xalan-c

Xalan-C++ Release History

1.12

Released on the 7th June 2020.

Major changes

The focus of this release is stability and compatibility. The majority of changes are bugfixes or portability improvements.

Xerces-C++ versions 3.0 and newer are supported. Xerces-C++ Version 3.2.3 is the preferred stable release.
Addition of a CMake build for all supported platforms.
Rewrite of StyleBook XML documentation in Markdown, hosted at https://apache.github.io/xalan-c/.
Removal of MacOS and Windows project files for old IDE versions.
Removal of Autoconf build.
Xalan-C++ now supports Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 and earlier via the new CMake build, which replaces the old version-specific project and solution files.
Xalan-C++ now also supports building with C++11, C++14 and C++17.
Cygwin and MinGW are known to be nonfunctional in this release. Restoring full support will be a goal for 1.13.

Issues resolved

Bug

XALANC-751: Segmentation fault in TestXSLT
XALANC-773: Build failure with Xerces-C++ 3.2.0 and VS2015
XALANC-787: Drop MacOS and Windows project files
XALANC-788: Drop Autoconf build
XALANC-789: Check CMake build correctly versions libraries on all platforms
XALANC-790: Ensure CMake is using the library rc files for both libraries
XALANC-792: Replace StyleBook documentation with a supported equivalent
XALANC-793: CMake build should install pkg-config file
XALANC-794: XalanTransform does not transform anything
XALANC-795: CMake CTest should run all samples as well as unit tests
XALANC-797: Generate XalanVersion.hpp
XALANC-798: Remove use of version.incl
XALANC-799: Remove use of winres.h in XalanMsgLib.rc
XALANC-800: Add CMake feature tests to replace specific platform definitions
XALANC-801: Enable AppVeyor CI for Windows
XALANC-805: Apply outstanding critical fixes
XALANC-806: C++98 and C++11 support
XALANC-807: CMake build unconditionally adds debug postfix with MSVC

Improvement

XALANC-776: Add CMake build system
XALANC-777: Remove redundant XALAN_SGI_BASED_STL macro
XALANC-778: Use anonymous namespace for private time compatibility functions
XALANC-779: Use xercesc namespace unconditionally
XALANC-780: Use xalanc namespace unconditionally

Wish

XALANC-771: Support for Parallel Builds

1.11

This is primarily a bug-fix release of version 1.10. Support for number and nodeset types for stylesheet top-level parameters have been added. Xerces-C++ versions 3.0 and newer are now supported. Xerces-C++ Version 3.1.1 is the preferred stable release.

Major changes

Add support for Xerces-C 3.0 and newer
Drop support for Microsoft Studio (VC6)
Microsoft Visual Studio .NET platforms (2003, 2005, 2008, and 2010) are supported. This equates to compilers (VC71, VC8, VC9, and VC10).
Fix support issues for AIX 5.3
Fix support issues for Solaris 2.8
Fix support issues for Solaris 2.10
Fix support issues for GCC-4.3
Add support for Microsoft .NET 2008 (VC9)
Add support for Microsoft .NET 2010 (VC10)
Add number and nodeset types as top-level stylesheet parameters
Allow separation of compiler CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS for UNIX builds
Xalan-C documentation rewrite and reorganize
Parent Apache XML Project has been retired

