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The change logdescribes the recents commitsto the CVScode base. Those are the public releases made: ### 1.1.17: Jun 6 2006 portability fixes: python detection bug fixes: some regression tests, attribute/namespaces output (Kasimier Buchcik), problem in mixed xsl:value-of and xsl:text uses (Kasimier) improvements: internal refactoring (Kasimier Buchcik), use of the XPath object cache in libxml2-2.6.25 (Kasimier) ### 1.1.16: May 01 2006 portability fixes: EXSLT date/time on Solaris and IRIX (Albert Chin),HP-UX build (Albert Chin), build fixes: Python detection(Joseph Sacco), plugin configurei(Joel Reed) bug fixes: pattern compilation fix(William Brack), EXSLT date/timefix (Thomas Broyer), EXSLT function bug, potential loop on variableeval, startup race (Christopher Palmer), debug statement left in python(Nic Ferrier), various cleanup based on Coverity reports), error onOut of memory condition (Charles Hardin), various namespace prefixesfixes (Kasimier Buchcik), improvement: speed up sortingi, start of internals refactoring (KasimierBuchcik) documentation: man page fixes and updates (Daniel Leidert) ### 1.1.15: Sep 04 2005 build fixes: Windows build cleanups and updates (Igor Zlatkovic),remove jhbuild warnings bug fixes: negative number formatting (William Brack), numberformatting per mille definition (William Brack), XInclude default values(William), text copy bugs (William), bug related to xmlXPathContext size,reuse libxml2 memory management for text nodes, dictionnary text bug,forbid variables in match (needs libxml2-2.6.21) improvements: EXSLT dyn:map (Mark Vakoc), documentation: EXSLT date and time functions namespace in man (JonathanWakely) ### 1.1.14: Apr 02 2005 bug fixes: text node on stylesheet document without a dictionary(William Brack), more checking of XSLT syntax, calling xsltInit()multiple times, mode values interning raised by Mark Vakoc, bug inpattern matching with ancestors, bug in patterna matching with cascadingselect, xinclude and document() problem, build outside of source tree(Mike Castle) improvement: added a --nodict mode to xsltproc to check problems fordocuemtns without dictionnaries ### 1.1.13: Mar 13 2005 build fixes: 64bits cleanup (William Brack), python 2.4 test (William),LIBXSLT_VERSION_EXTRA on Windows (William), Windows makefiles fixes (JoelReed), libgcrypt-devel requires for RPM spec. bug fixes: exslt day-of-week-in-month (Sal Paradise), xsl:call-templateshould not change the current template rule (William Brack), evaluationof global variables (William Brack), RVT's in XPath predicates (William),namespace URI on template names (Mark Vakoc), stat() for Windows patch(Aleksey Gurtovoy), pattern expression fixes (William Brack), out ofmemory detection misses (William), parserOptions propagation (William),exclude-result-prefixes fix (William), // patten fix (William). extensions: module support (Joel Reed), dictionnary based speedupstrying to get rid of xmlStrEqual as much as possible. documentation: added Wiki (Joel Reed) ### 1.1.12: Oct 29 2004 build fixes: warnings removal (William). bug fixes: attribute document pointer fix (Mark Vakoc), exslt datenegative periods (William Brack), generated tree structure fixes,namespace lookup fix, use reentrant gmtime_r (William Brack),exslt:funtion namespace fix (William), potential NULL pointer reference(Dennis Dams, William), force string interning on generateddocuments. documentation: update of the second tutorial (Panagiotis Louridas), addexslt doc in rpm packages, fix the xsltproc man page. ### 1.1.11: Sep 29 2004 bug fixes: xsl:include problems (William Brack), UTF8 number pattern(William), date-time validation (William), namespace fix (William),various Exslt date fixes (William), error callback fixes, leak withnamespaced global variable, attempt to fix a weird problem #153137 improvements: exslt:date-sum tests (Derek Poon) documentation: second tutorial by Panagiotis Lourida ### 1.1.10: Aug 31 2004 build fix: NUL in c file blocking compilation on Solaris, Windows build(Igor Zlatkovic) fix: key initialization problem (William Brack) documentation: fixed missing man page description for --path ### 1.1.9: Aug 22 2004 build fixes: missing tests (William Brack), Python dependancies, Pythonon 64bits boxes, --with-crypto flag (Rob Richards), fixes: RVT key handling (William), Python binding (William and SitsofeWheeler), key and XPath troubles (William), template priority on imports(William), str:tokenize with empty strings (William), #default namespacealias behaviour (William), doc ordering missing for main document(William), 64bit bug (Andreas Schwab) improvements: EXSLT date:sum added (Joel Reed), hook for documentloading for David Hyatt, xsltproc --nodtdattr to avoid defaulting DTDattributes, extend xsltproc --version with CVS stamp (William). Documentation: web page problem reported by Oliver Stoeneberg ### 1.1.8: July 5 2004 build fixes: Windows runtime options (Oliver Stoeneberg), Windowsbinary package layout (Igor Zlatkovic), libgcrypt version test and link(William) documentation: fix libxslt namespace name in doc (William) bug fixes: undefined namespace message (William Brack), search engine(William), multiple namespace fixups (William), namespace fix for keyevaluation (William), Python memory debug bindings, improvements: crypto extensions for exslt (Joel Reed, William) ### 1.1.7: May 17 2004 build fix: warning about localtime_r on Solaris bug fix: UTF8 string tokenize (William Brack), subtle memorycorruption, linefeed after comment at document level (William),disable-output-escaping problem (William), pattern compilation in deepimported stylesheets (William), namespace extension prefix bug,libxslt.m4 bug (Edward Rudd), namespace lookup for attribute, namespacedDOCTYPE name ### 1.1.6: Apr 18 2004 2 bug fixes about keys fixed one by Mark Vakoc ### 1.1.5: Mar 23 2004 performance: