
        NEWS file for libxml2

  Note that this is automatically generated from the news webpage at:
       http://xmlsoft.org/news.html


CVS only : check the Changelog at 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog
 file
for a really accurate description:Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
to test those   - Finishing up XML
    Schemas and XInclude


2.5.1: Jan 8 2003:   - Fixes a memory leak and configuration/compilation problems in 2.5.0
   - documentation updates (John)
   - a couple of XmlTextReader fixes


2.5.0: Jan 6 2003:   - New XmltextReader interface based on C#
    API (with help of Stphane Bidoul)
   - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
   - XInclude fallback fix
   - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stphane Bidoul),
    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stphane Bidoul), fixes, speedup
    and iterators for Python-2.2 (Hannu Krosing)
   - Tutorial fixes (john Fleck and Niraj Tolia) xmllint man update
  (John)
   - Fix an XML parser bug raised by Vyacheslav Pindyura
   - Fix for VMS serialization (Nigel Hall) and config (Craig A. Berry)
   - Entities handling fixes
   - new API to optionally track node creation and deletion (Lukas
  Schroeder)
   - Added documentation for the XmltextReader interface and some XML guidelines


2.4.30: Dec 12 2002:   - 2.4.29 broke the python bindings, rereleasing
   - Improvement/fixes of the XML API generator, and couple of minor code
    fixes.


2.4.29: Dec 11 2002:   - Windows fixes (Igor): Windows CE port, pthread linking, python bindings
    (Stphane Bidoul), Mingw (Magnus Henoch), and export list updates
   - Fix for prev in python bindings (ERDI Gergo)
   - Fix for entities handling (Marcus Clarke)
   - Refactored the XML and HTML dumps to a single code path, fixed XHTML1
    dump
   - Fix for URI parsing when handling URNs with fragment identifiers
   - Fix for HTTP URL escaping problem
   - added an TextXmlReader (C#) like API (work in progress)
   - Rewrote the API in XML generation script, includes a C parser and saves
    more informations needed for C# bindings


2.4.28: Nov 22 2002:   - a couple of python binding fixes
   - 2 bug fixes in the XML push parser
   - potential memory leak removed (Martin Stoilov)
   - fix to the configure script for Unix (Dimitri Papadopoulos)
   - added encoding support for XInclude parse="text"
   - autodetection of XHTML1 and specific serialization rules added
   - nasty threading bug fixed (William Brack)


2.4.27: Nov 17 2002:   - fixes for the Python bindings
   - a number of bug fixes: SGML catalogs, xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory(),
    HTML parser,  Schemas (Charles Bozeman), document fragment support
    (Christian Glahn), xmlReconciliateNs (Brian Stafford), XPointer,
    xmlFreeNode(), xmlSAXParseMemory (Peter Jones), xmlGetNodePath (Petr
    Pajas), entities processing
   - added grep to xmllint --shell
   - VMS update patch from Craig A. Berry
   - cleanup of the Windows build with support for more compilers (Igor),
    better thread support on Windows
   - cleanup of Unix Makefiles and spec file
   - Improvements to the documentation (John Fleck)


2.4.26: Oct 18 2002:   - Patches for Windows CE port, improvements on Windows paths handling
   - Fixes to the validation  code (DTD and Schemas), xmlNodeGetPath() ,
    HTML serialization, Namespace compliance,  and a number of small
  problems


2.4.25: Sep 26 2002:   - A number of bug fixes: XPath, validation, Python bindings, DOM and
    tree, xmlI/O,  Html
   - Serious rewrite of XInclude
   - Made XML Schemas regexp part of the default build and APIs, small fix
    and improvement of the regexp core
   - Changed the validation code to reuse XML Schemas regexp APIs
   - Better handling of Windows file paths, improvement of Makefiles (Igor,
    Daniel Gehriger, Mark Vakoc)
   - Improved the python I/O bindings, the tests, added resolver and regexp
    APIs
   - New logos from Marc Liyanage
   - Tutorial improvements: John Fleck, Christopher Harris
   - Makefile: Fixes for AMD x86_64 (Mandrake), DESTDIR (Christophe
  Merlet)
   - removal of all stderr/perror use for error reporting
   - Better error reporting: XPath and DTD validation
   - update of the trio portability layer (Bjorn Reese)