Bug fixes

XALANC-734: Allow runConfigure CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS to inherit environment
XALANC-732: Fix makefile errors for AIX builds
XALANC-730: Fixed XalanTransformer memory leaks
XALANC-723: Add Top-Level parameter support for XalanCAPI and UseStylesheetParams samples
XALANC-723: The XalanTransformer Top-Level parameters now include nodeset and number types
XALANC-721: Upgrade support for MS VS 2010 (VC10)
XALANC-719: Xerces Parser Liaison - errors on elements with no attributes
XALANC-716: incorrect buffer-size calculation in XalanUTF16Writer.hpp
XALANC-715: NULL pointer access crash
XALANC-713: Build Xalan-C++ API Reference Manual using Doxygen 1.7 or newer
XALANC-712: Rewrite of Xalan-C++ V1.11 User Guide Web Pages
XALANC-710: MS-Studio 2008 Debug Build sends Xalan-C_1D.lib to wrong directory
XALANC-709: Doxygen bug in XalanQName.hpp
XALANC-708: Including XalanCAPI.hpp does not import Xerces typedef XMLch
XALANC-705: Crash with pure virtual function call
XALANC-703: Compiler errors while building on AIX 5.3
XALANC-700: Broken output when serializing UTF16 surrogates
XALANC-699: Compile using Visual C++ 2010 (VC10)
XALANC-698: Buffer overflow from XalanMessageLoader::load()
XALANC-690: The document function does not handle fragment IDs in URLs correctly
XALANC-689: XalanC transformation of a 600 kb file takes 43 seconds
XALANC-684: XPath single quate-comma bug
XALANC-683: xsl:number with level any does not always count all of the preceeding nodes in the document
XALANC-681: NamedNodeMapAttributeList constructor asserts when the provided NamedNodeMap is empty
XALANC-680: Error in match pattern with // and abbreviated attribute node test
XALANC-679: Possible wrong evaluation of abbreviated XPath in template match
XALANC-677: Debug assertion switching to HTML mode when the outputter is producing a DOM
XALANC-675: No error is reported for an unknown key
XALANC-675: GCC-4.3 cleanup
XALANC-673: Assertion failed with XalanDOMString::substr
XALANC-671: Incorrect handling of default namespace in xsl:element
XALANC-669: XalanOtherEncodingWriter reports an incorrect error message
XALANC-667: setUseValidation doesn’t work
XALANC-664: Testing harness writes strings to the output XML in the local code page.
XALANC-661: PlatformSupport/DoubleSupport.cpp compile error on AIX 5.3
XALANC-660: Compilation errors in Tests/Performance/TestHarness.hpp on some platforms
XALANC-659: Unnecessary casting in ReusableArenaBlock
XALANC-658: Misplaced assert in ReusableArenaAllocator::destroyObject()
XALANC-657: Add Windows x64 targets to the project files
XALANC-655: Boolean value incorrectly converted ot string in attribute value templates
XALANC-653: Xalan-C not including namespace declaration in output
XALANC-650: XPathProcessorImpl uses XalanDOMString copy constructor instead of referring to an existing instance
XALANC-648: XalanUTF8Writer::write(const XalanDOMChar*, XalanDOMString::size_type) does not handle surrogates properly
XALANC-647: XalanOtherEncodingWriter::writeNumericCharacterReference() is inefficient
XALANC-646: During transcoding XalanC fails to append ‘0’ to the transcoded string
XALANC-645: Pluggin of DOMStringPrintWriter into FormatterToXML leads to assert
XALANC-641: Class used as exception needs accessible copy constructor
XALANC-640: Path problem in Makefile under cygwin
XALANC-638: Performance test program does not build on HP-UX
XALANC-635: Build fails on Solaris 2.8
XALANC-634: Build fails with VC6
XALANC-633: The processor should ignore xsl:fallback element in LRE
XALANC-632: @use-attribute-sets attribute has to have no effect on xsl:copy when the context item is a documen node.
XALANC-631: The next stylesheet crashes XalanC
XALANC-630: Incorrect cast in XalanUTF16Writer
XALANC-629: Performance improvements for text node stripping
XALANC-628: Inconsistent flusing of serializers
XALANC-627: Broken cast in ElemTemplateElement::findTemplateToTransformChild()
XALANC-626: Fix copyrights in Apache XalanC source
XALANC-625: Spurious (though harmless) assert failure in XPath::findNodeSet() when an expression contains an empty node-set enclosed in parenthesis
XALANC-624: The key() function does not work when the context node is the root node of a result tree fragment obtained through exsl:node-set()
XALANC-623: Compatibility issues with Xerces-C 3.0
XALANC-621: Selection of compiler definitions file fails on Linux PPC in client code
XALANC-618: uninstallExternalFunction can run past the end of the array
XALANC-617: Leak in XalanTransformer
XALANC-616: xsl:strip-space element doesn’t work proprely
XALANC-615: Xalan resolves a namespace prefix when it should report an error
XALANC-614: MsgCreator Makefile needs link option
XALANC-613: Cannot pass value to stylesheet parameter if parameter name is namespace-qualified
XALANC-609: Template with built-in template rules for namespaces gives and assert
XALANC-604: ConstructWithNoMemoryManager has a bug which prevents proper default initialization of built-in types.
XALANC-603: Source does not compile properly on HP-UX with newer versions of the HP compiler
XALANC-595: EXSLT date-time function missing + or - before timezone offset
XALANC-588: Floating point exceptions in DoubleSupport::initialize() on Solaris 10 (x86)
XALANC-570: Removal of compiler warnings from STLHelper.hpp
XALANC-535: If an error/warning message contains not-displayable character for the local encoding , no message is shown at all
XALANC-527: Compiling on Xerces-3.0
XALANC-480: XML1.1 and Namespaces for XML1.1 support
XALANC-478: Add support for XMLEntityResolver
XALANC-432: Minor spelling problems in XalanMsg_en_US.xlf
XALANC-430: “StylesheetExecutionContext::getVariable(name)” crahes if variable “name” was not found.
XALANC-421: omit-xml-declaration ignored
XALANC-416: Wrong access to out-of-scope xsl:variable not detected in certain circumstances
XALANC-415: Encoding attribute is not returning properly in output XML header
XALANC-413: Crash while using transform method on MacOSX
XALANC-412: XalanEXSLTDateTime not threadsafe, crashing application
XALANC-409: compilation error on g++ on SunOS 2.8
XALANC-408: runConfigure help does not include new HP platform
XALANC-407: XalanC output format is not suitable as a document entity
XALANC-376: Result tree fragment attributes are created without proper namespace and local name