use dictionnary lookup for variables remove use of _private from source documents cleanup of "make tests" output bugfixes: AVT in local variables, use localtime_r to avoid threadtroubles (William), dictionary handling bug (William), limited number ofstubstitutions in AVT (William), tokenize fix for UTF-8 (William),superfluous namespace (William), xsltproc error code on<xsl:message> halt, OpenVMS fix, dictionnary reference countingchange. ### 1.1.4: Feb 23 2004 bugfixes: attributes without doc (Mariano Suárez-Alvarez), problem withYelp, extension problem display extension modules (Steve Little) Windows compilation patch (Mark Vadoc), Mingw (Mikhail Grushinskiy) ### 1.1.3: Feb 16 2004 Rewrote the Attribute Value Template code, new XPath compilationinterfaces, dictionnary reuses for XSLT with potential for seriousperformance improvements. bug fixes: portability (William Brack), key() in node-set() results(William), comment before doctype (William), math and node-set() problems(William), cdata element and default namespace (William), behaviour onunknown XSLT elements (Stefan Kost), priority of "//foo" patterns(William), xsl:element and xsl:attribute QName check (William), commentswith -- (William), attribute namespace (William), check for ?> in PI(William) Documentations: cleanup (John Fleck and William) Python: patch for OS-X (Gianni Ceccarelli), enums export (Stephanebidoul) ### 1.1.2: Dec 24 2003 Documentation fixes (John Fleck, William Brack), EXSLT documentation(William Brack) Windows compilation fixes for MSVC and Mingw (Igor Zlatkovic) Bug fixes: exslt:date returning NULL strings (William Brack),namespaces output (William Brack), key and namespace definition problem,passing options down to the document() parser, xsl:number fixes (WilliamBrack) ### 1.1.1: Dec 10 2003 code cleanup (William Brack) Windows: Makefile improvements (Igor Zlatkovic) documentation improvements: William Brack, libexslt man page (JonathanWakely) param in EXSLT functions (Shaun McCance) XSLT debugging improvements (Mark Vakoc) bug fixes: number formatting (Bjorn Reese), exslt:tokenize (WilliamBrack), key selector parsing with | reported by Oleg Paraschenko,xsl:element with computed namespaces (William Brack), xslt:import/includerecursion detection (William Brack), exslt:function used in keys (WilliamBrack), bug when CDATA_SECTION are foun in the tree (William Brack),entities handling when using XInclude. ### 1.1.0: Nov 4 2003 Removed DocBook SGML broken support fix xsl:key to work with PIs Makefile and build improvement (Graham Wilson), build cleanup (WilliamBrack), macro fix (Justin Fletcher), build outside of source tree (RoumenPetrov) xsltproc option display fix (Alexey Efimov), --load-trace (CrutcherDunnavant) Python: never use stdout for error extension memory error fix (Karl Eichwalder) header path fixes (Steve Ball) added saxon:line-number() to libexslt (Brett Kail) Fix some tortuous template problems when using predicates (WilliamBrack) Debugger status patch (Kasimier Buchcik) Use new libxml2-2.6.x APIs for faster processing Make sure xsl:sort is empty Fixed a bug in default processing of attributes Removes the deprecated breakpoint library detect invalid names on templates (William Brack) fix exslt:document (and similar) base handling problem ### 1.0.33: Sep 12 2003 This is a bugfix only release error message missing argument (William Brack) mode not cascaded in template fallbacks (William Brack) catch redefinition of parameter/variables (William Brack) multiple keys with same namespace name (William Brack) patch for compilation using MingW on Windows (Mikhail Grushinskiy) header export macros for Windows (Igor Zlatkovic) cdata-section-elements handling of namespaced names compilation without libxml2 XPointer support (Mark Vadoc) apply-templates crash (William Brack) bug with imported templates (William Brack) imported attribute-sets merging bug (DocBook) (William Brack) ### 1.0.32: Aug 9 2003 bugfixes: xsltSaveResultToFile() python binding (Chris Jaeger), EXSLTfunction (William Brack), RVT for globals (William Brack), EXSLT date(William Brack), speed of large text output, xsl:copy with attributes, strip-space andnamespaces prefix, fix for --path xsltproc option, EXST:tokenize (ShaunMcCance), EXSLT:seconds (William Brack), sort with multiple keys (WilliamBrack), checking of { and } for attribute value templates (WilliamBrack) Python bindings for extension elements (Sean Treadway) EXSLT:split added (Shaun McCance) portability fixes for HP-UX/Solaris/IRIX (William Brack) doc cleanup ### 1.0.31: Jul 6 2003 bugfixes: xsl:copy on namespace nodes, AVT for xsl:sort order, fix forthe debugger (Keith Isdale), output filename limitation, trio.h andtriodef.h added (Albert Chin), EXSLT node-set (Peter Breitenlohner),xsltChoose and whitespace (Igor Zlatkovic), stylesheet compilation (Igor Zlatkovic), NaN and sort (William Brack),RVT bug introduced in 1.0.30 avoid generating &quot; (fix in libxml2-2.5.8) fix 64bit cleaness problem and compilation troubles introduced in1.0.30 Windows makefile generation (Igor Zlatkovic) HP-UX portability fix ### 1.0.30: May 4 2003 Fixes and new APIs to handle Result Value Trees and avoid leaks Fixes for: EXSLT math pow() function (Charles Bozeman), globalparameter and global variables mismatch, a segfault on patterncompilation errors, namespace copy in xsl:copy-of, python generatorproblem, OpenVMS trio update, premature call to xsltFreeStackElem (Igor),current node when templates applies to attributes ### 1.0.29: Apr 1 2003 performance improvements especially for large flat documents bug fixes: Result Value Tree handling, XML IDs, keys(), extra namespacedeclarations with xsl:elements. portability: python and trio fixes (Albert Chin), python on Solaris(Ben Phillips) ### 1.0.28: Mar 24 2003 fixed node() in patterns semantic. fixed a memory access problem in format-number() fixed stack overflow in