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1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-html401-19991224/loose.dtd">
2<html>
3<head>
4<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
5<style type="text/css"><!--
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13<title>News</title>
14</head>
15<body bgcolor="#8b7765" text="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000">
16<table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" align="center"><tr>
17<td width="100">
18<a href="http://www.gnome.org/"><img src="gnome2.png" alt="Gnome2 Logo"></a><a href="http://www.redhat.com"><img src="redhat.gif" alt="Red Hat Logo"></a><div align="left"><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/"><img src="Libxslt-Logo-180x168.gif" alt="Made with Libxslt Logo"></a></div>
19</td>
20<td><table border="0" width="90%" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" align="center" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" bgcolor="#fffacd"><tr><td align="center">
21<h1>The XSLT C library for Gnome</h1>
22<h2>News</h2>
23</td></tr></table></td></tr></table></td>
24</tr></table>
25<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="100%" align="center"><tr><td bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="100%"><tr>
26<td valign="top" width="200" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td>
27<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
28<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Main Menu</b></center></td></tr>
29<tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul>
30<li><a href="index.html">Home</a></li>
31<li><a href="intro.html">Introduction</a></li>
32<li><a href="docs.html">Documentation</a></li>
33<li><a href="bugs.html">Reporting bugs and getting help</a></li>
34<li><a href="help.html">How to help</a></li>
35<li><a href="downloads.html">Downloads</a></li>
36<li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li>
37<li><a href="news.html">News</a></li>
38<li><a href="xsltproc2.html">The xsltproc tool</a></li>
39<li><a href="docbook.html">DocBook</a></li>
40<li><a href="API.html">The programming API</a></li>
41<li><a href="python.html">Python and bindings</a></li>
42<li><a href="internals.html">Library internals</a></li>
43<li><a href="extensions.html">Writing extensions</a></li>
44<li><a href="contribs.html">Contributions</a></li>
45<li>
46<a href="xslt.html">flat page</a>, <a href="site.xsl">stylesheet</a>
47</li>
48</ul></td></tr>
49</table>
50<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
51<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>API Indexes</b></center></td></tr>
52<tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd">
53<form action="search.php" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded" method="GET">
54<input name="query" type="TEXT" size="20" value=""><input name="submit" type="submit" value="Search ...">
55</form>
56<ul>
57<li><a href="APIchunk0.html">Alphabetic</a></li>
58<li><a href="APIconstructors.html">Constructors</a></li>
59<li><a href="APIfunctions.html">Functions/Types</a></li>
60<li><a href="APIfiles.html">Modules</a></li>
61<li><a href="APIsymbols.html">Symbols</a></li>
62</ul>
63</td></tr>
64</table>
65<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3">
66<tr><td colspan="1" bgcolor="#eecfa1" align="center"><center><b>Related links</b></center></td></tr>
67<tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd"><ul>
68<li><a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">Tutorial</a></li>
69<li><a href="xsltproc.html">Man page for xsltproc</a></li>
70<li><a href="http://mail.gnome.org/archives/xslt/">Mail archive</a></li>
71<li><a href="http://xmlsoft.org/">XML libxml</a></li>
72<li><a href="http://phd.cs.unibo.it/gdome2/">DOM gdome2</a></li>
73<li><a href="ftp://xmlsoft.org/">FTP</a></li>
74<li><a href="http://www.fh-frankfurt.de/~igor/projects/libxml/">Windows binaries</a></li>
75<li><a href="http://garypennington.net/libxml2/">Solaris binaries</a></li>
76<li><a href="http://www.zveno.com/open_source/libxml2xslt.html">MacOsX binaries</a></li>
77<li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/libxml2-pas/">Pascal bindings</a></li>
