bd0>,
'attributeValueFromNsName': <capsule object "PyObject *(xmlNode *, co\
-nst xmlChar *, const xmlChar *)" at 0x23d6c00>,
+nst xmlChar *, const xmlChar *)" at 0x14d4c00>,
'callLookupFallback': <capsule object "PyObject *(struct LxmlFallback\
-ElementClassLookup *, struct LxmlDocument *, xmlNode *)" at 0x23d68a0>\
+ElementClassLookup *, struct LxmlDocument *, xmlNode *)" at 0x14d48a0>\
..."><code class="variable-group">{</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">appendChild</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-op">: </code><capsule object "void (struct L<code class="variable-ellipsis">...</code></code>
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<code class="variable-group">{</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">appendChild</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-op">: </code><capsule object "void (struct LxmlElement *, struct Lx<span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
-mlElement *)" at 0x23d6f00><code class="variable-op">,</code>
+mlElement *)" at 0x14d4f00><code class="variable-op">,</code>
<code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">attributeValue</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-op">: </code><capsule object "PyObject *(xmlNode *, xmlAttr *)" <span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
-at 0x23d6bd0><code class="variable-op">,</code>
+at 0x14d4bd0><code class="variable-op">,</code>
<code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">attributeValueFromNsName</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-op">: </code><capsule object "PyObject *(xmlNode *, co<span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
-nst xmlChar *, const xmlChar *)" at 0x23d6c00><code class="variable-op">,</code>
+nst xmlChar *, const xmlChar *)" at 0x14d4c00><code class="variable-op">,</code>
<code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-string">callLookupFallback</code><code class="variable-quote">'</code><code class="variable-op">: </code><capsule object "PyObject *(struct LxmlFallback<span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
-ElementClassLookup *, struct LxmlDocument *, xmlNode *)" at 0x
23d68a0><code class="variable-op"></code><span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
+ElementClassLookup *, struct LxmlDocument *, xmlNode *)" at 0x
14d48a0><code class="variable-op"></code><span class="variable-linewrap"><img src="crarr.png" alt="\" /></span>
<code class="variable-ellipsis">...</code>
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<p>As of version 1.1, lxml.etree provides a public C-API. This allows external
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-<h1>3.2.2 (2013-07-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="features-added">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="bugs-fixed">
-<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="other-changes">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Return values of user provided element class lookup methods are now
-validated against the type of the XML node they represent to prevent
-API class mismatches.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id2">
-<h1>3.2.1 (2013-05-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id3">
-<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
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-<div class="section" id="id4">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>When moving Elements to another tree, the namespace cleanup mechanism
-no longer drops namespace prefixes from attributes for which it finds
-a default namespace declaration, to prevent them from appearing as
-unnamespaced attributes after serialisation.</li>
-<li>Returning non-type objects from a custom class lookup method could lead
-to a crash.</li>
-<li>Instantiating and using subtypes of Comments and ProcessingInstructions
-crashed.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id5">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id6">
-<h1>3.2.0 (2013-04-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id7">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id8">
-<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
-parsing functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/599318">LP#599318</a>: The string parsing functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> are more robust
-in the face of uncommon HTML content like framesets or missing body tags.
-Patch by Stefan Seelmann.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/712941">LP#712941</a>: I/O errors while trying to access files with paths that contain
-non-ASCII characters could raise <tt class="docutils literal">UnicodeDecodeError</tt> instead of properly
-reporting the <tt class="docutils literal">IOError</tt>.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/673205">LP#673205</a>: Parsing from in-memory strings disabled network access in the
-default parser and made subsequent attempts to parse from a URL fail.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/971754">LP#971754</a>: lxml.html.clean appends 'nofollow' to 'rel' attributes instead
-of overwriting the current value.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/715687">LP#715687</a>: lxml.html.clean no longer discards scripts that are explicitly
-allowed by the user provided whitelist. Patch by Christine Koppelt.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id9">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id10">
-<h1>3.1.2 (2013-04-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id11">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id12">
-<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
-the sax bridge (i.e. the <tt class="docutils literal">handler.startElement()</tt> method) failed
-with a <tt class="docutils literal">TypeError</tt>. Patch by Mike Bayer.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1123074">LP#1123074</a>: Fix serialisation error in XSLT output when converting
-the result tree to a Unicode string.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/105">GH#105</a>: Replace illegal usage of <tt class="docutils literal">xmlBufLength()</tt> in libxml2 2.9.0
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-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id13">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id14">
-<h1>3.1.1 (2013-03-29)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id15">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id16">
-<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
-an AttributeError in Py3.</li>
-<li>Illegal memory access during cleanup in incremental xmlfile writer.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id17">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree._BaseParser</tt> was removed
-from the module dict.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id18">
-<h1>3.1.0 (2013-02-10)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id19">
-<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="id20">
-<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
-a copy of the attributes as a plain Python dict.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/95">GH#95</a>: When used with namespace prefixes, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt> methods
-always used the first namespace mapping that was provided for each
-path expression instead of using the one that was actually passed
-in for the current run.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1092521">LP#1092521</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/91">GH#91</a>: Fix undefined C symbol in Python runtimes compiled
-without threading support. Patch by Ulrich Seidl.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id21">
-<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="id22">
-<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
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-<li>New incremental XML file writing API <tt class="docutils literal">etree.xmlfile()</tt>.</li>
-<li>E factory in lxml.objectify is callable to simplify the creation of
-tags with non-identifier names without having to resort to getattr().</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id23">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>When starting from a non-namespaced element in lxml.objectify, searching
-for a child without explicitly specifying a namespace incorrectly found
-namespaced elements with the requested local name, instead of restricting
-the search to non-namespaced children.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/85">GH#85</a>: Deprecation warnings were fixed for Python 3.x.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/33">GH#33</a>: lxml.html.fromstring() failed to accept bytes input in Py3.</li>
-<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="id24">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">_ObjectifyElementMakerCaller</tt> was
-removed from the module API of lxml.objectify.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1075622">LP#1075622</a>: lxml.builder is faster for adding text to elements with
-many children. Patch by Anders Hammarquist.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id25">
-<h1>3.0.2 (2012-12-14)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id26">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id27">
-<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="id28">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id29">
-<h1>3.0.1 (2012-10-14)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id30">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id31">
-<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
-in PyPy without proper cleanup.</li>
-<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/71">GH#71</a>: Failure to work with libxml2 2.6.x.</li>
-<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="id32">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id33">
-<h1>3.0 (2012-10-08)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id34">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id35">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>End-of-file handling was incorrect in iterparse() when reading from
-a low-level C file stream and failed in libxml2 2.9.0 due to its
-improved consistency checks.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id36">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The build no longer uses Cython by default unless the generated C files
-are missing. To use Cython, pass the option "--with-cython". To ignore
-the fatal build error when Cython is required but not available (e.g. to
-run special setup.py commands that do not actually run a build), pass
-"--without-cython".</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta1-2012-09-26">
-<h1>3.0beta1 (2012-09-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id37">
-<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="id38">
-<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="id39">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The code was adapted to work with the upcoming libxml2 2.9.0 release.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="alpha2-2012-08-23">
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-<div class="section" id="id40">
-<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
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}name"</span></tt> to search for elements with a given local name in any
-namespace. With this addition, all combinations of wildcards now work
-as expected:
-<tt class="docutils literal">"{ns}name"</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}name"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}name"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{ns}*"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}*"</span></tt>
-and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}*"</span></tt>. Note that <tt class="docutils literal">"name"</tt> is equivalent to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}name"</span></tt>,
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-The same change applies to the <tt class="docutils literal">.getiterator()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.itersiblings()</tt>,
-<tt class="docutils literal">.iterancestors()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.iterdescendants()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.iterchildren()</tt>
-and <tt class="docutils literal">.itertext()</tt> methods;the <tt class="docutils literal">strip_attributes()</tt>,
-<tt class="docutils literal">strip_elements()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> functions as well as the
-<tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> class. Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
-<li>C14N allows specifying the inclusive prefixes to be promoted
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-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id41">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Passing long Unicode strings into the <tt class="docutils literal">feed()</tt> parser interface
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-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="alpha1-2012-07-31">
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-<div class="section" id="id43">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
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-<li>DTD objects gained an API that allows read access to their
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-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
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-plus side, this fixes several C compiler warnings, also for user
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-from the <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> module dict:
-<tt class="docutils literal">_InputDocument, _ResolverRegistry, _ResolverContext, _BaseContext,
-_ExsltRegExp, _IterparseContext, _TempStore, _ExceptionContext,
-__ContentOnlyElement, _AttribIterator, _NamespaceRegistry,
-_ClassNamespaceRegistry, _FunctionNamespaceRegistry,
-_XPathFunctionNamespaceRegistry, _ParserDictionaryContext,
-_FileReaderContext, _ParserContext, _PythonSaxParserTarget,
-_TargetParserContext, _ReadOnlyProxy, _ReadOnlyPIProxy,
-_ReadOnlyEntityProxy, _ReadOnlyElementProxy, _OpaqueNodeWrapper,
-_OpaqueDocumentWrapper, _ModifyContentOnlyProxy,
-_ModifyContentOnlyPIProxy, _ModifyContentOnlyEntityProxy,
-_AppendOnlyElementProxy, _SaxParserContext, _FilelikeWriter,
-_ParserSchemaValidationContext, _XPathContext,
-_XSLTResolverContext, _XSLTContext, _XSLTQuotedStringParam</tt></li>
-<li>Several internal classes can no longer be inherited from:
-<tt class="docutils literal">_InputDocument, _ResolverRegistry, _ExsltRegExp, _ElementUnicodeResult,
-_IterparseContext, _TempStore, _AttribIterator, _ClassNamespaceRegistry,
-_XPathFunctionNamespaceRegistry, _ParserDictionaryContext,
-_FileReaderContext, _PythonSaxParserTarget, _TargetParserContext,
-_ReadOnlyPIProxy, _ReadOnlyEntityProxy, _OpaqueDocumentWrapper,
-_ModifyContentOnlyPIProxy, _ModifyContentOnlyEntityProxy,
-_AppendOnlyElementProxy, _FilelikeWriter, _ParserSchemaValidationContext,
-_XPathContext, _XSLTResolverContext, _XSLTContext, _XSLTQuotedStringParam,
-_XSLTResultTree, _XSLTProcessingInstruction</tt></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id46">
-<h1>2.3.6 (2012-09-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id47">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id48">
-<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="id49">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id50">
-<h1>2.3.5 (2012-07-31)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id51">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id52">
-<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="id53">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id54">
-<h1>2.3.4 (2012-03-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id55">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id56">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash when building an nsmap (Element property) with empty
-namespace URIs.</li>
-<li>Crash due to race condition when errors (or user messages) occur
-during threaded XSLT processing.</li>
-<li>XSLT stylesheet compilation could ignore compilation errors.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id57">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id58">
-<h1>2.3.3 (2012-01-04)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id59">
-<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="id60">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Fixed a crash when using <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> for HTML parsing and
-requesting start events.</li>
-<li>Fixed parsing of more selectors in cssselect. Whitespace before
-pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes is significant as it is a
-descendant combinator.
-"E :pseudo" should parse the same as "E *:pseudo", not "E:pseudo".
-Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
-<li>lxml.html.diff no longer raises an exception when hitting
-'img' tags without 'src' attribute.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id61">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id62">
-<h1>2.3.2 (2011-11-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id63">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify.deannotate()</tt> has a new boolean option
-<tt class="docutils literal">cleanup_namespaces</tt> to remove the objectify namespace
-declarations (and generally clean up the namespace declarations)
-after removing the type annotations.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> gained its own <tt class="docutils literal">SubElement()</tt> function as a
-copy of <tt class="docutils literal">etree.SubElement</tt> to avoid an otherwise redundant import
-of <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> on the user side.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id64">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Fixed the "descendant" bug in cssselect a second time (after a first
-fix in lxml 2.3.1). The previous change resulted in a serious
-performance regression for the XPath based evaluation of the
-translated expression. Note that this breaks the usage of some of
-the generated XPath expressions as XSLT location paths that
-previously worked in 2.3.1.</li>
-<li>Fixed parsing of some selectors in cssselect. Whitespace after combinators
-">", "+" and "~" is now correctly ignored. Previously is was parsed as
-a descendant combinator. For example, "div> .foo" was parsed the same as
-"div>* .foo" instead of "div>.foo". Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id65">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id66">
-<h1>2.3.1 (2011-09-25)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id67">
-<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
-tags and their content (i.e. their whole subtree).</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">pi.get()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pi.attrib</tt> on processing instructions to parse
-pseudo-attributes from the text content of processing instructions.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.get_include()</tt> returns a list of include paths that can be
-used to compile external C code against lxml.etree. This is
-specifically required for statically linked lxml builds when code
-needs to compile against the exact same header file versions as lxml
-itself.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Resolver.resolve_file()</tt> takes an additional option
-<tt class="docutils literal">close_file</tt> that configures if the file(-like) object will be
-closed after reading or not. By default, the file will be closed,
-as the user is not expected to keep a reference to it.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id68">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>HTML cleaning didn't remove 'data:' links.</li>
-<li>The html5lib parser integration now uses the 'official'
-implementation in html5lib itself, which makes it work with newer
-releases of the library.</li>
-<li>In <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.sax</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">endElementNS()</tt> could incorrectly reject a plain
-tag name when the corresponding start event inferred the same plain
-tag name to be in the default namespace.</li>
-<li>When an open file-like object is passed into <tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> or
-<tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt>, the parser will no longer close it after use. This
-reverts a change in lxml 2.3 where all files would be closed. It is
-the users responsibility to properly close the file(-like) object,
-also in error cases.</li>
-<li>Assertion error in lxml.html.cleaner when discarding top-level elements.</li>
-<li>In lxml.cssselect, use the xpath 'A//B' (short for
-'A/descendant-or-self::node()/B') instead of 'A/descendant::B' for
-the css descendant selector ('A B'). This makes a few edge cases
-like <tt class="docutils literal">"div <span class="pre">*:last-child"</span></tt> consistent with the selector behavior in
-WebKit and Firefox, and makes more css expressions valid location
-paths (for use in xsl:template match).</li>
-<li>In lxml.html, non-selected <tt class="docutils literal"><option></tt> tags no longer show up in the
-collected form values.</li>
-<li>Adding/removing <tt class="docutils literal"><option></tt> values to/from a multiple select form
-field properly selects them and unselects them.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id69">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Static builds can specify the download directory with the
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--download-dir</span></tt> option.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id70">
-<h1>2.3 (2011-02-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id71">
-<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="id72">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>When finished reading from a file-like object, the parser
-immediately calls its <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> method.</li>
-<li>When finished parsing, <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> immediately closes the input
-file.</li>
-<li>Work-around for libxml2 bug that can leave the HTML parser in a
-non-functional state after parsing a severly broken document (fixed
-in libxml2 2.7.8).</li>
-<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="id73">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Some public functions in the Cython-level C-API have more explicit
-return types.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta1-2010-09-06">
-<h1>2.3beta1 (2010-09-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id74">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id75">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
-documents that had attributes on replaced XInclude nodes.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLID()</tt> function was missing the optional <tt class="docutils literal">parser</tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> parameters.</li>
-<li>Searching for wildcard tags in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> was broken in Py3.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.open_in_browser()</tt> didn't work in Python 3 due to the
-use of os.tempnam. It now takes an optional 'encoding' parameter.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id76">
-<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="id77">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id78">
-<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="id79">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">repr()</tt> of Element objects shows the hex ID with leading 0x
-(following ElementTree 1.3).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="alpha1-2010-06-19">
-<h1>2.3alpha1 (2010-06-19)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id80">
-<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>
-to pass a prefix-to-namespace mapping for the selector.</li>
-<li>New function <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree.register_namespace(prefix, uri)</tt> that
-globally registers a namespace prefix for a namespace that newly
-created Elements in that namespace will use automatically. Follows
-ElementTree 1.3.</li>
-<li>Support 'unicode' string name as encoding parameter in
-<tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3.</li>
-<li>Support 'c14n' serialisation method in <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.write()</tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3.</li>
-<li>The ElementPath expression syntax (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt>) was extended to
-match the upcoming ElementTree 1.3 that will ship in the standard
-library of Python 3.2/2.7. This includes extended support for
-predicates as well as namespace prefixes (as known from XPath).</li>
-<li>During regular XPath evaluation, various ESXLT functions are
-available within their namespace when using libxslt 1.1.26 or later.</li>
-<li>Support passing a readily configured logger instance into
-<tt class="docutils literal">PyErrorLog</tt>, instead of a logger name.</li>
-<li>On serialisation, the new <tt class="docutils literal">doctype</tt> parameter can be used to
-override the DOCTYPE (internal subset) of the document.</li>
-<li>New parameter <tt class="docutils literal">output_parent</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">XSLTExtension.apply_templates()</tt>
-to append the resulting content directly to an output element.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XSLTExtension.process_children()</tt> to process the content of the
-XSLT extension element itself.</li>
-<li>ISO-Schematron support based on the de-facto Schematron reference
-'skeleton implementation'.</li>
-<li>XSLT objects now take XPath object as <tt class="docutils literal">__call__</tt> stylesheet
-parameters.</li>
-<li>Enable path caching in ElementPath (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt>) to avoid parsing
-overhead.</li>
-<li>Setting the value of a namespaced attribute always uses a prefixed
-namespace instead of the default namespace even if both declare the
-same namespace URI. This avoids serialisation problems when an
-attribute from a default namespace is set on an element from a
-different namespace.</li>
-<li>XSLT extension elements: support for XSLT context nodes other than
-elements: document root, comments, processing instructions.</li>
-<li>Support for strings (in addition to Elements) in node-sets returned
-by extension functions.</li>
-<li>Forms that lack an <tt class="docutils literal">action</tt> attribute default to the base URL of
-the document on submit.</li>
-<li>XPath attribute result strings have an <tt class="docutils literal">attrname</tt> property.</li>
-<li>Namespace URIs get validated against RFC 3986 at the API level
-(required by the XML namespace specification).</li>
-<li>Target parsers show their target object in the <tt class="docutils literal">.target</tt> property
-(compatible with ElementTree).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id81">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>API is hardened against invalid proxy instances to prevent crashes
-due to incorrectly instantiated Element instances.</li>
-<li>Prevent crash when instantiating <tt class="docutils literal">CommentBase</tt> and friends.</li>
-<li>Export ElementTree compatible XML parser class as
-<tt class="docutils literal">XMLTreeBuilder</tt>, as it is called in ET 1.2.</li>
-<li>ObjectifiedDataElements in lxml.objectify were not hashable. They
-now use the hash value of the underlying Python value (string,
-number, etc.) to which they compare equal.</li>
-<li>Parsing broken fragments in lxml.html could fail if the fragment
-contained an orphaned closing '</div>' tag.</li>
-<li>Using XSLT extension elements around the root of the output document
-crashed.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> did not distinguish between <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x[attr="val"]</span></tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal">x <span class="pre">[attr="val"]</span></tt> (with a space). The latter now matches the
-attribute independent of the element.</li>
-<li>Rewriting multiple links inside of HTML text content could end up
-replacing unrelated content as replacements could impact the
-reported position of subsequent matches. Modifications are now
-simplified by letting the <tt class="docutils literal">iterlinks()</tt> generator in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>
-return links in reversed order if they appear inside the same text
-node. Thus, replacements and link-internal modifications no longer
-change the position of links reported afterwards.</li>
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">.value</tt> attribute of <tt class="docutils literal">textarea</tt> elements in lxml.html did
-not represent the complete raw value (including child tags etc.). It
-now serialises the complete content on read and replaces the
-complete content by a string on write.</li>
-<li>Target parser didn't call <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target object if
-parsing failed. Now it is guaranteed that <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> will be
-called after parsing, regardless of the outcome.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id82">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Official support for Python 3.1.2 and later.</li>
-<li>Static MS Windows builds can now download their dependencies
-themselves.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib</tt> no longer uses a cyclic reference back to its
-Element object. It therefore no longer requires the garbage
-collector to clean up.</li>
-<li>Static builds include libiconv, in addition to libxml2 and libxslt.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id83">
-<h1>2.2.8 (2010-09-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id84">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
-documents that had attributes on replaced XInclude nodes.</li>
-<li>Import fix for urljoin in Python 3.1+.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id85">
-<h1>2.2.7 (2010-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id86">
-<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>
-<div class="section" id="id87">
-<h1>2.2.6 (2010-03-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id88">
-<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="id89">
-<h1>2.2.5 (2010-02-28)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id90">
-<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="id91">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash in XPath evaluation when reading smart strings from a document
-other than the original context document.</li>
-<li>Support recent versions of html5lib by not requiring its
-<tt class="docutils literal">XHTMLParser</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">htmlparser.py</tt> anymore.</li>
-<li>Manually instantiating the custom element classes in
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> could crash.</li>
-<li>Invalid XML text characters were not rejected by the API when they
-appeared in unicode strings directly after non-ASCII characters.</li>
-<li>lxml.html.open_http_urllib() did not work in Python 3.</li>
-<li>The functions <tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">strip_elements()</tt> in
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> did not remove all occurrences of a tag in all cases.</li>
-<li>Crash in XSLT extension elements when the XSLT context node is not
-an element.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id92">
-<h1>2.2.4 (2009-11-11)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id93">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Static build of libxml2/libxslt was broken.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id94">
-<h1>2.2.3 (2009-10-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id95">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id96">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">resolve_entities</tt> option did not work in the incremental feed
-parser.</li>
-<li>Looking up and deleting attributes without a namespace could hit a
-namespaced attribute of the same name instead.</li>
