[libxml2] Created tag v2.9.0-rc2

[Daniel Veillard <veillard src gnome org>]

The signed tag 'v2.9.0-rc2' was created.

Tagger: Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>
Date: Fri Sep 7 19:55:01 2012 +0800

    Candidate release 2 for libxml2-2.9.0

Changes since the last tag 'v2.8.0':

Akira TAGOH (1):
      Bug 676544 - fails to build with --without-sax1

Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (1):
      Handle ICU_LIBS as LIBADD, not LDFLAGS to prevent linking errors

Aron Xu (1):
      Fix an error in previous commit

Christian Weisgerber (1):
      xml2-config.1 markup error

Conrad Irwin (1):
      Visible HTML elements close the head tag

Daniel Richard (1):
      Second round of cleanups for LibXML2 docs/examples

Daniel Richard G (6):
      Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups
      Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups 2nd part
      fix runtests to use pthreads support for various Unix platforms
      Bundles all generated files for python into the distribution
      More cleanups to the documentation part of libxml2
      More updates and cleanups on autotools and Makefiles

Daniel Veillard (79):
      Fix xmllint --xpath node initialization
      Fix compilation on older Visual Studio
      Expand .gitignore with more files
      Fix a failure to report xmlreader parsing failures
      Memory error within SAX2 reuse common framework
      Fix parser local buffers size problems
      Fix entities local buffers size problems
      Do not fetch external parsed entities
      Adding a new buf module for buffers
      Convert XPath to xmlBuf
      Adding new encoding function to deal with the new structures
      Incompatible change to the Input and Output buffers
      Convert XML parser to the new input buffers
      Convert xmlIO.c to the new input and output buffers
      Convert C14N to the new Input buffer
      Convert catalog code to the new input buffers
      Convert XInclude to the new input buffers
      Provide new xmlBuf based saving functions
      New saving functions using xmlBuf and conversion
      Convert XMLReader to the new input buffers
      Convert the writer to new output buffer and save APIs
      Convert of the HTML parser to new input buffers
      Convert the HTML tree module to the new buffers
      Swicth the test program for characters to new input buffers
      Cleanup function xmlBufResetInput() to set input from Buffer
      More cleanups for input/buffers code
      Harden the buffer code and make it more compatible
      Small cleanup of unused variables in test
      Impose a reasonable limit on attribute size
      Impose a reasonable limit on comment size
      Avoid quadratic behaviour in some push parsing cases
      first version of testlimits new test
      Impose a reasonable limit on PI size
      More avoid quadratic behaviour
      Extend testlimits
      Cleanup URI module memory allocation code
      Fixup for buf.c
      Cleanups and new limit APIs for dictionaries
      Introduce some default parser limits
      Implement some default limits in the XPath module
      Fixup limits parser
      Enforce XML_PARSER_EOF state handling through the parser
      Improve error reporting on parser errors
      Strengthen behaviour of the push parser in problematic situations
      More fixups on the push parser behaviour
      Expand the limit test program
      Improvements for old buffer compatibility
      Fix make dist to include new private header files
      Provide new accessors for xmlOutputBuffer
      Improve compatibility between xmlBuf and xmlBuffer
      Avoid using xmlBuffer for serialization
      Namespace nodes can't be unlinked with xmlUnlinkNode
      Adding various checks on node type though the API
      Regenerating docs and API files
      Release candidate 1 of libxml2-2.9.0
      Add a missing element check
      Add support for big line numbers in error reporting
      Fix const qualifyer to definition of xmlBufferDetach
      Fix file and line report for XSD SAX and reader streaming validation
      Fix missing xmlsave.h module which was ignored in recent builds
      Regenerated testapi.c
      Fix a variable name in comment
      Cleanup some of the parser code
      GetProcAddressA is available only on WinCE
      Fix a segfault on XSD validation on pattern error
      Patch for portability of latin characters in C files
      Expose xmlBufShrink in the public tree API
      Fix an XSD error when generating internal automata
      Small cleanup for valgrind target
      Avoid a potential infinite recursion
      Fix the XPath arity check to also check the XPath stack limits
      Fix potential crash on entities errors
      Fix a Timsort function helper comment
      Fix reuse of xmlInitParser
      Remove all .cvsignore as they are not used anymore
      Improve HTML escaping of attribute on output
      Change the XPath code to percolate allocation errors
      Add a forbidden variable error number and message to XPath
      Keep non-significant blanks node in HTML parser

Eric Zurcher (2):
      Basic changes for Win32 builds of release 2.9.0: compile buf.c
      More changes for Win32 compilation

John Bradshaw (1):
      libxml(3) manpage typo fix

Michael Stahl (1):
      Support long path names on WNT

Nick Wellnhofer (1):
      Optimizing '//' in XPath expressions

Patrick Gansterer (3):
      Fix windows unicode build
      Fix non __GNUC__ build
      Fix compiler warnings of wincecompat.c

Pietro Cerutti (1):
      Fix problem with specific and generic error handlers

Rob Richards (2):
      initialize var
      fix builds not having stdint.h

Roumen Petrov (4):
      use xmlBuf... if DEBUG_INPUT is defined
      fixup regression in Various "make distcheck" and portability fixups
      minimize use of HAVE_CONFIG_H
      clean redefinition of {v}snprintf in C-source

Vitaly Ostanin (1):
      Patch for xinclude of text using multibyte characters

Vojtech Fried (1):
      Switching XPath node sorting to Timsort