78<li><a href="http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=libxslt">Bug Tracker</a></li>
79<li><a href="http://xsldbg.sourceforge.net/">Xsldbg Debugger</a></li>
80</ul></td></tr>
81</table>
82</td></tr></table></td>
83<td valign="top" bgcolor="#8b7765"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%"><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" bgcolor="#000000"><tr><td><table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%"><tr><td bgcolor="#fffacd">
84<h3>CVS only : check the <a href="http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/libxslt/ChangeLog">Changelog</a> file
85for a really accurate description</h3>
86<h3>1.0.23: Nov 17 2002</h3>
87<ul>
88<li>Windows build cleanup (Igor)</li>
89  <li>Unix build and RPM packaging cleanup</li>
90  <li>Improvement of the python bindings: extension functions and activating
91    EXSLT</li>
92  <li>various bug fixes: number formatting, portability for bounded string
93    functions, CData nodes, key(), @*[...] patterns </li>
94  <li>Documentation improvements (John Fleck)</li>
95  <li>added libxslt.m4 (Thomas Schraitle)</li>
96</ul>
97<h3>1.0.22: Oct 18 2002</h3>
98<ul>
99<li>Updates on the Windows Makefiles</li>
100  <li>Added a security module, and a related set of new options to
101  xsltproc</li>
102  <li>Allowed per transformation error handler.</li>
103  <li>Fixed a few bugs: node() semantic, URI escaping, media-type, attribute
104    lists</li>
105</ul>
106<h3>1.0.21: Sep 26 2002</h3>
107<ul>
108<li>Bug fixes: match=&quot;node()&quot;, date:difference() (Igor and Charlie
109    Bozeman), disable-output-escaping</li>
110  <li>Python bindings: style.saveResultToString() from Ralf Mattes</li>
111  <li>Logos from Marc Liyanage</li>
112  <li>Mem leak fix from Nathan Myers</li>
113  <li>Makefile: DESTDIR fix from Christophe Merlet, AMD x86_64 (Mandrake),
114    Windows (Igor), Python detection</li>
115  <li>Documentation improvements: John Fleck</li>
116</ul>
117<h3>1.0.20: Aug 23 2002</h3>
118<ul>
119<li>Windows makefile updates (Igor) and x86-64 (Frederic Crozat)</li>
120  <li>fixed HTML meta tag saving for Mac/IE users</li>
121  <li>possible leak patches from Nathan Myers</li>
122  <li>try to handle document('') as best as possible depending in the
123  cases</li>
124  <li>Fixed the DocBook stylesheets handling problem</li>
125  <li>Fixed a few XSLT reported errors</li>
126</ul>
127<h3>1.0.19:  July 6 2002</h3>
128<ul>
129<li>EXSLT: dynamic functions and date support bug fixes (Mark Vakoc)</li>
130  <li>xsl:number fix: Richard Jinks</li>
131  <li>xsl:format-numbers fix: Ken Neighbors</li>
132  <li>document('') fix: bug pointed by Eric van der Vlist</li>
133  <li>xsl:message with terminate=&quot;yes&quot; fixes: William Brack</li>
134  <li>xsl:sort order support added: Ken Neighbors</li>
135  <li>a few other bug fixes, some of them requiring the latest version of
136    libxml2</li>
137</ul>
138<h3>1.0.18: May 27 2002</h3>
139<ul>
140<li>a number of bug fixes: attributes, extra namespace declarations
141    (DocBook), xsl:include crash (Igor), documentation (Christian Cornelssen,
142    Charles Bozeman and Geert Kloosterman),  element-available (Richard
143  Jinks)</li>
144  <li>xsltproc can now list teh registered extensions thanks to Mark
145  Vakoc</li>
146  <li>there is a new API to save directly to a string
147    xsltSaveResultToString() by Morus Walter</li>
148  <li>specific error registration function for the python API</li>
149</ul>
150<h3>1.0.17: April 29 2002</h3>
151<ul>
152<li>cleanup in code, XSLT debugger support and Makefiles for Windows by
153  Igor</li>
154  <li>a C++ portability fix by Mark Vakoc</li>
155  <li>EXSLT date improvement and regression tests by Charles Bozeman</li>
156  <li>attempt to fix a bug in xsltProcessUserParamInternal</li>
157</ul>
158<h3>1.0.16: April 15 2002</h3>
159<ul>
160<li>Bug fixes: strip-space, URL in HTML output, error when xsltproc can't
161    save</li>
162  <li>portability fixes: OSF/1, IEEE on alphas, Windows, Python bindings</li>
163</ul>
164<h3>1.0.15: Mar 25 2002</h3>
165<ul>
166<li>Bugfixes: XPath, python Makefile, recursive attribute sets, @foo[..]
