This document describes the changes made to the Xmerl application.
Application upgrade (appup) files are corrected for the following applications:
A new test utility for testing appup files is added to test_server. This is now used by most applications in OTP.
(Thanks to Tobias Schlager)
Own Id: OTP-11744
Fixed a problem in the SAX parser when the header of the next document was appearing in the buffer when using xmerl_sax_parser:stream/2 function.
Own Id: OTP-11551 Aux Id: seq12505
The default encoding of Erlang files has been changed from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8.
The encoding of XML files has also been changed to UTF-8.
Own Id: OTP-10907
Teach xmerl_xpath to resolve context namespaces in more cases. Thanks to Daniel White.
Own Id: OTP-11461
Avoid serialization on code_server in xmerl:export(). Thanks to Richard Carlsson.
Own Id: OTP-11463
Fixed various typos in xmerl documentation. Thanks to David Welton.
Own Id: OTP-11224
Where necessary a comment stating encoding has been added to Erlang files. The comment is meant to be removed in Erlang/OTP R17B when UTF-8 becomes the default encoding.
Own Id: OTP-10630
Some examples overflowing the width of PDF pages have been corrected.
Own Id: OTP-10665
Fix a continuation bug when a new block of bytes is to be read during parsing of a default declaration.
Own Id: OTP-10063 Aux Id: seq12049
Add missing spaces in xmerl doc (Thanks to Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez)
Own Id: OTP-9873
Fixed a continuation error in the sax parser and added latin1 as recognized encoding (not only the iso-8859 variants).
Own Id: OTP-9961
Removed the unused file xmerl_xlink.hrl. Thanks to Vlad Dumitrescu for informing us about it.
Own Id: OTP-9965
xmerl couldn't handle comments inside a type specification.
Own Id: OTP-10023
Fix some small errors in the sax parser: error message bug, removal of trailing blanks in DTD element definitions and an documentation error of the startDTD event in xmerl_sax_parser module.
Own Id: OTP-10026
Fix character check of non-characters due to change in unicode module.
Own Id: OTP-9670
Treat , as special in xmerl_xpath_scan. (Thanks to Anneli Cuss)
Own Id: OTP-9753
Fix bug in namespace handling for attributes when the
Own Id: OTP-9821
Updates to the xml scanner
xmerl_scan is now returning xmlComment records in the
output.
Functions
Default (
Add default_attrs
option
When default_attrs is
Allow
whole documents to be returned
Functions
This option
is the only way to get to the top-level comments and
processing instructions without hooking through the
customization functions. Those nodes are needed to
implement [Canonical XML][c14n-xml] support.
[c14n-xml]:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/PR-xml-c14n11-20080129/
Canonical XML
Parents and
namespace are tracked in
Parents are tracked in
Set
Fix
namespace-conformance constraints
See
[Namespaces in XML 1.0 (Third Edition)][1]: The prefix
xml is by definition bound to the namespace name
http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace. It MAY, but need
not, be declared, and MUST NOT be bound to any other
namespace name. Other prefixes MUST NOT be bound to this
namespace name, and it MUST NOT be declared as the
default namespace.
The prefix xmlns is used only to
declare namespace bindings and is by definition bound to
the namespace name http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/. It MUST
NOT be declared . Other prefixes MUST NOT be bound to
this namespace name, and it MUST NOT be declared as the
default namespace. Element names MUST NOT have the prefix
xmlns.
In XML documents conforming to this
specification, no tag may contain two attributes which
have identical names, or have qualified names with the
same local part and with prefixes which have been bound
to namespace names that are identical.
[1]
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
Updates of xmerl's Xpath functionality.
Add
Fix processing-instruction(name?)
Fix path filters, support more top-level primary expressions
Accumulate comments in element nodes
Implement namespace
axis
Namespace nodes are represented as
See
[5.3 Attribute Nodes][xpath-5.3]:
There are no
attribute nodes corresponding to attributes that declare
namespaces.
