[xml] Release of libxml2-2.6.24

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

  Last release was 3 months ago, and I will be in vacations most of May so
a release was in order ! Available as usual on xmlsoft.org and GNOME FTP
servers. This is mostly bugfixes:

* Portability fixes:
 - configure on Windows
 - testapi compile on windows (Kasimier Buchcik
 - venkat naidu)
 - Borland C++ 6 compile (Eric Zurcher)
 - HP-UX compiler workaround (Rick Jones)
 - xml2-config bugfix
 - gcc-4.1 cleanups
 - Python detection scheme (Joseph Sacco)
 - UTF-8 file paths on Windows (Roland Schwingel).
* Improvements:
 - XML catalog debugging (Rick Jones)
 - update to Unicode 4.01.
* Bug fixes: xmlParseChunk() problem in 2.6.23
 - xmlParseInNodeContext() on HTML docs
 - URI behaviour on Windows (Rob Richards)
 - comment streaming bug
 - xmlParseComment (with William Brack)
 - regexp bug fixes (DV & Youri Golovanov)
 - xmlGetNodePath on text/CDATA (Kasimier)
 - one Relax-NG interleave bug
 - xmllint --path and --valid 
 - XSD bugfixes (Kasimier)
 - remove debug left in Python bindings (Nic Ferrier)
 - xmlCatalogAdd bug (Martin Cole)
 - xmlSetProp fixes (Rob Richards)
 - HTML IDness (Rob Richards)
 - a large number of cleanups and small fixes based on Coverity reports
 - bug in character ranges
 - Unicode tables const (Aivars Kalvans)
 - schemas fix (Stefan Kost)
 - xmlRelaxNGParse error deallocation
 - xmlSchemaAddSchemaDoc error deallocation
 - error handling on unallowed code point
 - ixmllint --nonet to never reach the net (Gary Coady)
 - line break in writer after end PI (Jason Viers).
* Documentation:
 - man pages updates and cleanups (Daniel Leidert).
* New features:
 - Relax NG structure error handlers.
 - xmlDOMWrapReconcileNamespaces xmlDOMWrapCloneNode (Kasimier Buchcik)

  Thanks to everybody who helped for this release !

Daniel

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