167    templates</li>
168  <li>Debug of memory alocation with valgind</li>
169  <li>serious profiling leading to significant improvement for DocBook
170    processing</li>
171  <li>revamp of the Windows build</li>
172</ul>
173<h3>1.0.14: Mar 18 2002</h3>
174<ul>
175<li>Improvement in the XPath engine (libxml2-2.4.18)</li>
176  <li>Nasty bug fix related to exslt:node-set</li>
177  <li>Fixed the python Makefiles, cleanup of doc comments, Windows
178    portability fixes</li>
179</ul>
180<h3>1.0.13: Mar 8 2002</h3>
181<ul>
182<li>a number of bug fixes including &quot;namespace node have no parents&quot;</li>
183  <li>Improvement of the Python bindings</li>
184  <li>Charles Bozeman provided fixes and regression tests for exslt date
185    functions.</li>
186</ul>
187<h3>1.0.12: Feb 11 2002</h3>
188<ul>
189<li>Fixed the makefiles especially the python module ones</li>
190  <li>half a dozen bugs fixes including 2 old ones</li>
191</ul>
192<h3>1.0.11: Feb 8 2002</h3>
193<ul>
194<li>Change of Licence to the <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html">MIT
195  Licence</a>
196</li>
197  <li>Added a beta version of the Python bindings, including support to
198    extend the engine with functions written in Python</li>
199  <li>A number of bug fixes</li>
200  <li>Charlie Bozeman provided more EXSLT functions</li>
201  <li>Portability fixes</li>
202</ul>
203<h3>1.0.10: Jan 14 2002</h3>
204<ul>
205<li>Windows fixes for Win32 from Igor</li>
206  <li>Fixed the Solaris compilation trouble (Albert)</li>
207  <li>Documentation changes and updates: John Fleck</li>
208  <li>Added a stringparam option to avoid escaping hell at the shell
209  level</li>
210  <li>A few bug fixes</li>
211</ul>
212<h3>1.0.9: Dec 7 2001</h3>
213<ul>
214<li>Makefile patches from Peter Williams</li>
215  <li>attempt to fix the compilation problem associated to prelinking</li>
216  <li>obsoleted libxsltbreakpoint now deprecated and frozen to 1.0.8 API</li>
217  <li>xsltproc return codes are now significant, John Fleck updated the
218    documentation</li>
219  <li>patch to allow as much as 40 steps in patterns (Marc Tardif), should be
220    made dynamic really</li>
221  <li>fixed a bug raised by Nik Clayton when using doctypes with HTML
222  output</li>
223  <li>patches from Keith Isdale to interface with xsltdebugger</li>
224</ul>
225<h3>1.0.8: Nov 26 2001</h3>
226<ul>
227<li>fixed an annoying header problem, removed a few bugs and some code
228    cleanup</li>
229  <li>patches for Windows and update of Windows Makefiles by Igor</li>
230  <li>OpenVMS port instructions from John A Fotheringham</li>
231  <li>fixed some Makefiles annoyance and libraries prelinking
232  informations</li>
233</ul>
234<h3>1.0.7: Nov 10 2001</h3>
235<ul>
236<li>remove a compilation problem with LIBXSLT_PUBLIC</li>
237  <li>Finishing the integration steps for Keith Isdale debugger</li>
238  <li>fixes the handling of indent=&quot;no&quot; on HTML output</li>
239  <li>fixes on the configure script and RPM spec file</li>
240</ul>
241<h3>1.0.6: Oct 30 2001</h3>
242<ul>
243<li>bug fixes on number formatting (Thomas), date/time functions (Bruce
244    Miller)</li>
245  <li>update of the Windows Makefiles (Igor)</li>
246  <li>fixed DOCTYPE generation rules for HTML output (me)</li>
247</ul>
248<h3>1.0.5: Oct 10 2001</h3>
249<ul>
250<li>some portability fixes, including Windows makefile updates from
251  Igor</li>
252  <li>fixed a dozen bugs on XSLT and EXSLT (me and Thomas Broyer)</li>
253  <li>support for Saxon's evaluate and expressions extensions added (initial
254    contribution from Darren Graves)</li>
255  <li>better handling of XPath evaluation errors</li>
256</ul>
257<h3>1.0.4: Sep 12 2001</h3>
258<ul>
259<li>Documentation updates from John fleck</li>
260  <li>bug fixes (DocBook  FO generation should be fixed)  and portability
261    improvements</li>
262  <li>Thomas Broyer improved the existing EXSLT support and added String,
263    Time and Date core functions support</li>
264</ul>
265<h3>1.0.3:  Aug 23 2001</h3>
266<ul>
267<li>XML Catalog support see the doc</li>
268  <li>New NaN/Infinity floating point code</li>
269  <li>A few bug fixes</li>
270</ul>
271<h3>1.0.2:  Aug 15 2001</h3>