1.10

Major changes

Support for XML 1.1 and Namespaces in XML 1.1.
Added support for IBM XLC 7.0 compiler on AIX.
Improved and stabilized C pluggable memory management functionality.
Various improvements in Xalan XML serializers for better performance and stability.
Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.6 to Xerces-C 2.7.

Bug fixes

XALANC-572: Compile failure on SuSE80AMD_64b_GCC322
XALANC-569: Compile-time assert on 32-bit Solaris and HPUX due to IEEE754 issue
XALANC-568: Pattern “/” does not match the pseudo root document of a node-set obtained from a result-tree fragment via exsl:node-set
XALANC-511: Crash during XalanTransformer::initialize on AIX
XALANC-554: Xalan-C does not implement erratum 25
XALANC-552: Problems with the new serializers with CDATA and unrepresentable or special characters
XALANC-558: Latest source code does not build with the Intel compiler on Windows
XALANC-555: XalanEXSLTDateTime.cpp has too many platform-specifc ifdefs
XALANC-421: omit-xml-declaration ignored
XALANC-529: Xalan-C sometimes creates empty text nodes in RTFs or sends empty characters() events to FormatterListeners
XALANC-530: Serializers filter attributes unnecessarily
XALANC-245: substring-before and substring-after
XALANC-115: Need to catch use of variables in xsl:key attributes
XALANC-540: XPath absolute location path does not work when the context node was obtained from a result tree fragment through exsl:node-set()
XALANC-544: Assert failure, then crash, during “variable undefined” error recovery in certain circumstances.
XALANC-543: Crash when calling a template that wrongly uses xsl:with-param instead of xsl:param to declare its parameter.
XALANC-539: XalanMap needs to compact buckets to prevent long search times and ever-increasing memory usage.
XALANC-542: XalanDocumentFragmentXNodeSetBaseProxy::dereferenced() is not implemented properly
XALANC-538: Better handling for non-existent node test
XALANC-541: Fixes for zOS build
XALANC-455: Problem when releasing InputSource obtained through an EntityResolver
XALANC-535: If an error/warning message contains not-displayable character for the local encoding , no message is shown at all
XALANC-532: FormatterToXMLUnicode does not serialize UTF-8
XALANC-536: ElemNumber uses extra temporary strings
XALANC-537: XalanC source code quotes incorrectly license protected documents
XALANC-526: Use of undefined stricmp breaks compilation on Linux
XALANC-513: ICUFormatNumberFunctor has some MemoryManager issues
XALANC-507: Safety improvements for XalanVector::insert()
XALANC-506: Remove references to stlport directory in Makefile.incl.in
XALANC-505: DirectoryEnumerator.hpp will not build on Solaris 10 with Sun Workshop 10
XALANC-502: XalanDOMStringCache has initializer list out of order
XALANC-501: Creation of comments and PIs needs to detect illegal values
XALANC-500: Remove old “diagnostic” output from StylesheetRoot and XSLTEngineImpl
XALANC-497: Local variables or parameters in EXSLT-functions are interpreted as global
XALANC-496: Glitches in header files
XALANC-493: Problem with XALAN_STATIC_CHECK on HP-UX IA64
XALANC-492: Various pluggable memory management bugs.
XALANC-490: XalanFileReporter is inconsistent in its usage of pluggable memory management
XALANC-489: XalanMemMgrs has a thread-safety issue
XALANC-488: XSLTInputSource does not support pluggable memory management
XALANC-487: URISupport does not provide explicit MemoryManager
XALANC-485: GCC warns about order of members in initializer list
XALANC-484: Remove compiler warnings about placement delete for HP’s aCC compiler
XALANC-483: XercesParserLiaison does not create Xerces-C DOM instances with namespaces support enabled.
XALANC-482: Remove compiler warnings
XALANC-470: runConfigure does not pass link options to Makefile for AIX platform
XALANC-465: Add alt tag to footer.html page under html/apiDocs tree.
XALANC-463: Transforming an XML DOM document encapsulated within an XercesDOMWrapperParsedSource object triggers an invalid heap pointer exception if XSL opens other XML document with ‘document()’ function.
XALANC-460: Linux/xlC port
XALANC-448: TestXSLT/process.cpp compilation fails, interface broken in FormatterToText.hpp
XALANC-445: generate-id() inserts periods into name which limits usage

