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<H1 align="right"><A name="RELNOTES"><IMG align="right" alt="B" height="100"
hspace="10" src="B.gif" width="100"></A>Release Notes</H1>
<H2><A NAME="7_1">Changes in Mini-XML 2.5</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now makes greater use of CSS and supports a
--css option to embed an alternate stylesheet.</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now supports --header and --footer options to
insert documentation content before and after the generated content.</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now supports a --framed option to generate
framed HTML output.</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now creates a table of contents including any
headings in the --intro file when generating HTML output.</LI>
<LI>The man pages and man page output from mxmldoc did not use &quot;\-&quot; for
dashes (STR #68)</LI>
<LI>The debug version of the Mini-XML DLL could not be built (STR #65)</LI>
<LI>Processing instructions and directives did not work when not at the
top level of a document (STR #67)</LI>
<LI>Spaces around the &quot;=&quot; in attributes were not supported (STR #67)</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_2">Changes in Mini-XML 2.4</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>Fixed shared library build problems on HP-UX and Mac OS X.</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program did not output argument descriptions for
functions properly.</LI>
<LI>All global settings (custom, error, and entity callbacks and the
wrap margin) are now managed separately for each thread.</LI>
<LI>Added mxmlElementDeleteAttr() function (STR #59)</LI>
<LI>mxmlElementSetAttrf() did not work (STR #57)</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() incorrectly treated declarations as parent elements (STR
#56)</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() incorrectly allowed attributes without values (STR #47)</LI>
<LI>Fixed Visual C++ build problems (STR #49)</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() did not return NULL when an element contained an error
(STR #46)</LI>
<LI>Added support for the apos character entity (STR #54)</LI>
<LI>Fixed whitespace detection with Unicode characters (STR #48)</LI>
<LI>mxmlWalkNext() and mxmlWalkPrev() did not work correctly when called
with a node with no children as the top node (STR #53)</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_3">Changes in Mini-XML 2.3</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>Added two exceptions to the LGPL to support static linking of
applications against Mini-XML</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc utility can now generate man pages, too.</LI>
<LI>Added a mxmlNewXML() function</LI>
<LI>Added a mxmlElementSetAttrf() function (STR #43)</LI>
<LI>Added a snprintf() emulation function for the test program (STR #32)</LI>
<LI>Added the _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE definition when building on VC++
2005 (STR #36)</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() did not detect missing &gt; characters in elements (STR
#41)</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() did not detect missing close tags at the end of an XML
document (STR #45)</LI>
<LI>Added user_data and ref_count members to mxml_node_t structure</LI>
<LI>Added mxmlReleaseNode() and mxmlRetainNode() APIs for
reference-counted nodes</LI>
<LI>Added mxmlSetWrapMargin() to control the wrapping of XML output</LI>
<LI>Added conditional check for EINTR error code for certain Windows
compilers that do not define it (STR #33)</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now generates correct HTML 4.0 output -
previously it generated invalid XHTML</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now supports &quot;@deprecated@, &quot;@private@&quot;, and
&quot;@since version@&quot; comments</LI>
<LI>Fixed function and enumeration type bugs in mxmldoc</LI>
<LI>Fixed the XML schema for mxmldoc</LI>
<LI>The mxmldoc program now supports --intro, --section, and --title
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, e.g. whitespace</LI>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace
characters would be lost</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_4">Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.2</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>mxmlLoad*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace
characters would be lost.</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_5">Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.1</A></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 &quot;make install&quot; 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><A NAME="7_6">Changes in Mini-XML 2.2</A></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 (&quot;---&gt;&quot; is not
allowed)</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_7">Changes in Mini-XML 2.1</A></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><A NAME="7_8">Changes in Mini-XML 2.0</A></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 &quot;doc/mxmldoc.xsd&quot;.</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 &quot;doc/mxmldoc.xsd&quot;.</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 &quot;/&quot; separator between the
destination path and install path. This caused problems when building
and installing with MingW.</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_9">Changes in Mini-XML 1.3</A></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><A NAME="7_10">Changes in Mini-XML 1.2</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>Added new &quot;set&quot; 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><A NAME="7_11">Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.2</A></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><A NAME="7_12">Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.1</A></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><A NAME="7_13">Changes in Mini-XML 1.1</A></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><A NAME="7_14">Changes in Mini-XML 1.0</A></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><A NAME="7_15">Changes in Mini-XML 0.93</A></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 &quot;gt&quot;, &quot;quot&quot;, and &quot;nbsp&quot;
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 &quot;wildcards&quot;.
<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 &quot;descend&quot; 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><A NAME="7_16">Changes in Mini-XML 0.92</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>mxmlSaveFile() didn't return a value on success.</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_17">Changes in Mini-XML 0.91</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>mxmlWalkNext() would go into an infinite loop.</LI>
</UL>
<H2><A NAME="7_18">Changes in Mini-XML 0.9</A></H2>
<UL>
<LI>Initial public release.</LI>
</UL>
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