[xpath-5.3]:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#attribute-nodes
(Thanks to Anthony Ramine)
*** POTENTIAL INCOMPATIBILITY ***
Own Id: OTP-9664
Eliminate use of deprecated regexp module
Own Id: OTP-9810
Fixed a schema search bug in xmerl_xsd.
A new flag was needed in the xsd_state record so if the state is saved there is an incompatibility and a state conversion is needed.
*** INCOMPATIBILITY with R14B03 ***
Own Id: OTP-9410
Fixed xmerl_scan problems with entities in attribute values.
Own Id: OTP-9411
Streaming bug in xmerl_scan.
If the continuation_fun runs out of input at the end of an attribute value then it crashed. (Thanks to Simon Cornish)
Own Id: OTP-9457
Fixed xmerl_ucs UCS2 little endian en/decoding
Corrected number of shift bytes in xmerl_ucs:char_to_ucs2le and recursive call from from_ucs2le to from_ucs4le. (Thanks to Michal Ptaszek)
Own Id: OTP-9548
Add latin9 (iso-8859-15) support in xmerl_ucs (Thanks to David Julien)
Own Id: OTP-9552
Improve spelling throughout documentation, code comments and error messages
Own Id: OTP-9555
Fix minor typos and improve punctuation in the xmerl_xpath @doc comment (Thanks to Marcus Marinelli)
Own Id: OTP-9187
Prevent xmerl from over-normalizing character references in attributes
Section 3.3.3 of the XML Recommendation gives the rules for attribute-value normalization. One of those rules requires that character references not be re-normalized after being replaced with the referenced characters. (Thanks to Tom Moertel)
Own Id: OTP-9274
Fixed the default encoding option in SAX parser.
Own Id: OTP-9288
Added the xmerl test suites and examples to the open source distribution.
Own Id: OTP-9228
The function xmerl_lib:expand_content/1 is mainly for expanding Simple XML, but can also handle xmerl records. This patch fixes an omission that caused expand_content/1 to not maintain the parents list when expanding #xmlElement{} records. (Thanks to Ulf Wiger)
Own Id: OTP-9034
Removed some dialyzer warnings.
Own Id: OTP-9074
An empty element declared as simpleContent was not properly validated.
Own Id: OTP-8599
Fix format_man_pages so it handles all man sections and remove warnings/errors in various man pages.
Own Id: OTP-8600
Fix entity checking so there are no fatal errors for undefined entities when option skip_external_dtd is used.
Own Id: OTP-8947
Fixed problem with hex entities in UTF-8 documents: When a document was in UTF-8 encoding, xmerl_scan improperly replaced hex entities by the UTF-8 bytes instead of returning the character, as it does with inline UTF-8 text and decimal entities. (Thanks to Paul Guyot.)
Own Id: OTP-8697
All Erlang files are now built by the test server instead of the test directory Makefile.
Erlang files in data directories are now built by the test suites instead of using prebuilt versions under version control.
Removed a number of obsolete guards.
Own Id: OTP-8537
An empty element declared as a simpleContent was not properly validated.
Own Id: OTP-8599
Updated the documentation Makefile to work with the new documentation build process.
Own Id: OTP-8343
A continuation clause of
Own Id: OTP-8251 Aux Id: seq11429
A new option to turn off the parsing of an external DTD
is added to
Own Id: OTP-8252 Aux Id: seq11432
The documentation is now built with open source tools (xsltproc and fop) that exists on most platforms. One visible change is that the frames are removed.
Own Id: OTP-8253
Own Id: OTP-8213
The namespace URI supplied on unprefixed attributes in startElement tuples is the same as the URI for the default namespace. According to the standard the namespace for an unprefixed attribute should always has no value.
Own Id: OTP-8214
Own Id: OTP-8084
The function
Own Id: OTP-8156
The SAX parser couldn't handle consecutive documents on the same stream. The return values are now changed so they return a rest value instead of giving an error about "erranous information after the end tag".
This means that
the functions
Own Id: OTP-8153 Aux Id: seq11388
In xmerl-1.2 we have added the first Beta version of the new SAX parser (module: xmerl_sax_parser), it supports XML 1.0. We call it Beta due to that the validation part is not ready yet and that the parser still has some known limitations (mostly in the DTD area).
