B - Release Notes

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.3

• Fixed function and enumeraion type bugs in mxmldoc.
• Fixed XML schema for mxmldoc.
• The mxmldoc program now supports --title and --intro options.
• The mxmlLoad*() functions could leak a node on an error (STR #27)
• The mxml_vsnprintf() function could get in an infinite loop on a buffer overflow (STR #25)
• Added new mxmlNewCDATA() and mxmlSetCDATA() functions to create and set CDATA nodes, which are really just special element nodes.
• Added new MXML_IGNORE type and MXML_IGNORE_CB callback to ignore non-element nodes (i.e. whitespace)
• mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace characters would be lost.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.2

• mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace characters would be lost.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.1

• mxmlLoadFd(), mxmlLoadFile(), and mxmlLoadString() now correctly return NULL on error (STR #21)
• mxmlNewInteger(), mxmlNewOpaque(), mxmlNewReal(), mxmlNewText(), and mxmlNewTextf() incorrectly required a parent node (STR #22)
• Fixed an XML output bug in mxmldoc.
• The "make install" target now uses the install command to set the proper permissions on UNIX/Linux/OSX.
• Fixed a MingW/Cygwin compilation problem (STR #18)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2

• Added shared library support (STR #17)
• mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an XML stream contains illegal control characters (STR #10)
• mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an element contains two attributes with the same name in conformance with the XML spec (STR #16)
• Added support for CDATA (STR #14, STR #15)
• Updated comment and processing instruction handling - no entity support per XML specification.
• Added checking for invalid comment termination ("--->" is not allowed)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.1

• Added support for custom data nodes (STR #6)
• Now treat UTF-8 sequences which are longer than necessary as an error (STR #4)
• Fixed entity number support (STR #8)
• Fixed mxmlLoadString() bug with UTF-8 (STR #7)
• Fixed entity lookup bug (STR #5)
• Added mxmlLoadFd() and mxmlSaveFd() functions.
• Fixed multi-word UTF-16 handling.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.0

• New programmers manual.
• Added Visual C++ project files for Microsoft Windows users.
• Added optimizations to mxmldoc, mxmlSaveFile(), and mxmlIndexNew() (STR #2)
• mxmlEntityAddCallback() now returns an integer status (STR #2)
• Added UTF-16 support (input only; all output is UTF-8)
• Added index functions to build a searchable index of XML nodes.
• Added character entity callback interface to support additional character entities beyond those defined in the XHTML specification.
• Added support for XHTML character entities.
• The mxmldoc utility now produces XML output which conforms to an updated XML schema, described in the file "doc/mxmldoc.xsd".
• Changed the whitespace callback interface to return strings instead of a single character, allowing for greater control over the formatting of XML files written using Mini-XML. THIS CHANGE WILL REQUIRE CHANGES TO YOUR 1.x CODE IF YOU USE WHITESPACE CALLBACKS.
• The mxmldoc utility now produces XML output which conforms to an updated XML schema, described in the file "doc/mxmldoc.xsd".
• Changed the whitespace callback interface to return strings instead of a single character, allowing for greater control over the formatting of XML files written using Mini-XML. THIS CHANGE WILL REQUIRE CHANGES TO YOUR 1.x CODE IF YOU USE WHITESPACE CALLBACKS.
• The mxmldoc utility is now capable of documenting C++ classes, functions, and structures, and correctly handles C++ comments.
• Added new modular tests for mxmldoc.
• Updated the mxmldoc output to be more compatible with embedding in manuals produced with HTMLDOC.
• The makefile incorrectly included a "/" separator between the destination path and install path. This caused problems when building and installing with MingW.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.3

• Fixes for mxmldoc.
• Added support for reading standard HTML entity names.
• mxmlLoadString/File() did not decode character entities in element names, attribute names, or attribute values.
• mxmlLoadString/File() would crash when loading non- conformant XML data under an existing parent (top) node.
• Fixed several bugs in the mxmldoc utility.
• Added new error callback function to catch a variety of errors and log them to someplace other than stderr.
• The mxmlElementSetAttr() function now allows for NULL attribute values.
• The load and save functions now properly handle quoted element and attribute name strings properly, e.g. for !DOCTYPE declarations.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.2

• Added new "set" methods to set the value of a node.
• Added new formatted text methods mxmlNewTextf() and mxmlSetTextf() to create/set a text node value using printf-style formats.
• Added new standard callbacks for use with the mxmlLoad functions.
• Updated the HTML documentation to include examples of the walk and load function output.
• Added --with/without-ansi configure option to control the strdup() function check.
• Added --with/without-snprintf configure option to control the snprintf() and vsnprintf() function checks.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.2

• The mxml(3) man page wasn't updated for the string functions.
• mxmlSaveString() returned the wrong number of characters.
• mxml_add_char() updated the buffer pointer in the wrong place.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.1

• The private mxml_add_ch() function did not update the start-of-buffer pointer which could cause a crash when using mxmlSaveString().
• The private mxml_write_ws() function called putc() instead of using the proper callback which could cause a crash when using mxmlSaveString().
• Added a mxmlSaveAllocString() convenience function for saving an XML node tree to an allocated string.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1

• The mxmlLoadFile() function now uses dynamically allocated string buffers for element names, attribute names, and attribute values. Previously they were capped at 16383, 255, and 255 bytes, respectively.
• Added a new mxmlLoadString() function for loading an XML node tree from a string.
• Added a new mxmlSaveString() function for saving an XML node tree to a string.
• Add emulation of strdup() if the local platform does not provide the function.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.0

• The mxmldoc program now handles function arguments, structures, unions, enumerations, classes, and typedefs properly.
• Documentation provided via mxmldoc and more in-line comments in the code.
• Added man pages and packaging files.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.93

• New mxmldoc example program that is also used to create and update code documentation using XML and produce HTML reference pages.
• Added mxmlAdd() and mxmlRemove() functions to add and remove nodes from a tree. This provides more flexibility over where the nodes are inserted and allows nodes to be moved within the tree as needed.
• mxmlLoadFile() now correctly handles comments.
• mxmlLoadFile() now supports the required "gt", "quot", and "nbsp" character entities.
• mxmlSaveFile() now uses newlines as whitespace when valid to do so.
• mxmlFindElement() now also takes attribute name and attribute value string arguments to limit the search to specific elements with attributes and/or values.
NULL pointers can be used as "wildcards".
• Added uninstall target to makefile, and auto-reconfig if Makefile.in or configure.in are changed.
• mxmlFindElement(), mxmlWalkNext(), and mxmlWalkPrev() now all provide "descend" arguments to control whether they descend into child nodes in the tree.
• Fixed some whitespace issues in mxmlLoadFile().
• Fixed Unicode output and whitespace issues in mxmlSaveFile().
• mxmlSaveFile() now supports a whitespace callback to provide more human-readable XML output under program control.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.92

• mxmlSaveFile() didn't return a value on success.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.91

• mxmlWalkNext() would go into an infinite loop.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.9

• Initial public release.