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<p><a href="./index.html#news">Current news</a></p>
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2006-06-05 12:27:08 -04:00
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<dt><em>27 December 2005</em>,
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Final Expat 2.0 pre-release snapshot made available.
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<dd>
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<p>This <a href="http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-12-27.tar.gz" >
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pre-release distribution</a> is based on the feedback we got from the
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Dec. 23 snapshot and represents the final opportunity for
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feedback before the actual release goes out.</p>
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<p>We plan to release after the New Year.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><em>23 December 2005</em>,
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Expat 2.0 pre-release snapshot (another one) made available.
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<dd>
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<p>As nothing happened here for a long time, we've posted another
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<a href="http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-12-23.tar.gz" >pre-release
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distribution snapshot</a> of the code currently in CVS on
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libexpat.org. Please try this out and report any problems you
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have. We'd like to get Expat 2.0 out soon.</p>
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<p>A late addition was the new (optional) <code>XML_LARGE_SIZE</code>
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feature to enable 64-bit integers on some API members. Please check
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how it builds and works for you.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><em>28 January 2005</em>,
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Expat pre-release snapshot made available.
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<dd>
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<p>We've posted a <a href=
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"http://www.libexpat.org/expat-2005-01-28.tar.gz" >pre-release
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distribution snapshot</a> of the code currently in CVS on
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libexpat.org. Please try this out and report any problems you
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have. We'd like to get a release out soon.</p>
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<p>The coming release will either be 1.95.9 or 2.0, depending
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primarily on the response to this snapshot. If we do decide to
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make this 1.95.9, then we'll try to follow up with 2.0 in about a
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month.</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><em>23 July 2004</em>,
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Expat 1.95.8 released.
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<dd>
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<p>The release schedule described in the previous news item didn't
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work out. As a compensation, we've fixed a number of the
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nuissance warnings generated on many platforms, and added a nice
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new suspend/resume feature to the parser.</p>
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<p><ul>
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<li> Major new feature: suspend/resume. Handlers can now request
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that a parse be suspended for later resumption or aborted
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altogether. See "Temporarily Stopping Parsing" in the
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documentation for more details. </li>
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<li> Some mostly minor bug fixes, but compilation should no
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longer generate warnings on most platforms. SF issues
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include: 827319, 840173, 846309, 888329, 896188, 923913,
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928113, 961698, 985192.</li>
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</ul></p>
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</dd>
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2005-12-27 11:49:44 -05:00
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<dt><em>20 October 2003</em>,
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Expat 1.95.7 released.
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<dd>
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<p><ul>
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<li> Fixed <code>enum XML_Status</code> issue (reported on
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SourceForge many times), so compilers that are properly
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picky will be happy. </li>
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<li> Introduced an <code>XMLCALL</code> macro to control the
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calling convention used by the Expat API; this macro should
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be used to annotate prototypes and definitions of callback
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implementations in code compiled with a calling convention
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other than the default convention for the host
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platform. </li>
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<li> Improved ability to build without the
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<b>configure</b>-generated <span
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class="filename">expat_config.h</span> header. This is
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useful for applications which embed Expat rather than
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linking in the library. </li>
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<li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 458907, 609603,
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676844, 679754, 692878, 692964, 695401, 699323, 699487,
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820946. </li>
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<li> Improved hash table lookups. </li>
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<li> Added more regression tests and improved documentation. </li>
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</ul></p>
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<p>Our plan is to wait for a short while and re-release this
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version as the long-awaited Expat 2.0 if no major problems are
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identified. If significant problems are found, additional
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iterative releases will be made as fixes are made.</p>
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<dt><em>15 October 2003</em>,
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Upcoming release.
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</dt>
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<dd>
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<p>We're working on getting the long-delayed Expat 1.95.7 out the
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door. A snapshot of the current source code is available as
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expat-2003-10-15.tar.gz (no longer available);
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please give this a try on your platform and report how it works
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for you to the <a href=
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"http://mail.libexpat.org/mailman/listinfo/expat-discuss"
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>expat-discuss</a> mailing list. Our goals for this release are
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portability and stability.
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</p>
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</dd>
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<dt><em>28 January 2003</em>,
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Expat 1.95.6 released.