-<li>Late errors during calls to <tt class="docutils literal">SubElement()</tt> (e.g. attribute related
-ones) could leave a partially initialised element in the tree.</li>
-<li>Modifying trees that contain parsed entity references could result
-in an infinite loop.</li>
-<li>ObjectifiedElement.__setattr__ created an empty-string child element when the
-attribute value was rejected as a non-unicode/non-ascii string</li>
-<li>Syntax errors in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> could result in misleading error
-messages.</li>
-<li>Invalid syntax in CSS expressions could lead to an infinite loop in
-the parser of <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
-<li>CSS special character escapes were not properly handled in
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
-<li>CSS Unicode escapes were not properly decoded in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
-<li>Select options in HTML forms that had no explicit <tt class="docutils literal">value</tt>
-attribute were not handled correctly. The HTML standard dictates
-that their value is defined by their text content. This is now
-supported by lxml.html.</li>
-<li>XPath raised a TypeError when finding CDATA sections. This is now
-fully supported.</li>
-<li>Calling <tt class="docutils literal">help(lxml.objectify)</tt> didn't work at the prompt.</li>
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">ElementMaker</tt> in lxml.objectify no longer defines the default
-namespaces when annotation is disabled.</li>
-<li>Feed parser failed to honout the 'recover' option on parse errors.</li>
-<li>Diverting the error logging to Python's logging system was broken.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id97">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id98">
-<h1>2.2.2 (2009-06-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id99">
-<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>,
-<tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> in lxml.etree to remove attributes/subtrees/tags
-from a subtree.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id100">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Namespace cleanup on subtree insertions could result in missing
-namespace declarations (and potentially crashes) if the element
-defining a namespace was deleted and the namespace was not used by
-the top element of the inserted subtree but only in deeper subtrees.</li>
-<li>Raising an exception from a parser target callback didn't always
-terminate the parser.</li>
-<li>Only {true, false, 1, 0} are accepted as the lexical representation for
-BoolElement ({True, False, T, F, t, f} not any more), restoring lxml <= 2.0
-behaviour.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id101">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id102">
-<h1>2.2.1 (2009-06-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id103">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Injecting default attributes into a document during XML Schema
-validation (also at parse time).</li>
-<li>Pass <tt class="docutils literal">huge_tree</tt> parser option to disable parser security
-restrictions imposed by libxml2 2.7.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id104">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The script for statically building libxml2 and libxslt didn't work
-in Py3.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> also passes invalid schema documents on to libxml2
-for parsing (which could lead to a crash before release 2.6.24).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id105">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id106">
-<h1>2.2 (2009-03-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id107">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Support for <tt class="docutils literal">standalone</tt> flag in XML declaration through
-<tt class="docutils literal">tree.docinfo.standalone</tt> and by passing <tt class="docutils literal">standalone=True/False</tt>
-on serialisation.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id108">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash when parsing an XML Schema with external imports from a
-filename.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta4-2009-02-27">
-<h1>2.2beta4 (2009-02-27)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id109">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Support strings and instantiable Element classes as child arguments
-to the constructor of custom Element classes.</li>
-<li>GZip compression support for serialisation to files and file-like
-objects.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id110">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Deep-copying an ElementTree copied neither its sibling PIs and
-comments nor its internal/external DTD subsets.</li>
-<li>Soupparser failed on broken attributes without values.</li>
-<li>Crash in XSLT when overwriting an already defined attribute using
-<tt class="docutils literal">xsl:attribute</tt>.</li>
-<li>Crash bug in exception handling code under Python 3. This was due
-to a problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.FormElement._name()</tt> failed for non top-level forms.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">TAG</tt> special attribute in constructor of custom Element classes
-was evaluated incorrectly.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id111">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Official support for Python 3.0.1.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.findtext()</tt> now returns an empty string instead of None
-for Elements without text content.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta3-2009-02-17">
-<h1>2.2beta3 (2009-02-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id112">
-<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="id113">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Memory leak in XPath evaluators.</li>
-<li>Crash when parsing indented XML in one thread and merging it with
-other documents parsed in another thread.</li>
-<li>Setting the <tt class="docutils literal">base</tt> attribute in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> from a unicode
-string failed.</li>
-<li>Fixes following changes in Python 3.0.1.</li>
-<li>Minor fixes for Python 3.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id114">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The global error log (which is copied into the exception log) is now
-local to a thread, which fixes some race conditions.</li>
-<li>More robust error handling on serialisation.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta2-2009-01-25">
-<h1>2.2beta2 (2009-01-25)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id115">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
-problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">iter_links</tt> (and related link-rewriting functions) in
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> would interpret CSS like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">url("link")</span></tt> incorrectly
-(treating the quotation marks as part of the link).</li>
-<li>Failing import on systems that have an <tt class="docutils literal">io</tt> module.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id116">
-<h1>2.1.5 (2009-01-06)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id117">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
-problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
-<li>Failing import on systems that have an <tt class="docutils literal">io</tt> module.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta1-2008-12-12">
-<h1>2.2beta1 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id118">
-<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="id119">
-<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="id120">
-<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="id121">
-<h1>2.1.4 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id122">
-<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="id123">
-<h1>2.0.11 (2008-12-12)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id124">
-<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="alpha1-2008-11-23">
-<h1>2.2alpha1 (2008-11-23)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id125">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Support for XSLT result tree fragments in XPath/XSLT extension
-functions.</li>
-<li>QName objects have new properties <tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">localname</tt>.</li>
-<li>New options for exclusive C14N and C14N without comments.</li>
-<li>Instantiating a custom Element classes creates a new Element.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id126">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>XSLT didn't inherit the parse options of the input document.</li>
-<li>0-bytes could slip through the API when used inside of Unicode
-strings.</li>
-<li>With <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean.autolink</tt>, links with balanced parenthesis,
-that end in a parenthesis, will be linked in their entirety (typical
-with Wikipedia links).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id127">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id128">
-<h1>2.1.3 (2008-11-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id129">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id130">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
-outside exception lives in sys.exc_*(). This was due to a problem in
-Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
-<li>Parser Unicode decoding errors could get swallowed by other
-exceptions.</li>
-<li>Name/import errors in some Python modules.</li>
-<li>Internal DTD subsets that did not specify a system or public ID were
-not serialised and did not appear in the docinfo property of
-ElementTrees.</li>
-<li>Fix a pre-Py3k warning when parsing from a gzip file in Py2.6.</li>
-<li>Test suite fixes for libxml2 2.7.</li>
-<li>Resolver.resolve_string() did not work for non-ASCII byte strings.</li>
-<li>Resolver.resolve_file() was broken.</li>
-<li>Overriding the parser encoding didn't work for many encodings.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id131">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id132">
-<h1>2.0.10 (2008-11-17)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id133">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
-outside exception lives in sys.exc_*(). This was due to a problem in
-Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id134">
-<h1>2.1.2 (2008-09-05)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id135">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml.etree now tries to find the absolute path name of files when
-parsing from a file-like object. This helps custom resolvers when
-resolving relative URLs, as lixbml2 can prepend them with the path
-of the source document.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id136">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
-<li>Target parser did not honour the <tt class="docutils literal">recover</tt> option and raised an
-exception instead of calling <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id137">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id138">
-<h1>2.0.9 (2008-09-05)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id139">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
-<li>Target parser did not honour the <tt class="docutils literal">recover</tt> option and raised an
-exception instead of calling <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id140">
-<h1>2.1.1 (2008-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id141">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id142">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
-another.</li>
-<li>Encoding problem when including text with ElementInclude under
-Python 3.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id143">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id144">
-<h1>2.0.8 (2008-07-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id145">
-<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="id146">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
-another.</li>
-<li>CSS selector parser dropped remaining expression after a function
-with parameters.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id147">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id148">
-<h1>2.1 (2008-07-09)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id149">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Smart strings can be switched off in XPath (<tt class="docutils literal">smart_strings</tt>
-keyword option).</li>
-<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="id150">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Custom resolvers were not used for XMLSchema includes/imports and
-XInclude processing.</li>
-<li>CSS selector parser dropped remaining expression after a function
-with parameters.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id151">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.enableRecursiveStr()</tt> was removed, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.enable_recursive_str()</tt> instead</li>
-<li>Speed-up when running XSLTs on documents from other threads</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id152">
-<h1>2.0.7 (2008-06-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id153">
-<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="id154">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Descending dot-separated classes in CSS selectors were not resolved
-correctly.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.parse()</tt> didn't handle target parser result.</li>
-<li>Potential threading problem in XInclude.</li>
-<li>Crash in Element class lookup classes when the __init__() method of
-the super class is not called from Python subclasses.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id155">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
-serialisation.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta3-2008-06-19">
-<h1>2.1beta3 (2008-06-19)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id156">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Major overhaul of <tt class="docutils literal">tools/xpathgrep.py</tt> script.</li>
-<li>Pickling <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree</tt> objects in lxml.objectify.</li>
-<li>Support for parsing from file-like objects that return unicode
-strings.</li>
-<li>New function <tt class="docutils literal">etree.cleanup_namespaces(el)</tt> that removes unused
-namespace declarations from a (sub)tree (experimental).</li>
-<li>XSLT results support the buffer protocol in Python 3.</li>
-<li>Polymorphic functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> that accept either a tree or
-a parsable string will return either a UTF-8 encoded byte string, a
-unicode string or a tree, based on the type of the input.
-Previously, the result was always a byte string or a tree.</li>
-<li>Support for Python 2.6 and 3.0 beta.</li>
-<li>File name handling now uses a heuristic to convert between byte
-strings (usually filenames) and unicode strings (usually URLs).</li>
-<li>Parsing from a plain file object frees the GIL under Python 2.x.</li>
-<li>Running <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> on a plain file (or filename) frees the GIL
-on reading under Python 2.x.</li>
-<li>Conversion functions <tt class="docutils literal">html_to_xhtml()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">xhtml_to_html()</tt> in
-lxml.html (experimental).</li>
-<li>Most features in lxml.html work for XHTML namespaced tag names
-(experimental).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id157">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.parse()</tt> didn't handle target parser result.</li>
-<li>Crash in Element class lookup classes when the __init__() method of
-the super class is not called from Python subclasses.</li>
-<li>A number of problems related to unicode/byte string conversion of
-filenames and error messages were fixed.</li>
-<li>Building on MacOS-X now passes the "flat_namespace" option to the C
-compiler, which reportedly prevents build quirks and crashes on this
-platform.</li>
-<li>Windows build was broken.</li>
-<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id158">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
-serialisation.</li>
-<li>Passing non-ASCII byte strings or invalid unicode strings as .tag,
-namespaces, etc. will result in a ValueError instead of an
-AssertionError (just like the tag well-formedness check).</li>
-<li>Up to several times faster attribute access (i.e. tree traversal) in
-lxml.objectify.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id159">
-<h1>2.0.6 (2008-05-31)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id160">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id161">
-<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>Windows build was broken.</li>
-<li>Moving a subtree from a document created in one thread into a
-document of another thread could crash when the rest of the source
-document is deleted while the subtree is still in use.</li>
-<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id162">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml should now build without problems on MacOS-X.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="beta2-2008-05-02">
-<h1>2.1beta2 (2008-05-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id163">
-<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>
-<li>lxml.html has a new parser class <tt class="docutils literal">XHTMLParser</tt> and a module
-attribute <tt class="docutils literal">xhtml_parser</tt> that provide XML parsers that are
-pre-configured for the lxml.html package.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id164">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Moving a subtree from a document created in one thread into a
-document of another thread could crash when the rest of the source
-document is deleted while the subtree is still in use.</li>
-<li>Passing an nsmap when creating an Element will no longer strip
-redundantly defined namespace URIs. This prevented the definition
-of more than one prefix for a namespace on the same Element.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id165">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>If the default namespace is redundantly defined with a prefix on the
-same Element, the prefix will now be preferred for subelements and
-attributes. This allows users to work around a problem in libxml2
-where attributes from the default namespace could serialise without
-a prefix even when they appear on an Element with a different
-namespace (i.e. they would end up in the wrong namespace).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id166">
-<h1>2.0.5 (2008-05-01)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id167">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id168">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
-<li>lxml did not honour libxslt's second error state "STOPPED", which
-let some XSLT errors pass silently.</li>
-<li>Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id169">
-<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="id170">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Error logging in Schematron (requires libxml2 2.6.32 or later).</li>
-<li>Parser option <tt class="docutils literal">strip_cdata</tt> for normalising or keeping CDATA
-sections. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal">True</tt> as before, thus replacing CDATA
-sections by their text content.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">CDATA()</tt> factory to wrap string content as CDATA section.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id171">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
-<li>lxml did not honour libxslt's second error state "STOPPED", which
-let some XSLT errors pass silently.</li>
-<li>Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.</li>
-<li>lxml.etree accepted non well-formed namespace prefix names.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id172">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Major cleanup in internal <tt class="docutils literal">moveNodeToDocument()</tt> function, which
-takes care of namespace cleanup when moving elements between
-different namespace contexts.</li>
-<li>New Elements created through the <tt class="docutils literal">makeelement()</tt> method of an HTML
-parser or through lxml.html now end up in a new HTML document
-(doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional) instead of a generic XML document.
-This mostly impacts the serialisation and the availability of a DTD
-context.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id173">
-<h1>2.0.4 (2008-04-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id174">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id175">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Hanging thread in conjunction with GTK threading.</li>
-<li>Crash bug in iterparse when moving elements into other documents.</li>
-<li>HTML elements' <tt class="docutils literal">.cssselect()</tt> method was broken.</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="id176">
-<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="id177">
-<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">XSLTAccessControl</tt> instances have a property <tt class="docutils literal">options</tt> that
-returns a dict of access configuration options.</li>
-<li>Constant instances <tt class="docutils literal">DENY_ALL</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">DENY_WRITE</tt> on
-<tt class="docutils literal">XSLTAccessControl</tt> class.</li>
-<li>Extension elements for XSLT (experimental!)</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.base</tt> property returns the xml:base or HTML base URL of
-an Element.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">docinfo.URL</tt> property is writable.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id178">
-<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="id179">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Minor API speed-ups.</li>
-<li>The benchmark suite now uses tail text in the trees, which makes the
-absolute numbers incomparable to previous results.</li>
-<li>Generating the HTML documentation now requires <a class="reference external" href="http://pygments.org/">Pygments</a>, which is
-used to enable syntax highlighting for the doctest examples.</li>
-</ul>
-<p>Most long-time deprecated functions and methods were removed:</p>
-<ul>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.clearErrorLog()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.clear_error_log()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.useGlobalPythonLog()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">etree.use_global_python_log()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.ElementClassLookup.setFallback()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">etree.ElementClassLookup.set_fallback()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.getDefaultParser()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.get_default_parser()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.setDefaultParser()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.set_default_parser()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.setElementClassLookup()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">etree.set_element_class_lookup()</tt></p>
-<p>Note that <tt class="docutils literal">parser.setElementClassLookup()</tt> has not been removed
-yet, although <tt class="docutils literal">parser.set_element_class_lookup()</tt> should be used
-instead.</p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.registerNamespace()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.register_namespace()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.registerNamespaces()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.register_namespaces()</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.setPytypeAttributeTag</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.set_pytype_attribute_tag</tt></p>
-</li>
-<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.setDefaultParser()</tt>, use
-<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.set_default_parser()</tt></p>
-</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id180">
-<h1>2.0.3 (2008-03-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id181">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>soupparser.parse() allows passing keyword arguments on to
-BeautifulSoup.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">fromstring()</tt> method in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.soupparser</tt>.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id182">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.diff</tt> didn't treat empty tags properly (e.g.,
-<tt class="docutils literal"><br></tt>).</li>
-<li>Handle entity replacements correctly in target parser.</li>
-<li>Crash when using <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> with XML Schema validation.</li>
-<li>The BeautifulSoup parser (soupparser.py) did not replace entities,
-which made them turn up in text content.</li>
-<li>Attribute assignment of custom PyTypes in objectify could fail to
-correctly serialise the value to a string.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id183">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.ElementSoup</tt> was replaced by a new module
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.soupparser</tt> with a more consistent API. The old module
-remains for compatibility with ElementTree's own ElementSoup module.</li>
-<li>Setting the XSLT_CONFIG and XML2_CONFIG environment variables at
-build time will let setup.py pick up the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xml2-config</span></tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xslt-config</span></tt> scripts from the supplied path name.</li>
-<li>Passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xml2-config=/path/to/xml2-config</span></tt> to setup.py will
-override the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xml2-config</span></tt> script that is used to determine the C
-compiler options. The same applies for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xslt-config</span></tt>
-option.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id184">
-<h1>2.0.2 (2008-02-22)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id185">
-<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="id186">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The prefix for objectify's pytype namespace was missing from the set
-of default prefixes.</li>
-<li>Memory leak in Schematron (fixed only for libxml2 2.6.31+).</li>
-<li>Error type names in RelaxNG were reported incorrectly.</li>
-<li>Slice deletion bug fixed in objectify.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id187">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Enabled doctests for some Python modules (especially <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>).</li>
-<li>Add a <tt class="docutils literal">method</tt> argument to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.tostring()</tt>
-(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">method="xml"</span></tt> for XHTML output).</li>
-<li>Make it clearer that methods like <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.fromstring()</tt> take a
-<tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> argument.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id188">
-<h1>2.0.1 (2008-02-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id189">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Child iteration in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt>.</li>
-<li>Loads of new docstrings reflect the signature of functions and
-methods to make them visible in API docs and <tt class="docutils literal">help()</tt></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id190">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.builder</tt> was duplicated as
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.htmlbuilder</tt></li>
-<li>Form elements would return None for <tt class="docutils literal">form.fields.keys()</tt> if there
-was an unnamed input field. Now unnamed input fields are completely
-ignored.</li>
-<li>Setting an element slice in objectify could insert slice-overlapping
-elements at the wrong position.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id191">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>The generated API documentation was cleaned up and disburdened from
-non-public classes etc.</li>
-<li>The previously public module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.setmixin</tt> was renamed to
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html._setmixin</tt> as it is not an official part of lxml. If
-you want to use it, feel free to copy it over to your own source
-base.</li>
-<li>Passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xslt-config=/path/to/xslt-config</span></tt> to setup.py will
-override the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xslt-config</span></tt> script that is used to determine the C
-compiler options.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id192">
-<h1>2.0 (2008-02-01)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id193">
-<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
-serialise to unicode. The <tt class="docutils literal">tounicode()</tt> function is now
-deprecated.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG()</tt> can parse from StringIO.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">makeparser()</tt> function in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> to create a new
-parser with the usual objectify setup.</li>
-<li>Plain ASCII XPath string results are no longer forced into unicode
-objects as in 2.0beta1, but are returned as plain strings as before.</li>
-<li>All XPath string results are 'smart' objects that have a
-<tt class="docutils literal">getparent()</tt> method to retrieve their parent Element.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">with_tail</tt> option in serialiser functions.</li>
-<li>More accurate exception messages in validator creation.</li>
-<li>Parse-time XML schema validation (<tt class="docutils literal">schema</tt> parser keyword).</li>
-<li>XPath string results of the <tt class="docutils literal">text()</tt> function and attribute
-selection make their Element container accessible through a
-<tt class="docutils literal">getparent()</tt> method. As a side-effect, they are now always
-unicode objects (even ASCII strings).</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XSLT</tt> objects are usable in any thread - at the cost of a deep
-copy if they were not created in that thread.</li>
-<li>Invalid entity names and character references will be rejected by
-the <tt class="docutils literal">Entity()</tt> factory.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">entity.text</tt> returns the textual representation of the entity,
-e.g. <tt class="docutils literal">&amp;</tt>.</li>
-<li>New properties <tt class="docutils literal">position</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">code</tt> on ParseError exception (as
-in ET 1.3)</li>
-<li>Rich comparison of <tt class="docutils literal">element.attrib</tt> proxies.</li>
-<li>ElementTree compatible TreeBuilder class.</li>
-<li>Use default prefixes for some common XML namespaces.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean.Cleaner</tt> now allows for a <tt class="docutils literal">host_whitelist</tt>, and
-two overridable methods: <tt class="docutils literal">allow_embedded_url(el, url)</tt> and the
-more general <tt class="docutils literal">allow_element(el)</tt>.</li>
-<li>Extended slicing of Elements as in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">element[1:-1:2]</span></tt>, both in
-etree and in objectify</li>
-<li>Resolvers can now provide a <tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> keyword argument when
-resolving a document as string data.</li>
-<li>When using <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> you can give the doctest option
-<tt class="docutils literal">NOPARSE_MARKUP</tt> (like <tt class="docutils literal"># doctest: +NOPARSE_MARKUP</tt>) to suppress
-the special checking for one test.</li>
-<li>Separate <tt class="docutils literal">feed_error_log</tt> property for the feed parser interface.