272<ul>
273<li>lot of bug fixes, increased the testsuite</li>
274  <li>a large chunk of EXSLT is implemented</li>
275  <li>improvements on the extension framework</li>
276  <li>documentation improvements</li>
277  <li>Windows MSC projects files should be up-to-date</li>
278  <li>handle attributes inherited from the DTD by default</li>
279</ul>
280<h3>1.0.1:  July 24 2001</h3>
281<ul>
282<li>initial EXSLT framework</li>
283  <li>better error reporting</li>
284  <li>fixed the profiler on Windows</li>
285  <li>bug fixes</li>
286</ul>
287<h3>1.0.0: July 10 2001</h3>
288<ul>
289<li>a lot of cleanup, a lot of regression tests added or fixed</li>
290  <li>added a documentation for <a href="extensions.html">writing
291    extensions</a>
292</li>
293  <li>fixed some variable evaluation problems (with William)</li>
294  <li>added profiling of stylesheet execution accessible as the xsltproc
295    --profile option</li>
296  <li>fixed element-available() and the implementation of the various
297    chunking methods present, Norm Walsh provided a lot of feedback</li>
298  <li>exclude-result-prefixes and namespaces output should now work as
299    expected</li>
300  <li>added support of embedded stylesheet as described in section 2.7 of the
301    spec</li>
302</ul>
303<h3>0.14.0: July 5 2001</h3>
304<ul>
305<li>lot of bug fixes, and code cleanup</li>
306  <li>completion of the little XSLT-1.0 features left unimplemented</li>
307  <li>Added and implemented the extension API suggested by Thomas Broyer</li>
308  <li>the Windows MSC environment should be complete</li>
309  <li>tested and optimized with a really large document (DocBook Definitive
310    Guide) libxml/libxslt should really be faster on serious workloads</li>
311</ul>
312<h3>0.13.0: June 26 2001</h3>
313<ul>
314<li>lots of cleanups</li>
315  <li>fixed a C++ compilation problem</li>
316  <li>couple of fixes to xsltSaveTo()</li>
317  <li>try to fix Docbook-xslt-1.4 and chunking, updated the regression test
318    with them</li>
319  <li>fixed pattern compilation and priorities problems</li>
320  <li>Patches for Windows and MSC project mostly contributed by Yon Derek</li>
321  <li>update to the Tutorial by John Fleck</li>
322  <li>William fixed bugs in templates and for-each functions</li>
323  <li>added a new interface xsltRunStylesheet() for a more flexible output
324    (incomplete), added -o option to xsltproc</li>
325</ul>
326<h3>0.12.0: June 18 2001</h3>
327<ul>
328<li>fixed a dozen of bugs reported</li>
329  <li>HTML generation should be quite better (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
330    too)</li>
331  <li>William fixed some problems with document()</li>
332  <li>Fix namespace nodes selection and copy (requires libxml-2.3.11 upgrade
333    too)</li>
334  <li>John Fleck added a<a href="tutorial/libxslttutorial.html">
335  tutorial</a>
336</li>
337  <li>Fixes for namespace handling when evaluating variables</li>
338  <li>XInclude global flag added to process XInclude on document() if
339    requested</li>
340  <li>made xsltproc --version more detailed</li>
341</ul>
342<h3>0.11.0: June 1 2001</h3>
343<p>Mostly a bug fix release.</p>
344<ul>
345<li>integration of catalogs from xsltproc</li>
346  <li>added --version to xsltproc for bug reporting</li>
347  <li>fixed errors when handling ID in external parsed entities</li>
348  <li>document() should hopefully work correctly but ...</li>
349  <li>fixed bug with PI and comments processing</li>
350  <li>William fixed the XPath string functions when using unicode</li>
351</ul>
352<h3>0.10.0: May 19 2001</h3>
353<ul>
354<li>cleanups to make stylesheet read-only (not 100% complete)</li>
355  <li>fixed URI resolution in document()</li>
356  <li>force all XPath expression to be compiled at stylesheet parsing time,
357    even if unused ...</li>
358  <li>Fixed HTML default output detection</li>
359  <li>Fixed double attribute generation #54446</li>
360  <li>Fixed {{ handling in attributes #54451</li>
361  <li>More tests and speedups for DocBook document transformations</li>
362  <li>Fixed a really bad race like bug in xsltCopyTreeList()</li>
363  <li>added a documentation on the libxslt internals</li>
