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Changes in Mini-XML

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.4

  • Fixed an issue when reporting errors with a NULL options pointer (Issue #329)
  • Fixed some compiler warnings (Issue #333)

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.3

  • Now default the DSOFLAGS value to LDFLAGS in the configure script (Issue #325)
  • Now install the man page as "mxml4" to allow parallel installation of Mini-XML 4.x and 3.x (Issue #324)
  • Added MXML_ALLOC_SIZE define to control the allocation increment for attributes and indices (Issue #318)
  • Fixed mxmlSetDeclarationf implementation (Issue #322)

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.2

  • Fixed an issue with GNU make and parallel builds (Issue #314)

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.1

  • Fixed missing "docdir" definition in makefile (Issue #313)
  • Fixed missing CPPFLAGS, OPTIM, and WARNINGS in CFLAGS in makefile.
  • Fixed configure script issues.

Changes in Mini-XML 4.0.0

  • Now require C99 support (Issue #300)
  • Now install as "libmxml4" to support installing both Mini-XML 3.x and 4.x at the same time (use --disable-libmxml4-prefix configure option to disable)
  • Added mxmlLoadIO and mxmlSaveIO functions to load and save XML via callbacks (Issue #98)
  • Added new MXML_TYPE_CDATA, MXML_TYPE_COMMENT, MXML_TYPE_DECLARATION, and MXML_TYPE_DIRECTIVE node types (Issue #250)
  • Added mxmlLoadFilename and mxmlSaveFilename functions (Issue #291)
  • Added AFL fuzzing support (Issue #306)
  • Added mxmlOptions APIs to replace the long list of callbacks and options for each of the load and save functions (Issue #312)
  • Added string copy/free callbacks to support alternate memory management of strings.
  • Renamed mxml_type_t enumerations to MXML_TYPE_xxx (Issue #251)
  • Updated APIs to use bool type instead of an int representing a boolean value.
  • Updated the SAX callback to return a bool value to control processing (Issue #51)
  • Updated the load and save callbacks to include a context pointer (Issue #106)
  • Fixed some warnings (Issue #301)
  • Fixed real number support in non-English locales (Issue #311)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3.2

  • Updated the autoconf config.guess and config.sub scripts to support cross compilation for newer platforms (Issue #296)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3.1

  • Fixed POSIX thread cleanup bugs (Issue #293)

Changes in Mini-XML 3.3

  • Cleaned up usage of free throughout the library (Issue #276)
  • Added more error handling to the library (Issue #277)
  • Fixed potential memory leak in mxmlLoad* functions (Issue #278, Issue #279)
  • Fixed mxmlSaveString with a buffer size of 0 (Issue #284)
  • Fixed MXML_MINOR_VERSION value in "mxml.h" (Issue #285)
  • Fixed POSIX threading support for MingW (Issue #287)
  • Fixed some minor memory leaks found by Coverity.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.2

  • Added support for shared libraries on Haiku (Issue #262)
  • Fixed handling of unquoted attribute values that start with a Unicode character (Issue #264)
  • Fixed handling of elements that start with a Unicode character (Issue #267)
  • Fixed some minor issues identified by the LGTM security scanner.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.1

  • The mxmlLoad* functions now print an error when the XML does not start with < and no parent node is supplied (Issue #256, Issue #259)
  • Fixed an issue with "make install" trying to install old files (Issue #257)
  • Fixed some DSO installation issues on Linux.

Changes in Mini-XML 3.0

  • Changed the license to Apache 2.0 with exceptions (Issue #239)
  • All of the internal node structures are now moved out of the public header (Issue #240)
  • Fixed a potential buffer overflow when writing floating point data (Issue #233)
  • Moved mxmldoc to a new codedoc project whose focus is on generating code documentation (Issue #235, Issue #236, Issue #237)
  • Error messages now include the line number of the error (Issue #230)
  • The mxmlSetCDATA, mxmlSetElement, mxmlSetOpaque, mxmlSetOpaquef, mxmlSetText, and mxmlSetTextf functions caused a use-after-free bug if the value came from the same node (Issue #241)
  • The mxmlSetOpaquef and mxmlSetTextf functions did not work (Issue #244)
  • The _mxml_strdupf function did not work on Windows (Issue #245)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.12

  • Added yet more documentation about using MXML_OPAQUE_CALLBACK when you want to get full strings for inline text instead of separated words (Issue #190)
  • No longer build documentation sets on macOS since Xcode no longer supports them (Issue #198)
  • Updated the va_copy macro for use with BCC (Issue #211)
  • The mxmlNewCDATA and mxmlSetCDATA functions incorrectly added the XML trailer "]]" to the string (Issue #216)
  • Cross-compiling failed on install (Issue #218)
  • Fixed a crash bug in the mxmlWrite functions (Issue #228)
  • The mxmlWrite functions no longer write the siblings of the passed node (Issue #228)
  • Updated the markdown and ZIP container libraries used for mxmldoc.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.11

