| 1 | Beta-Release Notes for Version 1.2 |
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| 2 | Beta version |
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| 4 | April 2004 |
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| 5 | |
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| 6 | Very many changes: |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | New DOM API, conceived by Jon Wakelin and implemented by Jon and |
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| 9 | Alberto Garcia. |
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| 11 | New WXML API to write well-formed XML, by Alberto Garcia |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | New CML (writing) API, built on top of WXML, contributed by Jon Wakelin. |
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| 14 | |
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| 15 | Documentation for the new features is still quite sparse. |
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| 16 | --------------------------------------------------------------- |
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| 18 | Changes for 1.2g: (April 28, 2004) |
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| 20 | SAX |
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| 22 | * New optional argument "record_size" in open_xmlfile. The default record |
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| 23 | length is 65536, but for overly long lines it might be necessary to specify |
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| 24 | a larger size. |
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| 26 | * Wrote "init_" routines to avoid undefined status for the components |
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| 27 | of the buffer, dictionary, and elstack derived types (Fortran90 restriction). |
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| 28 | They are called just once at the beginning of execution. |
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| 29 | |
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| 30 | The "reset_" routines just zero out the counters in the derived |
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| 31 | types. This leads to substantial savings in overhead. |
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| 33 | * Avoided when possible the allocation of temporaries (mostly strings) by |
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| 34 | the compilers. This was particularly acute in the "action" records. The |
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| 35 | typical idiom: |
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| 36 | |
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| 37 | action =trim("Reading character in name: " // c) |
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| 38 | |
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| 39 | forced the allocation of a temporary. The number of compiler allocations |
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| 40 | (at least with NAG) has dropped down to just those needed in the processing |
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| 41 | of entities. |
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| 42 | |
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| 43 | * Put the explicit module dependencies in the makefile. |
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| 44 | |
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| 45 | * Increased the standard size of the buffers and dictionaries. |
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| 46 | ***** The program now stops when those sizes are not enough. |
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| 47 | |
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| 48 | DOM |
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| 50 | Some bug fixes |
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| 51 | |
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| 52 | STRINGS |
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| 53 | |
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| 54 | Fix assign_s_to_s (it could be that source is not allocated) |
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| 55 | |
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| 56 | ------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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