ReleaseNotes-1.2

Beta-Release Notes for Version 1.2
Beta version

April 2004

Very many changes:

New DOM API, conceived by Jon Wakelin and implemented by Jon and
Alberto Garcia.

New WXML API to write well-formed XML,  by Alberto Garcia

New CML (writing) API, built on top of WXML, contributed by Jon Wakelin.

Documentation for the new features is still quite sparse.
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Changes for 1.2g: (April 28, 2004)

SAX

* New optional argument "record_size" in open_xmlfile. The default record 
length is 65536, but for overly long lines it might be necessary to specify
a larger size.

* Wrote "init_" routines to avoid undefined status for the components
of the buffer, dictionary, and elstack derived types (Fortran90 restriction). 
They are called just once at the beginning of execution.

The "reset_" routines just zero out the counters in the derived
types. This leads to substantial savings in overhead.

* Avoided when possible the allocation of temporaries (mostly strings) by
the compilers. This was particularly acute in the "action" records. The
typical idiom:

	action =trim("Reading character in name: " // c)

forced the allocation of a temporary.  The number of compiler allocations
(at least with NAG) has dropped down to just those needed in the processing
of entities.

* Put the explicit module dependencies in the makefile.

* Increased the standard size of the buffers and dictionaries.
***** The program now stops when those sizes are not enough.

DOM

Some bug fixes

STRINGS

Fix assign_s_to_s (it could be that source is not allocated)

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