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  Schemas

The change log at 
ChangeLog.html
 describes the recents commits
to the CVS at 
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/libxml2/
 code base.There is the list of public releases:
2.6.18: Mar 13 2005:
   -  build fixes: warnings (Peter Breitenlohner), testapi.c generation, 
       Bakefile support (Francesco Montorsi), Windows compilation (Joel Reed),
       some gcc4 fixes, HP-UX portability fixes (Rick Jones).
   -  bug fixes: xmlSchemaElementDump namespace (Kasimier Buchcik), push and
       xmlreader stopping on non-fatal errors, thread support for dictionnaries
       reference counting (Gary Coady), internal subset and push problem, 
       URL saved in xmlCopyDoc, various schemas bug fixes (Kasimier), Python
       paths fixup (Stephane Bidoul), xmlGetNodePath and namespaces, 
       xmlSetNsProp fix (Mike Hommey), warning should not count as error
       (William Brack), xmlCreatePushParser empty chunk, XInclude parser
       flags (William), cleanup FTP and HTTP code to reuse the uri parsing
       and IPv6 (William), xmlTextWriterStartAttributeNS fix (Rob Richards),
       XMLLINT_INDENT being empty (William), xmlWriter bugs (Rob Richards),
       multithreading on Windows (Rich Salz), xmlSearchNsByHref fix (Kasimier),
       Python binding leak (Brent Hendricks), aliasing bug exposed by gcc4
       on s390, xmlTextReaderNext bug (Rob Richards), Schemas decimal type
       fixes (William Brack), xmlByteConsumed static buffer (Ben Maurer).
   -  improvement: speedup parsing comments and DTDs, dictionnary support for
       hash tables, Schemas Identity constraints (Kasimier), streaming XPath
       subset, xmlTextReaderReadString added (Bjorn Reese), Schemas canonical
       values handling (Kasimier), add xmlTextReaderByteConsumed (Aron
       Stansvik), 
   -  Documentation: Wiki support (Joel Reed)



2.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
   - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 
      maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
      (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS
      build (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation
      on AIX (Dan McNichol)
   - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
      to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
      ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
      warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
      UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements
      in push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
      Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
      patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line
      number sometimes missing.
      
   - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator (William),
      xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings (William),
      XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call serialize().
      
   - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber
      for the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs
      (mostly Joel Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave
      option for format (Phil Shafer)
   - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries (William).


2.6.16: Nov 10 2004:
   - general hardening and bug fixing crossing all the API based on new
    automated regression testing
   - build fix: IPv6 build and test on AIX (Dodji Seketeli)
   - bug fixes: problem with XML::Libxml reported by Petr Pajas,  encoding
    conversion functions return values, UTF-8 bug affecting XPath reported by
    Markus Bertheau, catalog problem with NULL entries (William Brack)
   - documentation: fix to xmllint man page, some API function descritpion
    were updated.
   - improvements: DTD validation APIs provided at the Python level (Brent
    Hendricks) 


2.6.15: Oct 27 2004:
   - security fixes on the nanoftp and nanohttp modules
   - build fixes: xmllint detection bug in configure, building outside the
    source tree (Thomas Fitzsimmons)
   - bug fixes: HTML parser on broken ASCII chars in names (William), Python
    paths (Malcolm Tredinnick), xmlHasNsProp and default namespace (William),
    saving to python file objects (Malcolm Tredinnick), DTD lookup fix
    (Malcolm), save back <group> in catalogs (William), tree build
    fixes (DV and Rob Richards), Schemas memory bug, structured error handler
    on Python 64bits, thread local memory deallocation, memory leak reported
    by Volker Roth, xmlValidateDtd in the presence of an internal subset,
    entities and _private problem (William), xmlBuildRelativeURI error
    (William).
   - improvements: better XInclude error reports (William), tree debugging
    module and tests, convenience functions at the Reader API (Graham
    Bennett), add support for PI in the HTML parser.


2.6.14: Sep 29 2004:
   - build fixes: configure paths for xmllint and xsltproc, compilation
    without HTML parser, compilation warning cleanups (William Brack &
    Malcolm Tredinnick), VMS makefile update (Craig Berry),
   - bug fixes: xmlGetUTF8Char (William Brack), QName properties (Kasimier
    Buchcik), XInclude testing, Notation serialization, UTF8ToISO8859x
    transcoding (Mark Itzcovitz), lots of XML Schemas cleanup and fixes
    (Kasimier), ChangeLog cleanup (Stepan Kasal), memory fixes (Mark Vakoc),
    handling of failed realloc(), out of bound array adressing in Schemas
    date handling, Python space/tabs cleanups (Malcolm Tredinnick), NMTOKENS
    E20 validation fix (Malcolm),
   - improvements: added W3C XML Schemas testsuite (Kasimier Buchcik), add
    xmlSchemaValidateOneElement (Kasimier), Python exception hierearchy
    (Malcolm Tredinnick), Python libxml2 driver improvement (Malcolm
    Tredinnick), Schemas support for xsi:schemaLocation,
    xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation, xsi:type (Kasimier Buchcik)


