ANNOUNCE: The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.1

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

Application
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The GNOME XML toolkit 2.6.1

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.
The 2.6.1 release is mostly a bugfix release after the big 2.6.0 changes

  Web site: http://xmlsoft.org/

Enhancements
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- add push parser reset (Graham Bennett)

Fixes
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- Unix compilation patches: libxml.m4 (Patrick Welche), warnings cleanup
(William Brack)
- Windows compilation patches (Joachim Bauch, Stephane Bidoul, Igor
Zlatkovic)
- xmlWriter bugfix (Alfred Mickautsch)
- chvalid.[ch]: couple of fixes from Stephane Bidoul
- context reset: error state reset, push parser reset (Graham Bennett)
- context reuse: generate errors if file is not readable
- defaulted attributes for element coming from internal entities (Stephane
Bidoul)
- Python: tab and spaces mix (William Brack)
- Error handler could crash in DTD validation in 2.6.0
- xmlReader: do not use the document or element _private field
- testSAX.c: avoid a problem with some PIs (Massimo Morara)
- mandatory encoding in text decl
- serializing Document Fragment nodes
- xmlSearchNs 2.6.0 problem (Kasimier Buchcik)
- XPath errors not reported
- slow HTML parsing of large documents.

Download
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ftp://xmlsoft.org/

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