ANNOUNCE: The GNOME XML toolkit 2.5.9

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

Application
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The GNOME XML toolkit 2.5.9

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).

Enhancements
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This release contains mostly a lot of bug fixes and a few API extensions.
William Brack made an amazing job chasing various bugs and compiler
warning
on a variety of platforms. There is still some IPv6 portability issues,
either
desactivate IPv6 support of even better provide back portability patches.

- better interfaces for Relax-NG error handling (Joachim Bauch)
- adding xmlXIncludeProcessTree() for XInclud'ing in a subtree
- doc fixes and improvements (John Fleck)
- configure flag for -with-fexceptions when embedding in C++
- couple of new UTF-8 helper functions (William Brack)
- general encoding cleanup + ISO-8859-x without iconv (Peter Jacobi)
- xmlTextReader cleanup + enum for node types (Bjorn Reese)
- general compilation/warning cleanup Solaris/HP-UX/IRIX/... (William
Brack)

Fixes
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- IPv6 portability
- xmlHasNsProp (Markus Keim)
- Windows build (Wiliam Brak, Jesse Pelton, Igor)
- XML Schemas (Peter Sobisch)
- threading (Rob Richards)
- hexBinary type (Charles Bozeman)
- UTF-16 BOM (Dodji Seketeli)
- xmlReader
- Relax-NG schemas compilation,
- namespace handling
- EXSLT (Sean Griffin)
- HTML parsing problem(William Brack)
- DTD validation for mixed content + namespaces
- HTML serialization
- library initialization
- progressive HTML parser

Download
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ftp://xmlsoft.org/

GNOME Software Map entry
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http://www.gnome.org/softwaremap/projects/libxml