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<h1 align='right'><a name='RELNOTES'>B - Release Notes</a></h1>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.3</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added two exceptions to the LGPL to support static
linking of applications against Mini-XML.</li>
<li>The mxmldoc program now supports "@since version@"
and "@deprecated@" comments.</li>
<li>Fixed function and enumeraion type bugs in
mxmldoc.</li>
<li>Fixed XML schema for mxmldoc.</li>
<li>The mxmldoc program now supports --title and --intro
options.</li>
<li>The mxmlLoad*() functions could leak a node on an
error (STR #27)</li>
<li>The mxml_vsnprintf() function could get in an infinite
loop on a buffer overflow (STR #25)</li>
<li>Added new mxmlNewCDATA() and mxmlSetCDATA() functions
to create and set CDATA nodes, which are really just
special element nodes.</li>
<li>Added new MXML_IGNORE type and MXML_IGNORE_CB
callback to ignore non-element nodes (i.e.
whitespace)</li>
<li>mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so
whitespace characters would be lost.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.2</h2>
<ul>
<li>mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so
whitespace characters would be lost.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.1</h2>
<ul>
<li>mxmlLoadFd(), mxmlLoadFile(), and mxmlLoadString()
now correctly return NULL on error (STR #21)</li>
<li>mxmlNewInteger(), mxmlNewOpaque(), mxmlNewReal(),
mxmlNewText(), and mxmlNewTextf() incorrectly required a
parent node (STR #22)</li>
<li>Fixed an XML output bug in mxmldoc.</li>
<li>The "make install" target now uses the install
command to set the proper permissions on
UNIX/Linux/OSX.</li>
<li>Fixed a MingW/Cygwin compilation problem (STR
#18)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.2</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added shared library support (STR #17)</li>
<li>mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an XML stream
contains illegal control characters (STR #10)</li>
<li>mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an element
contains two attributes with the same name in
conformance with the XML spec (STR #16)</li>
<li>Added support for CDATA (STR #14, STR #15)</li>
<li>Updated comment and processing instruction handling -
no entity support per XML specification.</li>
<li>Added checking for invalid comment termination ("--->"
is not allowed)</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.1</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added support for custom data nodes (STR #6)</li>
<li>Now treat UTF-8 sequences which are longer than
necessary as an error (STR #4)</li>
<li>Fixed entity number support (STR #8)</li>
<li>Fixed mxmlLoadString() bug with UTF-8 (STR #7)</li>
<li>Fixed entity lookup bug (STR #5)</li>
<li>Added mxmlLoadFd() and mxmlSaveFd() functions.</li>
<li>Fixed multi-word UTF-16 handling.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 2.0</h2>
<ul>
<li>New programmers manual.</li>
<li>Added Visual C++ project files for Microsoft Windows
users.</li>
<li>Added optimizations to mxmldoc, mxmlSaveFile(), and
mxmlIndexNew() (STR #2)</li>
<li>mxmlEntityAddCallback() now returns an integer
status (STR #2)</li>
<li>Added UTF-16 support (input only; all output is
UTF-8)</li>
<li>Added index functions to build a searchable index of
XML nodes.</li>
<li>Added character entity callback interface to support
additional character entities beyond those defined in
the XHTML specification.</li>
<li>Added support for XHTML character entities.</li>
<li>The mxmldoc utility now produces XML output which
conforms to an updated XML schema, described in the file
"doc/mxmldoc.xsd".</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The mxmldoc utility now produces XML output which
conforms to an updated XML schema, described in the file
"doc/mxmldoc.xsd".</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>The mxmldoc utility is now capable of documenting C++
classes, functions, and structures, and correctly
handles C++ comments.</li>
<li>Added new modular tests for mxmldoc.</li>
<li>Updated the mxmldoc output to be more compatible with
embedding in manuals produced with HTMLDOC.</li>
<li>The makefile incorrectly included a "/" separator
between the destination path and install path. This
caused problems when building and installing with
MingW.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.3</h2>
<ul>
<li>Fixes for mxmldoc.</li>
<li>Added support for reading standard HTML entity names.</li>
<li>mxmlLoadString/File() did not decode character
entities in element names, attribute names, or
attribute values.</li>
<li>mxmlLoadString/File() would crash when loading non-
conformant XML data under an existing parent (top)
node.</li>
<li>Fixed several bugs in the mxmldoc utility.</li>
<li>Added new error callback function to catch a variety
of errors and log them to someplace other than stderr.</li>
<li>The mxmlElementSetAttr() function now allows for NULL
attribute values.</li>
<li>The load and save functions now properly handle quoted
element and attribute name strings properly, e.g. for
!DOCTYPE declarations.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.2</h2>
<ul>
<li>Added new "set" methods to set the value of a node.</li>
<li>Added new formatted text methods mxmlNewTextf() and
mxmlSetTextf() to create/set a text node value using
printf-style formats.</li>
<li>Added new standard callbacks for use with the mxmlLoad
functions.</li>
<li>Updated the HTML documentation to include examples of
the walk and load function output.</li>
<li>Added --with/without-ansi configure option to control
the strdup() function check.</li>
<li>Added --with/without-snprintf configure option to
control the snprintf() and vsnprintf() function
checks.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.2</h2>
<ul>
<li>The mxml(3) man page wasn't updated for the string
functions.</li>
<li>mxmlSaveString() returned the wrong number of
characters.</li>
<li>mxml_add_char() updated the buffer pointer in the
wrong place.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.1</h2>
<ul>
<li>The private mxml_add_ch() function did not update the
start-of-buffer pointer which could cause a crash when
using mxmlSaveString().</li>
<li>The private mxml_write_ws() function called putc()
instead of using the proper callback which could cause
a crash when using mxmlSaveString().</li>
<li>Added a mxmlSaveAllocString() convenience function for
saving an XML node tree to an allocated string.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.1</h2>
<ul>
<li>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.</li>
<li>Added a new mxmlLoadString() function for loading an
XML node tree from a string.</li>
<li>Added a new mxmlSaveString() function for saving an
XML node tree to a string.</li>
<li>Add emulation of strdup() if the local platform does
not provide the function.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 1.0</h2>
<ul>
<li>The mxmldoc program now handles function arguments,
structures, unions, enumerations, classes, and
typedefs properly.</li>
<li>Documentation provided via mxmldoc and more in-line
comments in the code.</li>
<li>Added man pages and packaging files.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 0.93</h2>
<ul>
<li>New mxmldoc example program that is also used to
create and update code documentation using XML and
produce HTML reference pages.</li>
<li>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.</li>
<li>mxmlLoadFile() now correctly handles comments.</li>
<li>mxmlLoadFile() now supports the required "gt", "quot",
and "nbsp" character entities.</li>
<li>mxmlSaveFile() now uses newlines as whitespace
when valid to do so.</li>
<li>mxmlFindElement() now also takes attribute name and
attribute value string arguments to limit the search
to specific elements with attributes and/or values.</li>
NULL pointers can be used as "wildcards".</li>
<li>Added uninstall target to makefile, and auto-reconfig
if Makefile.in or configure.in are changed.</li>
<li>mxmlFindElement(), mxmlWalkNext(), and mxmlWalkPrev()
now all provide "descend" arguments to control whether
they descend into child nodes in the tree.</li>
<li>Fixed some whitespace issues in mxmlLoadFile().</li>
<li>Fixed Unicode output and whitespace issues in
mxmlSaveFile().</li>
<li>mxmlSaveFile() now supports a whitespace callback to
provide more human-readable XML output under program
control.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 0.92</h2>
<ul>
<li>mxmlSaveFile() didn't return a value on success.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 0.91</h2>
<ul>
<li>mxmlWalkNext() would go into an infinite loop.</li>
</ul>
<h2>Changes in Mini-XML 0.9</h2>
<ul>
<li>Initial public release.</li>
</ul>
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