  • CDATA nodes now omit the trailing "]]" for convenience (Issue #170)
  • Fixed a memory leak in mxmlDelete (Issue #183)
  • mxmlElementSetAttrf did not work with some versions of Visual Studio (Issue #184)
  • Added mxmlElementGetAttrByIndex and mxmlELementGetAttrCount functions (Issue #185)
  • The configure script now properly supports cross-compilation (Issue #188)
  • The mxmldoc utility now supports generation of EPUB files (Issue #189)
  • The mxmldoc utility now supports the SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH environment variable for reproducible builds (Issue #193)
  • The mxmldoc utility now supports Markdown (Issue #194)
  • Fixed writing of custom data values (Issue #201)
  • Added mxmlNewOpaquef and mxmlSetOpaquef functions to add and set formatted opaque string values.
  • The mxmldoc utility scanned and loaded descriptive text differently, causing the detailed descriptions ("discussion") to be lost in generated documentation.
  • The mxmldoc utility now supports @exclude format@ comments to exclude documentation based on the output format. The format string can be all to exclude documentation for all formats or a comma-delimited list such as @exclude man,html@.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.10

  • The version number in mxml.h was wrong.
  • The mxml.spec file was out of date.
  • Mini-XML no longer allows malformed element names.
  • mxmlLoad* and mxmlSAXLoad* did not properly create text nodes when MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK was specified.
  • mxmlDelete used a recursive algorithm which could require large amounts of stack space depending on the file. (CVE-2016-4570)
  • mxmlWrite* used a recursive algorithm which could require large amounts of stack space depending on the file. (CVE-2016-4571)

Changes in Mini-XML 2.9

  • mxmlLoad* did not correctly load value nodes with MXML_NO_CALLBACK or MXML_TEXT_CALLBACK.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.8

  • Now call docsetutil using xcrun on macOS.
  • mxmldoc did not escape special HTML characters inside @code foo@ comments.
  • Fixed a memory leak in mxmlElementDeleteAttr.
  • Added MXML_MAJOR/MINOR_VERSION definitions to mxml.h.
  • Fixed a bug reading UTF-16 characters from a file.
  • Fixed a memory leak when loading invalid XML.
  • Fixed an XML fragment loading problem.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.7

  • Added 64-bit configurations to the VC++ project files.
  • Fixed conformance of mxmldoc's HTML and CSS output.
  • Added data accessor ("get") functions and made the mxml_node_t and mxml_index_t structures private but still available in the Mini-XML header to preserve source compatibility.
  • Updated the source headers to reference the Mini-XML license and its exceptions to the LGPL2.
  • Fixed a memory leak when loading a badly-formed XML file.
  • Added a new mxmlFindPath function to find the value node of a named element.
  • Building a static version of the library did not work on Windows.
  • The shared library did not include a destructor for the thread-specific data key on UNIX-based operating systems.
  • mxmlLoad* did not error out on XML with multiple root nodes.
  • Fixed an issue with the _mxml_vstrdupf function.
  • mxmlSave* no longer write all siblings of the passed node, just that node and its children.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.6

  • Documentation fixes.
  • The mxmldoc program did not handle typedef comments properly.
  • Added support for "long long" printf formats.
  • The XML parser now ignores BOMs in UTF-8 XML files.
  • The mxmldoc program now supports generating Xcode documentation sets.
  • mxmlSave* did not output UTF-8 correctly on some platforms.
  • mxmlNewXML now adds encoding="utf-8" in the ?xml directive to avoid problems with non-conformant XML parsers that assume something other than UTF-8 as the default encoding.
  • Wrapping was not disabled when mxmlSetWrapMargin(0) was called, and "" was always followed by a newline.
  • The mxml.pc.in file was broken.
  • The mxmldoc program now handles "typedef enum name {} name" correctly.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.5

  • The mxmldoc program now makes greater use of CSS and supports a --css option to embed an alternate stylesheet.
  • The mxmldoc program now supports --header and --footer options to insert documentation content before and after the generated content.
  • The mxmldoc program now supports a --framed option to generate framed HTML output.
  • The mxmldoc program now creates a table of contents including any headings in the --intro file when generating HTML output.
  • The man pages and man page output from mxmldoc did not use "-" for dashes.
  • The debug version of the Mini-XML DLL could not be built.
  • Processing instructions and directives did not work when not at the top level of a document.
  • Spaces around the "=" in attributes were not supported.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.4

