mxml/CHANGES.md

Changes in Mini-XML

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.3

• Now default the DSOFLAGS value to LDFLAGS in the configure script (Issue #325)
• Now install the man page as "mxml4" to allow parallel installation of Mini-XML 4.x and 3.x (Issue #324)
• Added MXML_ALLOC_SIZE define to control the allocation increment for attributes and indices (Issue #318)
• Fixed mxmlSetDeclarationf implementation (Issue #322)

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.2

• Fixed an issue with GNU make and parallel builds (Issue #314)

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.1

• Fixed missing "docdir" definition in makefile (Issue #313)
• Fixed missing CPPFLAGS, OPTIM, and WARNINGS in CFLAGS in makefile.
• Fixed configure script issues.

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.0

• Now require C99 support (Issue #300)
• Now install as "libmxml4" to support installing both Mini-XML 3.x and 4.x at the same time (use --disable-libmxml4-prefix configure option to disable)
• Added mxmlLoadIO and mxmlSaveIO functions to load and save XML via callbacks (Issue #98)
• Added new MXML_TYPE_CDATA, MXML_TYPE_COMMENT, MXML_TYPE_DECLARATION, and MXML_TYPE_DIRECTIVE node types (Issue #250)
• Added mxmlLoadFilename and mxmlSaveFilename functions (Issue #291)
• Added AFL fuzzing support (Issue #306)
• Added mxmlOptions APIs to replace the long list of callbacks and options for each of the load and save functions (Issue #312)
• Added string copy/free callbacks to support alternate memory management of strings.
• Renamed mxml_type_t enumerations to MXML_TYPE_xxx (Issue #251)
• Updated APIs to use bool type instead of an int representing a boolean value.
• Updated the SAX callback to return a bool value to control processing (Issue #51)
• Updated the load and save callbacks to include a context pointer (Issue #106)
• Fixed some warnings (Issue #301)
• Fixed real number support in non-English locales (Issue #311)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3.2

• Updated the autoconf config.guess and config.sub scripts to support cross compilation for newer platforms (Issue #296)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3.1

• Fixed POSIX thread cleanup bugs (Issue #293)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3

• Cleaned up usage of free throughout the library (Issue #276)
• Added more error handling to the library (Issue #277)
• Fixed potential memory leak in mxmlLoad* functions (Issue #278, Issue #279)
• Fixed mxmlSaveString with a buffer size of 0 (Issue #284)
• Fixed MXML_MINOR_VERSION value in "mxml.h" (Issue #285)
• Fixed POSIX threading support for MingW (Issue #287)
• Fixed some minor memory leaks found by Coverity.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.2

• Added support for shared libraries on Haiku (Issue #262)
• Fixed handling of unquoted attribute values that start with a Unicode character (Issue #264)
• Fixed handling of elements that start with a Unicode character (Issue #267)
• Fixed some minor issues identified by the LGTM security scanner.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.1

• The mxmlLoad* functions now print an error when the XML does not start with < and no parent node is supplied (Issue #256, Issue #259)
• Fixed an issue with "make install" trying to install old files (Issue #257)
• Fixed some DSO installation issues on Linux.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.0

• Changed the license to Apache 2.0 with exceptions (Issue #239)
• All of the internal node structures are now moved out of the public header (Issue #240)
• Fixed a potential buffer overflow when writing floating point data (Issue #233)
• Moved mxmldoc to a new codedoc project whose focus is on generating code documentation (Issue #235, Issue #236, Issue #237)
• Error messages now include the line number of the error (Issue #230)
• The mxmlSetCDATA, mxmlSetElement, mxmlSetOpaque, mxmlSetOpaquef, mxmlSetText, and mxmlSetTextf functions caused a use-after-free bug if the value came from the same node (Issue #241)
• The mxmlSetOpaquef and mxmlSetTextf functions did not work (Issue #244)
• The _mxml_strdupf function did not work on Windows (Issue #245)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.12

