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libxml,在UNIX/LINUX下非常重要的一个库,为XML相关应用提供方便.目前上载的是最新版本,若要取得最新版本,请参考里面的readme.

    implementation
   - Implementation of XPointer element() scheme
   - Bug fixes: XML parser, XInclude entities merge, validity checking on
    namespaces,
    2 serialization bugs, node info generation problems, a DTD regexp
    generation problem.
  
   - Portability: windows updates and path canonicalization (Igor)
   - A few typo fixes (Kjartan Maraas)
   - Python bindings generator fixes (Stephane Bidoul)


2.5.3: Feb 10 2003:
   - RelaxNG and XML Schemas datatypes improvements, and added a first
    version of RelaxNG Python bindings
   - Fixes: XLink (Sean Chittenden), XInclude (Sean Chittenden), API fix for
    serializing namespace nodes, encoding conversion bug, XHTML1
  serialization
   - Portability fixes: Windows (Igor), AMD 64bits RPM spec file


2.5.2: Feb 5 2003:
   - First implementation of RelaxNG, added --relaxng flag to xmllint
   - Schemas support now compiled in by default.
   - Bug fixes: DTD validation, namespace checking, XInclude and entities,
    delegateURI in XML Catalogs, HTML parser, XML reader (St閜hane Bidoul),
    XPath parser and evaluation,  UTF8ToUTF8 serialization, XML reader memory
    consumption, HTML parser, HTML serialization in the presence of
  namespaces
   - added an HTML API to check elements and attributes.
   - Documentation improvement, PDF for the tutorial (John Fleck), doc
    patches (Stefan Kost)
   - Portability fixes: NetBSD (Julio Merino), Windows (Igor Zlatkovic)
   - Added python bindings for XPointer, contextual error reporting
    (St閜hane Bidoul)
   - URI/file escaping problems (Stefano Zacchiroli)


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 St閜hane Bidoul)
   - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
   - XInclude fallback fix
   - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (St閜hane Bidoul),
    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (St閜hane 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
    (St閜hane 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: