Current Version

Current Version

Changes from version 1.4 to 1.4.1 (June 8, 2000)

• Sample applications now report whether an error is fatal;
• Bug fixes.

Changes from version 1.3 to 1.4 (February 18, 2000)

• Improved handling of wrong end-tags/invalid character data
• Slight change in the programming interface;
• Shorter option summaries;
• Entity manager functions cleaned up;
• Minor bug fixes.

Changes from version 1.2 to 1.3 (August 24, 1999)

• Speedup of the Unicode interface;
• New command-line option --warn-uri for non-ASCII characters in URIs;
• Removed --table-size/width options;
• Substantial changes to parser internals;
• Bug-fixes:
  • handling of surrogate pairs;
  • delay of declaredness-check for notation names in entity declarations until the end of the DTD;
  • Unicode interface: UTF-8 and UCS-4 do not recognize surrogate-pairs. UCS2 is UTF16 without surrogates.

Changes from version 1.1 to 1.2 (June 7, 1999)

• Added a new sample application fxviz;
• Removed options --no-output and -n.
• Added support for retrieval of external entities over the internet;
• Added support for XML catalog syntax.
• Slight changes to the programming interface (undocumented);
• Fixed a bug that made fxp exit with uncaught exception NoSuchEntry if an unknown encoding was specified.
• Partially redesigned the module hierarchy.
• fxp is now a reentrant parser.

Changes from version 1.0 to 1.1 (March 29, 1999)

• Added a new sample application fxcanon.
• Added support for Socat syntax of XCatalog (XML syntax to come).
• Improved error reporting; the reported position is now - whenever possible - the first character of the concerned item.
• Improved strategy for handling wrong end-tags:
  • if the end-tag is for the current element, consume it and finish the element;
  • otherwise, if the end-tag is for an open element, assume the end-tag for the current element was forgotten, thus finish the current element but retain the end-tag;
  • otherwise, if the current element requires further content in order to satisfy its content model, ignore the end-tag;
  • otherwise consume the end-tag and finish the current element.
• Reimplemented the Unicode frontend. UTF-7 is no longer supported.
• Redesign of the module structure.
• Slight changes to the programming interface.
• fxcopy now reproduces white space in the prolog and between declarations literally.
• Major bug fixes:
  • comparison of fixed attribute values is now correct;
  • characters U+10000-U+FFFFF were reported not to be unicode; characters U+FFFE and U+FFFF were accepted;
  • parser complained about character > in content even if it was not part of the sequence ]]>;
  • whitespace normalization in attribute values also affected characters that were escaped by a char reference;
  • end-of-line normalization was done for the replacement text of internal entities instead of the literal entity value;
  • default values in attlist declarations are now checked only for lexical validity; declaredness of notation/entity names is now checked when the default value is used.