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<ul>
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<li> Added <code>XML_FreeContentModel()</code>. </li>
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<li> Added <code>XML_MemMalloc()</code>,
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<code>XML_MemRealloc()</code>,
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<code>XML_MemFree()</code>. </li>
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<li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 615606, 616863,
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618199, 653180, 673791. </li>
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<li> Enhanced the regression test suite. </li>
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<li> Man page improvements: includes SF issue 632146. </li>
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</dd>
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<dt><em>6 September 2002</em>,
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Expat 1.95.5 released.
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li> Added <code>XML_UseForeignDTD()</code> for improved SAX2
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support. </li>
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<li> Added <code>XML_GetFeatureList()</code>. </li>
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<li> Defined <code>XML_Bool</code> type and the values
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<code>XML_TRUE</code> and <code>XML_FALSE</code>. </li>
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<li> Use an incomplete struct instead of a <code>void*</code>
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for the parser. </li>
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<li> Fixed UTF-8 decoding bug that caused legal UTF-8 to be
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rejected. </li>
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<li> Finally fixed bug where default handler would report DTD
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events that were already handled by another handler.
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Initial patch contributed by Darryl Miles. </li>
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<li> Removed unnecessary <code>DllMain()</code> function that
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caused static linking into a DLL to be difficult. </li>
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<li> Added VC++ projects for building static libraries. </li>
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<li> Reduced line-length for all source code and headers to be
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no longer than 80 characters, to help with AS/400
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support. </li>
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<li> Reduced memory copying during parsing (SF patch #600964). </li>
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<li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 580793, 434664,
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483514, 580503, 581069, 584041, 584183, 584832, 585537,
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596555, 596678, 598352, 598944, 599715, 600479, 600971. </li>
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<p />
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</dd>
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<dt><em>4 September 2002</em>,
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<a href="dev/roadmap.html">Development roadmap</a> published.
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</dt>
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<ul>
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<li> The initial version of the development roadmap was released
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for comment. </li>
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</ul>
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<p />
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</dd>
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2002-09-27 10:11:43 -04:00
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<dt><em>12 July 2002</em>,
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Expat 1.95.4 released.
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</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li> Added support for VMS, contributed by Craig Berry. See
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vms/README.vms in the distrubution for more information. </li>
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<li> Added Mac OS (classic) support, with a makefile for MPW,
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contributed by Thomas Wegner and Daryle Walker. </li>
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<li> Added Borland C++ Builder 5 / BCC 5.5 support, contributed
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by Patrick McConnell (SF patch #538032). </li>
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<li> Fixed a variety of bugs: see SF issues 441449, 563184,
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564342, 566334, 566901, 569461, 570263, 575168, 579196. </li>
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<li> Made skippedEntityHandler conform to SAX2 (see source
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comment). </li>
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<li> Re-implemented WFC: Entity Declared from XML 1.0 spec and
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added a new error "entity declared in parameter entity":
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see SF bug report 569461 and SF patch 578161. </li>
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<li> Re-implemented section 5.1 from XML 1.0 spec:
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see SF bug report 570263 and SF patch 578161. </li>
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</ul>
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Expat 1.95.3 is being withdrawn due to <a href=
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"http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=566334&group_id=10127&atid=110127"
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>bug #566334</a>. If you are currently using Expat 1.95.3, please
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update to 1.95.4.
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<p />
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</dd>
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<dt><em>3 June 2002</em>,
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Expat 1.95.3 released.
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</dt>
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<dd>
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<ul>
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<li> Changed the name of the Windows DLLs from expat.dll to
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libexpat.dll; this fixes SF bug #432456. This is a problem
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only known to affect the Perl XML::Parser::Expat extension,
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but is very important for that extension.</li>
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<li> Added a project to the MSVC workspace to create a wchar_t
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version of the library; the DLLs are named libexpatw.dll.
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(Note the addition of the "w" character in the file name.)
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</li>
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<li> Added the XML_ParserReset() API function. This allows a
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parser to be re-used, reducing the number of memory
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allocations needed to set up a parser. This can be a
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substantial benefit when parsing a large number of small
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documents. </li>
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<li> Fixed XML_SetReturnNSTriplet() to work for element names.
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This is now a usable feature. </li>
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<li> Made the XML_UNICODE builds usable (thanks, Karl!). </li>
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<li> Allow xmlwf to read from standard input. </li>
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<li> Install a man page for xmlwf on Unix systems. </li>
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<li> Fixed many bugs; see SF bug reports 231864, 461380, 464837,
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466885, 469226, 477667, 484419, 487840, 494749, 496505,
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547350. Other bugs which we can't test as easily may also
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have been fixed, especially in the area of build support. </li>
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</ul>
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