-The normal parser interface and <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse</tt> continue to use
-<tt class="docutils literal">error_log</tt>.</li>
-<li>The normal parsers and the feed parser interface are now separated
-and can be used concurrently on the same parser instance.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">fromstringlist()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">tostringlist()</tt> functions as in
-ElementTree 1.3</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> accepts an <tt class="docutils literal">html</tt> boolean keyword argument for
-parsing with the HTML parser (note that this interface may be
-subject to change)</li>
-<li>Parsers accept an <tt class="docutils literal">encoding</tt> keyword argument that overrides the encoding
-of the parsed documents.</li>
-<li>New C-API function <tt class="docutils literal">hasChild()</tt> to test for children</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">annotate()</tt> function in objectify can annotate with Python types and XSI
-types in one step. Accompanied by <tt class="docutils literal">xsiannotate()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pyannotate()</tt>.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">ET.write()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">tounicode()</tt> now accept a keyword
-argument <tt class="docutils literal">method</tt> that can be one of 'xml' (or None), 'html' or 'text' to
-serialise as XML, HTML or plain text content.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterfind()</tt> method on Elements returns an iterator equivalent to
-<tt class="docutils literal">findall()</tt></li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">itertext()</tt> method on Elements</li>
-<li>Setting a QName object as value of the .text property or as an attribute
-will resolve its prefix in the respective context</li>
-<li>ElementTree-like parser target interface as described in
-<a class="reference external" href="http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm">http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm</a></li>
-<li>ElementTree-like feed parser interface on XMLParser and HTMLParser
-(<tt class="docutils literal">feed()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">close()</tt> methods)</li>
-<li>Reimplemented <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.E</tt> for better performance and improved
-integration with objectify. Provides extended type support based on
-registered PyTypes.</li>
-<li>XSLT objects now support deep copying</li>
-<li>New <tt class="docutils literal">makeSubElement()</tt> C-API function that allows creating a new
-subelement straight with text, tail and attributes.</li>
-<li>XPath extension functions can now access the current context node
-(<tt class="docutils literal">context.context_node</tt>) and use a context dictionary
-(<tt class="docutils literal">context.eval_context</tt>) from the context provided in their first
-parameter</li>
-<li>HTML tag soup parser based on BeautifulSoup in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.ElementSoup</tt></li>
-<li>New module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> by Ian Bicking for writing simplified
-doctests based on XML/HTML output. Use by importing <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.usedoctest</tt> or
-<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.usedoctest</tt> from within a doctest.</li>
-<li>New module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> by Ian Bicking for selecting Elements with CSS
-selectors.</li>
-<li>New package <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> written by Ian Bicking for advanced HTML
-treatment.</li>
-<li>Namespace class setup is now local to the <tt class="docutils literal">ElementNamespaceClassLookup</tt>
-instance and no longer global.</li>
-<li>Schematron validation (incomplete in libxml2)</li>
-<li>Additional <tt class="docutils literal">stringify</tt> argument to <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.PyType()</tt> takes a
-conversion function to strings to support setting text values from arbitrary
-types.</li>
-<li>Entity support through an <tt class="docutils literal">Entity</tt> factory and element classes. XML
-parsers now have a <tt class="docutils literal">resolve_entities</tt> keyword argument that can be set to
-False to keep entities in the document.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">column</tt> field on error log entries to accompany the <tt class="docutils literal">line</tt> field</li>
-<li>Error specific messages in XPath parsing and evaluation
-NOTE: for evaluation errors, you will now get an XPathEvalError instead of
-an XPathSyntaxError. To catch both, you can except on <tt class="docutils literal">XPathError</tt></li>
-<li>The regular expression functions in XPath now support passing a node-set
-instead of a string</li>
-<li>Extended type annotation in objectify: new <tt class="docutils literal">xsiannotate()</tt> function</li>
-<li>EXSLT RegExp support in standard XPath (not only XSLT)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id194">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Missing import in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean</tt>.</li>
-<li>Some Python 2.4-isms prevented lxml from building/running under
-Python 2.3.</li>
-<li>XPath on ElementTrees could crash when selecting the virtual root
-node of the ElementTree.</li>
-<li>Compilation <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--without-threading</span></tt> was buggy in alpha5/6.</li>
-<li>Memory leak in the <tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> function.</li>
-<li>Minor bugs in XSLT error message formatting.</li>
-<li>Result document memory leak in target parser.</li>
-<li>Target parser failed to report comments.</li>
-<li>In the <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> <tt class="docutils literal">iter_links</tt> method, links in <tt class="docutils literal"><object></tt>
-tags weren't recognized. (Note: plugin-specific link parameters
-still aren't recognized.) Also, the <tt class="docutils literal"><embed></tt> tag, though not
-standard, is now included in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.defs.special_inline_tags</tt>.</li>
-<li>Using custom resolvers on XSLT stylesheets parsed from a string
-could request ill-formed URLs.</li>
-<li>With <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> if you do <tt class="docutils literal"><tag <span class="pre">xmlns="..."></span></tt> in your
-output, it will then be namespace-neutral (before the ellipsis was
-treated as a real namespace).</li>
-<li>AttributeError in feed parser on parse errors</li>
-<li>XML feed parser setup problem</li>
-<li>Type annotation for unicode strings in <tt class="docutils literal">DataElement()</tt></li>
-<li>lxml failed to serialise namespace declarations of elements other than the
-root node of a tree</li>
-<li>Race condition in XSLT where the resolver context leaked between concurrent
-XSLT calls</li>
-<li>lxml.etree did not check tag/attribute names</li>
-<li>The XML parser did not report undefined entities as error</li>
-<li>The text in exceptions raised by XML parsers, validators and XPath
-evaluators now reports the first error that occurred instead of the last</li>
-<li>Passing '' as XPath namespace prefix did not raise an error</li>
-<li>Thread safety in XPath evaluators</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id195">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Exceptions carry only the part of the error log that is related to
-the operation that caused the error.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG()</tt> now enforce passing the source
-file/filename through the <tt class="docutils literal">file</tt> keyword argument.</li>
-<li>The test suite now skips most doctests under Python 2.3.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">make clean</tt> no longer removes the .c files (use <tt class="docutils literal">make
-realclean</tt> instead)</li>
-<li>Minor performance tweaks for Element instantiation and subelement
-creation</li>
-<li>Various places in the XPath, XSLT and iteration APIs now require
-keyword-only arguments.</li>
-<li>The argument order in <tt class="docutils literal">element.itersiblings()</tt> was changed to
-match the order used in all other iteration methods. The second
-argument ('preceding') is now a keyword-only argument.</li>
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">getiterator()</tt> method on Elements and ElementTrees was
-reverted to return an iterator as it did in lxml 1.x. The ET API
-specification allows it to return either a sequence or an iterator,
-and it traditionally returned a sequence in ET and an iterator in
-lxml. However, it is now deprecated in favour of the <tt class="docutils literal">iter()</tt>
-method, which should be used in new code wherever possible.</li>
-<li>The 'pretty printed' serialisation of ElementTree objects now
-inserts newlines at the root level between processing instructions,
-comments and the root tag.</li>
-<li>A 'pretty printed' serialisation is now terminated with a newline.</li>
-<li>Second argument to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree.Extension()</tt> helper is no longer
-required, third argument is now a keyword-only argument <tt class="docutils literal">ns</tt>.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.tostring</tt> takes an <tt class="docutils literal">encoding</tt> argument.</li>
-<li>The module source files were renamed to "lxml.*.pyx", such as
-"lxml.etree.pyx". This was changed for consistency with the way
-Pyrex commonly handles package imports. The main effect is that
-classes now know about their fully qualified class name, including
-the package name of their module.</li>
-<li>Keyword-only arguments in some API functions, especially in the
-parsers and serialisers.</li>
-<li>Tag name validation in lxml.etree (and lxml.html) now distinguishes
-between HTML tags and XML tags based on the parser that was used to
-parse or create them. HTML tags no longer reject any non-ASCII
-characters in tag names but only spaces and the special characters
-<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><>&/"'</span></tt>.</li>
-<li>lxml.etree now emits a warning if you use XPath with libxml2 2.6.27
-(which can crash on certain XPath errors)</li>
-<li>Type annotation in objectify now preserves the already annotated type by
-default to prevent loosing type information that is already there.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">element.getiterator()</tt> returns a list, use <tt class="docutils literal">element.iter()</tt> to retrieve
-an iterator (ElementTree 1.3 compatible behaviour)</li>
-<li>objectify.PyType for None is now called "NoneType"</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">el.getiterator()</tt> renamed to <tt class="docutils literal">el.iter()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3 -
-original name is still available as alias</li>
-<li>In the public C-API, <tt class="docutils literal">findOrBuildNodeNs()</tt> was replaced by the more
-generic <tt class="docutils literal">findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix</tt></li>
-<li>Major refactoring in XPath/XSLT extension function code</li>
-<li>Network access in parsers disabled by default</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id196">
-<h1>1.3.6 (2007-10-29)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id197">
-<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="id198">
-<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>
-methods. While this makes them take a lot longer to run, it also
-makes it easier to link a specific test to garbage collection
-problems that would otherwise appear in later tests.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id199">
-<h1>1.3.5 (2007-10-22)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id200">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id201">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml.etree could crash when adding more than 10000 namespaces to a
-document</li>
-<li>lxml failed to serialise namespace declarations of elements other
-than the root node of a tree</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id202">
-<h1>1.3.4 (2007-08-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id203">
-<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
-<tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">nsmap</tt> to set a namespace and nsmap for the Elements it
-creates.</li>
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">docinfo</tt> on ElementTree objects has new properties <tt class="docutils literal">internalDTD</tt>
-and <tt class="docutils literal">externalDTD</tt> that return a DTD object for the internal or external
-subset of the document respectively.</li>
-<li>Serialising an ElementTree now includes any internal DTD subsets that are
-part of the document, as well as comments and PIs that are siblings of the
-root node.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id204">
-<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="id205">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml now raises a TagNameWarning about tag names containing ':' instead of
-an Error as 1.3.3 did. The reason is that a number of projects currently
-misuse the previous lack of tag name validation to generate namespace
-prefixes without declaring namespaces. Apart from the danger of generating
-broken XML this way, it also breaks most of the namespace-aware tools in
-XML, including XPath, XSLT and validation. lxml 1.3.x will continue to
-support this bug with a Warning, while lxml 2.0 will be strict about
-well-formed tag names (not only regarding ':').</li>
-<li>Serialising an Element no longer includes its comment and PI siblings (only
-ElementTree serialisation includes them).</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id206">
-<h1>1.3.3 (2007-07-26)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id207">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>ElementTree compatible parser <tt class="docutils literal">ETCompatXMLParser</tt> strips processing
-instructions and comments while parsing XML</li>
-<li>Parsers now support stripping PIs (keyword argument 'remove_pis')</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">etree.fromstring()</tt> now supports parsing both HTML and XML, depending on
-the parser you pass.</li>
-<li>Support <tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> keyword argument in <tt class="docutils literal">HTML()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">XML()</tt></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id208">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Parsing from Python Unicode strings failed on some platforms</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element()</tt> did not raise an exception on tag names containing ':'</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getiterator(tag)</tt> did not accept <tt class="docutils literal">Comment</tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal">ProcessingInstruction</tt> as tags. It also accepts <tt class="docutils literal">Element</tt> now.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id209">
-<h1>1.3.2 (2007-07-03)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id210">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id211">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>"deallocating None" crash bug</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id212">
-<h1>1.3.1 (2007-07-02)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id213">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>objectify.DataElement now supports setting values from existing data
-elements (not just plain Python types) and reuses defined namespaces etc.</li>
-<li>E-factory support for lxml.objectify (<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.E</tt>)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id214">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Better way to prevent crashes in Element proxy cleanup code</li>
-<li>objectify.DataElement didn't set up None value correctly</li>
-<li>objectify.DataElement didn't check the value against the provided type hints</li>
-<li>Reference-counting bug in <tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib.pop()</tt></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id215">
-<h1>1.3 (2007-06-24)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id216">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt> module implements an Element class lookup
-scheme that can access the entire tree in read-only mode to help determining
-a suitable Element class</li>
-<li>Parsers take a <tt class="docutils literal">remove_comments</tt> keyword argument that skips over comments</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> function in <tt class="docutils literal">objectify</tt>, corresponding to <tt class="docutils literal">XML()</tt> etc.</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.addnext(el)</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">Element.addprevious(el)</tt> methods to support
-adding processing instructions and comments around the root node</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib</tt> was missing <tt class="docutils literal">clear()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pop()</tt> methods</li>
-<li>Extended type annotation in objectify: cleaner annotation namespace setup
-plus new <tt class="docutils literal">deannotate()</tt> function</li>
-<li>Support for custom Element class instantiation in lxml.sax: passing a
-<tt class="docutils literal">makeelement</tt> function to the ElementTreeContentHandler will reuse the
-lookup context of that function</li>
-<li>'.' represents empty ObjectPath (identity)</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.values()</tt> to accompany the existing <tt class="docutils literal">.keys()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">.items()</tt></li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">collectAttributes()</tt> C-function to build a list of attribute
-keys/values/items for a libxml2 node</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">DTD</tt> validator class (like <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema</tt>)</li>
-<li>HTML generator helpers by Fredrik Lundh in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.htmlbuilder</tt></li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementMaker</tt> XML generator by Fredrik Lundh in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.builder.E</tt></li>
-<li>Support for pickeling <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.ObjectifiedElement</tt> objects to XML</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">update()</tt> method on Element.attrib</li>
-<li>Optimised replacement for libxml2's _xmlReconsiliateNs(). This allows lxml
-a better handling of namespaces when moving elements between documents.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id217">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Removing Elements from a tree could make them loose their namespace
-declarations</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementInclude</tt> didn't honour base URL of original document</li>
-<li>Replacing the children slice of an Element would cut off the tails of the
-original children</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getiterator(tag)</tt> did not accept <tt class="docutils literal">Comment</tt> and
-<tt class="docutils literal">ProcessingInstruction</tt> as tags</li>
-<li>API functions now check incoming strings for XML conformity. Zero bytes or
-low ASCII characters are no longer accepted (AssertionError).</li>
-<li>XSLT parsing failed to pass resolver context on to imported documents</li>
-<li>passing '' as namespace prefix in nsmap could be passed through to libxml2</li>
-<li>Objectify couldn't handle prefixed XSD type names in <tt class="docutils literal">xsi:type</tt></li>
-<li>More ET compatible behaviour when writing out XML declarations or not</li>
-<li>More robust error handling in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt></li>
-<li>Documents lost their top-level PIs and comments on serialisation</li>
-<li>lxml.sax failed on comments and PIs. Comments are now properly ignored and
-PIs are copied.</li>
-<li>Possible memory leaks in namespace handling when moving elements between
-documents</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id218">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>major restructuring in the documentation</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id219">
-<h1>1.2.1 (2007-02-27)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id220">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Build fixes for MS compiler</li>
-<li>Item assignments to special names like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">element["text"]</span></tt> failed</li>
-<li>Renamed ObjectifiedDataElement.__setText() to _setText() to make it easier
-to access</li>
-<li>The pattern for attribute names in ObjectPath was too restrictive</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id221">
-<h1>1.2 (2007-02-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id222">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Rich comparison of QName objects</li>
-<li>Support for regular expressions in benchmark selection</li>
-<li>get/set emulation (not .attrib!) for attributes on processing instructions</li>
-<li>ElementInclude Python module for ElementTree compatible XInclude processing
-that honours custom resolvers registered with the source document</li>
-<li>ElementTree.parser property holds the parser used to parse the document</li>
-<li>setup.py has been refactored for greater readability and flexibility</li>
-<li>--rpath flag to setup.py to induce automatic linking-in of dynamic library
-runtime search paths has been renamed to --auto-rpath. This makes it
-possible to pass an --rpath directly to distutils; previously this was being
-shadowed.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id223">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Element instantiation now uses locks to prevent race conditions with threads</li>
-<li>ElementTree.write() did not raise an exception when the file was not writable</li>
-<li>Error handling could crash under Python <= 2.4.1 - fixed by disabling thread
-support in these environments</li>
-<li>Element.find*() did not accept QName objects as path</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id224">
-<h2>Other changes</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>code cleanup: redundant _NodeBase super class merged into _Element class
-Note: although the impact should be zero in most cases, this change breaks
-the compatibiliy of the public C-API</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id225">
-<h1>1.1.2 (2006-10-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id226">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Data elements in objectify support repr(), which is now used by dump()</li>
-<li>Source distribution now ships with a patched Pyrex</li>
-<li>New C-API function makeElement() to create new elements with text,
-tail, attributes and namespaces</li>
-<li>Reuse original parser flags for XInclude</li>
-<li>Simplified support for handling XSLT processing instructions</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id227">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Parser resources were not freed before the next parser run</li>
-<li>Open files and XML strings returned by Python resolvers were not
-closed/freed</li>
-<li>Crash in the IDDict returned by XMLDTDID</li>
-<li>Copying Comments and ProcessingInstructions failed</li>
-<li>Memory leak for external URLs in _XSLTProcessingInstruction.parseXSL()</li>
-<li>Memory leak when garbage collecting tailed root elements</li>
-<li>HTML script/style content was not propagated to .text</li>
-<li>Show text xincluded between text nodes correctly in .text and .tail</li>
-<li>'integer * objectify.StringElement' operation was not supported</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id228">
-<h1>1.1.1 (2006-09-21)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id229">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>XSLT profiling support (<tt class="docutils literal">profile_run</tt> keyword)</li>
-<li>countchildren() method on objectify.ObjectifiedElement</li>
-<li>Support custom elements for tree nodes in lxml.objectify</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id230">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml.objectify failed to support long data values (e.g., "123L")</li>
-<li>Error messages from XSLT did not reach <tt class="docutils literal">XSLT.error_log</tt></li>
-<li>Factories objectify.Element() and objectify.DataElement() were missing
-<tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">nsmap</tt> keyword arguments</li>
-<li>Changing the default parser in lxml.objectify did not update the factories
-Element() and DataElement()</li>
-<li>Let lxml.objectify.Element() always generate tree elements (not data
-elements)</li>
-<li>Build under Windows failed ('0' bug in patched Pyrex version)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id231">
-<h1>1.1 (2006-09-13)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id232">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Comments and processing instructions return '<!-- coment -->' and
-'<?pi-target content?>' for repr()</li>
-<li>Parsers are now the preferred (and default) place where element class lookup
-schemes should be registered. Namespace lookup is no longer supported by
-default.</li>
-<li>Support for Python 2.5 beta</li>
-<li>Unlock the GIL for deep copying documents and for XPath()</li>
-<li>New <tt class="docutils literal">compact</tt> keyword argument for parsing read-only documents</li>
-<li>Support for parser options in iterparse()</li>
-<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> axis is supported in XPath and returns (prefix, URI)
-tuples</li>
-<li>The XPath expression "/" now returns an empty list instead of raising an
-exception</li>
-<li>XML-Object API on top of lxml (lxml.objectify)</li>
-<li>Customizable Element class lookup:<ul>
-<li>different pre-implemented lookup mechanisms</li>
-<li>support for externally provided lookup functions</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>Support for processing instructions (ET-like, not compatible)</li>
-<li>Public C-level API for independent extension modules</li>
-<li>Module level <tt class="docutils literal">iterwalk()</tt> function as 'iterparse' for trees</li>
-<li>Module level <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> function similar to ElementTree (see
-documentation for differences)</li>
-<li>Element.nsmap property returns a mapping of all namespace prefixes known at
-the Element to their namespace URI</li>
-<li>Reentrant threading support in RelaxNG, XMLSchema and XSLT</li>
-<li>Threading support in parsers and serializers:<ul>
-<li>All in-memory operations (tostring, parse(StringIO), etc.) free the GIL</li>
-<li>File operations (on file names) free the GIL</li>
-<li>Reading from file-like objects frees the GIL and reacquires it for reading</li>
-<li>Serialisation to file-like objects is single-threaded (high lock overhead)</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>Element iteration over XPath axes:<ul>
-<li>Element.iterdescendants() iterates over the descendants of an element</li>
-<li>Element.iterancestors() iterates over the ancestors of an element (from
-parent to parent)</li>
-<li>Element.itersiblings() iterates over either the following or preceding
-siblings of an element</li>
-<li>Element.iterchildren() iterates over the children of an element in either
-direction</li>
-<li>All iterators support the <tt class="docutils literal">tag</tt> keyword argument to restrict the
-generated elements</li>
-</ul>
-</li>
-<li>Element.getnext() and Element.getprevious() return the direct siblings of an
-element</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id233">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>filenames with local 8-bit encoding were not supported</li>
-<li>1.1beta did not compile under Python 2.3</li>
-<li>ignore unknown 'pyval' attribute values in objectify</li>
-<li>objectify.ObjectifiedElement.addattr() failed to accept Elements and Lists</li>
-<li>objectify.ObjectPath.setattr() failed to accept Elements and Lists</li>
-<li>XPathSyntaxError now inherits from XPathError</li>
-<li>Threading race conditions in RelaxNG and XMLSchema</li>
-<li>Crash when mixing elements from XSLT results into other trees, concurrent
