[ANN] Axl Library 0.6.0 'Un dia en el mundo' is ready!

[Francis Brosnan Blazquez <francis@aspl.es>]

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Advanced Software Production Line is proud to announce a new Axl
Library release.

Axl Library is a small and efficient XML toolkit, written in ANSI C
and released under the LGPL. It allows to produce efficient and clear
code that handle XML data.

The library was produced to support XML requirements needed by
software developed by Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.

At this moment the library is being used by Vortex Library, Af-Arch,
Turbulence, Shaper, Fovap and Ju-Doc.

Resources
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   Axl Homepage
   [ http://www.aspl.es/xml ]

   Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.
   [ http://www.aspl.es ]

This release in short
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  This release feature support for Python language through PyAxl
  binding (http://www.aspl.es/xml/doc.html). Some bugs were fixed,
  especially at DTD validation and more documentation was added.
  
Thanks to..
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  Benoit Amiaux (reported memory leak at axl_node_set_name).

Changes from previous release 0.5.7
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* [fix] Fixed DTD validation error (one to many spec followed by
  optional node). Added regression test to reproduce the problem and
  check the fix introduced.

* [new] Updated PyAxlDoc API to include methods to dump document
  content. API added:

   - doc.dump ()
   - doc.file_dump ()

* [new] Added support to axl.Node type to returns its current holding
  document. API added:

   - axl.Node.doc

* [fix] Making axl.Node.attr () method to act like a setter method in
  the case two arguments are received and like a getter method in the
  case one argument is received.

* [new] Updated API to support support for axl.AttrCursor type.
  Updated axl.Node type to include a method to initialize a cursor.
  API added:

   - axl.Node.cursor_new ()
   - axl.AttrCursor.key
   - axl.AttrCursor.value
   - axl.AttrCursor.first ()
   - axl.AttrCursor.next ()
   - axl.AttrCursor.has_item ()
   - axl.AttrCursor.has_next ()

* [fix] Making axl_item_get_doc to not report a log error when it is
  found no document holding the node.

* [new] Updated support to allow creating empty documents and xml
  nodes (axl.Node () and axlDoc ()).

* [fix] Updated axl.Node type destructor to check if the internal node
  is stored on a document before proceeding the GC.

* [new] Added new method to set child nodes. API added:

   axl.Node.set_child

* [new] Added support to configure xml root node. API added:
  
   axl.Node.root

* [fix] Fixed memory leak at axl_node_set_name which was causing to to
  free node name configured. Fixed and reported by Benoit Amiaux.
  Added regression test to check patch and fix introduced.

* [new] Added regression test to check python bindings: test_01.py

* [fix] Added const declaration to some parameters. Functions updated:

   - axl_node_get_next_called
   - axl_node_get_previous_called
   - axl_node_get_child_called
   - axl_node_find_called

* [fix] Fixed configure.ac to properly check and detect the presence
  of vasprintf symbol which is essential on Linux amd64 platforms.

* [new] Added initial working PyAxl implementation: python bindings for
  axl library.

* [fix] Fixed api declarations using () rather than (void) which
  causing python extension building to complain. Checked regression
  tests..

About Advanced Software Production Line, S.L.
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  Advanced Software Production Line provides GNU/Linux support and
  consulting services to enable organization to introduce GNU/Linux
  into their processes, making other platforms to properly interact
  with it.

  Contact us, using English or Spanish, to get commercial support
  and/or XML based development services.

  You can reach us:

       http://www.aspl.es - info@aspl.es

  We hope Axl Library help you. Enjoy Axl Library!

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Francis Brosnan Blázquez           - francis@aspl.es
Advanced Software Production Line  - http://www.aspl.es
3th sep 2009, Madrid (Spain)