364  <li>William Brack and Bjorn Reese improved format-number()</li>
365  <li>Fixed multiple sort, it should really work now</li>
366  <li>added a --docbook option for SGML DocBook input (hackish)</li>
367  <li>a number of other bug fixes and regression test added as people were
368    submitting them</li>
369</ul>
370<h3>0.9.0: May 3 2001</h3>
371<ul>
372<li>lot of various bugfixes, extended the regression suite</li>
373  <li>xsltproc should work with multiple params</li>
374  <li>added an option to use xsltproc with HTML input</li>
375  <li>improved the stylesheet compilation, processing of complex stylesheets
376    should be faster</li>
377  <li>using the same stylesheet for concurrent processing on multithreaded
378    programs should work now</li>
379  <li>fixed another batch of namespace handling problems</li>
380  <li>Implemented multiple level of sorting</li>
381</ul>
382<h3>0.8.0: Apr 22 2001</h3>
383<ul>
384<li>fixed ansidecl.h problem</li>
385  <li>fixed unparsed-entity-uri() and generate-id()</li>
386  <li>sort semantic fixes and priority prob from William M. Brack</li>
387  <li>fixed namespace handling problems in XPath expression computations
388    (requires libxml-2.3.7)</li>
389  <li>fixes to current() and key()</li>
390  <li>other, smaller fixes, lots of testing with N Walsh DocBook HTML
391    stylesheets</li>
392</ul>
393<h3>0.7.0: Apr 10 2001</h3>
394<ul>
395<li>cleanup using stricter compiler flags</li>
396  <li>command line parameter passing</li>
397  <li>fix to xsltApplyTemplates from William M. Brack</li>
398  <li>added the XSLTMark in the regression tests as well as document()</li>
399</ul>
400<h3>0.6.0: Mar 22 2001</h3>
401<ul>
402<li>another beta</li>
403  <li>requires 2.3.5, which provide XPath expression compilation support</li>
404  <li>document() extension should function properly</li>
405  <li>fixed a number or reported bugs</li>
406</ul>
407<h3>0.5.0: Mar 10 2001</h3>
408<ul>
409<li>fifth beta</li>
410  <li>some optimization work, for the moment 2 XSLT transform cannot use the
411    same stylesheet at the same time (to be fixed)</li>
412  <li>fixed problems with handling of tree results</li>
413  <li>fixed a reported strip-spaces problem</li>
414  <li>added more reported/fixed bugs to the test suite</li>
415  <li>incorporated William M. Brack fix for imports and global variables as
416    well as patch for with-param support in apply-templates</li>
417  <li>a bug fix on for-each</li>
418</ul>
419<h3>0.4.0: Mar 1 2001</h3>
420<ul>
421<li>fourth beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.3</li>
422  <li>bug fixes</li>
423  <li>some optimization</li>
424  <li>started implement extension support, not finished</li>
425  <li>implemented but not tested multiple file output</li>
426</ul>
427<h3>0.3.0: Feb 24 2001</h3>
428<ul>
429<li>third beta test, released at the same time of libxml2-2.3.2</li>
430  <li>lot of bug fixes</li>
431  <li>some optimization</li>
432  <li>added DocBook XSL based testsuite</li>
433</ul>
434<h3>0.2.0: Feb 15 2001</h3>
435<ul>
436<li>second beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.1</li>
437  <li>getting close to feature completion, lot of bug fixes, some in the HTML
438    and XPath support of libxml</li>
439  <li>start becoming usable for real work. This version can now regenerate
440    the XML 2e HTML from the original XML sources and the associated
441    stylesheets (in <a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#b4d250b6c21">section I of the XML
442    REC</a>)</li>
443  <li>Still misses extension element/function/prefixes support. Support of
444    key() and document() is not complete</li>
445</ul>
446<h3>0.1.0: Feb 8 2001</h3>
447<ul>
448<li>first beta version, released at the same time as libxml2-2.3.0</li>
449  <li>lots of bug fixes, first &quot;testing&quot; version, but incomplete</li>
450</ul>
451<h3>0.0.1: Jan 25 2001</h3>
452<ul>
453<li>first alpha version released at the same time as libxml2-2.2.12</li>
454  <li>Framework in place, should work on simple examples, but far from being
455    feature complete</li>
456</ul>
457<p><a href="bugs.html">Daniel Veillard</a></p>
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