2.4.24: Aug 22 2002   - XPath fixes (William), xf:escape-uri() (Wesley Terpstra)
   - Python binding fixes: makefiles (William), generator, rpm build, x86-64
    (fcrozat)
   - HTML <style> and boolean attributes serializer fixes
   - C14N improvements by Aleksey
   - doc cleanups: Rick Jones
   - Windows compiler makefile updates: Igor and Elizabeth Barham
   - XInclude: implementation of fallback and xml:base fixup added


2.4.23: July 6 2002:   - performances patches: Peter Jacobi
   - c14n fixes, testsuite and performances: Aleksey Sanin
   - added xmlDocFormatDump: Chema Celorio
   - new tutorial: John Fleck
   - new hash functions and performances: Sander Vesik, portability fix from
    Peter Jacobi
   - a number of bug fixes: XPath (William Brack, Richard Jinks), XML and
    HTML parsers, ID lookup function
   - removal of all remaining sprintf: Aleksey Sanin


2.4.22: May 27 2002:   - a number of bug fixes: configure scripts, base handling, parser, memory
    usage, HTML parser, XPath, documentation (Christian Cornelssen),
    indentation, URI parsing
   - Optimizations for XMLSec, fixing and making public some of the network
    protocol handlers (Aleksey)
   - performance patch from Gary Pennington
   - Charles Bozeman provided date and time support for XML Schemas
  datatypes


2.4.21: Apr 29 2002:This release is both a bug fix release and also contains the early XML
Schemas structures at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-1/
 and datatypes at 
http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/
 code, beware, all
interfaces are likely to change, there is huge holes, it is clearly a work in
progress and don't even think of putting this code in a production system,
it's actually not compiled in by default. The real fixes are:   - a couple of bugs or limitations introduced in 2.4.20
   - patches for Borland C++ and MSC by Igor
   - some fixes on XPath strings and conformance patches by Richard
  Jinks
   - patch from Aleksey for the ExcC14N specification
   - OSF/1 bug fix by Bjorn


2.4.20: Apr 15 2002:   - bug fixes: file descriptor leak, XPath, HTML output, DTD validation
   - XPath conformance testing by Richard Jinks
   - Portability fixes: Solaris, MPE/iX, Windows, OSF/1, python bindings,
    libxml.m4


2.4.19: Mar 25 2002:   - bug fixes: half a dozen XPath bugs, Validation, ISO-Latin to UTF8
    encoder
   - portability fixes in the HTTP code
   - memory allocation checks using valgrind, and profiling tests
   - revamp of the Windows build and Makefiles


2.4.18: Mar 18 2002:   - bug fixes: tree, SAX, canonicalization, validation, portability,
  XPath
   - removed the --with-buffer option it was becoming unmaintainable
   - serious cleanup of the Python makefiles
   - speedup patch to XPath very effective for DocBook stylesheets
   - Fixes for Windows build, cleanup of the documentation


2.4.17: Mar 8 2002:   - a lot of bug fixes, including "namespace nodes have no parents in
  XPath"
   - fixed/improved the Python wrappers, added more examples and more
    regression tests, XPath extension functions can now return node-sets
   - added the XML Canonicalization support from Aleksey Sanin


2.4.16: Feb 20 2002:   - a lot of bug fixes, most of them were triggered by the XML Testsuite
    from OASIS and W3C. Compliance has been significantly improved.
   - a couple of portability fixes too.


2.4.15: Feb 11 2002:   - Fixed the Makefiles, especially the python module ones
   - A few bug fixes and cleanup
   - Includes cleanup


2.4.14: Feb 8 2002:   - Change of License to the MIT
    License basically for integration in XFree86 codebase, and removing
    confusion around the previous dual-licensing
   - added Python bindings, beta software but should already be quite
    complete
   - a large number of fixes and cleanups, especially for all tree
    manipulations
   - cleanup of the headers, generation of a reference API definition in
  XML


2.4.13: Jan 14 2002:   - update of the documentation: John Fleck and Charlie Bozeman
   - cleanup of timing code from Justin Fletcher
   - fixes for Windows and initial thread support on Win32: Igor and Serguei
    Narojnyi
   - Cygwin patch from Robert Collins
   - added xmlSetEntityReferenceFunc() for Keith Isdale work on xsldbg