• Added yet more documentation about using MXML_OPAQUE_CALLBACK when you want to get full strings for inline text instead of separated words (Issue #190)
• No longer build documentation sets on macOS since Xcode no longer supports them (Issue #198)
• Updated the va_copy macro for use with BCC (Issue #211)
• The mxmlNewCDATA and mxmlSetCDATA functions incorrectly added the XML trailer "]]" to the string (Issue #216)
• Cross-compiling failed on install (Issue #218)
• Fixed a crash bug in the mxmlWrite functions (Issue #228)
• The mxmlWrite functions no longer write the siblings of the passed node (Issue #228)
• Updated the markdown and ZIP container libraries used for mxmldoc.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.11

• CDATA nodes now omit the trailing "]]" for convenience (Issue #170)
• Fixed a memory leak in mxmlDelete (Issue #183)
• mxmlElementSetAttrf did not work with some versions of Visual Studio (Issue #184)
• Added mxmlElementGetAttrByIndex and mxmlELementGetAttrCount functions (Issue #185)
• The configure script now properly supports cross-compilation (Issue #188)
• The mxmldoc utility now supports generation of EPUB files (Issue #189)
• The mxmldoc utility now supports the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable for reproducible builds (Issue #193)
• The mxmldoc utility now supports Markdown (Issue #194)
• Fixed writing of custom data values (Issue #201)
• Added mxmlNewOpaquef and mxmlSetOpaquef functions to add and set formatted opaque string values.
• The mxmldoc utility scanned and loaded descriptive text differently, causing the detailed descriptions ("discussion") to be lost in generated documentation.
• The mxmldoc utility now supports @exclude format@ comments to exclude documentation based on the output format. The format string can be all to exclude documentation for all formats or a comma-delimited list such as @exclude man,html@.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.10

• The version number in mxml.h was wrong.
• The mxml.spec file was out of date.
• Mini-XML no longer allows malformed element names.
• mxmlLoad* and mxmlSAXLoad* did not properly create text nodes when MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK was specified.
• mxmlDelete used a recursive algorithm which could require large amounts of stack space depending on the file. (CVE-2016-4570)
• mxmlWrite* used a recursive algorithm which could require large amounts of stack space depending on the file. (CVE-2016-4571)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.9

• mxmlLoad* did not correctly load value nodes with MXML_NO_CALLBACK or MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.8

• Now call docsetutil using xcrun on macOS.
• mxmldoc did not escape special HTML characters inside @code foo@ comments.
• Fixed a memory leak in mxmlElementDeleteAttr.
• Added MXML_MAJOR/MINOR_VERSION definitions to mxml.h.
• Fixed a bug reading UTF-16 characters from a file.
• Fixed a memory leak when loading invalid XML.
• Fixed an XML fragment loading problem.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.7

• Added 64-bit configurations to the VC++ project files.
• Fixed conformance of mxmldoc's HTML and CSS output.
• Added data accessor ("get") functions and made the mxml_node_t and mxml_index_t structures private but still available in the Mini-XML header to preserve source compatibility.
• Updated the source headers to reference the Mini-XML license and its exceptions to the LGPL2.
• Fixed a memory leak when loading a badly-formed XML file.
• Added a new mxmlFindPath function to find the value node of a named element.
• Building a static version of the library did not work on Windows.
• The shared library did not include a destructor for the thread-specific data key on UNIX-based operating systems.
• mxmlLoad* did not error out on XML with multiple root nodes.
• Fixed an issue with the _mxml_vstrdupf function.
• mxmlSave* no longer write all siblings of the passed node, just that node and its children.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.6

• Documentation fixes.
• The mxmldoc program did not handle typedef comments properly.
• Added support for "long long" printf formats.
• The XML parser now ignores BOMs in UTF-8 XML files.
• The mxmldoc program now supports generating Xcode documentation sets.
• mxmlSave* did not output UTF-8 correctly on some platforms.
• mxmlNewXML now adds encoding="utf-8" in the ?xml directive to avoid problems with non-conformant XML parsers that assume something other than UTF-8 as the default encoding.
• Wrapping was not disabled when mxmlSetWrapMargin(0) was called, and "" was always followed by a newline.
• The mxml.pc.in file was broken.
• The mxmldoc program now handles "typedef enum name {} name" correctly.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.5

