The XSLT C library for Gnome

CVS only : check the Changelog file for a really accurate description

1.0.16: April 15 2002

• Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't save
• 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 DocBook processing
• 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, Windows portability 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 date functions.

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 MIT Licence
• Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to extend 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 shell level
• 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 the documentation
• patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be made dynamic really
• fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML output
• 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 code cleanup
• patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor
• OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham
• fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking informations

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 (Bruce Miller)
• 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 from Igor
• fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)
• support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial contribution 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 portability improvements
• 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 writing extensions
• 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 various chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback
• exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as expected
• added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the spec

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 Definitive Guide) 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 test with 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 upgrade too)
• William fixed some problems with document()
• Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade too)
• John Fleck added a tutorial
• Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables
• XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if requested
• 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 were submitting 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 stylesheets should be faster
• using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded programs 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 HTML stylesheets

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 the same 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 as well 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 HTML and XPath support of libxml
• start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated stylesheets (in section I of the XML REC)
• Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of key() 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 being feature complete

Daniel Veillard