2.4.12: Dec 7 2001:   - a few bug fixes: thread (Gary Pennington), xmllint (Geert Kloosterman),
    XML parser (Robin Berjon), XPointer (Danny Jamshy), I/O cleanups
  (robert)
   - Eric Lavigne contributed project files for MacOS
   - some makefiles cleanups


2.4.11: Nov 26 2001:   - fixed a couple of errors in the includes, fixed a few bugs, some code
    cleanups
   - xmllint man pages improvement by Heiko Rupp
   - updated VMS build instructions from John A Fotheringham
   - Windows Makefiles updates from Igor


2.4.10: Nov 10 2001:   - URI escaping fix (Joel Young)
   - added xmlGetNodePath() (for paths or XPointers generation)
   - Fixes namespace handling problems when using DTD and validation
   - improvements on xmllint: Morus Walter patches for --format and
    --encode, Stefan Kost and Heiko Rupp improvements on the --shell
   - fixes for xmlcatalog linking pointed by Weiqi Gao
   - fixes to the HTML parser


2.4.9: Nov 6 2001:   - fixes more catalog bugs
   - avoid a compilation problem, improve xmlGetLineNo()


2.4.8: Nov 4 2001:   - fixed SGML catalogs broken in previous release, updated xmlcatalog
  tool
   - fixed a compile errors and some includes troubles.


2.4.7: Oct 30 2001:   - exported some debugging interfaces
   - serious rewrite of the catalog code
   - integrated Gary Pennington thread safety patch, added configure option
    and regression tests
   - removed an HTML parser bug
   - fixed a couple of potentially serious validation bugs
   - integrated the SGML DocBook support in xmllint
   - changed the nanoftp anonymous login passwd
   - some I/O cleanup and a couple of interfaces for Perl wrapper
   - general bug fixes
   - updated xmllint man page by John Fleck
   - some VMS and Windows updates


2.4.6: Oct 10 2001:   - added an updated man pages by John Fleck
   - portability and configure fixes
   - an infinite loop on the HTML parser was removed (William)
   - Windows makefile patches from Igor
   - fixed half a dozen bugs reported for libxml or libxslt
   - updated xmlcatalog to be able to modify SGML super catalogs


2.4.5: Sep 14 2001:   - Remove a few annoying bugs in 2.4.4
   - forces the HTML serializer to output decimal charrefs since some
    version of Netscape can't handle hexadecimal ones


1.8.16: Sep 14 2001:   - maintenance release of the old libxml1 branch, couple of bug and
    portability fixes


2.4.4: Sep 12 2001:   - added --convert to xmlcatalog, bug fixes and cleanups of XML
  Catalog
   - a few bug fixes and some portability changes
   - some documentation cleanups


2.4.3:  Aug 23 2001:   - XML Catalog support see the doc
   - New NaN/Infinity floating point code
   - A few bug fixes


2.4.2:  Aug 15 2001:   - adds xmlLineNumbersDefault() to control line number generation
   - lot of bug fixes
   - the Microsoft MSC projects files should now be up to date
   - inheritance of namespaces from DTD defaulted attributes
   - fixes a serious potential security bug
   - added a --format option to xmllint


2.4.1:  July 24 2001:   - possibility to keep line numbers in the tree
   - some computation NaN fixes
   - extension of the XPath API
   - cleanup for alpha and ia64 targets
   - patch to allow saving through HTTP PUT or POST


2.4.0: July 10 2001:   - Fixed a few bugs in XPath, validation, and tree handling.
   - Fixed XML Base implementation, added a couple of examples to the
    regression tests
   - A bit of cleanup


2.3.14: July 5 2001:   - fixed some entities problems and reduce memory requirement when
    substituting them
   - lots of improvements in the XPath queries interpreter can be
    substantially faster
   - Makefiles and configure cleanups
   - Fixes to XPath variable eval, and compare on empty node set
   - HTML tag closing bug fixed
   - Fixed an URI reference computation problem when validating


2.3.13: June 28 2001:   - 2.3.12 configure.in was broken as well as the push mode XML parser
   - a few more fixes for compilation on Windows MSC by Yon Derek


