GNOME Project Information for VU#493966

• From: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
• To: gnome-announce-list gnome org
• Subject: ANNOUNCE: The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6
• Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 12:28:49 -0500 (EST)
  

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  Application
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  The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6
  
  Description
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  Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolkit developed for the Gnome project
  (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).
  It also provides the xmllint XML/HTML processing tool.
  This release fix a potential security problem, people are advised to
  upgrade.
  
  Enhancements
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  - Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
  input.
  - XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
  - reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)
  
  Fixes
  =====
  
  - nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
  William)
  reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
  - make test and path issues
  - xmlWriter attribute serialization (William Brack)
  - xmlWriter indentation (William)
  - schemas validation (Eric Haszlakiewicz)
  - XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg Paraschenko)
  - XInclude empty fallback (William)
  - HTML warnings (William)
  - XPointer in XInclude (William)
  - Python namespace serialization
  - isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch)
  - output of parameter entities in internal subset (William)
  - internal subset bug in push mode
  - <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
  - Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston)
  warnings removal (Philip Ludlam)
  SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard)
  fix --with-minimum configuration.
  - Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck)
  version dependancies (John Fleck)
  - Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy),
  function prototype (Cameron Johnson),
  MSVC6 compiler warnings,
  _WINSOCKAPI_ patch
  
  Download
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  ftp://xmlsoft.org/
  
  Website
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  http://xmlsoft.org/
  
  GNOME Software Map entry
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  http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/libxml
  
  
  

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