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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.

   - 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 Borgstr鰉
   - 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