recursive global variable or params cleaned up Result Value Tree handling, and fixed a couple of old bugsin the process ### 1.0.27: Feb 24 2003 bug fixes: spurious xmlns:nsX="" generation, serialization bug (inlibxml2), a namespace copy problem, errors in the RPM spec prereqs Windows path canonicalization and document cache fix (Igor) ### 1.0.26: Feb 10 2003 Fixed 3 serious bugs in document() and stylesheet compilation whichcould lead to a crash ### 1.0.25: Feb 5 2003 Bug fix: double-free for standalone stylesheets introduced in 1.0.24, Csyntax pbm, 3 bugs reported by Eric van der Vlist Some XPath and XInclude related problems were actually fixed inlibxml2-2.5.2 Documentation: emphasize taht --docbook is not for XML docs. ### 1.0.24: Jan 14 2003 bug fixes: imported global varables, python bindings (Stéphane Bidoul),EXSLT memory leak (Charles Bozeman), namespace generation onxsl:attribute, space handling with imports (Daniel Stodden),extension-element-prefixes (Josh Parsons), comments within xsl:text (MattSergeant), superfluous xmlns generation, XInclude related bug fornumbering, EXSLT strings (Alexey Efimov), attribute-sets computation onimports, extension module init and shutdown callbacks not called HP-UX portability (Alexey Efimov), Windows makefiles (Igor and StephaneBidoul), VMS makefile updates (Craig A. Berry) adds xsltGetProfileInformation() (Michael Rothwell) fix the API generation scripts API to provide the sorting routines (Richard Jinks) added XML description of the EXSLT API added ESXLT URI (un)escaping (Jörg Walter) Some memory leaks have been found and fixed document() now support fragment identifiers in URIs ### 1.0.23: Nov 17 2002 Windows build cleanup (Igor) Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activatingEXSLT various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded stringfunctions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns Documentation improvements (John Fleck) added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle) ### 1.0.22: Oct 18 2002 Updates on the Windows Makefiles Added a security module, and a related set of new options toxsltproc Allowed per transformation error handler. Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attributelists ### 1.0.21: Sep 26 2002 Bug fixes: match="node()", date:difference() (Igor and CharlieBozeman), disable-output-escaping Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes Logos from Marc Liyanage Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),Windows (Igor), Python detection Documentation improvements: John Fleck ### 1.0.20: Aug 23 2002 Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat) fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users possible leak patches from Nathan Myers try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in thecases Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem Fixed a few XSLT reported errors ### 1.0.19: July 6 2002 EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc) xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist xsl:message with terminate="yes" fixes: William Brack xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version oflibxml2 ### 1.0.18: May 27 2002 a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations(DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman), element-available (RichardJinks) xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to MarkVakoc there is a new API to save directly to a stringxsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter specific error registration function for the python API ### 1.0.17: April 29 2002 cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows byIgor a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal ### 1.0.16: April 15 2002 Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can'tsave portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings ### 1.0.15: Mar 25 2002 Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]templates Debug of memory alocation with valgind serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBookprocessing revamp of the Windows build ### 1.0.14: Mar 18 2002 Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18) Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windowsportability fixes ### 1.0.13: Mar 8 2002 a number of bug fixes including "namespace node have no parents" Improvement of the Python bindings Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt datefunctions. ### 1.0.12: Feb 11 2002 Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones ### 1.0.11: Feb 8 2002 Change of Licence to the MITLicence Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support toextend the engine with functions written in Python A number of bug fixes Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions Portability fixes ### 1.0.10: Jan 14 2002 Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert) Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shelllevel A few bug fixes ### 1.0.9: Dec 7 2001 Makefile patches from Peter Williams attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated thedocumentation patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should bemade dynamic really fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTMLoutput patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger ### 1.0.8: Nov 26 2001 fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some codecleanup patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinkinginformations ### 1.0.7: Nov 10 2001 remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger fixes the handling of indent="no" on HTML output fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file ### 1.0.6: Oct 30 2001 bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (BruceMiller) update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor) fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me) ### 1.0.5: Oct 10 2001 