-XSLT is only allowed when the stylesheet was parsed in the main thread</li>
-<li>The EXSLT <tt class="docutils literal">regexp:match</tt> function now works as defined (except for some
-differences in the regular expression syntax)</li>
-<li>Setting element.text to '' returned None on request, not the empty string</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> could crash on long XML files</li>
-<li>Creating documents no longer copies the parser for later URL resolving. For
-performance reasons, only a reference is kept. Resolver updates on the
-parser will now be reflected by documents that were parsed before the
-change. Although this should rarely become visible, it is a behavioral
-change from 1.0.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id234">
-<h1>1.0.4 (2006-09-09)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id235">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>List-like <tt class="docutils literal">Element.extend()</tt> method</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id236">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash in tail handling in <tt class="docutils literal">Element.replace()</tt></li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id237">
-<h1>1.0.3 (2006-08-08)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id238">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Element.replace(old, new) method to replace a subelement by another one</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id239">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Crash when mixing elements from XSLT results into other trees</li>
-<li>Copying/deepcopying did not work for ElementTree objects</li>
-<li>Setting an attribute to a non-string value did not raise an exception</li>
-<li>Element.remove() deleted the tail text from the removed Element</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id240">
-<h1>1.0.2 (2006-06-27)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id241">
-<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>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id242">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Rare exceptions in Python list functions were not handled</li>
-<li>Parsing accepted unicode strings with XML encoding declaration in certain
-cases</li>
-<li>Parsing 8-bit encoded strings from StringIO objects raised an exception</li>
-<li>Module function <tt class="docutils literal">initThread()</tt> was removed - useless (and never worked)</li>
-<li>XSLT and parser exception messages include the error line number</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id243">
-<h1>1.0.1 (2006-06-09)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id244">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Repeated calls to Element.attrib now efficiently return the same instance</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id245">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Document deallocation could crash in certain garbage collection scenarios</li>
-<li>Extension function calls in XSLT variable declarations could break the
-stylesheet and crash on repeated calls</li>
-<li>Deep copying Elements could loose namespaces declared in parents</li>
-<li>Deep copying Elements did not copy tail</li>
-<li>Parsing file(-like) objects failed to load external entities</li>
-<li>Parsing 8-bit strings from file(-like) objects raised an exception</li>
-<li>xsl:include failed when the stylesheet was parsed from a file-like object</li>
-<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeProducer did not call startDocument() / endDocument()</li>
-<li>MSVC compiler complained about long strings (supports only 2048 bytes)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id246">
-<h1>1.0 (2006-06-01)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id247">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Element.getiterator() and the findall() methods support finding arbitrary
-elements from a namespace (pattern <tt class="docutils literal">{namespace}*</tt>)</li>
-<li>Another speedup in tree iteration code</li>
-<li>General speedup of Python Element object creation and deallocation</li>
-<li>Writing C14N no longer serializes in memory (reduced memory footprint)</li>
-<li>PyErrorLog for error logging through the Python <tt class="docutils literal">logging</tt> module</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getroottree()</tt> returns an ElementTree for the root node of the
-document that contains the element.</li>
-<li>ElementTree.getpath(element) returns a simple, absolute XPath expression to
-find the element in the tree structure</li>
-<li>Error logs have a <tt class="docutils literal">last_error</tt> attribute for convenience</li>
-<li>Comment texts can be changed through the API</li>
-<li>Formatted output via <tt class="docutils literal">pretty_print</tt> keyword in serialization functions</li>
-<li>XSLT can block access to file system and network via <tt class="docutils literal">XSLTAccessControl</tt></li>
-<li>ElementTree.write() no longer serializes in memory (reduced memory
-footprint)</li>
-<li>Speedup of Element.findall(tag) and Element.getiterator(tag)</li>
-<li>Support for writing the XML representation of Elements and ElementTrees to
-Python unicode strings via <tt class="docutils literal">etree.tounicode()</tt></li>
-<li>Support for writing XSLT results to Python unicode strings via <tt class="docutils literal">unicode()</tt></li>
-<li>Parsing a unicode string no longer copies the string (reduced memory
-footprint)</li>
-<li>Parsing file-like objects reads chunks rather than the whole file (reduced
-memory footprint)</li>
-<li>Parsing StringIO objects from the start avoids copying the string (reduced
-memory footprint)</li>
-<li>Read-only 'docinfo' attribute in ElementTree class holds DOCTYPE
-information, original encoding and XML version as seen by the parser</li>
-<li>etree module can be compiled without libxslt by commenting out the line
-<tt class="docutils literal">include "xslt.pxi"</tt> near the end of the etree.pyx source file</li>
-<li>Better error messages in parser exceptions</li>
-<li>Error reporting also works in XSLT</li>
-<li>Support for custom document loaders (URI resolvers) in parsers and XSLT,
-resolvers are registered at parser level</li>
-<li>Implementation of exslt:regexp for XSLT based on the Python 're' module,
-enabled by default, can be switched off with 'regexp=False' keyword argument</li>
-<li>Support for exslt extensions (libexslt) and libxslt extra functions
-(node-set, document, write, output)</li>
-<li>Substantial speedup in XPath.evaluate()</li>
-<li>HTMLParser for parsing (broken) HTML</li>
-<li>XMLDTDID function parses XML into tuple (root node, ID dict) based on xml:id
-implementation of libxml2 (as opposed to ET compatible XMLID)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id248">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Memory leak in Element.__setitem__</li>
-<li>Memory leak in Element.attrib.items() and Element.attrib.values()</li>
-<li>Memory leak in XPath extension functions</li>
-<li>Memory leak in unicode related setup code</li>
-<li>Element now raises ValueError on empty tag names</li>
-<li>Namespace fixing after moving elements between documents could fail if the
-source document was freed too early</li>
-<li>Setting namespace-less tag names on namespaced elements ('{ns}t' -> 't')
-didn't reset the namespace</li>
-<li>Unknown constants from newer libxml2 versions could raise exceptions in the
-error handlers</li>
-<li>lxml.etree compiles much faster</li>
-<li>On libxml2 <= 2.6.22, parsing strings with encoding declaration could fail
-in certain cases</li>
-<li>Document reference in ElementTree objects was not updated when the root
-element was moved to a different document</li>
-<li>Running absolute XPath expressions on an Element now evaluates against the
-root tree</li>
-<li>Evaluating absolute XPath expressions (<tt class="docutils literal">/*</tt>) on an ElementTree could fail</li>
-<li>Crashes when calling XSLT, RelaxNG, etc. with uninitialized ElementTree
-objects</li>
-<li>Removed public function <tt class="docutils literal">initThreadLogging()</tt>, replaced by more general
-<tt class="docutils literal">initThread()</tt> which fixes a number of setup problems in threads</li>
-<li>Memory leak when using iconv encoders in tostring/write</li>
-<li>Deep copying Elements and ElementTrees maintains the document information</li>
-<li>Serialization functions raise LookupError for unknown encodings</li>
-<li>Memory deallocation crash resulting from deep copying elements</li>
-<li>Some ElementTree methods could crash if the root node was not initialized
-(neither file nor element passed to the constructor)</li>
-<li>Element/SubElement failed to set attribute namespaces from passed <tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt>
-dictionary</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> adds an XML declaration for non-ASCII encodings</li>
-<li><tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> failed to serialize encodings that contain 0-bytes</li>
-<li>ElementTree.xpath() and XPathDocumentEvaluator were not using the
-ElementTree root node as reference point</li>
-<li>Calling <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">document('')</span></tt> in XSLT failed to return the stylesheet</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id249">
-<h1>0.9.2 (2006-05-10)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id250">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Speedup for Element.makeelement(): the new element reuses the original
-libxml2 document instead of creating a new empty one</li>
-<li>Speedup for reversed() iteration over element children (Py2.4+ only)</li>
-<li>ElementTree compatible QName class</li>
-<li>RelaxNG and XMLSchema accept any Element, not only ElementTrees</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id251">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>str(xslt_result) was broken for XSLT output other than UTF-8</li>
-<li>Memory leak if write_c14n fails to write the file after conversion</li>
-<li>Crash in XMLSchema and RelaxNG when passing non-schema documents</li>
-<li>Memory leak in RelaxNG() when RelaxNGParseError is raised</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id252">
-<h1>0.9.1 (2006-03-30)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id253">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler checks closing elements and raises
-SaxError on mismatch</li>
-<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler supports namespace-less SAX events
-(startElement, endElement) and defaults to empty attributes (keyword
-argument)</li>
-<li>Speedup for repeatedly accessing element tag names</li>
-<li>Minor API performance improvements</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id254">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Memory deallocation bug when using XSLT output method "html"</li>
-<li>sax.py was handling UTF-8 encoded tag names where it shouldn't</li>
-<li>lxml.tests package will no longer be installed (is still in source tar)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id255">
-<h1>0.9 (2006-03-20)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id256">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Error logging API for libxml2 error messages</li>
-<li>Various performance improvements</li>
-<li>Benchmark script for lxml, ElementTree and cElementTree</li>
-<li>Support for registering extension functions through new FunctionNamespace
-class (see doc/extensions.txt)</li>
-<li>ETXPath class for XPath expressions in ElementTree notation ('//{ns}tag')</li>
-<li>Support for variables in XPath expressions (also in XPath class)</li>
-<li>XPath class for compiled XPath expressions</li>
-<li>XMLID module level function (ElementTree compatible)</li>
-<li>XMLParser API for customized libxml2 parser configuration</li>
-<li>Support for custom Element classes through new Namespace API (see
-doc/namespace_extensions.txt)</li>
-<li>Common exception base class LxmlError for module exceptions</li>
-<li>real iterator support in iter(Element), Element.getiterator()</li>
-<li>XSLT objects are callable, result trees support str()</li>
-<li>Added MANIFEST.in for easier creation of RPM files.</li>
-<li>'getparent' method on elements allows navigation to an element's
-parent element.</li>
-<li>Python core compatible SAX tree builder and SAX event generator. See
-doc/sax.txt for more information.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id257">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Segfaults and memory leaks in various API functions of Element</li>
-<li>Segfault in XSLT.tostring()</li>
-<li>ElementTree objects no longer interfere, Elements can be root of different
-ElementTrees at the same time</li>
-<li>document('') works in XSLT documents read from files (in-memory documents
-cannot support this due to libxslt deficiencies)</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id258">
-<h1>0.8 (2005-11-03)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id259">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Support for copy.deepcopy() on elements. copy.copy() works also, but
-does the same thing, and does <em>not</em> create a shallow copy, as that
-makes no sense in the context of libxml2 trees. This means a
-potential incompatibility with ElementTree, but there's more chance
-that it works than if copy.copy() isn't supported at all.</li>
-<li>Increased compatibility with (c)ElementTree; .parse() on ElementTree is
-supported and parsing of gzipped XML files works.</li>
-<li>implemented index() on elements, allowing one to find the index of a
-SubElement.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id260">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Use xslt-config instead of xml2-config to find out libxml2
-directories to take into account a case where libxslt is installed
-in a different directory than libxslt.</li>
-<li>Eliminate crash condition in iteration when text nodes are changed.</li>
-<li>Passing 'None' to tostring() does not result in a segfault anymore,
-but an AssertionError.</li>
-<li>Some test fixes for Windows.</li>
-<li>Raise XMLSyntaxError and XPathSyntaxError instead of plain python
-syntax errors. This should be less confusing.</li>
-<li>Fixed error with uncaught exception in Pyrex code.</li>
-<li>Calling lxml.etree.fromstring('') throws XMLSyntaxError instead of a
-segfault.</li>
-<li>has_key() works on attrib. 'in' tests also work correctly on attrib.</li>
-<li>INSTALL.txt was saying 2.2.16 instead of 2.6.16 as a supported
-libxml2 version, as it should.</li>
-<li>Passing a UTF-8 encoded string to the XML() function would fail;
-fixed.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id261">
-<h1>0.7 (2005-06-15)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id262">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>parameters (XPath expressions) can be passed to XSLT using keyword
-parameters.</li>
-<li>Simple XInclude support. Calling the xinclude() method on a tree
-will process any XInclude statements in the document.</li>
-<li>XMLSchema support. Use the XMLSchema class or the convenience
-xmlschema() method on a tree to do XML Schema (XSD) validation.</li>
-<li>Added convenience xslt() method on tree. This is less efficient
-than the XSLT object, but makes it easier to write quick code.</li>
-<li>Added convenience relaxng() method on tree. This is less efficient
-than the RelaxNG object, but makes it easier to write quick code.</li>
-<li>Make it possible to use XPathEvaluator with elements as well. The
-XPathEvaluator in this case will retain the element so multiple
-XPath queries can be made against one element efficiently. This
-replaces the second argument to the .evaluate() method that existed
-previously.</li>
-<li>Allow registerNamespace() to be called on an XPathEvaluator, after
-creation, to add additional namespaces. Also allow registerNamespaces(),
-which does the same for a namespace dictionary.</li>
-<li>Add 'prefix' attribute to element to be able to read prefix information.
-This is entirely read-only.</li>
-<li>It is possible to supply an extra nsmap keyword parameter to
-the Element() and SubElement() constructors, which supplies a
-prefix to namespace URI mapping. This will create namespace
-prefix declarations on these elements and these prefixes will show up
-in XML serialization.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id263">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Killed yet another memory management related bug: trees created
-using newDoc would not get a libxml2-level dictionary, which caused
-problems when deallocating these documents later if they contained a
-node that came from a document with a dictionary.</li>
-<li>Moving namespaced elements between documents was problematic as
-references to the original document would remain. This has been fixed
-by applying xmlReconciliateNs() after each move operation.</li>
-<li>Can pass None to 'dump()' without segfaults.</li>
-<li>tostring() works properly for non-root elements as well.</li>
-<li>Cleaned out the tostring() method so it should handle encoding
-correctly.</li>
-<li>Cleaned out the ElementTree.write() method so it should handle encoding
-correctly. Writing directly to a file should also be faster, as there is no
-need to go through a Python string in that case. Made sure the test cases
-test both serializing to StringIO as well as serializing to a real file.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id264">
-<h1>0.6 (2005-05-14)</h1>
-<div class="section" id="id265">
-<h2>Features added</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Changed setup.py so that library_dirs is also guessed. This should
-help with compilation on the Mac OS X platform, where otherwise the
-wrong library (shipping with the OS) could be picked up.</li>
-<li>Tweaked setup.py so that it picks up the version from version.txt.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id266">
-<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Do the right thing when handling namespaced attributes.</li>
-<li>fix bug where tostring() moved nodes into new documents. tostring()
-had very nasty side-effects before this fix, sorry!</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id267">
-<h1>0.5.1 (2005-04-09)</h1>
-<ul class="simple">
-<li>Python 2.2 compatibility fixes.</li>
-<li>unicode fixes in Element() and Comment() as well as XML(); unicode
-input wasn't properly being UTF-8 encoded.</li>
-</ul>
-</div>
-<div class="section" id="id268">
-<h1>0.5 (2005-04-08)</h1>
-<p>Initial public release.</p>
-</div>
-</div>
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+
+<div class="section" id="id1">
+<h1>3.2.3 (2013-07-28)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="bugs-fixed">
+<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="id2">
+<h1>3.2.2 (2013-07-28)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="features-added">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id3">
+<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="other-changes">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Return values of user provided element class lookup methods are now
+validated against the type of the XML node they represent to prevent
+API class mismatches.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id4">
+<h1>3.2.1 (2013-05-11)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id5">
+<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
+extension elements have gained two new boolean options <tt class="docutils literal">elements_only</tt>
+and <tt class="docutils literal">remove_blank_text</tt> that discard either all strings or whitespace-only
+strings from the result list.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id6">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>When moving Elements to another tree, the namespace cleanup mechanism
+no longer drops namespace prefixes from attributes for which it finds
+a default namespace declaration, to prevent them from appearing as
+unnamespaced attributes after serialisation.</li>
+<li>Returning non-type objects from a custom class lookup method could lead
+to a crash.</li>
+<li>Instantiating and using subtypes of Comments and ProcessingInstructions
+crashed.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id7">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id8">
+<h1>3.2.0 (2013-04-28)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id9">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id10">
+<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
+parsing functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/599318">LP#599318</a>: The string parsing functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> are more robust
+in the face of uncommon HTML content like framesets or missing body tags.
+Patch by Stefan Seelmann.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/712941">LP#712941</a>: I/O errors while trying to access files with paths that contain
+non-ASCII characters could raise <tt class="docutils literal">UnicodeDecodeError</tt> instead of properly
+reporting the <tt class="docutils literal">IOError</tt>.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/673205">LP#673205</a>: Parsing from in-memory strings disabled network access in the
+default parser and made subsequent attempts to parse from a URL fail.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/971754">LP#971754</a>: lxml.html.clean appends 'nofollow' to 'rel' attributes instead
+of overwriting the current value.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/715687">LP#715687</a>: lxml.html.clean no longer discards scripts that are explicitly
+allowed by the user provided whitelist. Patch by Christine Koppelt.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id11">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id12">
+<h1>3.1.2 (2013-04-12)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id13">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id14">
+<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
+the sax bridge (i.e. the <tt class="docutils literal">handler.startElement()</tt> method) failed
+with a <tt class="docutils literal">TypeError</tt>. Patch by Mike Bayer.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1123074">LP#1123074</a>: Fix serialisation error in XSLT output when converting
+the result tree to a Unicode string.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/105">GH#105</a>: Replace illegal usage of <tt class="docutils literal">xmlBufLength()</tt> in libxml2 2.9.0
+by properly exported API function <tt class="docutils literal">xmlBufUse()</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id15">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id16">
+<h1>3.1.1 (2013-03-29)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id17">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id18">
+<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
+an AttributeError in Py3.</li>
+<li>Illegal memory access during cleanup in incremental xmlfile writer.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id19">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree._BaseParser</tt> was removed
+from the module dict.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id20">
+<h1>3.1.0 (2013-02-10)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id21">
+<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="id22">
+<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
+a copy of the attributes as a plain Python dict.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/95">GH#95</a>: When used with namespace prefixes, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt> methods
+always used the first namespace mapping that was provided for each
+path expression instead of using the one that was actually passed
+in for the current run.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1092521">LP#1092521</a>, <a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/91">GH#91</a>: Fix undefined C symbol in Python runtimes compiled
+without threading support. Patch by Ulrich Seidl.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id23">
+<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="id24">
+<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
+makes the API always return Unicode strings for names and text
+instead of byte strings for plain ASCII content.</li>
+<li>New incremental XML file writing API <tt class="docutils literal">etree.xmlfile()</tt>.</li>
+<li>E factory in lxml.objectify is callable to simplify the creation of
+tags with non-identifier names without having to resort to getattr().</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id25">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>When starting from a non-namespaced element in lxml.objectify, searching
+for a child without explicitly specifying a namespace incorrectly found
+namespaced elements with the requested local name, instead of restricting
+the search to non-namespaced children.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/85">GH#85</a>: Deprecation warnings were fixed for Python 3.x.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/33">GH#33</a>: lxml.html.fromstring() failed to accept bytes input in Py3.</li>
+<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="id26">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The externally useless class <tt class="docutils literal">_ObjectifyElementMakerCaller</tt> was
+removed from the module API of lxml.objectify.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/lxml/+bug/1075622">LP#1075622</a>: lxml.builder is faster for adding text to elements with
+many children. Patch by Anders Hammarquist.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id27">
+<h1>3.0.2 (2012-12-14)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id28">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id29">
+<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="id30">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id31">
+<h1>3.0.1 (2012-10-14)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id32">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id33">
+<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
+in PyPy without proper cleanup.</li>
+<li><a class="reference external" href="https://github.com/lxml/lxml/issues/71">GH#71</a>: Failure to work with libxml2 2.6.x.</li>
+<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="id34">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id35">
+<h1>3.0 (2012-10-08)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id36">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id37">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>End-of-file handling was incorrect in iterparse() when reading from
+a low-level C file stream and failed in libxml2 2.9.0 due to its
+improved consistency checks.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id38">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The build no longer uses Cython by default unless the generated C files
+are missing. To use Cython, pass the option "--with-cython". To ignore
+the fatal build error when Cython is required but not available (e.g. to
+run special setup.py commands that do not actually run a build), pass
+"--without-cython".</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta1-2012-09-26">
+<h1>3.0beta1 (2012-09-26)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id39">
+<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="id40">
+<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="id41">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The code was adapted to work with the upcoming libxml2 2.9.0 release.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="alpha2-2012-08-23">
+<h1>3.0alpha2 (2012-08-23)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id42">
+<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
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}name"</span></tt> to search for elements with a given local name in any
+namespace. With this addition, all combinations of wildcards now work
+as expected:
+<tt class="docutils literal">"{ns}name"</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}name"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}name"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{ns}*"</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}*"</span></tt>
+and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}*"</span></tt>. Note that <tt class="docutils literal">"name"</tt> is equivalent to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{}name"</span></tt>,
+but <tt class="docutils literal">"*"</tt> is <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">"{*}*"</span></tt>.
