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          #             Axl Library              #
          #           Bohemian like you          # 
          #                0.5.6                 #
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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 and Fovap.

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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  Bug fix release. Added support to include any binary content based
  on <![CDATA[]]> decls by doing some automatic replacements.

Thanks to..
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  Benoit Amiaux (reported and fixed BOM detection and other
  compilation warnings).

Changes from previous release 0.5.5
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* [new] Added nested <![CDATA[]]> support by doing some particular
  entity substitutions. This will ensure that a xml document using
  CDATA decl can hold any binary data. Added support functions for
  additional operations around this feature. API added:

    - axl_node_has_invalid_chars_cdata
    - axl_node_content_copy_and_escape_cdata

  Added regression test (test_42).

* [fix] More regression test on axlList and NULL references.

* [fix] Making axl_list_remove, axl_list_remove_ptr,
  axl_list_remove_first and axl_list_remove_last to allow removing
  NULL reference. Updated regression test to check new function.

* [fix] Updating configure.ac to check requirements for exarg files
  included inside axl-knife to avoid using va_copy (or its draft
  version) __va_copy.

* [fix] Applying patches provided by Benoit Amiaux to fix minor
  compilation warnings and proper BOM utf-8 detection.

libaxl/knife:
* [new] Added new option to allow checking a xml document (--check-xml).

* [fix] Fixing exarg_strdup_printfv to get it compiled
  and working on windows. Updated associated projects
  using libexarg files.


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 its process, 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@a...

  We hope Axl Library help you. Enjoy Axl Library!

--
Francis Brosnan Blázquez           - francis@a...
Advanced Software Production Line  - http://www.aspl.es
21th jan 2009, Madrid (Spain)