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Release of libxml2 2.6.9

From:  Daniel Veillard <veillard-AT-redhat.com>
To:  gnome-announce-list-AT-gnome.org
Subject:  Release of libxml2-2.6.9
Date:  Sun, 18 Apr 2004 19:54:53 -0400

  It was time for the monthly release:
    ftp://xmlsoft.org/ (also availble though rsync and HTTP now)
    http://xmlsoft.org and GNOME mirrors

 This release has one small new item, the implementation of xml:id draft,
otherwise it is mostly bugfixes and small improvements:
* implement xml:id Working Draft, relaxed XPath id() checking
* bugfixes: xmlCtxtReset (Brent Hendricks),
  line number and CDATA (Dave Beckett),
  Relax-NG compilation (William Brack),
  Regexp patches (with William),
  xmlUriEscape (Mark Vakoc),
  a Relax-NG notAllowed problem (with William),
  Relax-NG name classes compares (William),
  XInclude duplicate fallback (William),
  external DTD encoding detection (William),
  a DTD validation bug (William), xmlReader Close() fix,
  recusive extention schemas
* improvements: use xmlRead* APIs in test tools (Mark Vakoc),
  indenting save optimization,
  better handle IIS broken HTTP redirect behaviour (Ian Hummel),
  HTML parser frameset (James Bursa),
  libxml2-python RPM dependancy,
  XML Schemas union support (Kasimier Buchcik),
  warning removal clanup (William),
  keep ChangeLog compressed when installing from RPMs
* documentation: examples and xmlDocDumpMemory docs (John Fleck),
  new example (load, xpath, modify, save),
  xmlCatalogDump() comments
* Windows: Borland C++ builder (Eric Zurcher),
  work around Microsoft compiler NaN handling bug (Mark Vakoc)

  Thanks to everybody who helped with contributions, or reports,

Daniel

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veillard@redhat.com  | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit  http://xmlsoft.org/
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