+The same change applies to the <tt class="docutils literal">.getiterator()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.itersiblings()</tt>,
+<tt class="docutils literal">.iterancestors()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.iterdescendants()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">.iterchildren()</tt>
+and <tt class="docutils literal">.itertext()</tt> methods;the <tt class="docutils literal">strip_attributes()</tt>,
+<tt class="docutils literal">strip_elements()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> functions as well as the
+<tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> class. Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
+<li>C14N allows specifying the inclusive prefixes to be promoted
+to top-level during exclusive serialisation.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id43">
+<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="id44">
+<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="id45">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Initial support for building in PyPy (through cpyext).</li>
+<li>DTD objects gained an API that allows read access to their
+declarations.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">xpathgrep.py</tt> gained support for parsing line-by-line (e.g.
+from grep output) and for surrounding the output with a new root
+tag.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">E-factory</span></tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.builder</tt> accepts subtypes of known data
+types (such as string subtypes) when building elements around them.</li>
+<li>Tree iteration and <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> with a selective <tt class="docutils literal">tag</tt>
+argument supports passing a set of tags. Tree nodes will be
+returned by the iterators if they match any of the tags.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id46">
+<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
+internally, which makes them faster in many cases (especially when
+short circuiting after a single or couple of elements) and fixes
+some behavioural differences compared to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt>. Note that
+this means that they no longer support arbitrary XPath expressions
+but only the subset that the <tt class="docutils literal">ElementPath</tt> language supports.
+The previous implementation was also redundant with the normal
+XPath support, which can be used as a replacement.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find('*')</span></tt> could accidentally return a comment or processing
+instruction that happened to be in the wrong spot. (Same for the
+other <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">.find*()</span></tt> methods.)</li>
+<li>The error logging is less intrusive and avoids a global setup where
+possible.</li>
+<li>Fixed undefined names in html5lib parser.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">xpathgrep.py</tt> did not work in Python 3.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib.update()</tt> did not accept an <tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt> of
+another Element as parameter.</li>
+<li>For subtypes of <tt class="docutils literal">ElementBase</tt> that make the <tt class="docutils literal">.text</tt> or <tt class="docutils literal">.tail</tt>
+properties immutable (as in objectify, for example), inserting text
+when creating Elements through the E-Factory feature of the class
+constructor would fail with an exception, stating that the text
+cannot be modified.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id47">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The code base was overhauled to properly use 'const' where the API
+of libxml2 and libxslt requests it. This also has an impact on the
+public C-API of lxml itself, as defined in <tt class="docutils literal">etreepublic.pxd</tt>, as
+well as the provided declarations in the <tt class="docutils literal">lxml/includes/</tt> directory.
+Code that uses these declarations may have to be adapted. On the
+plus side, this fixes several C compiler warnings, also for user
+code, thus making it easier to spot real problems again.</li>
+<li>The functionality of "lxml.cssselect" was moved into a separate PyPI
+package called "cssselect". To continue using it, you must install
+that package separately. The "lxml.cssselect" module is still
+available and provides the same interface, provided the "cssselect"
+package can be imported at runtime.</li>
+<li>Element attributes passed in as an <tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt> dict or as keyword
+arguments are now sorted by (namespaced) name before being created
+to make their order predictable for serialisation and iteration.
+Note that adding or deleting attributes afterwards does not take
+that order into account, i.e. setting a new attribute appends it
+after the existing ones.</li>
+<li>Several classes that are for internal use only were removed
+from the <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> module dict:
+<tt class="docutils literal">_InputDocument, _ResolverRegistry, _ResolverContext, _BaseContext,
+_ExsltRegExp, _IterparseContext, _TempStore, _ExceptionContext,
+__ContentOnlyElement, _AttribIterator, _NamespaceRegistry,
+_ClassNamespaceRegistry, _FunctionNamespaceRegistry,
+_XPathFunctionNamespaceRegistry, _ParserDictionaryContext,
+_FileReaderContext, _ParserContext, _PythonSaxParserTarget,
+_TargetParserContext, _ReadOnlyProxy, _ReadOnlyPIProxy,
+_ReadOnlyEntityProxy, _ReadOnlyElementProxy, _OpaqueNodeWrapper,
+_OpaqueDocumentWrapper, _ModifyContentOnlyProxy,
+_ModifyContentOnlyPIProxy, _ModifyContentOnlyEntityProxy,
+_AppendOnlyElementProxy, _SaxParserContext, _FilelikeWriter,
+_ParserSchemaValidationContext, _XPathContext,
+_XSLTResolverContext, _XSLTContext, _XSLTQuotedStringParam</tt></li>
+<li>Several internal classes can no longer be inherited from:
+<tt class="docutils literal">_InputDocument, _ResolverRegistry, _ExsltRegExp, _ElementUnicodeResult,
+_IterparseContext, _TempStore, _AttribIterator, _ClassNamespaceRegistry,
+_XPathFunctionNamespaceRegistry, _ParserDictionaryContext,
+_FileReaderContext, _PythonSaxParserTarget, _TargetParserContext,
+_ReadOnlyPIProxy, _ReadOnlyEntityProxy, _OpaqueDocumentWrapper,
+_ModifyContentOnlyPIProxy, _ModifyContentOnlyEntityProxy,
+_AppendOnlyElementProxy, _FilelikeWriter, _ParserSchemaValidationContext,
+_XPathContext, _XSLTResolverContext, _XSLTContext, _XSLTQuotedStringParam,
+_XSLTResultTree, _XSLTProcessingInstruction</tt></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id48">
+<h1>2.3.6 (2012-09-28)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id49">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id50">
+<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="id51">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id52">
+<h1>2.3.5 (2012-07-31)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id53">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id54">
+<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="id55">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id56">
+<h1>2.3.4 (2012-03-26)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id57">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id58">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash when building an nsmap (Element property) with empty
+namespace URIs.</li>
+<li>Crash due to race condition when errors (or user messages) occur
+during threaded XSLT processing.</li>
+<li>XSLT stylesheet compilation could ignore compilation errors.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id59">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id60">
+<h1>2.3.3 (2012-01-04)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id61">
+<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="id62">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Fixed a crash when using <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> for HTML parsing and
+requesting start events.</li>
+<li>Fixed parsing of more selectors in cssselect. Whitespace before
+pseudo-elements and pseudo-classes is significant as it is a
+descendant combinator.
+"E :pseudo" should parse the same as "E *:pseudo", not "E:pseudo".
+Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
+<li>lxml.html.diff no longer raises an exception when hitting
+'img' tags without 'src' attribute.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id63">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id64">
+<h1>2.3.2 (2011-11-11)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id65">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify.deannotate()</tt> has a new boolean option
+<tt class="docutils literal">cleanup_namespaces</tt> to remove the objectify namespace
+declarations (and generally clean up the namespace declarations)
+after removing the type annotations.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> gained its own <tt class="docutils literal">SubElement()</tt> function as a
+copy of <tt class="docutils literal">etree.SubElement</tt> to avoid an otherwise redundant import
+of <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> on the user side.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id66">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Fixed the "descendant" bug in cssselect a second time (after a first
+fix in lxml 2.3.1). The previous change resulted in a serious
+performance regression for the XPath based evaluation of the
+translated expression. Note that this breaks the usage of some of
+the generated XPath expressions as XSLT location paths that
+previously worked in 2.3.1.</li>
+<li>Fixed parsing of some selectors in cssselect. Whitespace after combinators
+">", "+" and "~" is now correctly ignored. Previously is was parsed as
+a descendant combinator. For example, "div> .foo" was parsed the same as
+"div>* .foo" instead of "div>.foo". Patch by Simon Sapin.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id67">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id68">
+<h1>2.3.1 (2011-09-25)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id69">
+<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
+tags and their content (i.e. their whole subtree).</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">pi.get()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pi.attrib</tt> on processing instructions to parse
+pseudo-attributes from the text content of processing instructions.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.get_include()</tt> returns a list of include paths that can be
+used to compile external C code against lxml.etree. This is
+specifically required for statically linked lxml builds when code
+needs to compile against the exact same header file versions as lxml
+itself.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Resolver.resolve_file()</tt> takes an additional option
+<tt class="docutils literal">close_file</tt> that configures if the file(-like) object will be
+closed after reading or not. By default, the file will be closed,
+as the user is not expected to keep a reference to it.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id70">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>HTML cleaning didn't remove 'data:' links.</li>
+<li>The html5lib parser integration now uses the 'official'
+implementation in html5lib itself, which makes it work with newer
+releases of the library.</li>
+<li>In <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.sax</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">endElementNS()</tt> could incorrectly reject a plain
+tag name when the corresponding start event inferred the same plain
+tag name to be in the default namespace.</li>
+<li>When an open file-like object is passed into <tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> or
+<tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt>, the parser will no longer close it after use. This
+reverts a change in lxml 2.3 where all files would be closed. It is
+the users responsibility to properly close the file(-like) object,
+also in error cases.</li>
+<li>Assertion error in lxml.html.cleaner when discarding top-level elements.</li>
+<li>In lxml.cssselect, use the xpath 'A//B' (short for
+'A/descendant-or-self::node()/B') instead of 'A/descendant::B' for
+the css descendant selector ('A B'). This makes a few edge cases
+like <tt class="docutils literal">"div <span class="pre">*:last-child"</span></tt> consistent with the selector behavior in
+WebKit and Firefox, and makes more css expressions valid location
+paths (for use in xsl:template match).</li>
+<li>In lxml.html, non-selected <tt class="docutils literal"><option></tt> tags no longer show up in the
+collected form values.</li>
+<li>Adding/removing <tt class="docutils literal"><option></tt> values to/from a multiple select form
+field properly selects them and unselects them.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id71">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Static builds can specify the download directory with the
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--download-dir</span></tt> option.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id72">
+<h1>2.3 (2011-02-06)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id73">
+<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="id74">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>When finished reading from a file-like object, the parser
+immediately calls its <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> method.</li>
+<li>When finished parsing, <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> immediately closes the input
+file.</li>
+<li>Work-around for libxml2 bug that can leave the HTML parser in a
+non-functional state after parsing a severly broken document (fixed
+in libxml2 2.7.8).</li>
+<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="id75">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Some public functions in the Cython-level C-API have more explicit
+return types.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta1-2010-09-06">
+<h1>2.3beta1 (2010-09-06)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id76">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id77">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
+documents that had attributes on replaced XInclude nodes.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLID()</tt> function was missing the optional <tt class="docutils literal">parser</tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> parameters.</li>
+<li>Searching for wildcard tags in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> was broken in Py3.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.open_in_browser()</tt> didn't work in Python 3 due to the
+use of os.tempnam. It now takes an optional 'encoding' parameter.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id78">
+<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="id79">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id80">
+<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="id81">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">repr()</tt> of Element objects shows the hex ID with leading 0x
+(following ElementTree 1.3).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="alpha1-2010-06-19">
+<h1>2.3alpha1 (2010-06-19)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id82">
+<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>
+to pass a prefix-to-namespace mapping for the selector.</li>
+<li>New function <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree.register_namespace(prefix, uri)</tt> that
+globally registers a namespace prefix for a namespace that newly
+created Elements in that namespace will use automatically. Follows
+ElementTree 1.3.</li>
+<li>Support 'unicode' string name as encoding parameter in
+<tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3.</li>
+<li>Support 'c14n' serialisation method in <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.write()</tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3.</li>
+<li>The ElementPath expression syntax (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt>) was extended to
+match the upcoming ElementTree 1.3 that will ship in the standard
+library of Python 3.2/2.7. This includes extended support for
+predicates as well as namespace prefixes (as known from XPath).</li>
+<li>During regular XPath evaluation, various ESXLT functions are
+available within their namespace when using libxslt 1.1.26 or later.</li>
+<li>Support passing a readily configured logger instance into
+<tt class="docutils literal">PyErrorLog</tt>, instead of a logger name.</li>
+<li>On serialisation, the new <tt class="docutils literal">doctype</tt> parameter can be used to
+override the DOCTYPE (internal subset) of the document.</li>
+<li>New parameter <tt class="docutils literal">output_parent</tt> to <tt class="docutils literal">XSLTExtension.apply_templates()</tt>
+to append the resulting content directly to an output element.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XSLTExtension.process_children()</tt> to process the content of the
+XSLT extension element itself.</li>
+<li>ISO-Schematron support based on the de-facto Schematron reference
+'skeleton implementation'.</li>
+<li>XSLT objects now take XPath object as <tt class="docutils literal">__call__</tt> stylesheet
+parameters.</li>
+<li>Enable path caching in ElementPath (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">el.find*()</span></tt>) to avoid parsing
+overhead.</li>
+<li>Setting the value of a namespaced attribute always uses a prefixed
+namespace instead of the default namespace even if both declare the
+same namespace URI. This avoids serialisation problems when an
+attribute from a default namespace is set on an element from a
+different namespace.</li>
+<li>XSLT extension elements: support for XSLT context nodes other than
+elements: document root, comments, processing instructions.</li>
+<li>Support for strings (in addition to Elements) in node-sets returned
+by extension functions.</li>
+<li>Forms that lack an <tt class="docutils literal">action</tt> attribute default to the base URL of
+the document on submit.</li>
+<li>XPath attribute result strings have an <tt class="docutils literal">attrname</tt> property.</li>
+<li>Namespace URIs get validated against RFC 3986 at the API level
+(required by the XML namespace specification).</li>
+<li>Target parsers show their target object in the <tt class="docutils literal">.target</tt> property
+(compatible with ElementTree).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id83">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>API is hardened against invalid proxy instances to prevent crashes
+due to incorrectly instantiated Element instances.</li>
+<li>Prevent crash when instantiating <tt class="docutils literal">CommentBase</tt> and friends.</li>
+<li>Export ElementTree compatible XML parser class as
+<tt class="docutils literal">XMLTreeBuilder</tt>, as it is called in ET 1.2.</li>
+<li>ObjectifiedDataElements in lxml.objectify were not hashable. They
+now use the hash value of the underlying Python value (string,
+number, etc.) to which they compare equal.</li>
+<li>Parsing broken fragments in lxml.html could fail if the fragment
+contained an orphaned closing '</div>' tag.</li>
+<li>Using XSLT extension elements around the root of the output document
+crashed.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> did not distinguish between <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">x[attr="val"]</span></tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal">x <span class="pre">[attr="val"]</span></tt> (with a space). The latter now matches the
+attribute independent of the element.</li>
+<li>Rewriting multiple links inside of HTML text content could end up
+replacing unrelated content as replacements could impact the
+reported position of subsequent matches. Modifications are now
+simplified by letting the <tt class="docutils literal">iterlinks()</tt> generator in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>
+return links in reversed order if they appear inside the same text
+node. Thus, replacements and link-internal modifications no longer
+change the position of links reported afterwards.</li>
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">.value</tt> attribute of <tt class="docutils literal">textarea</tt> elements in lxml.html did
+not represent the complete raw value (including child tags etc.). It
+now serialises the complete content on read and replaces the
+complete content by a string on write.</li>
+<li>Target parser didn't call <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target object if
+parsing failed. Now it is guaranteed that <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> will be
+called after parsing, regardless of the outcome.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id84">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Official support for Python 3.1.2 and later.</li>
+<li>Static MS Windows builds can now download their dependencies
+themselves.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib</tt> no longer uses a cyclic reference back to its
+Element object. It therefore no longer requires the garbage
+collector to clean up.</li>
+<li>Static builds include libiconv, in addition to libxml2 and libxslt.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id85">
+<h1>2.2.8 (2010-09-02)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id86">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash in newer libxml2 versions when moving elements between
+documents that had attributes on replaced XInclude nodes.</li>
+<li>Import fix for urljoin in Python 3.1+.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id87">
+<h1>2.2.7 (2010-07-24)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id88">
+<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>
+<div class="section" id="id89">
+<h1>2.2.6 (2010-03-02)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id90">
+<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="id91">
+<h1>2.2.5 (2010-02-28)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id92">
+<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="id93">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash in XPath evaluation when reading smart strings from a document
+other than the original context document.</li>
+<li>Support recent versions of html5lib by not requiring its
+<tt class="docutils literal">XHTMLParser</tt> in <tt class="docutils literal">htmlparser.py</tt> anymore.</li>
+<li>Manually instantiating the custom element classes in
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> could crash.</li>
+<li>Invalid XML text characters were not rejected by the API when they
+appeared in unicode strings directly after non-ASCII characters.</li>
+<li>lxml.html.open_http_urllib() did not work in Python 3.</li>
+<li>The functions <tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">strip_elements()</tt> in
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree</tt> did not remove all occurrences of a tag in all cases.</li>
+<li>Crash in XSLT extension elements when the XSLT context node is not
+an element.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id94">
+<h1>2.2.4 (2009-11-11)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id95">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Static build of libxml2/libxslt was broken.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id96">
+<h1>2.2.3 (2009-10-30)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id97">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id98">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">resolve_entities</tt> option did not work in the incremental feed
+parser.</li>
+<li>Looking up and deleting attributes without a namespace could hit a
+namespaced attribute of the same name instead.</li>
+<li>Late errors during calls to <tt class="docutils literal">SubElement()</tt> (e.g. attribute related
+ones) could leave a partially initialised element in the tree.</li>
+<li>Modifying trees that contain parsed entity references could result
+in an infinite loop.</li>
+<li>ObjectifiedElement.__setattr__ created an empty-string child element when the
+attribute value was rejected as a non-unicode/non-ascii string</li>
+<li>Syntax errors in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> could result in misleading error
+messages.</li>
+<li>Invalid syntax in CSS expressions could lead to an infinite loop in
+the parser of <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
+<li>CSS special character escapes were not properly handled in
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
+<li>CSS Unicode escapes were not properly decoded in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt>.</li>
+<li>Select options in HTML forms that had no explicit <tt class="docutils literal">value</tt>
+attribute were not handled correctly. The HTML standard dictates
+that their value is defined by their text content. This is now
+supported by lxml.html.</li>
+<li>XPath raised a TypeError when finding CDATA sections. This is now
+fully supported.</li>
+<li>Calling <tt class="docutils literal">help(lxml.objectify)</tt> didn't work at the prompt.</li>
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">ElementMaker</tt> in lxml.objectify no longer defines the default
+namespaces when annotation is disabled.</li>
+<li>Feed parser failed to honout the 'recover' option on parse errors.</li>
+<li>Diverting the error logging to Python's logging system was broken.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id99">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id100">
+<h1>2.2.2 (2009-06-21)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id101">
+<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>,
+<tt class="docutils literal">strip_tags()</tt> in lxml.etree to remove attributes/subtrees/tags
+from a subtree.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id102">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Namespace cleanup on subtree insertions could result in missing
+namespace declarations (and potentially crashes) if the element
+defining a namespace was deleted and the namespace was not used by
+the top element of the inserted subtree but only in deeper subtrees.</li>
+<li>Raising an exception from a parser target callback didn't always
+terminate the parser.</li>
+<li>Only {true, false, 1, 0} are accepted as the lexical representation for
+BoolElement ({True, False, T, F, t, f} not any more), restoring lxml <= 2.0
+behaviour.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id103">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id104">
+<h1>2.2.1 (2009-06-02)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id105">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Injecting default attributes into a document during XML Schema
+validation (also at parse time).</li>
+<li>Pass <tt class="docutils literal">huge_tree</tt> parser option to disable parser security
+restrictions imposed by libxml2 2.7.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id106">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The script for statically building libxml2 and libxslt didn't work
+in Py3.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> also passes invalid schema documents on to libxml2
+for parsing (which could lead to a crash before release 2.6.24).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id107">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id108">
+<h1>2.2 (2009-03-21)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id109">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Support for <tt class="docutils literal">standalone</tt> flag in XML declaration through
+<tt class="docutils literal">tree.docinfo.standalone</tt> and by passing <tt class="docutils literal">standalone=True/False</tt>
+on serialisation.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id110">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash when parsing an XML Schema with external imports from a
+filename.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta4-2009-02-27">
+<h1>2.2beta4 (2009-02-27)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id111">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Support strings and instantiable Element classes as child arguments
+to the constructor of custom Element classes.</li>
+<li>GZip compression support for serialisation to files and file-like