2.6.13: Aug 31 2004:
   - build fixes: Windows and zlib (Igor Zlatkovic), -O flag with gcc,
    Solaris compiler warning, fixing RPM BuildRequires,
   - fixes: DTD loading on Windows (Igor), Schemas error reports APIs
    (Kasimier Buchcik), Schemas validation crash, xmlCheckUTF8 (William Brack
    and Julius Mittenzwei), Schemas facet check (Kasimier), default namespace
    problem (William), Schemas hexbinary empty values, encoding error could
    genrate a serialization loop.
   - Improvements: Schemas validity improvements (Kasimier), added --path
    and --load-trace options to xmllint
   - documentation: tutorial update (John Fleck)


2.6.12: Aug 22 2004:
   - build fixes: fix --with-minimum, elfgcchack.h fixes (Peter
    Breitenlohner), perl path lookup (William), diff on Solaris (Albert
    Chin), some 64bits cleanups.
   - Python: avoid a warning with 2.3 (William Brack), tab and space mixes
    (William), wrapper generator fixes (William), Cygwin support (Gerrit P.
    Haase), node wrapper fix (Marc-Antoine Parent), XML Schemas support
    (Torkel Lyng)
   - Schemas: a lot of bug fixes and improvements from Kasimier Buchcik
   - fixes: RVT fixes (William), XPath context resets bug (William), memory
    debug (Steve Hay), catalog white space handling (Peter Breitenlohner),
    xmlReader state after attribute reading (William), structured error
    handler (William), XInclude generated xml:base fixup (William), Windows
    memory reallocation problem (Steve Hay), Out of Memory conditions
    handling (William and Olivier Andrieu), htmlNewDoc() charset bug,
    htmlReadMemory init (William), a posteriori validation DTD base
    (William), notations serialization missing, xmlGetNodePath (Dodji),
    xmlCheckUTF8 (Diego Tartara), missing line numbers on entity
  (William)
   - improvements: DocBook catalog build scrip (William), xmlcatalog tool
    (Albert Chin), xmllint --c14n option, no_proxy environment (Mike Hommey),
    xmlParseInNodeContext() addition, extend xmllint --shell, allow XInclude
    to not generate start/end nodes, extend xmllint --version to include CVS
    tag (William)
   - documentation: web pages fixes, validity API docs fixes (William)
    schemas API fix (Eric Haszlakiewicz), xmllint man page (John Fleck)


2.6.11: July 5 2004:
   - Schemas: a lot of changes and improvements by Kasimier Buchcik for
    attributes, namespaces and simple types.
   - build fixes: --with-minimum (William Brack),  some gcc cleanup
    (William), --with-thread-alloc (William)
   - portability: Windows binary package change (Igor Zlatkovic), Catalog
    path on Windows
   - documentation: update to the tutorial (John Fleck), xmllint return code
    (John Fleck), man pages (Ville Skytta),
   - bug fixes: C14N bug serializing namespaces (Aleksey Sanin), testSAX
    properly initialize the library (William), empty node set in XPath
    (William), xmlSchemas errors (William), invalid charref problem pointed
    by Morus Walter, XInclude xml:base generation (William), Relax-NG bug
    with div processing (William), XPointer and xml:base problem(William),
    Reader and entities, xmllint return code for schemas (William), reader
    streaming problem (Steve Ball), DTD serialization problem (William),
    libxml.m4 fixes (Mike Hommey), do not provide destructors as methods on
    Python classes, xmlReader buffer bug, Python bindings memory interfaces
    improvement (with St閜hane Bidoul), Fixed the push parser to be back to
    synchronous behaviour.
   - improvement: custom per-thread I/O enhancement (Rob Richards), register
    namespace in debug shell (Stefano Debenedetti), Python based regression
    test for non-Unix users (William), dynamically increase the number of
    XPath extension functions in Python and fix a memory leak (Marc-Antoine
    Parent and William)
   - performance: hack done with Arjan van de Ven to reduce ELF footprint
    and generated code on Linux, plus use gcc runtime profiling to optimize
    the code generated in the RPM packages.


