Xmerl Release Notes

## 1 Xmerl Release Notes

This document describes the changes made to the Xmerl application.

### 1.1 Xmerl 1.1

#### 1.1.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Xmerl failed to parse and export with the sax_file frontend. Therefore hook function calls were added in the parser and handling of text content were changed.
  Own Id: OTP-6043
- Bug in xmerl removed so that simple syntax element content is exported correctly.
  Own Id: OTP-6099

#### 1.1.2 Improvements and New Features

- xmerl now supports XMLSchema validation. Documentation in reference manual for xmerl. The release of XMLSchema validation shoul be considered as a beta release. The user interface may still be adjusted in a comming release. Opinions and evaluations are welcome.
  Own Id: OTP-6401

### 1.2 xmerl 1.0.5

#### 1.2.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Code that caused compiler warnings has been reviewed.

### 1.3 xmerl 1.0.4

#### 1.3.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- xmerl behaved strange pasing a xml-document with a copyright sign in a comment.
  Own Id: OTP-5599
- Line count for error messages in DTD improved, still problem because of ENTITY expansions. Didn't delete digraphs after recursion test. Now correctly parsing of declaration separators [28a-b].
  Own Id: OTP-5718
- Failed to validate a xml file with a content spec that had a choice of which one element was a sequence with optional elements, and all elements of that sequence were missing
  Own Id: OTP-5734
- Location paths for document root and attributes is now working as expected.
  Own Id: OTP-5895
- Now has the last() predicate in the xpath modules the properties specified in ch 2.4 in the XPath spec, i.e. if last() evaluates to a number other than the context positon it is false, otherwise true.
  Own Id: OTP-5902
- The location path of a single wildcard now only selects element nodes.
  Own Id: OTP-5905

### 1.4 Xmerl 1.0.3

#### 1.4.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Removed call of undefined function in xmerl_lib.
  Own Id: OTP-5587

### 1.5 Xmerl 1.0.2

#### 1.5.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Better identification of errors in xml code.
  Own Id: OTP-5498 Aux Id: seq9803
- Some minor bugs fixed.
  Own Id: OTP-5500
- Parser failed on PE reference as EnumeratedType AttType, now corrected.
  Own Id: OTP-5531

### 1.6 Xmerl 1.0.1

#### 1.6.1 Fixed Bugs and Malfunctions

- Fixed bug in xmerl_xpath. Xpath expressions that select nodes of type text() didn't work, like "contexto/text()", "child::text()", "descendant::text()".
  Own Id: OTP-5268 Aux Id: seq9656
- Minor bugs fixed.
  Own Id: OTP-5301

There are also release notes for older versions.

### 1.7 Xmerl 1.0

#### 1.7.1 Improvements and New Features

- The OTP release of xmerl 1.0 is mainly the same as xmerl-0.20 of http://sowap.sourceforge.net/. It is capable of parsing XML 1.0. There have only been minor improvements: Some bugs that caused an unexpected crash when parsing bad XML. Failure report that also tells which file that caused an error.
  Own Id: OTP-5174

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