1.8.14: June 28 2001:   - Zbigniew Chyla gave a patch to use the old XML parser in push mode
   - Small Makefile fix


2.3.12: June 26 2001:   - lots of cleanup
   - a couple of validation fix
   - fixed line number counting
   - fixed serious problems in the XInclude processing
   - added support for UTF8 BOM at beginning of entities
   - fixed a strange gcc optimizer bugs in xpath handling of float, gcc-3.0
    miscompile uri.c (William), Thomas Leitner provided a fix for the
    optimizer on Tru64
   - incorporated Yon Derek and Igor Zlatkovic  fixes and improvements for
    compilation on Windows MSC
   - update of libxml-doc.el (Felix Natter)
   - fixed 2 bugs in URI normalization code


2.3.11: June 17 2001:   - updates to trio, Makefiles and configure should fix some portability
    problems (alpha)
   - fixed some HTML serialization problems (pre, script, and block/inline
    handling), added encoding aware APIs, cleanup of this code
   - added xmlHasNsProp()
   - implemented a specific PI for encoding support in the DocBook SGML
    parser
   - some XPath fixes (-Infinity, / as a function parameter and namespaces
    node selection)
   - fixed a performance problem and an error in the validation code
   - fixed XInclude routine to implement the recursive behaviour
   - fixed xmlFreeNode problem when libxml is included statically twice
   - added --version to xmllint for bug reports


2.3.10: June 1 2001:   - fixed the SGML catalog support
   - a number of reported bugs got fixed, in XPath, iconv detection,
    XInclude processing
   - XPath string function should now handle unicode correctly


2.3.9: May 19 2001:Lots of bugfixes, and added a basic SGML catalog support:   - HTML push bugfix #54891 and another patch from Jonas Borgstrm
   - some serious speed optimization again
   - some documentation cleanups
   - trying to get better linking on Solaris (-R)
   - XPath API cleanup from Thomas Broyer
   - Validation bug fixed #54631, added a patch from Gary Pennington, fixed
    xmlValidGetValidElements()
   - Added an INSTALL file
   - Attribute removal added to API: #54433
   - added a basic support for SGML catalogs
   - fixed xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) API
   - bugfix in xmlNodeGetLang()
   - fixed a small configure portability problem
   - fixed an inversion of SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifier in HTML document


1.8.13: May 14 2001:   - bugfixes release of the old libxml1 branch used by Gnome


2.3.8: May 3 2001:   - Integrated an SGML DocBook parser for the Gnome project
   - Fixed a few things in the HTML parser
   - Fixed some XPath bugs raised by XSLT use, tried to fix the floating
    point portability issue
   - Speed improvement (8M/s for SAX, 3M/s for DOM, 1.5M/s for
    DOM+validation using the XML REC as input and a 700MHz celeron).
   - incorporated more Windows cleanup
   - added xmlSaveFormatFile()
   - fixed problems in copying nodes with entities references (gdome)
   - removed some troubles surrounding the new validation module


2.3.7: April 22 2001:   - lots of small bug fixes, corrected XPointer
   - Non deterministic content model validation support
   - added xmlDocCopyNode for gdome2
   - revamped the way the HTML parser handles end of tags
   - XPath: corrections of namespaces support and number formatting
   - Windows: Igor Zlatkovic patches for MSC compilation
   - HTML output fixes from P C Chow and William M. Brack
   - Improved validation speed sensible for DocBook
   - fixed a big bug with ID declared in external parsed entities
   - portability fixes, update of Trio from Bjorn Reese


2.3.6: April 8 2001:   - Code cleanup using extreme gcc compiler warning options, found and
    cleared half a dozen potential problem
   - the Eazel team found an XML parser bug
   - cleaned up the user of some of the string formatting function. used the
    trio library code to provide the one needed when the platform is missing
    them
   - xpath: removed a memory leak and fixed the predicate evaluation
    problem, extended the testsuite and cleaned up the result. XPointer seems
    broken ...