1.9

Major changes

Pluggable Memory Management. This feature allows applications to maintain precise control over memory allocations. This will allow users, with knowledge of their application’s characteristics, to provide a more efficient allocation method than the general purpose procedures provided by the system.
Improved stability on the execution of large stylesheets and XML documents. Because the current implementation relies on function recursion, certain stylesheets/input documents may cause the program stack to overflow and cause the application to fail. It also may inhibit executing stylesheets that are heavily dependent on recursive functions. This feature will prevent these types of failure.
Provided a global option to pool all text node strings. This feature allows developers to set a flag to determine if a parsed source tree will pool the values of all of the text nodes in the XML document. By doing so, this can result in a significant reduction in memory usage, particularly if there are a lot of repeated values in text nodes. Please see the class descriptions for XalanSourceTreeDocument, XalanDefaultParsedSource, and XalanTransformer in the API reference..
Added support for Microsoft Studio .NET V7.1. Project files for Microsoft Studio .NET V7.1 have been provided under the directory xalan\c\Projects\Win32\VC7.1.
Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.5 to Xerces-C 2.6.

1.8

Major changes

Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.4 to Xerces-C 2.5.
Provide build support for Cygwin and HP-UX 11.00 on Itanium. Although binary distributions are not provided for the Cygwin environment and HP-UX 11.00 on Itanium platform, the build configuration files provided in the source distribution can be used to build on these platforms.
Project files for supporting Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Although a binary distribution for the Microsoft Visual Studio .NET is not provided in this release, Visual Studio solution files are provided in the Windows source distribution for those who choose to build on this platform.
Additional changes to Xerces Deprecated DOM support. This is another step towards phasing out the support for Xerces Deprecated DOM. Users are encouraged to modify their applications to interface with the new Xerces DOM support.
Implemented optimizations to significantly improve the throughput of the ICU-enabled “format-number” function.
Changes in the XML Serializer. The serializer will no longer put a newline after the xml header tag unless indent=”yes”. See bugzilla 24304 and 28386.

1.7

Major changes

Message Localization Support. This feature enables Xalan-C++ to issue diagnostic messages in languages other than the default language (English). In order to utilize this feature, the user must provide a version of the Xalan-C++ message catalog that has been translated in their language of choice.
Build, packaging, and installation improvements. Changes to the Xalan-C++ makefiles now allow for a more flexible build, packaging, and install process. Each step in a typical build process can be invoked by specifying the appropriate target, for example to build the executable, and/or samples, or install the build at user-specified location.
Deprecated DOM Support. The XercesBridge classes have been marked deprecated and moved into an exclusive directory within the xalanc/XercesParserLiaison directory called Deprecated. If your application is dependent on these classes to interface with the deprecated Xerces DOM you must alter your include directive with the Deprecated directory. For example: #include <xalanc/XercesParserLiaison/XercesDocumentBridge.hpp> should be changed to: #include <xalanc/XercesParserLiaison/Deprecated/XercesDocumentBridge.hpp>.
Upgrade from Xerces-C 2.3 to Xerces-C 2.4.
Porting of ThreadSafe example to UNIX platform.
Implementation of EXSLT string extension functions encode-uri() and decode-uri().
Implementation of EXSLT dynamic extension function evaluate().
Implementation of EXSLT date-time extension function date-time().

