news

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.

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 &
   - 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 & 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 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
    
   - 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 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
    
   - 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 [e-mail]
   - Jody Goldberg <[e-mail]> 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 
bugs.html