2.3.5: Mar 23 2001:   - Biggest change is separate parsing and evaluation of XPath expressions,
    there is some new APIs for this too
   - included a number of bug fixes(XML push parser, 51876, notations,
  52299)
   - Fixed some portability issues


2.3.4: Mar 10 2001:   - Fixed bugs #51860 and #51861
   - Added a global variable xmlDefaultBufferSize to allow default buffer
    size to be application tunable.
   - Some cleanup in the validation code, still a bug left and this part
    should probably be rewritten to support ambiguous content model :-\
   - Fix a couple of serious bugs introduced or raised by changes in 2.3.3
    parser
   - Fixed another bug in xmlNodeGetContent()
   - Bjorn fixed XPath node collection and Number formatting
   - Fixed a loop reported in the HTML parsing
   - blank space are reported even if the Dtd content model proves that they
    are formatting spaces, this is for XML conformance


2.3.3: Mar 1 2001:   - small change in XPath for XSLT
   - documentation cleanups
   - fix in validation by Gary Pennington
   - serious parsing performances improvements


2.3.2: Feb 24 2001:   - chasing XPath bugs, found a bunch, completed some TODO
   - fixed a Dtd parsing bug
   - fixed a bug in xmlNodeGetContent
   - ID/IDREF support partly rewritten by Gary Pennington


2.3.1: Feb 15 2001:   - some XPath and HTML bug fixes for XSLT
   - small extension of the hash table interfaces for DOM gdome2
    implementation
   - A few bug fixes


2.3.0: Feb 8 2001 (2.2.12 was on 25 Jan but I didn't kept track):   - Lots of XPath bug fixes
   - Add a mode with Dtd lookup but without validation error reporting for
    XSLT
   - Add support for text node without escaping (XSLT)
   - bug fixes for xmlCheckFilename
   - validation code bug fixes from Gary Pennington
   - Patch from Paul D. Smith correcting URI path normalization
   - Patch to allow simultaneous install of libxml-devel and
  libxml2-devel
   - the example Makefile is now fixed
   - added HTML to the RPM packages
   - tree copying bugfixes
   - updates to Windows makefiles
   - optimization patch from Bjorn Reese


2.2.11: Jan 4 2001:   - bunch of bug fixes (memory I/O, xpath, ftp/http, ...)
   - added htmlHandleOmittedElem()
   - Applied Bjorn Reese's IPV6 first patch
   - Applied Paul D. Smith patches for validation of XInclude results
   - added XPointer xmlns() new scheme support


2.2.10: Nov 25 2000:   - Fix the Windows problems of 2.2.8
   - integrate OpenVMS patches
   - better handling of some nasty HTML input
   - Improved the XPointer implementation
   - integrate a number of provided patches


2.2.9: Nov 25 2000:   - erroneous release :-(


2.2.8: Nov 13 2000:   - First version of XInclude
    support
   - Patch in conditional section handling
   - updated MS compiler project
   - fixed some XPath problems
   - added an URI escaping function
   - some other bug fixes


2.2.7: Oct 31 2000:   - added message redirection
   - XPath improvements (thanks TOM !)
   - xmlIOParseDTD() added
   - various small fixes in the HTML, URI, HTTP and XPointer support
   - some cleanup of the Makefile, autoconf and the distribution content


2.2.6: Oct 25 2000::   - Added an hash table module, migrated a number of internal structure to
    those
   - Fixed a posteriori validation problems
   - HTTP module cleanups
   - HTML parser improvements (tag errors, script/style handling, attribute
    normalization)
   - coalescing of adjacent text nodes
   - couple of XPath bug fixes, exported the internal API


2.2.5: Oct 15 2000::   - XPointer implementation and testsuite
   - Lot of XPath fixes, added variable and functions registration, more
    tests
   - Portability fixes, lots of enhancements toward an easy Windows build
    and release
   - Late validation fixes
   - Integrated a lot of contributed patches
   - added memory management docs
   - a performance problem when using large buffer seems fixed


2.2.4: Oct 1 2000::   - main XPath problem fixed
   - Integrated portability patches for Windows
   - Serious bug fixes on the URI and HTML code


2.2.3: Sep 17 2000:   - bug fixes
   - cleanup of entity handling code
   - overall review of all loops in the parsers, all sprintf usage has been
    checked too
   - Far better handling of larges Dtd. Validating against DocBook XML Dtd
    works smoothly now.