1.6

Major changes

Directory “sane include” reorganization. A new sub-directory called xalanc has been added to the src directory (for source distribution packages) and include directory (for binary distribution packages). New source files which include Xalan headers will need to be modified to include the xalanc prefix in the header path. For example:

#include <XPath/XObject.hpp>

will need to be changed to

#include <xalanc/XPath/XObject.hpp>

For Windows users, all project files have been modified to reflect this change.

1.5

Major changes

For Windows, Xalan-C++ is now packaged as a single DLL. The project files to build separate DLLs are now deprecated and will not be maintained.
Support for Xerces-C++ DOMNode classes.
New sample TransformToXercesDOM that illustrates how to perform a transform resulting in a Xerces-C++ DOMDocument
Usage of the Xerces-C++ C++ namespace and creation of Xalan-C++ namespace.

1.4

Major changes

The Xalan-C++ distributions no longer include the Xerces-C++ headers and libraries. Accordingly, you must download the appropriate Xerces-C++ distribution.
64-bit build for HP-11; untested 64-bit support for Solaris and AIX.
New Linux platform and compiler: Redhat 7.2 with gcc 3.1.
STLPort is no longer required on any of our supported platforms.
Alpha support for a number of EXSLT functions.
ParsedSourceWrappers, a sample that illustrates how to perform transformations with input in the form of a pre-built XalanDOM or XalanSourceTree.

1.3

Major changes

A new and simplified command-line utility: the Xalan executable
New XPath samples exploiting the XPathEvaluator C API and illustrating serialization of an XPath result set: SimpleXPathCAPI and SerializeNodeSet
A new wrapper class that lets you pass in a Xerces DOM as input for a transformation
Bug fixes.
Changed XPathException to XalanXPathException because of a clash with a new Xerces class of the same name.

1.2

Major changes

Introduction of a library of extension functions
Support for pre-parsed source documents and pre-compiled stylesheets in XalanTransformer and the C API.
Support for stylesheet params in XalanTransformer and the C API
Support for extension functions in XalanTransformer
Performance enhancements

1.1

Major changes

In addition to adding to the list of platforms on which Xalan-C++ builds, our focus for this release has been on bug fixes, performance enhancements, and providing a simplified C++ and C API for performing standard transformations. Major updates include:

Added HP-UX 11 build.
Added Solaris build.
Greatly improved performance.
Improved conformance to the XSLT specification.
Simplified the C++ API and provided a C API for performing standard transformations with the XalanTransformer class and associated header files.
Added sample illustrating use of XalanTransformer and the new C++ API: XalanTransform.
Added sample illustrating use of XalanTransformer, the new C API, and how to run Xalan-C++ and perform transformations on an Apache Web server: ApacheModuleXSLT.
Added the StreamTransform sample.
Eliminated dependencies on non-public Xerces headers; accordingly can now build with the Xerces distribution.
Fixed namespace mapping and inheritance problems.
Fixed failure of <copy-of …> to include CRLFs (if any) in the result.
Fixed bug sorting in reverse document order based on position.
Fixed <xsl:number> bug with use of letter-value=”traditional” for “classical” Greek numbering.
Fixed use of <xsl:fallback> within a top-level extension function.
Fixed HTML output method bug. The <HEAD> element was not including a <META> tag with the encoding.
Fixed bug using key() in match patterns to find descendants.
Fixed bug using the id() function in complex match patterns.
Fixed problem outputting multiple single-character CDATA sections.
Fixed problem outputting whitespace characters.
Fixed problem transforming from a stream on UNIX platforms.
Fixed a bug with the document() function, which was generating a syntax error if called in the following manner: document(string,/).
Fixed named templates bug accepting global parameter when called with a parameter of the same name that the named template does not recognize.

1.0

Major changes

Full support for namespace handling
Full implementation of the format-number() function and support for the decimal-format element
Integration with the ICU for number formatting, sorting, and output encoding
Support for the exclude-result-prefixes attribute
Support for the output encoding attribute

0.40.0

Major changes

Permitting OS file names (as well as URLs) as command-line arguments with TestXSLT
Stricter compliance for HTML and XML output
Improved handling of relative URI’s
Improved handling of Import and Include
Better namespace handling (although there are still problems here)
Support for Document() function
Support for XPath predicates
ProblemListener with a different output stream and call XalanTransformer::setProblemListener() before calling XalanTransformer::transform().

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