  • Fixed shared library build problems on HP-UX and Mac macOS.
  • The mxmldoc program did not output argument descriptions for functions properly.
  • All global settings (custom, error, and entity callbacks and the wrap margin) are now managed separately for each thread.
  • Added mxmlElementDeleteAttr function.
  • mxmlElementSetAttrf did not work.
  • mxmlLoad* incorrectly treated declarations as parent elements.
  • mxmlLoad* incorrectly allowed attributes without values.
  • Fixed Visual C++ build problems.
  • mxmlLoad* did not return NULL when an element contained an error.
  • Added support for the apos character entity.
  • Fixed whitespace detection with Unicode characters.
  • mxmlWalkNext and mxmlWalkPrev did not work correctly when called with a node with no children as the top node.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.3

  • Added two exceptions to the LGPL to support static linking of applications against Mini-XML.
  • The mxmldoc utility can now generate man pages, too.
  • Added a mxmlNewXML function.
  • Added a mxmlElementSetAttrf function.
  • Added snprintf() emulation function for test program.
  • Added the _CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE definition when building on VC++ 2005.
  • mxmlLoad* did not detect missing > characters in elements.
  • mxmlLoad* did not detect missing close tags at the end of an XML document.
  • Added user_data and ref_count members to mxml_node_t structure.
  • Added mxmlReleaseNode() and mxmlRetainNode() APIs for reference-counted nodes.
  • Added mxmlSetWrapMargin() to control the wrapping of XML output.
  • Added conditional check for EINTR error code for certain Windows compilers that do not define it.
  • The mxmldoc program now generates correct HTML 4.0 output - previously it generated invalid XHTML.
  • The mxmldoc program now supports "@deprecated@, "@private@", and "@since version@" comments.
  • Fixed function and enumeration type bugs in mxmldoc.
  • Fixed the XML schema for mxmldoc.
  • The mxmldoc program now supports --intro, --section, and --title options.
  • The mxmlLoad* functions could leak a node on an error.
  • The mxml_vsnprintf function could get in an infinite loop on a buffer overflow.
  • Added new mxmlNewCDATA and mxmlSetCDATA functions to create and set CDATA nodes, which are really just special element nodes.
  • Added new MXML_IGNORE type and MXML_IGNORE_CB callback to ignore non- element nodes, e.g. whitespace.
  • mxmlLoad* crashed when reporting an error in some invalid XML.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.2

  • mxmlLoad* did not treat custom data as opaque, so whitespace characters would be lost.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2.1

  • mxmlLoad* now correctly return NULL on error.
  • mxmlNewInteger, mxmlNewOpaque, mxmlNewReal, mxmlNewText, and mxmlNewTextf incorrectly required a parent node.
  • Fixed an XML output bug in mxmldoc.
  • The "make install" target now uses the install command to set the proper permissions on UNIX/Linux/macOS.
  • Fixed a MingW/Cygwin compilation problem.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.2

  • Added shared library support.
  • mxmlLoad* now return an error when an XML stream contains illegal control characters.
  • mxmlLoad* now return an error when an element contains two attributes with the same name in conformance with the XML spec.
  • Added support for CDATA.
  • Updated comment and processing instruction handling - no entity support per XML specification.
  • Added checking for invalid comment termination: "--->" is not allowed.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.1

  • Added support for custom data nodes.
  • Now treat UTF-8 sequences which are longer than necessary as an error.
  • Fixed entity number support.
  • Fixed mxmlLoadString() bug with UTF-8.
  • Fixed entity lookup bug.
  • Added mxmlLoadFd and mxmlSaveFd functions.
  • Fixed multi-word UTF-16 handling.

Changes in Mini-XML 2.0

  • New programmers manual.
  • Added Visual C++ project files for Microsoft Windows users.
  • Added optimizations to mxmldoc, mxmlSaveFile, and mxmlIndexNew.
  • mxmlEntityAddCallback now returns an integer status.
  • Added UTF-16 support (input only; all output is UTF-8).
  • Added index functions to build a searchable index of XML nodes.
  • Added character entity callback interface to support additional character entities beyond those defined in the XHTML specification.
  • Added support for XHTML character entities.
  • The mxmldoc utility now produces XML output which conforms to an updated XML schema, described in the file "doc/mxmldoc.xsd".
  • Changed the whitespace callback interface to return strings instead of a single character, allowing for greater control over the formatting of XML files written using Mini-XML. THIS CHANGE WILL REQUIRE CHANGES TO YOUR 1.x CODE IF YOU USE WHITESPACE CALLBACKS.
  • The mxmldoc utility is now capable of documenting C++ classes, functions, and structures, and correctly handles C++ comments.
  • Added new modular tests for mxmldoc.
  • Updated the mxmldoc output to be more compatible with embedding in manuals produced with HTMLDOC.
  • The makefile incorrectly included a "/" separator between the destination path and install path. This caused problems when building and installing with MingW.