ANNOUNCE: The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

Application
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The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.6

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).
It also provides the xmllint XML/HTML processing tool.
This release fix a potential security problem, people are advised to
upgrade.

Enhancements
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- Parsers: added xmlByteConsumed(ctxt) API to get the byte offest in
input.
- XInclude: allow the 2001 namespace without warning.
- reader API: structured error reporting (Steve Ball)

Fixes
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- nanohttp and nanoftp: buffer overflow error on URI parsing (Igor and
William)
reported by Yuuichi Teranishi
- make test and path issues
- xmlWriter attribute serialization (William Brack)
- xmlWriter indentation (William)
- schemas validation (Eric Haszlakiewicz)
- XInclude dictionnaries issues (William and Oleg Paraschenko)
- XInclude empty fallback (William)
- HTML warnings (William)
- XPointer in XInclude (William)
- Python namespace serialization
- isolat1ToUTF8 bound error (Alfred Mickautsch)
- output of parameter entities in internal subset (William)
- internal subset bug in push mode
- <xs:all> fix (Alexey Sarytchev)
- Build: fix for automake-1.8 (Alexander Winston)
  warnings removal (Philip Ludlam)
  SOCKLEN_T detection fixes (Daniel Richard)
  fix --with-minimum configuration.
- Documentation: missing example/index.html (John Fleck)
  version dependancies (John Fleck)
- Windows compilation: mingw, msys (Mikhail Grushinskiy),
  function prototype (Cameron Johnson),
  MSVC6 compiler warnings,
  _WINSOCKAPI_ patch

Download
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ftp://xmlsoft.org/

Website
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http://xmlsoft.org/

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