+objects.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id112">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Deep-copying an ElementTree copied neither its sibling PIs and
+comments nor its internal/external DTD subsets.</li>
+<li>Soupparser failed on broken attributes without values.</li>
+<li>Crash in XSLT when overwriting an already defined attribute using
+<tt class="docutils literal">xsl:attribute</tt>.</li>
+<li>Crash bug in exception handling code under Python 3. This was due
+to a problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.FormElement._name()</tt> failed for non top-level forms.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">TAG</tt> special attribute in constructor of custom Element classes
+was evaluated incorrectly.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id113">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Official support for Python 3.0.1.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.findtext()</tt> now returns an empty string instead of None
+for Elements without text content.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta3-2009-02-17">
+<h1>2.2beta3 (2009-02-17)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id114">
+<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="id115">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Memory leak in XPath evaluators.</li>
+<li>Crash when parsing indented XML in one thread and merging it with
+other documents parsed in another thread.</li>
+<li>Setting the <tt class="docutils literal">base</tt> attribute in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> from a unicode
+string failed.</li>
+<li>Fixes following changes in Python 3.0.1.</li>
+<li>Minor fixes for Python 3.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id116">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The global error log (which is copied into the exception log) is now
+local to a thread, which fixes some race conditions.</li>
+<li>More robust error handling on serialisation.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta2-2009-01-25">
+<h1>2.2beta2 (2009-01-25)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id117">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
+problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">iter_links</tt> (and related link-rewriting functions) in
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> would interpret CSS like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">url("link")</span></tt> incorrectly
+(treating the quotation marks as part of the link).</li>
+<li>Failing import on systems that have an <tt class="docutils literal">io</tt> module.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id118">
+<h1>2.1.5 (2009-01-06)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id119">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
+problem in Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
+<li>Failing import on systems that have an <tt class="docutils literal">io</tt> module.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta1-2008-12-12">
+<h1>2.2beta1 (2008-12-12)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id120">
+<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="id121">
+<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="id122">
+<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="id123">
+<h1>2.1.4 (2008-12-12)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id124">
+<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="id125">
+<h1>2.0.11 (2008-12-12)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id126">
+<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="alpha1-2008-11-23">
+<h1>2.2alpha1 (2008-11-23)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id127">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Support for XSLT result tree fragments in XPath/XSLT extension
+functions.</li>
+<li>QName objects have new properties <tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">localname</tt>.</li>
+<li>New options for exclusive C14N and C14N without comments.</li>
+<li>Instantiating a custom Element classes creates a new Element.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id128">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>XSLT didn't inherit the parse options of the input document.</li>
+<li>0-bytes could slip through the API when used inside of Unicode
+strings.</li>
+<li>With <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean.autolink</tt>, links with balanced parenthesis,
+that end in a parenthesis, will be linked in their entirety (typical
+with Wikipedia links).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id129">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id130">
+<h1>2.1.3 (2008-11-17)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id131">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id132">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
+outside exception lives in sys.exc_*(). This was due to a problem in
+Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
+<li>Parser Unicode decoding errors could get swallowed by other
+exceptions.</li>
+<li>Name/import errors in some Python modules.</li>
+<li>Internal DTD subsets that did not specify a system or public ID were
+not serialised and did not appear in the docinfo property of
+ElementTrees.</li>
+<li>Fix a pre-Py3k warning when parsing from a gzip file in Py2.6.</li>
+<li>Test suite fixes for libxml2 2.7.</li>
+<li>Resolver.resolve_string() did not work for non-ASCII byte strings.</li>
+<li>Resolver.resolve_file() was broken.</li>
+<li>Overriding the parser encoding didn't work for many encodings.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id133">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id134">
+<h1>2.0.10 (2008-11-17)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id135">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
+outside exception lives in sys.exc_*(). This was due to a problem in
+Cython, not lxml itself.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id136">
+<h1>2.1.2 (2008-09-05)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id137">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml.etree now tries to find the absolute path name of files when
+parsing from a file-like object. This helps custom resolvers when
+resolving relative URLs, as lixbml2 can prepend them with the path
+of the source document.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id138">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
+<li>Target parser did not honour the <tt class="docutils literal">recover</tt> option and raised an
+exception instead of calling <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id139">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id140">
+<h1>2.0.9 (2008-09-05)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id141">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Memory problem when passing documents between threads.</li>
+<li>Target parser did not honour the <tt class="docutils literal">recover</tt> option and raised an
+exception instead of calling <tt class="docutils literal">.close()</tt> on the target.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id142">
+<h1>2.1.1 (2008-07-24)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id143">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id144">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
+another.</li>
+<li>Encoding problem when including text with ElementInclude under
+Python 3.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id145">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id146">
+<h1>2.0.8 (2008-07-24)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id147">
+<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="id148">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash when parsing XSLT stylesheets in a thread and using them in
+another.</li>
+<li>CSS selector parser dropped remaining expression after a function
+with parameters.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id149">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id150">
+<h1>2.1 (2008-07-09)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id151">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Smart strings can be switched off in XPath (<tt class="docutils literal">smart_strings</tt>
+keyword option).</li>
+<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="id152">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Custom resolvers were not used for XMLSchema includes/imports and
+XInclude processing.</li>
+<li>CSS selector parser dropped remaining expression after a function
+with parameters.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id153">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.enableRecursiveStr()</tt> was removed, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.enable_recursive_str()</tt> instead</li>
+<li>Speed-up when running XSLTs on documents from other threads</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id154">
+<h1>2.0.7 (2008-06-20)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id155">
+<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="id156">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Descending dot-separated classes in CSS selectors were not resolved
+correctly.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.parse()</tt> didn't handle target parser result.</li>
+<li>Potential threading problem in XInclude.</li>
+<li>Crash in Element class lookup classes when the __init__() method of
+the super class is not called from Python subclasses.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id157">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
+serialisation.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta3-2008-06-19">
+<h1>2.1beta3 (2008-06-19)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id158">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Major overhaul of <tt class="docutils literal">tools/xpathgrep.py</tt> script.</li>
+<li>Pickling <tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree</tt> objects in lxml.objectify.</li>
+<li>Support for parsing from file-like objects that return unicode
+strings.</li>
+<li>New function <tt class="docutils literal">etree.cleanup_namespaces(el)</tt> that removes unused
+namespace declarations from a (sub)tree (experimental).</li>
+<li>XSLT results support the buffer protocol in Python 3.</li>
+<li>Polymorphic functions in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> that accept either a tree or
+a parsable string will return either a UTF-8 encoded byte string, a
+unicode string or a tree, based on the type of the input.
+Previously, the result was always a byte string or a tree.</li>
+<li>Support for Python 2.6 and 3.0 beta.</li>
+<li>File name handling now uses a heuristic to convert between byte
+strings (usually filenames) and unicode strings (usually URLs).</li>
+<li>Parsing from a plain file object frees the GIL under Python 2.x.</li>
+<li>Running <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> on a plain file (or filename) frees the GIL
+on reading under Python 2.x.</li>
+<li>Conversion functions <tt class="docutils literal">html_to_xhtml()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">xhtml_to_html()</tt> in
+lxml.html (experimental).</li>
+<li>Most features in lxml.html work for XHTML namespaced tag names
+(experimental).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id159">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementTree.parse()</tt> didn't handle target parser result.</li>
+<li>Crash in Element class lookup classes when the __init__() method of
+the super class is not called from Python subclasses.</li>
+<li>A number of problems related to unicode/byte string conversion of
+filenames and error messages were fixed.</li>
+<li>Building on MacOS-X now passes the "flat_namespace" option to the C
+compiler, which reportedly prevents build quirks and crashes on this
+platform.</li>
+<li>Windows build was broken.</li>
+<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id160">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Non-ASCII characters in attribute values are no longer escaped on
+serialisation.</li>
+<li>Passing non-ASCII byte strings or invalid unicode strings as .tag,
+namespaces, etc. will result in a ValueError instead of an
+AssertionError (just like the tag well-formedness check).</li>
+<li>Up to several times faster attribute access (i.e. tree traversal) in
+lxml.objectify.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id161">
+<h1>2.0.6 (2008-05-31)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id162">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id163">
+<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>Windows build was broken.</li>
+<li>Moving a subtree from a document created in one thread into a
+document of another thread could crash when the rest of the source
+document is deleted while the subtree is still in use.</li>
+<li>Rare crash when serialising to a file object with certain encodings.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id164">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml should now build without problems on MacOS-X.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="beta2-2008-05-02">
+<h1>2.1beta2 (2008-05-02)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id165">
+<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>
+<li>lxml.html has a new parser class <tt class="docutils literal">XHTMLParser</tt> and a module
+attribute <tt class="docutils literal">xhtml_parser</tt> that provide XML parsers that are
+pre-configured for the lxml.html package.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id166">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Moving a subtree from a document created in one thread into a
+document of another thread could crash when the rest of the source
+document is deleted while the subtree is still in use.</li>
+<li>Passing an nsmap when creating an Element will no longer strip
+redundantly defined namespace URIs. This prevented the definition
+of more than one prefix for a namespace on the same Element.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id167">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>If the default namespace is redundantly defined with a prefix on the
+same Element, the prefix will now be preferred for subelements and
+attributes. This allows users to work around a problem in libxml2
+where attributes from the default namespace could serialise without
+a prefix even when they appear on an Element with a different
+namespace (i.e. they would end up in the wrong namespace).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id168">
+<h1>2.0.5 (2008-05-01)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id169">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id170">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
+<li>lxml did not honour libxslt's second error state "STOPPED", which
+let some XSLT errors pass silently.</li>
+<li>Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id171">
+<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="id172">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Error logging in Schematron (requires libxml2 2.6.32 or later).</li>
+<li>Parser option <tt class="docutils literal">strip_cdata</tt> for normalising or keeping CDATA
+sections. Defaults to <tt class="docutils literal">True</tt> as before, thus replacing CDATA
+sections by their text content.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">CDATA()</tt> factory to wrap string content as CDATA section.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id173">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Resolving to a filename in custom resolvers didn't work.</li>
+<li>lxml did not honour libxslt's second error state "STOPPED", which
+let some XSLT errors pass silently.</li>
+<li>Memory leak in Schematron with libxml2 >= 2.6.31.</li>
+<li>lxml.etree accepted non well-formed namespace prefix names.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id174">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Major cleanup in internal <tt class="docutils literal">moveNodeToDocument()</tt> function, which
+takes care of namespace cleanup when moving elements between
+different namespace contexts.</li>
+<li>New Elements created through the <tt class="docutils literal">makeelement()</tt> method of an HTML
+parser or through lxml.html now end up in a new HTML document
+(doctype HTML 4.01 Transitional) instead of a generic XML document.
+This mostly impacts the serialisation and the availability of a DTD
+context.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id175">
+<h1>2.0.4 (2008-04-13)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id176">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id177">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Hanging thread in conjunction with GTK threading.</li>
+<li>Crash bug in iterparse when moving elements into other documents.</li>
+<li>HTML elements' <tt class="docutils literal">.cssselect()</tt> method was broken.</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="id178">
+<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="id179">
+<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">XSLTAccessControl</tt> instances have a property <tt class="docutils literal">options</tt> that
+returns a dict of access configuration options.</li>
+<li>Constant instances <tt class="docutils literal">DENY_ALL</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">DENY_WRITE</tt> on
+<tt class="docutils literal">XSLTAccessControl</tt> class.</li>
+<li>Extension elements for XSLT (experimental!)</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.base</tt> property returns the xml:base or HTML base URL of
+an Element.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">docinfo.URL</tt> property is writable.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id180">
+<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="id181">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Minor API speed-ups.</li>
+<li>The benchmark suite now uses tail text in the trees, which makes the
+absolute numbers incomparable to previous results.</li>
+<li>Generating the HTML documentation now requires <a class="reference external" href="http://pygments.org/">Pygments</a>, which is
+used to enable syntax highlighting for the doctest examples.</li>
+</ul>
+<p>Most long-time deprecated functions and methods were removed:</p>
+<ul>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.clearErrorLog()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.clear_error_log()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.useGlobalPythonLog()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">etree.use_global_python_log()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.ElementClassLookup.setFallback()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">etree.ElementClassLookup.set_fallback()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.getDefaultParser()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.get_default_parser()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.setDefaultParser()</tt>, use <tt class="docutils literal">etree.set_default_parser()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">etree.setElementClassLookup()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">etree.set_element_class_lookup()</tt></p>
+<p>Note that <tt class="docutils literal">parser.setElementClassLookup()</tt> has not been removed
+yet, although <tt class="docutils literal">parser.set_element_class_lookup()</tt> should be used
+instead.</p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.registerNamespace()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.register_namespace()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.registerNamespaces()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">xpath_evaluator.register_namespaces()</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.setPytypeAttributeTag</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.set_pytype_attribute_tag</tt></p>
+</li>
+<li><p class="first"><tt class="docutils literal">objectify.setDefaultParser()</tt>, use
+<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.set_default_parser()</tt></p>
+</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id182">
+<h1>2.0.3 (2008-03-26)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id183">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>soupparser.parse() allows passing keyword arguments on to
+BeautifulSoup.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">fromstring()</tt> method in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.soupparser</tt>.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id184">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.diff</tt> didn't treat empty tags properly (e.g.,
+<tt class="docutils literal"><br></tt>).</li>
+<li>Handle entity replacements correctly in target parser.</li>
+<li>Crash when using <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> with XML Schema validation.</li>
+<li>The BeautifulSoup parser (soupparser.py) did not replace entities,
+which made them turn up in text content.</li>
+<li>Attribute assignment of custom PyTypes in objectify could fail to
+correctly serialise the value to a string.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id185">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.ElementSoup</tt> was replaced by a new module
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.soupparser</tt> with a more consistent API. The old module
+remains for compatibility with ElementTree's own ElementSoup module.</li>
+<li>Setting the XSLT_CONFIG and XML2_CONFIG environment variables at
+build time will let setup.py pick up the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xml2-config</span></tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xslt-config</span></tt> scripts from the supplied path name.</li>
+<li>Passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xml2-config=/path/to/xml2-config</span></tt> to setup.py will
+override the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xml2-config</span></tt> script that is used to determine the C
+compiler options. The same applies for the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xslt-config</span></tt>
+option.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id186">
+<h1>2.0.2 (2008-02-22)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id187">
+<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="id188">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The prefix for objectify's pytype namespace was missing from the set
+of default prefixes.</li>
+<li>Memory leak in Schematron (fixed only for libxml2 2.6.31+).</li>
+<li>Error type names in RelaxNG were reported incorrectly.</li>
+<li>Slice deletion bug fixed in objectify.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id189">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Enabled doctests for some Python modules (especially <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt>).</li>
+<li>Add a <tt class="docutils literal">method</tt> argument to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.tostring()</tt>
+(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">method="xml"</span></tt> for XHTML output).</li>
+<li>Make it clearer that methods like <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.fromstring()</tt> take a
+<tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> argument.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id190">
+<h1>2.0.1 (2008-02-13)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id191">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Child iteration in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt>.</li>
+<li>Loads of new docstrings reflect the signature of functions and
+methods to make them visible in API docs and <tt class="docutils literal">help()</tt></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id192">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.builder</tt> was duplicated as
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.htmlbuilder</tt></li>
+<li>Form elements would return None for <tt class="docutils literal">form.fields.keys()</tt> if there
+was an unnamed input field. Now unnamed input fields are completely
+ignored.</li>
+<li>Setting an element slice in objectify could insert slice-overlapping
+elements at the wrong position.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id193">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>The generated API documentation was cleaned up and disburdened from
+non-public classes etc.</li>
+<li>The previously public module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.setmixin</tt> was renamed to
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html._setmixin</tt> as it is not an official part of lxml. If
+you want to use it, feel free to copy it over to your own source
+base.</li>
+<li>Passing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-xslt-config=/path/to/xslt-config</span></tt> to setup.py will
+override the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">xslt-config</span></tt> script that is used to determine the C
+compiler options.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id194">
+<h1>2.0 (2008-02-01)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id195">
+<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
+serialise to unicode. The <tt class="docutils literal">tounicode()</tt> function is now
+deprecated.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG()</tt> can parse from StringIO.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">makeparser()</tt> function in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.objectify</tt> to create a new
+parser with the usual objectify setup.</li>
+<li>Plain ASCII XPath string results are no longer forced into unicode
+objects as in 2.0beta1, but are returned as plain strings as before.</li>
+<li>All XPath string results are 'smart' objects that have a
+<tt class="docutils literal">getparent()</tt> method to retrieve their parent Element.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">with_tail</tt> option in serialiser functions.</li>
+<li>More accurate exception messages in validator creation.</li>
+<li>Parse-time XML schema validation (<tt class="docutils literal">schema</tt> parser keyword).</li>
+<li>XPath string results of the <tt class="docutils literal">text()</tt> function and attribute
+selection make their Element container accessible through a
+<tt class="docutils literal">getparent()</tt> method. As a side-effect, they are now always
+unicode objects (even ASCII strings).</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XSLT</tt> objects are usable in any thread - at the cost of a deep
+copy if they were not created in that thread.</li>
+<li>Invalid entity names and character references will be rejected by
+the <tt class="docutils literal">Entity()</tt> factory.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">entity.text</tt> returns the textual representation of the entity,
+e.g. <tt class="docutils literal">&amp;</tt>.</li>
+<li>New properties <tt class="docutils literal">position</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">code</tt> on ParseError exception (as
+in ET 1.3)</li>
+<li>Rich comparison of <tt class="docutils literal">element.attrib</tt> proxies.</li>
+<li>ElementTree compatible TreeBuilder class.</li>
+<li>Use default prefixes for some common XML namespaces.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean.Cleaner</tt> now allows for a <tt class="docutils literal">host_whitelist</tt>, and
+two overridable methods: <tt class="docutils literal">allow_embedded_url(el, url)</tt> and the
+more general <tt class="docutils literal">allow_element(el)</tt>.</li>
+<li>Extended slicing of Elements as in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">element[1:-1:2]</span></tt>, both in
+etree and in objectify</li>
+<li>Resolvers can now provide a <tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> keyword argument when
+resolving a document as string data.</li>
+<li>When using <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> you can give the doctest option
+<tt class="docutils literal">NOPARSE_MARKUP</tt> (like <tt class="docutils literal"># doctest: +NOPARSE_MARKUP</tt>) to suppress
+the special checking for one test.</li>
+<li>Separate <tt class="docutils literal">feed_error_log</tt> property for the feed parser interface.
