NEWS file for libxml2

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CVS only : check the Changelog at 
http://cvs.gnome.org/lxr/source/gnome-xml/ChangeLog
 file
for a really accurate description:
Items not finished and worked on, get in touch with the list if you want
to test those
   - More testing on RelaxNG
   - Finishing up XML
  Schemas



2.5.4: Feb 20 2003:
   - Conformance testing and lot of fixes on Relax NG and XInclude
    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 (Stéphane 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
    (Stéphane 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 Stéphane Bidoul)
   - Windows: more exports, including the new API (Igor)
   - XInclude fallback fix
   - Python: bindings for the new API, packaging (Stéphane Bidoul),
    drv_libxml2.py Python xml.sax driver (Stéphane 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
    (Stéphane 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:
   - 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 Borgström
   - 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


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 &#38;
   - 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 &#38; 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 Rune.Djurhuus@fast.no
   - Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> 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 
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