1.8.10: Sep 6 2000:   - bug fix release for some Gnome projects


2.2.2: August 12 2000:   - mostly bug fixes
   - started adding routines to access xml parser context options


2.2.1: July 21 2000:   - a purely bug fixes release
   - fixed an encoding support problem when parsing from a memory block
   - fixed a DOCTYPE parsing problem
   - removed a bug in the function allowing to override the memory
    allocation routines


2.2.0: July 14 2000:   - applied a lot of portability fixes
   - better encoding support/cleanup and saving (content is now always
    encoded in UTF-8)
   - the HTML parser now correctly handles encodings
   - added xmlHasProp()
   - fixed a serious problem with &#38;
   - propagated the fix to FTP client
   - cleanup, bugfixes, etc ...
   - Added a page about libxml Internationalization
    support


1.8.9:  July 9 2000:   - fixed the spec the RPMs should be better
   - fixed a serious bug in the FTP implementation, released 1.8.9 to solve
    rpmfind users problem


2.1.1: July 1 2000:   - fixes a couple of bugs in the 2.1.0 packaging
   - improvements on the HTML parser


2.1.0 and 1.8.8: June 29 2000:   - 1.8.8 is mostly a commodity package for upgrading to libxml2 according
    to new instructions. It fixes a nasty problem
    about &#38; charref parsing
   - 2.1.0 also ease the upgrade from libxml v1 to the recent version. it
    also contains numerous fixes and enhancements:
    added xmlStopParser() to stop parsingimproved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocsincludes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technologytried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
        related problemsoutput to a given encoding has been added/testedlot of various fixes
   - added xmlStopParser() to stop parsing
   - improved a lot parsing speed when there is large CDATA blocs
   - includes XPath patches provided by Picdar Technology
   - tried to fix as much as possible DTD validation and namespace
        related problems
   - output to a given encoding has been added/tested
   - lot of various fixes


2.0.0: Apr 12 2000:   - First public release of libxml2. If you are using libxml, it's a good
    idea to check the 1.x to 2.x upgrade instructions. NOTE: while initially
    scheduled for Apr 3 the release occurred only on Apr 12 due to massive
    workload.
   - The include are now located under $prefix/include/libxml (instead of
    $prefix/include/gnome-xml), they also are referenced by
    #include <libxml/xxx.h>instead of#include "xxx.h"
   - a new URI module for parsing URIs and following strictly RFC 2396
   - the memory allocation routines used by libxml can now be overloaded
    dynamically by using xmlMemSetup()
   - The previously CVS only tool tester has been renamed
    xmllint and is now installed as part of the libxml2
    package
   - The I/O interface has been revamped. There is now ways to plug in
    specific I/O modules, either at the URI scheme detection level using
    xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()  or by passing I/O functions when creating a
    parser context using xmlCreateIOParserCtxt()
   - there is a C preprocessor macro LIBXML_VERSION providing the version
    number of the libxml module in use
   - a number of optional features of libxml can now be excluded at
    configure time (FTP/HTTP/HTML/XPath/Debug)


2.0.0beta: Mar 14 2000:   - This is a first Beta release of libxml version 2
   - It's available only fromxmlsoft.org
    FTP, it's packaged as libxml2-2.0.0beta and available as tar and
  RPMs
   - This version is now the head in the Gnome CVS base, the old one is
    available under the tag LIB_XML_1_X
   - This includes a very large set of changes. From a  programmatic point
    of view applications should not have to be modified too much, check the
    upgrade page
   - Some interfaces may changes (especially a bit about encoding).
   - the updates includes:
    fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
        handled nowBetter handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
        and proper PEref extensions in external subsetsDTD conditional sectionsValidation now correctly handle entities contentchange
        structures to accommodate DOM
   - fix I18N support. ISO-Latin-x/UTF-8/UTF-16 (nearly) seems correctly
        handled now
   - Better handling of entities, especially well-formedness checking
        and proper PEref extensions in external subsets
   - DTD conditional sections
   - Validation now correctly handle entities content
   - change
        structures to accommodate DOM
   - Serious progress were made toward compliance, here are the result of the test against the
    OASIS testsuite (except the Japanese tests since I don't support that
    encoding yet). This URL is rebuilt every couple of hours using the CVS
    head version.