+The normal parser interface and <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse</tt> continue to use
+<tt class="docutils literal">error_log</tt>.</li>
+<li>The normal parsers and the feed parser interface are now separated
+and can be used concurrently on the same parser instance.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">fromstringlist()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">tostringlist()</tt> functions as in
+ElementTree 1.3</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> accepts an <tt class="docutils literal">html</tt> boolean keyword argument for
+parsing with the HTML parser (note that this interface may be
+subject to change)</li>
+<li>Parsers accept an <tt class="docutils literal">encoding</tt> keyword argument that overrides the encoding
+of the parsed documents.</li>
+<li>New C-API function <tt class="docutils literal">hasChild()</tt> to test for children</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">annotate()</tt> function in objectify can annotate with Python types and XSI
+types in one step. Accompanied by <tt class="docutils literal">xsiannotate()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pyannotate()</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">ET.write()</tt>, <tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">tounicode()</tt> now accept a keyword
+argument <tt class="docutils literal">method</tt> that can be one of 'xml' (or None), 'html' or 'text' to
+serialise as XML, HTML or plain text content.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterfind()</tt> method on Elements returns an iterator equivalent to
+<tt class="docutils literal">findall()</tt></li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">itertext()</tt> method on Elements</li>
+<li>Setting a QName object as value of the .text property or as an attribute
+will resolve its prefix in the respective context</li>
+<li>ElementTree-like parser target interface as described in
+<a class="reference external" href="http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm">http://effbot.org/elementtree/elementtree-xmlparser.htm</a></li>
+<li>ElementTree-like feed parser interface on XMLParser and HTMLParser
+(<tt class="docutils literal">feed()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">close()</tt> methods)</li>
+<li>Reimplemented <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.E</tt> for better performance and improved
+integration with objectify. Provides extended type support based on
+registered PyTypes.</li>
+<li>XSLT objects now support deep copying</li>
+<li>New <tt class="docutils literal">makeSubElement()</tt> C-API function that allows creating a new
+subelement straight with text, tail and attributes.</li>
+<li>XPath extension functions can now access the current context node
+(<tt class="docutils literal">context.context_node</tt>) and use a context dictionary
+(<tt class="docutils literal">context.eval_context</tt>) from the context provided in their first
+parameter</li>
+<li>HTML tag soup parser based on BeautifulSoup in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.ElementSoup</tt></li>
+<li>New module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> by Ian Bicking for writing simplified
+doctests based on XML/HTML output. Use by importing <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.usedoctest</tt> or
+<tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.usedoctest</tt> from within a doctest.</li>
+<li>New module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.cssselect</tt> by Ian Bicking for selecting Elements with CSS
+selectors.</li>
+<li>New package <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> written by Ian Bicking for advanced HTML
+treatment.</li>
+<li>Namespace class setup is now local to the <tt class="docutils literal">ElementNamespaceClassLookup</tt>
+instance and no longer global.</li>
+<li>Schematron validation (incomplete in libxml2)</li>
+<li>Additional <tt class="docutils literal">stringify</tt> argument to <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.PyType()</tt> takes a
+conversion function to strings to support setting text values from arbitrary
+types.</li>
+<li>Entity support through an <tt class="docutils literal">Entity</tt> factory and element classes. XML
+parsers now have a <tt class="docutils literal">resolve_entities</tt> keyword argument that can be set to
+False to keep entities in the document.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">column</tt> field on error log entries to accompany the <tt class="docutils literal">line</tt> field</li>
+<li>Error specific messages in XPath parsing and evaluation
+NOTE: for evaluation errors, you will now get an XPathEvalError instead of
+an XPathSyntaxError. To catch both, you can except on <tt class="docutils literal">XPathError</tt></li>
+<li>The regular expression functions in XPath now support passing a node-set
+instead of a string</li>
+<li>Extended type annotation in objectify: new <tt class="docutils literal">xsiannotate()</tt> function</li>
+<li>EXSLT RegExp support in standard XPath (not only XSLT)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id196">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Missing import in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.clean</tt>.</li>
+<li>Some Python 2.4-isms prevented lxml from building/running under
+Python 2.3.</li>
+<li>XPath on ElementTrees could crash when selecting the virtual root
+node of the ElementTree.</li>
+<li>Compilation <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--without-threading</span></tt> was buggy in alpha5/6.</li>
+<li>Memory leak in the <tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> function.</li>
+<li>Minor bugs in XSLT error message formatting.</li>
+<li>Result document memory leak in target parser.</li>
+<li>Target parser failed to report comments.</li>
+<li>In the <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html</tt> <tt class="docutils literal">iter_links</tt> method, links in <tt class="docutils literal"><object></tt>
+tags weren't recognized. (Note: plugin-specific link parameters
+still aren't recognized.) Also, the <tt class="docutils literal"><embed></tt> tag, though not
+standard, is now included in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.defs.special_inline_tags</tt>.</li>
+<li>Using custom resolvers on XSLT stylesheets parsed from a string
+could request ill-formed URLs.</li>
+<li>With <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.doctestcompare</tt> if you do <tt class="docutils literal"><tag <span class="pre">xmlns="..."></span></tt> in your
+output, it will then be namespace-neutral (before the ellipsis was
+treated as a real namespace).</li>
+<li>AttributeError in feed parser on parse errors</li>
+<li>XML feed parser setup problem</li>
+<li>Type annotation for unicode strings in <tt class="docutils literal">DataElement()</tt></li>
+<li>lxml failed to serialise namespace declarations of elements other than the
+root node of a tree</li>
+<li>Race condition in XSLT where the resolver context leaked between concurrent
+XSLT calls</li>
+<li>lxml.etree did not check tag/attribute names</li>
+<li>The XML parser did not report undefined entities as error</li>
+<li>The text in exceptions raised by XML parsers, validators and XPath
+evaluators now reports the first error that occurred instead of the last</li>
+<li>Passing '' as XPath namespace prefix did not raise an error</li>
+<li>Thread safety in XPath evaluators</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id197">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Exceptions carry only the part of the error log that is related to
+the operation that caused the error.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG()</tt> now enforce passing the source
+file/filename through the <tt class="docutils literal">file</tt> keyword argument.</li>
+<li>The test suite now skips most doctests under Python 2.3.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">make clean</tt> no longer removes the .c files (use <tt class="docutils literal">make
+realclean</tt> instead)</li>
+<li>Minor performance tweaks for Element instantiation and subelement
+creation</li>
+<li>Various places in the XPath, XSLT and iteration APIs now require
+keyword-only arguments.</li>
+<li>The argument order in <tt class="docutils literal">element.itersiblings()</tt> was changed to
+match the order used in all other iteration methods. The second
+argument ('preceding') is now a keyword-only argument.</li>
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">getiterator()</tt> method on Elements and ElementTrees was
+reverted to return an iterator as it did in lxml 1.x. The ET API
+specification allows it to return either a sequence or an iterator,
+and it traditionally returned a sequence in ET and an iterator in
+lxml. However, it is now deprecated in favour of the <tt class="docutils literal">iter()</tt>
+method, which should be used in new code wherever possible.</li>
+<li>The 'pretty printed' serialisation of ElementTree objects now
+inserts newlines at the root level between processing instructions,
+comments and the root tag.</li>
+<li>A 'pretty printed' serialisation is now terminated with a newline.</li>
+<li>Second argument to <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.etree.Extension()</tt> helper is no longer
+required, third argument is now a keyword-only argument <tt class="docutils literal">ns</tt>.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">lxml.html.tostring</tt> takes an <tt class="docutils literal">encoding</tt> argument.</li>
+<li>The module source files were renamed to "lxml.*.pyx", such as
+"lxml.etree.pyx". This was changed for consistency with the way
+Pyrex commonly handles package imports. The main effect is that
+classes now know about their fully qualified class name, including
+the package name of their module.</li>
+<li>Keyword-only arguments in some API functions, especially in the
+parsers and serialisers.</li>
+<li>Tag name validation in lxml.etree (and lxml.html) now distinguishes
+between HTML tags and XML tags based on the parser that was used to
+parse or create them. HTML tags no longer reject any non-ASCII
+characters in tag names but only spaces and the special characters
+<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre"><>&/"'</span></tt>.</li>
+<li>lxml.etree now emits a warning if you use XPath with libxml2 2.6.27
+(which can crash on certain XPath errors)</li>
+<li>Type annotation in objectify now preserves the already annotated type by
+default to prevent loosing type information that is already there.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">element.getiterator()</tt> returns a list, use <tt class="docutils literal">element.iter()</tt> to retrieve
+an iterator (ElementTree 1.3 compatible behaviour)</li>
+<li>objectify.PyType for None is now called "NoneType"</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">el.getiterator()</tt> renamed to <tt class="docutils literal">el.iter()</tt>, following ElementTree 1.3 -
+original name is still available as alias</li>
+<li>In the public C-API, <tt class="docutils literal">findOrBuildNodeNs()</tt> was replaced by the more
+generic <tt class="docutils literal">findOrBuildNodeNsPrefix</tt></li>
+<li>Major refactoring in XPath/XSLT extension function code</li>
+<li>Network access in parsers disabled by default</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id198">
+<h1>1.3.6 (2007-10-29)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id199">
+<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="id200">
+<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>
+methods. While this makes them take a lot longer to run, it also
+makes it easier to link a specific test to garbage collection
+problems that would otherwise appear in later tests.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id201">
+<h1>1.3.5 (2007-10-22)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id202">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id203">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml.etree could crash when adding more than 10000 namespaces to a
+document</li>
+<li>lxml failed to serialise namespace declarations of elements other
+than the root node of a tree</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id204">
+<h1>1.3.4 (2007-08-30)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id205">
+<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
+<tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">nsmap</tt> to set a namespace and nsmap for the Elements it
+creates.</li>
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">docinfo</tt> on ElementTree objects has new properties <tt class="docutils literal">internalDTD</tt>
+and <tt class="docutils literal">externalDTD</tt> that return a DTD object for the internal or external
+subset of the document respectively.</li>
+<li>Serialising an ElementTree now includes any internal DTD subsets that are
+part of the document, as well as comments and PIs that are siblings of the
+root node.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id206">
+<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="id207">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml now raises a TagNameWarning about tag names containing ':' instead of
+an Error as 1.3.3 did. The reason is that a number of projects currently
+misuse the previous lack of tag name validation to generate namespace
+prefixes without declaring namespaces. Apart from the danger of generating
+broken XML this way, it also breaks most of the namespace-aware tools in
+XML, including XPath, XSLT and validation. lxml 1.3.x will continue to
+support this bug with a Warning, while lxml 2.0 will be strict about
+well-formed tag names (not only regarding ':').</li>
+<li>Serialising an Element no longer includes its comment and PI siblings (only
+ElementTree serialisation includes them).</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id208">
+<h1>1.3.3 (2007-07-26)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id209">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>ElementTree compatible parser <tt class="docutils literal">ETCompatXMLParser</tt> strips processing
+instructions and comments while parsing XML</li>
+<li>Parsers now support stripping PIs (keyword argument 'remove_pis')</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">etree.fromstring()</tt> now supports parsing both HTML and XML, depending on
+the parser you pass.</li>
+<li>Support <tt class="docutils literal">base_url</tt> keyword argument in <tt class="docutils literal">HTML()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">XML()</tt></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id210">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Parsing from Python Unicode strings failed on some platforms</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element()</tt> did not raise an exception on tag names containing ':'</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getiterator(tag)</tt> did not accept <tt class="docutils literal">Comment</tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal">ProcessingInstruction</tt> as tags. It also accepts <tt class="docutils literal">Element</tt> now.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id211">
+<h1>1.3.2 (2007-07-03)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id212">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id213">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>"deallocating None" crash bug</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id214">
+<h1>1.3.1 (2007-07-02)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id215">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>objectify.DataElement now supports setting values from existing data
+elements (not just plain Python types) and reuses defined namespaces etc.</li>
+<li>E-factory support for lxml.objectify (<tt class="docutils literal">objectify.E</tt>)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id216">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Better way to prevent crashes in Element proxy cleanup code</li>
+<li>objectify.DataElement didn't set up None value correctly</li>
+<li>objectify.DataElement didn't check the value against the provided type hints</li>
+<li>Reference-counting bug in <tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib.pop()</tt></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id217">
+<h1>1.3 (2007-06-24)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id218">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Module <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.pyclasslookup</tt> module implements an Element class lookup
+scheme that can access the entire tree in read-only mode to help determining
+a suitable Element class</li>
+<li>Parsers take a <tt class="docutils literal">remove_comments</tt> keyword argument that skips over comments</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">parse()</tt> function in <tt class="docutils literal">objectify</tt>, corresponding to <tt class="docutils literal">XML()</tt> etc.</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.addnext(el)</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">Element.addprevious(el)</tt> methods to support
+adding processing instructions and comments around the root node</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.attrib</tt> was missing <tt class="docutils literal">clear()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">pop()</tt> methods</li>
+<li>Extended type annotation in objectify: cleaner annotation namespace setup
+plus new <tt class="docutils literal">deannotate()</tt> function</li>
+<li>Support for custom Element class instantiation in lxml.sax: passing a
+<tt class="docutils literal">makeelement</tt> function to the ElementTreeContentHandler will reuse the
+lookup context of that function</li>
+<li>'.' represents empty ObjectPath (identity)</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.values()</tt> to accompany the existing <tt class="docutils literal">.keys()</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">.items()</tt></li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">collectAttributes()</tt> C-function to build a list of attribute
+keys/values/items for a libxml2 node</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">DTD</tt> validator class (like <tt class="docutils literal">RelaxNG</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">XMLSchema</tt>)</li>
+<li>HTML generator helpers by Fredrik Lundh in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.htmlbuilder</tt></li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementMaker</tt> XML generator by Fredrik Lundh in <tt class="docutils literal">lxml.builder.E</tt></li>
+<li>Support for pickeling <tt class="docutils literal">objectify.ObjectifiedElement</tt> objects to XML</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">update()</tt> method on Element.attrib</li>
+<li>Optimised replacement for libxml2's _xmlReconsiliateNs(). This allows lxml
+a better handling of namespaces when moving elements between documents.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id219">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Removing Elements from a tree could make them loose their namespace
+declarations</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">ElementInclude</tt> didn't honour base URL of original document</li>
+<li>Replacing the children slice of an Element would cut off the tails of the
+original children</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getiterator(tag)</tt> did not accept <tt class="docutils literal">Comment</tt> and
+<tt class="docutils literal">ProcessingInstruction</tt> as tags</li>
+<li>API functions now check incoming strings for XML conformity. Zero bytes or
+low ASCII characters are no longer accepted (AssertionError).</li>
+<li>XSLT parsing failed to pass resolver context on to imported documents</li>
+<li>passing '' as namespace prefix in nsmap could be passed through to libxml2</li>
+<li>Objectify couldn't handle prefixed XSD type names in <tt class="docutils literal">xsi:type</tt></li>
+<li>More ET compatible behaviour when writing out XML declarations or not</li>
+<li>More robust error handling in <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt></li>
+<li>Documents lost their top-level PIs and comments on serialisation</li>
+<li>lxml.sax failed on comments and PIs. Comments are now properly ignored and
+PIs are copied.</li>
+<li>Possible memory leaks in namespace handling when moving elements between
+documents</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id220">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>major restructuring in the documentation</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id221">
+<h1>1.2.1 (2007-02-27)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id222">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Build fixes for MS compiler</li>
+<li>Item assignments to special names like <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">element["text"]</span></tt> failed</li>
+<li>Renamed ObjectifiedDataElement.__setText() to _setText() to make it easier
+to access</li>
+<li>The pattern for attribute names in ObjectPath was too restrictive</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id223">
+<h1>1.2 (2007-02-20)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id224">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Rich comparison of QName objects</li>
+<li>Support for regular expressions in benchmark selection</li>
+<li>get/set emulation (not .attrib!) for attributes on processing instructions</li>
+<li>ElementInclude Python module for ElementTree compatible XInclude processing
+that honours custom resolvers registered with the source document</li>
+<li>ElementTree.parser property holds the parser used to parse the document</li>
+<li>setup.py has been refactored for greater readability and flexibility</li>
+<li>--rpath flag to setup.py to induce automatic linking-in of dynamic library
+runtime search paths has been renamed to --auto-rpath. This makes it
+possible to pass an --rpath directly to distutils; previously this was being
+shadowed.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id225">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Element instantiation now uses locks to prevent race conditions with threads</li>
+<li>ElementTree.write() did not raise an exception when the file was not writable</li>
+<li>Error handling could crash under Python <= 2.4.1 - fixed by disabling thread
+support in these environments</li>
+<li>Element.find*() did not accept QName objects as path</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id226">
+<h2>Other changes</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>code cleanup: redundant _NodeBase super class merged into _Element class
+Note: although the impact should be zero in most cases, this change breaks
+the compatibiliy of the public C-API</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id227">
+<h1>1.1.2 (2006-10-30)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id228">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Data elements in objectify support repr(), which is now used by dump()</li>
+<li>Source distribution now ships with a patched Pyrex</li>
+<li>New C-API function makeElement() to create new elements with text,
+tail, attributes and namespaces</li>
+<li>Reuse original parser flags for XInclude</li>
+<li>Simplified support for handling XSLT processing instructions</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id229">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Parser resources were not freed before the next parser run</li>
+<li>Open files and XML strings returned by Python resolvers were not
+closed/freed</li>
+<li>Crash in the IDDict returned by XMLDTDID</li>
+<li>Copying Comments and ProcessingInstructions failed</li>
+<li>Memory leak for external URLs in _XSLTProcessingInstruction.parseXSL()</li>
+<li>Memory leak when garbage collecting tailed root elements</li>
+<li>HTML script/style content was not propagated to .text</li>
+<li>Show text xincluded between text nodes correctly in .text and .tail</li>
+<li>'integer * objectify.StringElement' operation was not supported</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id230">
+<h1>1.1.1 (2006-09-21)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id231">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>XSLT profiling support (<tt class="docutils literal">profile_run</tt> keyword)</li>
+<li>countchildren() method on objectify.ObjectifiedElement</li>
+<li>Support custom elements for tree nodes in lxml.objectify</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id232">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml.objectify failed to support long data values (e.g., "123L")</li>
+<li>Error messages from XSLT did not reach <tt class="docutils literal">XSLT.error_log</tt></li>
+<li>Factories objectify.Element() and objectify.DataElement() were missing
+<tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt> and <tt class="docutils literal">nsmap</tt> keyword arguments</li>
+<li>Changing the default parser in lxml.objectify did not update the factories
+Element() and DataElement()</li>
+<li>Let lxml.objectify.Element() always generate tree elements (not data
+elements)</li>
+<li>Build under Windows failed ('0' bug in patched Pyrex version)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id233">
+<h1>1.1 (2006-09-13)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id234">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Comments and processing instructions return '<!-- coment -->' and
+'<?pi-target content?>' for repr()</li>
+<li>Parsers are now the preferred (and default) place where element class lookup
+schemes should be registered. Namespace lookup is no longer supported by
+default.</li>
+<li>Support for Python 2.5 beta</li>
+<li>Unlock the GIL for deep copying documents and for XPath()</li>
+<li>New <tt class="docutils literal">compact</tt> keyword argument for parsing read-only documents</li>
+<li>Support for parser options in iterparse()</li>
+<li>The <tt class="docutils literal">namespace</tt> axis is supported in XPath and returns (prefix, URI)
+tuples</li>
+<li>The XPath expression "/" now returns an empty list instead of raising an