• The mxmldoc program now makes greater use of CSS and supports a --css option to embed an alternate stylesheet.
• The mxmldoc program now supports --header and --footer options to insert documentation content before and after the generated content.
• The mxmldoc program now supports a --framed option to generate framed HTML output.
• The mxmldoc program now creates a table of contents including any headings in the --intro file when generating HTML output.
• The man pages and man page output from mxmldoc did not use "-" for dashes.
• The debug version of the Mini-XML DLL could not be built.
• Processing instructions and directives did not work when not at the top level of a document.
• Spaces around the "=" in attributes were not supported.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.4

• Fixed shared library build problems on HP-UX and Mac macOS.
• The mxmldoc program did not output argument descriptions for functions properly.
• All global settings (custom, error, and entity callbacks and the wrap margin) are now managed separately for each thread.
• Added mxmlElementDeleteAttr function.
• mxmlElementSetAttrf did not work.
• mxmlLoad* incorrectly treated declarations as parent elements.
• mxmlLoad* incorrectly allowed attributes without values.
• Fixed Visual C++ build problems.
• mxmlLoad* did not return NULL when an element contained an error.
• Added support for the apos character entity.
• Fixed whitespace detection with Unicode characters.
• mxmlWalkNext and mxmlWalkPrev did not work correctly when called with a node with no children as the top node.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.3

• Added two exceptions to the LGPL to support static linking of applications against Mini-XML.
• The mxmldoc utility can now generate man pages, too.
• Added a mxmlNewXML function.
• Added a mxmlElementSetAttrf function.
• Added snprintf() emulation function for test program.
• Added the _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE definition when building on VC++ 2005.
• mxmlLoad* did not detect missing > characters in elements.
• mxmlLoad* did not detect missing close tags at the end of an XML document.
• Added user_data and ref_count members to mxml_node_t structure.
• Added mxmlReleaseNode() and mxmlRetainNode() APIs for reference-counted nodes.
• Added mxmlSetWrapMargin() to control the wrapping of XML output.
• Added conditional check for EINTR error code for certain Windows compilers that do not define it.
• The mxmldoc program now generates correct HTML 4.0 output - previously it generated invalid XHTML.
• The mxmldoc program now supports "@deprecated@, "@private@", and "@since version@" comments.
• Fixed function and enumeration type bugs in mxmldoc.
• Fixed the XML schema for mxmldoc.
• The mxmldoc program now supports --intro, --section, and --title options.
• The mxmlLoad* functions could leak a node on an error.
• The mxml_vsnprintf function could get in an infinite loop on a buffer overflow.
• 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, e.g. whitespace.
• mxmlLoad* crashed when reporting an error in some invalid XML.

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

• mxmlLoad* now correctly return NULL on error.
• mxmlNewInteger, mxmlNewOpaque, mxmlNewReal, mxmlNewText, and mxmlNewTextf incorrectly required a parent node.
• Fixed an XML output bug in mxmldoc.
• The "make install" target now uses the install command to set the proper permissions on UNIX/Linux/macOS.
• Fixed a MingW/Cygwin compilation problem.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2

• Added shared library support.
• mxmlLoad* now return an error when an XML stream contains illegal control characters.
• mxmlLoad* now return an error when an element contains two attributes with the same name in conformance with the XML spec.
• Added support for CDATA.
• 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.
• Now treat UTF-8 sequences which are longer than necessary as an error.
• Fixed entity number support.
• Fixed mxmlLoadString() bug with UTF-8.
• Fixed entity lookup bug.
• 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.
• mxmlEntityAddCallback now returns an integer status.
• 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 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.