1.8.7: Mar 6 2000:   - This is a bug fix release:
   - It is possible to disable the ignorable blanks heuristic used by
    libxml-1.x, a new function  xmlKeepBlanksDefault(0) will allow this. Note
    that for adherence to XML spec, this behaviour will be disabled by
    default in 2.x . The same function will allow to keep compatibility for
    old code.
   - Blanks in <a>  </a> constructs are not ignored anymore,
    avoiding heuristic is really the Right Way :-\
   - The unchecked use of snprintf which was breaking libxml-1.8.6
    compilation on some platforms has been fixed
   - nanoftp.c nanohttp.c: Fixed '#' and '?' stripping when processing
  URIs


1.8.6: Jan 31 2000:   - added a nanoFTP transport module, debugged until the new version of rpmfind can use
    it without troubles


1.8.5: Jan 21 2000:   - adding APIs to parse a well balanced chunk of XML (production [43] content of the
    XML spec)
   - fixed a hideous bug in xmlGetProp pointed by Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
   - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> provided another patch trying
    to solve the zlib checks problems
   - The current state in gnome CVS base is expected to ship as 1.8.5 with
    gnumeric soon


1.8.4: Jan 13 2000:   - bug fixes, reintroduced xmlNewGlobalNs(), fixed xmlNewNs()
   - all exit() call should have been removed from libxml
   - fixed a problem with INCLUDE_WINSOCK on WIN32 platform
   - added newDocFragment()


1.8.3: Jan 5 2000:   - a Push interface for the XML and HTML parsers
   - a shell-like interface to the document tree (try tester --shell :-)
   - lots of bug fixes and improvement added over XMas holidays
   - fixed the DTD parsing code to work with the xhtml DTD
   - added xmlRemoveProp(), xmlRemoveID() and xmlRemoveRef()
   - Fixed bugs in xmlNewNs()
   - External entity loading code has been revamped, now it uses
    xmlLoadExternalEntity(), some fix on entities processing were added
   - cleaned up WIN32 includes of socket stuff


1.8.2: Dec 21 1999:   - I got another problem with includes and C++, I hope this issue is fixed
    for good this time
   - Added a few tree modification functions: xmlReplaceNode,
    xmlAddPrevSibling, xmlAddNextSibling, xmlNodeSetName and
    xmlDocSetRootElement
   - Tried to improve the HTML output with help from Chris Lahey


1.8.1: Dec 18 1999:   - various patches to avoid troubles when using libxml with C++ compilers
    the "namespace" keyword and C escaping in include files
   - a problem in one of the core macros IS_CHAR was corrected
   - fixed a bug introduced in 1.8.0 breaking default namespace processing,
    and more specifically the Dia application
   - fixed a posteriori validation (validation after parsing, or by using a
    Dtd not specified in the original document)
   - fixed a bug in


1.8.0: Dec 12 1999:   - cleanup, especially memory wise
   - the parser should be more reliable, especially the HTML one, it should
    not crash, whatever the input !
   - Integrated various patches, especially a speedup improvement for large
    dataset from Carl Nygard,
    configure with --with-buffers to enable them.
   - attribute normalization, oops should have been added long ago !
   - attributes defaulted from DTDs should be available, xmlSetProp() now
    does entities escaping by default.


1.7.4: Oct 25 1999:   - Lots of HTML improvement
   - Fixed some errors when saving both XML and HTML
   - More examples, the regression tests should now look clean
   - Fixed a bug with contiguous charref


1.7.3: Sep 29 1999:   - portability problems fixed
   - snprintf was used unconditionally, leading to link problems on system
    were it's not available, fixed


1.7.1: Sep 24 1999:   - The basic type for strings manipulated by libxml has been renamed in
    1.7.1 from CHAR to xmlChar. The reason
    is that CHAR was conflicting with a predefined type on Windows. However
    on non WIN32 environment, compatibility is provided by the way of  a
    #define .
   - Changed another error : the use of a structure field called errno, and
    leading to troubles on platforms where it's a macro


1.7.0: Sep 23 1999:   - Added the ability to fetch remote DTD or parsed entities, see the nanohttp module.
   - Added an errno to report errors by another mean than a simple printf
    like callback
   - Finished ID/IDREF support and checking when validation
   - Serious memory leaks fixed (there is now a memory wrapper module)
   - Improvement of XPath
    implementation
   - Added an HTML parser front-end

Daniel Veillard at 
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