+exception</li>
+<li>XML-Object API on top of lxml (lxml.objectify)</li>
+<li>Customizable Element class lookup:<ul>
+<li>different pre-implemented lookup mechanisms</li>
+<li>support for externally provided lookup functions</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Support for processing instructions (ET-like, not compatible)</li>
+<li>Public C-level API for independent extension modules</li>
+<li>Module level <tt class="docutils literal">iterwalk()</tt> function as 'iterparse' for trees</li>
+<li>Module level <tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> function similar to ElementTree (see
+documentation for differences)</li>
+<li>Element.nsmap property returns a mapping of all namespace prefixes known at
+the Element to their namespace URI</li>
+<li>Reentrant threading support in RelaxNG, XMLSchema and XSLT</li>
+<li>Threading support in parsers and serializers:<ul>
+<li>All in-memory operations (tostring, parse(StringIO), etc.) free the GIL</li>
+<li>File operations (on file names) free the GIL</li>
+<li>Reading from file-like objects frees the GIL and reacquires it for reading</li>
+<li>Serialisation to file-like objects is single-threaded (high lock overhead)</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Element iteration over XPath axes:<ul>
+<li>Element.iterdescendants() iterates over the descendants of an element</li>
+<li>Element.iterancestors() iterates over the ancestors of an element (from
+parent to parent)</li>
+<li>Element.itersiblings() iterates over either the following or preceding
+siblings of an element</li>
+<li>Element.iterchildren() iterates over the children of an element in either
+direction</li>
+<li>All iterators support the <tt class="docutils literal">tag</tt> keyword argument to restrict the
+generated elements</li>
+</ul>
+</li>
+<li>Element.getnext() and Element.getprevious() return the direct siblings of an
+element</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id235">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>filenames with local 8-bit encoding were not supported</li>
+<li>1.1beta did not compile under Python 2.3</li>
+<li>ignore unknown 'pyval' attribute values in objectify</li>
+<li>objectify.ObjectifiedElement.addattr() failed to accept Elements and Lists</li>
+<li>objectify.ObjectPath.setattr() failed to accept Elements and Lists</li>
+<li>XPathSyntaxError now inherits from XPathError</li>
+<li>Threading race conditions in RelaxNG and XMLSchema</li>
+<li>Crash when mixing elements from XSLT results into other trees, concurrent
+XSLT is only allowed when the stylesheet was parsed in the main thread</li>
+<li>The EXSLT <tt class="docutils literal">regexp:match</tt> function now works as defined (except for some
+differences in the regular expression syntax)</li>
+<li>Setting element.text to '' returned None on request, not the empty string</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">iterparse()</tt> could crash on long XML files</li>
+<li>Creating documents no longer copies the parser for later URL resolving. For
+performance reasons, only a reference is kept. Resolver updates on the
+parser will now be reflected by documents that were parsed before the
+change. Although this should rarely become visible, it is a behavioral
+change from 1.0.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id236">
+<h1>1.0.4 (2006-09-09)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id237">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>List-like <tt class="docutils literal">Element.extend()</tt> method</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id238">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash in tail handling in <tt class="docutils literal">Element.replace()</tt></li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id239">
+<h1>1.0.3 (2006-08-08)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id240">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Element.replace(old, new) method to replace a subelement by another one</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id241">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Crash when mixing elements from XSLT results into other trees</li>
+<li>Copying/deepcopying did not work for ElementTree objects</li>
+<li>Setting an attribute to a non-string value did not raise an exception</li>
+<li>Element.remove() deleted the tail text from the removed Element</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id242">
+<h1>1.0.2 (2006-06-27)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id243">
+<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>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id244">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Rare exceptions in Python list functions were not handled</li>
+<li>Parsing accepted unicode strings with XML encoding declaration in certain
+cases</li>
+<li>Parsing 8-bit encoded strings from StringIO objects raised an exception</li>
+<li>Module function <tt class="docutils literal">initThread()</tt> was removed - useless (and never worked)</li>
+<li>XSLT and parser exception messages include the error line number</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id245">
+<h1>1.0.1 (2006-06-09)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id246">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Repeated calls to Element.attrib now efficiently return the same instance</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id247">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Document deallocation could crash in certain garbage collection scenarios</li>
+<li>Extension function calls in XSLT variable declarations could break the
+stylesheet and crash on repeated calls</li>
+<li>Deep copying Elements could loose namespaces declared in parents</li>
+<li>Deep copying Elements did not copy tail</li>
+<li>Parsing file(-like) objects failed to load external entities</li>
+<li>Parsing 8-bit strings from file(-like) objects raised an exception</li>
+<li>xsl:include failed when the stylesheet was parsed from a file-like object</li>
+<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeProducer did not call startDocument() / endDocument()</li>
+<li>MSVC compiler complained about long strings (supports only 2048 bytes)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id248">
+<h1>1.0 (2006-06-01)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id249">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Element.getiterator() and the findall() methods support finding arbitrary
+elements from a namespace (pattern <tt class="docutils literal">{namespace}*</tt>)</li>
+<li>Another speedup in tree iteration code</li>
+<li>General speedup of Python Element object creation and deallocation</li>
+<li>Writing C14N no longer serializes in memory (reduced memory footprint)</li>
+<li>PyErrorLog for error logging through the Python <tt class="docutils literal">logging</tt> module</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">Element.getroottree()</tt> returns an ElementTree for the root node of the
+document that contains the element.</li>
+<li>ElementTree.getpath(element) returns a simple, absolute XPath expression to
+find the element in the tree structure</li>
+<li>Error logs have a <tt class="docutils literal">last_error</tt> attribute for convenience</li>
+<li>Comment texts can be changed through the API</li>
+<li>Formatted output via <tt class="docutils literal">pretty_print</tt> keyword in serialization functions</li>
+<li>XSLT can block access to file system and network via <tt class="docutils literal">XSLTAccessControl</tt></li>
+<li>ElementTree.write() no longer serializes in memory (reduced memory
+footprint)</li>
+<li>Speedup of Element.findall(tag) and Element.getiterator(tag)</li>
+<li>Support for writing the XML representation of Elements and ElementTrees to
+Python unicode strings via <tt class="docutils literal">etree.tounicode()</tt></li>
+<li>Support for writing XSLT results to Python unicode strings via <tt class="docutils literal">unicode()</tt></li>
+<li>Parsing a unicode string no longer copies the string (reduced memory
+footprint)</li>
+<li>Parsing file-like objects reads chunks rather than the whole file (reduced
+memory footprint)</li>
+<li>Parsing StringIO objects from the start avoids copying the string (reduced
+memory footprint)</li>
+<li>Read-only 'docinfo' attribute in ElementTree class holds DOCTYPE
+information, original encoding and XML version as seen by the parser</li>
+<li>etree module can be compiled without libxslt by commenting out the line
+<tt class="docutils literal">include "xslt.pxi"</tt> near the end of the etree.pyx source file</li>
+<li>Better error messages in parser exceptions</li>
+<li>Error reporting also works in XSLT</li>
+<li>Support for custom document loaders (URI resolvers) in parsers and XSLT,
+resolvers are registered at parser level</li>
+<li>Implementation of exslt:regexp for XSLT based on the Python 're' module,
+enabled by default, can be switched off with 'regexp=False' keyword argument</li>
+<li>Support for exslt extensions (libexslt) and libxslt extra functions
+(node-set, document, write, output)</li>
+<li>Substantial speedup in XPath.evaluate()</li>
+<li>HTMLParser for parsing (broken) HTML</li>
+<li>XMLDTDID function parses XML into tuple (root node, ID dict) based on xml:id
+implementation of libxml2 (as opposed to ET compatible XMLID)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id250">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Memory leak in Element.__setitem__</li>
+<li>Memory leak in Element.attrib.items() and Element.attrib.values()</li>
+<li>Memory leak in XPath extension functions</li>
+<li>Memory leak in unicode related setup code</li>
+<li>Element now raises ValueError on empty tag names</li>
+<li>Namespace fixing after moving elements between documents could fail if the
+source document was freed too early</li>
+<li>Setting namespace-less tag names on namespaced elements ('{ns}t' -> 't')
+didn't reset the namespace</li>
+<li>Unknown constants from newer libxml2 versions could raise exceptions in the
+error handlers</li>
+<li>lxml.etree compiles much faster</li>
+<li>On libxml2 <= 2.6.22, parsing strings with encoding declaration could fail
+in certain cases</li>
+<li>Document reference in ElementTree objects was not updated when the root
+element was moved to a different document</li>
+<li>Running absolute XPath expressions on an Element now evaluates against the
+root tree</li>
+<li>Evaluating absolute XPath expressions (<tt class="docutils literal">/*</tt>) on an ElementTree could fail</li>
+<li>Crashes when calling XSLT, RelaxNG, etc. with uninitialized ElementTree
+objects</li>
+<li>Removed public function <tt class="docutils literal">initThreadLogging()</tt>, replaced by more general
+<tt class="docutils literal">initThread()</tt> which fixes a number of setup problems in threads</li>
+<li>Memory leak when using iconv encoders in tostring/write</li>
+<li>Deep copying Elements and ElementTrees maintains the document information</li>
+<li>Serialization functions raise LookupError for unknown encodings</li>
+<li>Memory deallocation crash resulting from deep copying elements</li>
+<li>Some ElementTree methods could crash if the root node was not initialized
+(neither file nor element passed to the constructor)</li>
+<li>Element/SubElement failed to set attribute namespaces from passed <tt class="docutils literal">attrib</tt>
+dictionary</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> adds an XML declaration for non-ASCII encodings</li>
+<li><tt class="docutils literal">tostring()</tt> failed to serialize encodings that contain 0-bytes</li>
+<li>ElementTree.xpath() and XPathDocumentEvaluator were not using the
+ElementTree root node as reference point</li>
+<li>Calling <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">document('')</span></tt> in XSLT failed to return the stylesheet</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id251">
+<h1>0.9.2 (2006-05-10)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id252">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Speedup for Element.makeelement(): the new element reuses the original
+libxml2 document instead of creating a new empty one</li>
+<li>Speedup for reversed() iteration over element children (Py2.4+ only)</li>
+<li>ElementTree compatible QName class</li>
+<li>RelaxNG and XMLSchema accept any Element, not only ElementTrees</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id253">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>str(xslt_result) was broken for XSLT output other than UTF-8</li>
+<li>Memory leak if write_c14n fails to write the file after conversion</li>
+<li>Crash in XMLSchema and RelaxNG when passing non-schema documents</li>
+<li>Memory leak in RelaxNG() when RelaxNGParseError is raised</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id254">
+<h1>0.9.1 (2006-03-30)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id255">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler checks closing elements and raises
+SaxError on mismatch</li>
+<li>lxml.sax.ElementTreeContentHandler supports namespace-less SAX events
+(startElement, endElement) and defaults to empty attributes (keyword
+argument)</li>
+<li>Speedup for repeatedly accessing element tag names</li>
+<li>Minor API performance improvements</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id256">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Memory deallocation bug when using XSLT output method "html"</li>
+<li>sax.py was handling UTF-8 encoded tag names where it shouldn't</li>
+<li>lxml.tests package will no longer be installed (is still in source tar)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id257">
+<h1>0.9 (2006-03-20)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id258">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Error logging API for libxml2 error messages</li>
+<li>Various performance improvements</li>
+<li>Benchmark script for lxml, ElementTree and cElementTree</li>
+<li>Support for registering extension functions through new FunctionNamespace
+class (see doc/extensions.txt)</li>
+<li>ETXPath class for XPath expressions in ElementTree notation ('//{ns}tag')</li>
+<li>Support for variables in XPath expressions (also in XPath class)</li>
+<li>XPath class for compiled XPath expressions</li>
+<li>XMLID module level function (ElementTree compatible)</li>
+<li>XMLParser API for customized libxml2 parser configuration</li>
+<li>Support for custom Element classes through new Namespace API (see
+doc/namespace_extensions.txt)</li>
+<li>Common exception base class LxmlError for module exceptions</li>
+<li>real iterator support in iter(Element), Element.getiterator()</li>
+<li>XSLT objects are callable, result trees support str()</li>
+<li>Added MANIFEST.in for easier creation of RPM files.</li>
+<li>'getparent' method on elements allows navigation to an element's
+parent element.</li>
+<li>Python core compatible SAX tree builder and SAX event generator. See
+doc/sax.txt for more information.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id259">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Segfaults and memory leaks in various API functions of Element</li>
+<li>Segfault in XSLT.tostring()</li>
+<li>ElementTree objects no longer interfere, Elements can be root of different
+ElementTrees at the same time</li>
+<li>document('') works in XSLT documents read from files (in-memory documents
+cannot support this due to libxslt deficiencies)</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id260">
+<h1>0.8 (2005-11-03)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id261">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Support for copy.deepcopy() on elements. copy.copy() works also, but
+does the same thing, and does <em>not</em> create a shallow copy, as that
+makes no sense in the context of libxml2 trees. This means a
+potential incompatibility with ElementTree, but there's more chance
+that it works than if copy.copy() isn't supported at all.</li>
+<li>Increased compatibility with (c)ElementTree; .parse() on ElementTree is
+supported and parsing of gzipped XML files works.</li>
+<li>implemented index() on elements, allowing one to find the index of a
+SubElement.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id262">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Use xslt-config instead of xml2-config to find out libxml2
+directories to take into account a case where libxslt is installed
+in a different directory than libxslt.</li>
+<li>Eliminate crash condition in iteration when text nodes are changed.</li>
+<li>Passing 'None' to tostring() does not result in a segfault anymore,
+but an AssertionError.</li>
+<li>Some test fixes for Windows.</li>
+<li>Raise XMLSyntaxError and XPathSyntaxError instead of plain python
+syntax errors. This should be less confusing.</li>
+<li>Fixed error with uncaught exception in Pyrex code.</li>
+<li>Calling lxml.etree.fromstring('') throws XMLSyntaxError instead of a
+segfault.</li>
+<li>has_key() works on attrib. 'in' tests also work correctly on attrib.</li>
+<li>INSTALL.txt was saying 2.2.16 instead of 2.6.16 as a supported
+libxml2 version, as it should.</li>
+<li>Passing a UTF-8 encoded string to the XML() function would fail;
+fixed.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id263">
+<h1>0.7 (2005-06-15)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id264">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>parameters (XPath expressions) can be passed to XSLT using keyword
+parameters.</li>
+<li>Simple XInclude support. Calling the xinclude() method on a tree
+will process any XInclude statements in the document.</li>
+<li>XMLSchema support. Use the XMLSchema class or the convenience
+xmlschema() method on a tree to do XML Schema (XSD) validation.</li>
+<li>Added convenience xslt() method on tree. This is less efficient
+than the XSLT object, but makes it easier to write quick code.</li>
+<li>Added convenience relaxng() method on tree. This is less efficient
+than the RelaxNG object, but makes it easier to write quick code.</li>
+<li>Make it possible to use XPathEvaluator with elements as well. The
+XPathEvaluator in this case will retain the element so multiple
+XPath queries can be made against one element efficiently. This
+replaces the second argument to the .evaluate() method that existed
+previously.</li>
+<li>Allow registerNamespace() to be called on an XPathEvaluator, after
+creation, to add additional namespaces. Also allow registerNamespaces(),
+which does the same for a namespace dictionary.</li>
+<li>Add 'prefix' attribute to element to be able to read prefix information.
+This is entirely read-only.</li>
+<li>It is possible to supply an extra nsmap keyword parameter to
+the Element() and SubElement() constructors, which supplies a
+prefix to namespace URI mapping. This will create namespace
+prefix declarations on these elements and these prefixes will show up
+in XML serialization.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id265">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Killed yet another memory management related bug: trees created
+using newDoc would not get a libxml2-level dictionary, which caused
+problems when deallocating these documents later if they contained a
+node that came from a document with a dictionary.</li>
+<li>Moving namespaced elements between documents was problematic as
+references to the original document would remain. This has been fixed
+by applying xmlReconciliateNs() after each move operation.</li>
+<li>Can pass None to 'dump()' without segfaults.</li>
+<li>tostring() works properly for non-root elements as well.</li>
+<li>Cleaned out the tostring() method so it should handle encoding
+correctly.</li>
+<li>Cleaned out the ElementTree.write() method so it should handle encoding
+correctly. Writing directly to a file should also be faster, as there is no
+need to go through a Python string in that case. Made sure the test cases
+test both serializing to StringIO as well as serializing to a real file.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id266">
+<h1>0.6 (2005-05-14)</h1>
+<div class="section" id="id267">
+<h2>Features added</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Changed setup.py so that library_dirs is also guessed. This should
+help with compilation on the Mac OS X platform, where otherwise the
+wrong library (shipping with the OS) could be picked up.</li>
+<li>Tweaked setup.py so that it picks up the version from version.txt.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id268">
+<h2>Bugs fixed</h2>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Do the right thing when handling namespaced attributes.</li>
+<li>fix bug where tostring() moved nodes into new documents. tostring()
+had very nasty side-effects before this fix, sorry!</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id269">
+<h1>0.5.1 (2005-04-09)</h1>
+<ul class="simple">
+<li>Python 2.2 compatibility fixes.</li>
+<li>unicode fixes in Element() and Comment() as well as XML(); unicode
+input wasn't properly being UTF-8 encoded.</li>
+</ul>
+</div>
+<div class="section" id="id270">
+<h1>0.5 (2005-04-08)</h1>
+<p>Initial public release.</p>
+</div>
+</div>
+<div class="footer">
+<hr class="footer" />
+Generated on: 2013-07-28.
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<p>lxml supports XPath 1.0, XSLT 1.0 and the EXSLT extensions through
libxml2 and libxslt in a standards compliant way.</p>
that compiles on various platforms. The source distribution is signed
with `this key <pubkey.asc>`_.
-The latest version is `lxml 3.2.2`_, released 2013-07-28
-(`changes for 3.2.2`_). `Older versions <#old-versions>`_
+The latest version is `lxml 3.2.3`_, released 2013-07-28
+(`changes for 3.2.3`_). `Older versions <#old-versions>`_
are listed below.
Please take a look at the
`3.1 <http://lxml.de/3.1/>`_
and the `latest in-development version <http://lxml.de/dev/>`_.
-.. _`PDF documentation`: lxmldoc-3.2.2.pdf
+.. _`PDF documentation`: lxmldoc-3.2.3.pdf
+
+* `lxml 3.2.2`_, released 2013-07-28 (`changes for 3.2.2`_)
* `lxml 3.2.1`_, released 2013-05-11 (`changes for 3.2.1`_)
* `older releases <http://lxml.de/2.3/#old-versions>`_
+.. _`lxml 3.2.3`: /files/lxml-3.2.3.tgz
.. _`lxml 3.2.2`: /files/lxml-3.2.2.tgz
.. _`lxml 3.2.1`: /files/lxml-3.2.1.tgz
.. _`lxml 3.2.0`: /files/lxml-3.2.0.tgz
.. _`lxml 2.3.1`: /files/lxml-2.3.1.tgz
.. _`lxml 2.3`: /files/lxml-2.3.tgz
+.. _`changes for 3.2.3`: /changes-3.2.3.html
.. _`changes for 3.2.2`: /changes-3.2.2.html
.. _`changes for 3.2.1`: /changes-3.2.1.html
.. _`changes for 3.2.0`: /changes-3.2.0.html
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Name: lxml
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+Version: 3.2.3
Summary: Powerful and Pythonic XML processing library combining libxml2/libxslt with the ElementTree API.
Home-page: http://lxml.de/
Author: lxml dev team
Author-email: lxml-dev@lxml.de
License: UNKNOWN
-Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-3.2.2.tar.gz
+Download-URL: http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/l/lxml/lxml-3.2.3.tar.gz
Description: lxml is a Pythonic, mature binding for the libxml2 and libxslt libraries. It
provides safe and convenient access to these libraries using the ElementTree
API.
as soon as a maintenance branch has been established. Note that this
requires Cython to be installed at an appropriate version for the build.
- 3.2.2 (2013-07-28)
+ 3.2.3 (2013-07-28)
==================
- Features added
- --------------
-
Bugs fixed
----------
- * LP#1185701: spurious XMLSyntaxError after finishing iterparse().
-
- * Crash in lxml.objectify during xsi annotation.
-
- Other changes
- -------------
-
- * Return values of user provided element class lookup methods are now
- validated against the type of the XML node they represent to prevent
- API class mismatches.
+ * Fix support for Python 2.4 which was lost in 3.2.2.
doc/html/api.html
doc/html/build.html
doc/html/capi.html
-doc/html/changes-3.2.2.html
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doc/html/compatibility.html
doc/html/credits.html
doc/html/cssselect.html
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#define PY_SSIZE_T_CLEAN
#ifndef CYTHON_USE_PYLONG_INTERNALS
* other = unicode(other)
* except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError): # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
* return NotImplemented
- * return python.PyUnicode_RichCompare(one, other, op)
+ * return python.PyObject_RichCompare(one, other, op)
*/
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* other = unicode(other)
* except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
* return NotImplemented # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
- * return python.PyUnicode_RichCompare(one, other, op)
+ * return python.PyObject_RichCompare(one, other, op)
*
*/
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/* "/home/stefan/source/Python/lxml/lxml-release/src/lxml/lxml.etree.pyx":1732
* except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
* return NotImplemented
- * return python.PyUnicode_RichCompare(one, other, op) # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
+ * return python.PyObject_RichCompare(one, other, op) # <<<<<<<<<<<<<<
*
*
*/
__Pyx_XDECREF(__pyx_r);
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+ __pyx_t_9 = PyObject_RichCompare(__pyx_v_one, __pyx_v_other, __pyx_v_op); if (unlikely(!__pyx_t_9)) {__pyx_filename = __pyx_f[0]; __pyx_lineno = 1732; __pyx_clineno = __LINE__; goto __pyx_L1_error;}
__Pyx_GOTREF(__pyx_t_9);
__pyx_r = __pyx_t_9;
__pyx_t_9 = 0;
other = unicode(other)
except (ValueError, UnicodeDecodeError):
return NotImplemented
- return python.PyUnicode_RichCompare(one, other, op)
+ return python.PyObject_RichCompare(one, other, op)
cdef public class _ElementTree [ type LxmlElementTreeType,
char* encoding, char* errors)
cdef cython.unicode PyUnicode_DecodeUTF8(char* s, Py_ssize_t size, char* errors)
cdef cython.unicode PyUnicode_DecodeLatin1(char* s, Py_ssize_t size, char* errors)
- cdef object PyUnicode_RichCompare(object o1, object o2, int op)
+ cdef object PyUnicode_RichCompare(object o1, object o2, int op) # not in Py2.4
cdef bytes PyUnicode_AsUTF8String(object ustring)
cdef bytes PyUnicode_AsASCIIString(object ustring)
cdef char* PyUnicode_AS_DATA(object ustring)
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