2.6.10: May 17 2004:
   - Web page generated for ChangeLog
   - build fixes: --without-html problems, make check without make all
   - portability: problem with xpath.c on Windows (MSC and Borland), memcmp
    vs. strncmp on Solaris, XPath tests on Windows (Mark Vakoc), C++ do not
    use "list" as parameter name, make tests work with Python 1.5 (Ed
  Davis),
   - improvements: made xmlTextReaderMode public, small buffers resizing
    (Morten Welinder), add --maxmem option to xmllint, add
    xmlPopInputCallback() for Matt Sergeant, refactoring of serialization
    escaping, added escaping customization
   - bugfixes: xsd:extension (Taihei Goi), assorted regexp bugs (William
    Brack), xmlReader end of stream problem, node deregistration with reader,
    URI escaping and filemanes,  XHTML1 formatting (Nick Wellnhofer), regexp
    transition reduction (William), various XSD Schemas fixes (Kasimier
    Buchcik), XInclude fallback problem (William), weird problems with DTD
    (William), structured error handler callback context (William), reverse
    xmlEncodeSpecialChars() behaviour back to escaping '"'


2.6.9: Apr 18 2004:
   - implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
   - bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks), line number and CDATA (Dave
    Beckett), Relax-NG compilation (William Brack), Regexp patches (with
    William), xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc), a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with
    William), Relax-NG name classes compares (William), XInclude duplicate
    fallback (William), external DTD encoding detection (William), a DTD
    validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix, recusive extention
    schemas
   - improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc), indenting
    save optimization, better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect  behaviour (Ian
    Hummel), HTML parser frameset (James Bursa), libxml2-python RPM
    dependancy, XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik), warning removal
    clanup (William), keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
   - documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck), new
    example (load, xpath, modify, save), xmlCatalogDump() comments,
   - Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher), work around Microsoft
    compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)


2.6.8: Mar 23 2004:
   - First step of the cleanup of the serialization code and APIs
   - XML Schemas: mixed content (Adam Dickmeiss), QName handling fixes (Adam
    Dickmeiss), anyURI for "" (John Belmonte)
   - Python: Canonicalization C14N support added (Anthony Carrico)
   - xmlDocCopyNode() extension (William)
   - Relax-NG: fix when processing XInclude results (William), external
    reference in interleave (William), missing error on <choice>
    failure (William), memory leak in schemas datatype facets.
   - xmlWriter: patch for better DTD support (Alfred Mickautsch)
   - bug fixes: xmlXPathLangFunction memory leak (Mike Hommey and William
    Brack), no ID errors if using HTML_PARSE_NOERROR, xmlcatalog fallbacks to
    URI on SYSTEM lookup failure, XInclude parse flags inheritance (William),
    XInclude and XPointer fixes for entities (William), XML parser bug
    reported by Holger Rauch, nanohttp fd leak (William),  regexps char
    groups '-' handling (William), dictionnary reference counting problems,
    do not close stderr.
   - performance patches from Petr Pajas
   - Documentation fixes: XML_CATALOG_FILES in man pages (Mike Hommey)
   - compilation and portability fixes: --without-valid, catalog cleanups
    (Peter Breitenlohner), MingW patch (Roland Schwingel), cross-compilation
    to Windows (Christophe de Vienne),  --with-html-dir fixup (Julio Merino
    Vidal), Windows build (Eric Zurcher)


2.6.7: Feb 23 2004:
   - documentation: tutorial updates (John Fleck), benchmark results
   - xmlWriter: updates and fixes (Alfred Mickautsch, Lucas Brasilino)
   - XPath optimization (Petr Pajas)
   - DTD ID handling optimization
   - bugfixes: xpath number with  > 19 fractional (William Brack), push
    mode with unescaped '>' characters, fix xmllint --stream --timing, fix
    xmllint --memory --stream memory usage, xmlAttrSerializeTxtContent
    handling NULL, trying to fix Relax-NG/Perl interface.
   - python: 2.3 compatibility, whitespace fixes (Malcolm Tredinnick)
   - Added relaxng option to xmllint --shell


2.6.6: Feb 12 2004:
   - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
    William) reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
   - bugfixes: make test and path issues, xmlWriter attribute serialization
    (William Brack), xmlWriter indentation (William), schemas validation
    (Eric Haszlakiewicz), XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg
    Paraschenko), XInclude empty fallback (William), HTML warnings (William),
    XPointer in XInclude (William), Python namespace serialization,
    isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch), output of parameter
    entities in internal subset (William), internal subset bug in push mode,
    <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
   - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston), warnings removal
    (Philip Ludlam), SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard), fix
    --with-minimum configuration.
   - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
   - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck), version
    dependancies (John Fleck)