some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates fromIgor fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer) support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initialcontribution from Darren Graves) better handling of XPath evaluation errors ### 1.0.4: Sep 12 2001 Documentation updates from John fleck bug fixes (DocBook FO generation should be fixed) and portabilityimprovements Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,Time and Date core functions support ### 1.0.3: Aug 23 2001 XML Catalog support see the doc New NaN/Infinity floating point code A few bug fixes ### 1.0.2: Aug 15 2001 lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented improvements on the extension framework documentation improvements Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default ### 1.0.1: July 24 2001 initial EXSLT framework better error reporting fixed the profiler on Windows bug fixes ### 1.0.0: July 10 2001 a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed added a documentation for writingextensions fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William) added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc--profile option fixed element-available() and the implementation of the variouschunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work asexpected added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of thespec ### 0.14.0: July 5 2001 lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer the Windows MSC environment should be complete tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook DefinitiveGuide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads ### 0.13.0: June 26 2001 lots of cleanups fixed a C++ compilation problem couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo() try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression testwith them fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek update to the Tutorial by John Fleck William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output(incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc ### 0.12.0: June 18 2001 fixed a dozen of bugs reported HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgradetoo) William fixed some problems with document() Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgradetoo) John Fleck added atutorial Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() ifrequested made xsltproc --version more detailed ### 0.11.0: June 1 2001 Mostly a bug fix release. integration of catalogs from xsltproc added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities document() should hopefully work correctly but ... fixed bug with PI and comments processing William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode ### 0.10.0: May 19 2001 cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete) fixed URI resolution in document() force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,even if unused ... Fixed HTML default output detection Fixed double attribute generation #54446 Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451 More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList() added a documentation on the libxslt internals William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number() Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish) a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people weresubmitting them ### 0.9.0: May 3 2001 lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite xsltproc should work with multiple params added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheetsshould be faster using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreadedprograms should work now fixed another batch of namespace handling problems Implemented multiple level of sorting ### 0.8.0: Apr 22 2001 fixed ansidecl.h problem fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id() sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations(requires libxml-2.3.7) fixes to current() and key() other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTMLstylesheets ### 0.7.0: Apr 10 2001 cleanup using stricter compiler flags command line parameter passing fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document() ### 0.6.0: Mar 22 2001 another beta requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support document() extension should function properly fixed a number or reported bugs ### 0.5.0: Mar 10 2001 fifth beta some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use thesame stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed) fixed problems with handling of tree results fixed a reported strip-spaces problem added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables aswell as patch for with-param support in apply-templates a bug fix on for-each ### 0.4.0: Mar 1 2001 fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3 bug fixes some optimization started implement extension support, not finished implemented but not tested multiple file output ### 0.3.0: Feb 24 2001 third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2 lot of bug fixes some optimization added DocBook XSL based testsuite ### 0.2.0: Feb 15 2001 second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1 getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTMLand XPath support of libxml start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regeneratethe XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associatedstylesheets (in section I of the XMLREC) Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support ofkey() and document() is not complete ### 0.1.0: Feb 8 2001 first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0 lots of bug fixes, first "testing" version, but incomplete ### 0.0.1: Jan 25 2001 first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12 Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from beingfeature complete Daniel Veillard