Known limitations:
The version is increased from 1.1.12 to 1.2 is due to that the new parser is dependent on the Unicode support that was added in OTP R13B. The old xmerl functionality is not changed.
Own Id: OTP-6635
Updated copyright notice in source files
Own Id: OTP-7847
An empty element with a complexType and simpleContent was not properly validated. This error is now corrected.
Own Id: OTP-7736
Changed the examples in Customization Functions Tutorial to correct Erlang code.
Own Id: OTP-6053
Some XPath errors solved, typo in compare function '!=',
error in
Own Id: OTP-6792 Aux Id: seq10570
The XPath function
Own Id: OTP-6873
Fixed that xmerl_xsd:process_schema/2 with {xsdbase, Dirname} failed with enoent and a number of inor documentation bugs in xmerl_xsd reference manual.
Own Id: OTP-7165
Fixed xmerl_scan's problem with numeric character references followed by UTF-8 characters in the contents.
Own Id: OTP-7430
Fixed an incorrect guard for xmerl_scan:to_ucs/2.
Own Id: OTP-7473
Some bug corrections of xmerl XPath implementation, most provided by Matthew Dempsky.
Own Id: OTP-7496
Now with
Own Id: OTP-7510
A number of minor scanner faults have got more clear error messages.
Own Id: OTP-5998, Aux Id: seq9803
An example error in the Xmerl Users Guide is corrected.
Own Id: OTP-6947
When xmerl_xsd:validate was executed the schema table in the state was deleted and next execution would fail. This is now corrected.
Own Id: OTP-7288
A Kleene Closure child in a sequence consumed all following children. This problem has been fixed.
Own Id: OTP-7211
Now validating xhtml1-transitional.dtd. A certain contentspec with a succeeding choice, that didn't match all content, followed by other child elements caused a failure. This is now corrected.
Own Id: OTP-7214
xmerl's schema validation now takes default facets into account
Own Id: OTP-7190
Parsing XML with option
Own Id: OTP-6773
union type is now supported
Own Id: OTP-6877 Aux Id: seq10755
Now xmerl validates as expected when a sequence has a present group member and a following element.
Own Id: OTP-6910
The head of a substitutionGroup may have type anyType and thus allow members of any type. This was an oversight, but is now corrected.
Own Id: OTP-6720
A recursive group reference in a redefine refers to the definition in the redefined schema. See 4.2.2 in XMLSchema part1 "Schema Representation Constraint: Individual Component Redefinition" bullet 2.
Own Id: OTP-6739
Solved some content model problems, for instance in some cases failed when more than one choice.
Own Id: OTP-6752
An additional format is possible for the simple syntax:
Own Id: OTP-6679
Memory consumption decreased: moved transforming from utf-8 to unicode from an extra pass of the document to the occasion when a character is parsed. Removed use of lists:subtract. Those changes also speeds up parsing in some scenarios.
Own Id: OTP-6599 Aux Id: seq10552
Schema processor reprocessed schemas that already were processed, using process_schemas on a system of schemas with circular dependencies.
Own Id: OTP-6460 Aux Id: seq10564
Dialyzer warnings now removed, i.e. dead code have been removed.
Own Id: OTP-6507
Bug in xmerl removed so that simple syntax element content is exported correctly.
Own Id: OTP-6402 Aux Id: OTP-6099
Xmerl failed to parse and export with the sax_file front-end. 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
xmerl now supports XMLSchema validation. Documentation in reference manual for xmerl. The release of XMLSchema validation should be considered as a beta release. The user interface may still be adjusted in a coming release. Opinions and evaluations are welcome.
Own Id: OTP-6401
Code that caused compiler warnings has been reviewed.
xmerl behaved strange parsing 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 position 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
Removed call of undefined function in xmerl_lib.
Own Id: OTP-5587
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
Fixed bug in xmerl_xpath. Xpath expressions that select nodes of type text() didn't work, like "context/text()", "child::text()", "descendant::text()".
Own Id: OTP-5268 Aux Id: seq9656
Minor bugs fixed.
Own Id: OTP-5301
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