Release Notes

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 (STR #68)
The debug version of the Mini-XML DLL could not be built (STR #65)
Processing instructions and directives did not work when not at the top level of a document (STR #67)
Spaces around the "=" in attributes were not supported (STR #67)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.4

Fixed shared library build problems on HP-UX and Mac OS X.
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 (STR #59)
mxmlElementSetAttrf() did not work (STR #57)
mxmlLoad*() incorrectly treated declarations as parent elements (STR #56)
mxmlLoad*() incorrectly allowed attributes without values (STR #47)
Fixed Visual C++ build problems (STR #49)
mxmlLoad*() did not return NULL when an element contained an error (STR #46)
Added support for the apos character entity (STR #54)
Fixed whitespace detection with Unicode characters (STR #48)
mxmlWalkNext() and mxmlWalkPrev() did not work correctly when called with a node with no children as the top node (STR #53)

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 (STR #43)
Added a snprintf() emulation function for the test program (STR #32)
Added the _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE definition when building on VC++ 2005 (STR #36)
mxmlLoad*() did not detect missing > characters in elements (STR #41)
mxmlLoad*() did not detect missing close tags at the end of an XML document (STR #45)
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 (STR #33)
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 (STR #27)
The mxml_vsnprintf() function could get in an infinite loop on a buffer overflow (STR #25)
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*() did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace characters would be lost

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

mxmlLoadFd(), mxmlLoadFile(), and mxmlLoadString() now correctly return NULL on error (STR #21)
mxmlNewInteger(), mxmlNewOpaque(), mxmlNewReal(), mxmlNewText(), and mxmlNewTextf() incorrectly required a parent node (STR #22)
Fixed an XML output bug in mxmldoc.
The "make install" target now uses the install command to set the proper permissions on UNIX/Linux/OSX.
Fixed a MingW/Cygwin compilation problem (STR #18)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2

Added shared library support (STR #17)
mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an XML stream contains illegal control characters (STR #10)
mxmlLoad*() now returns an error when an element contains two attributes with the same name in conformance with the XML spec (STR #16)
Added support for CDATA (STR #14, STR #15)
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 (STR #6)
Now treat UTF-8 sequences which are longer than necessary as an error (STR #4)
Fixed entity number support (STR #8)
Fixed mxmlLoadString() bug with UTF-8 (STR #7)
Fixed entity lookup bug (STR #5)
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() (STR #2)
mxmlEntityAddCallback() now returns an integer status (STR #2)
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 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.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.3

Fixes for mxmldoc.
Added support for reading standard HTML entity names.
mxmlLoadString/File() did not decode character entities in element names, attribute names, or attribute values.
mxmlLoadString/File() would crash when loading non- conformant XML data under an existing parent (top) node.
Fixed several bugs in the mxmldoc utility.
Added new error callback function to catch a variety of errors and log them to someplace other than stderr.
The mxmlElementSetAttr() function now allows for NULL attribute values.
The load and save functions now properly handle quoted element and attribute name strings properly, e.g. for !DOCTYPE declarations.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.2

Added new "set" methods to set the value of a node.
Added new formatted text methods mxmlNewTextf() and mxmlSetTextf() to create/set a text node value using printf-style formats.
Added new standard callbacks for use with the mxmlLoad functions.
Updated the HTML documentation to include examples of the walk and load function output.
Added --with/without-ansi configure option to control the strdup() function check.
Added --with/without-snprintf configure option to control the snprintf() and vsnprintf() function checks.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.2

The mxml(3) man page wasn't updated for the string functions.
mxmlSaveString() returned the wrong number of characters.
mxml_add_char() updated the buffer pointer in the wrong place.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1.1

The private mxml_add_ch() function did not update the start-of-buffer pointer which could cause a crash when using mxmlSaveString().
The private mxml_write_ws() function called putc() instead of using the proper callback which could cause a crash when using mxmlSaveString().
Added a mxmlSaveAllocString() convenience function for saving an XML node tree to an allocated string.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.1

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.
Added a new mxmlLoadString() function for loading an XML node tree from a string.
Added a new mxmlSaveString() function for saving an XML node tree to a string.
Add emulation of strdup() if the local platform does not provide the function.

Changes in Mini-XML 1.0

The mxmldoc program now handles function arguments, structures, unions, enumerations, classes, and typedefs properly.
Documentation provided via mxmldoc and more in-line comments in the code.
Added man pages and packaging files.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.93

New mxmldoc example program that is also used to create and update code documentation using XML and produce HTML reference pages.
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.
mxmlLoadFile() now correctly handles comments.
mxmlLoadFile() now supports the required "gt", "quot", and "nbsp" character entities.
mxmlSaveFile() now uses newlines as whitespace when valid to do so.
mxmlFindElement() now also takes attribute name and attribute value string arguments to limit the search to specific elements with attributes and/or values.
Added uninstall target to makefile, and auto-reconfig if Makefile.in or configure.in are changed.
mxmlFindElement(), mxmlWalkNext(), and mxmlWalkPrev() now all provide "descend" arguments to control whether they descend into child nodes in the tree.
Fixed some whitespace issues in mxmlLoadFile().
Fixed Unicode output and whitespace issues in mxmlSaveFile().
mxmlSaveFile() now supports a whitespace callback to provide more human-readable XML output under program control.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.92

mxmlSaveFile() didn't return a value on success.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.91

mxmlWalkNext() would go into an infinite loop.

Changes in Mini-XML 0.9

Initial public release.

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