AxKit Changes

1.6

• Added SAXMachines Language module.
• Seperated ContentProviders and StyleProviders into separate entities
• Fixed more relative URI "issues"
• Fixed xinclude in XSP pages
• Fixed handling of XML resources - if using FastHandler don't check if the resource is XML or not. (this fixes the problem with having to "AddType text/xml .xsp" for everything you want handled)
• Added support everywhere for axkit: URI scheme, which runs the requested URI through AxKit's engine without the need for doing a full http request.
• Made most of AxKit warnings clean.
• Made ConfigReader class a little easier to override
• Use direct gzwrite() routines when writing the cache - should be slightly faster.
• "Fixed" strange error with Gzipped output related to perl unicode support
• Made passthru sane with alternate providers (reduces security risks - esp. with Filter)
• Fixed some of the demo XSP pages
• Added AxTraceIntermediate config option to aid debugging

1.5.2-dev

• Added SAXMachines Language module.
• Seperated ContentProviders from StyleProviders

1.5.2

• Allow AxKit to handle directory requests.
• Fixed all Language modules to return 200/OK
• Added AxIgnoreStylePI directive
• Ported AxPoint to use XML::Handler::AxPoint
• TaglibHelper taglibs no longer need to have parse_* subs
• Added HtmlDoc language module
• Fixed strange bug in cached LibXSLT stylesheets

1.5.1

• Allow XSP pages to return a result code to make redirects and other HTTP status codes easier.
• Allow form/querystring params to not be passed to XSLT
• Many XSP bug fixes
• Fixed all Plugins to return OK, as needed
• All plugins renamed to Apache::AxKit::Plugin namespace (old installs should continue to work by virtue of the old file remaining)
• added SimpleTaglib, a powerful TaglibHelper replacement
• added beginnings of a demo site, not yet fully functional, but already contains some useful example code

1.5

• Allow AddHandler/SetHandler axkit instead of PerlHandler
• Added AxDependencyChecks On/Off for performance on live sites
• Implemented resolution of xml-stylesheet PI and root element stuff using libxml2 in C, allowing you to use AxKit totally without expat/XML::Parser.
• Ported XSP to XML::LibXML
• Added a PassiveTeX renderer, so you can do on-the-fly PDFs
• Fixed some relative URI bugs in LibXSLT module
• Fixes for compilation on MacOSX and SUNPRO C.
• TaglibHelper updates to improve flexibility etc.
• Added AxAddPlugin option
• Cache changed to use 2 directories below cache file. Should speed things up on Linux/ext2
• Facility to add stylesheets mid-processing, so you can control the execution path via XSP and other scripting.
• Some AxPoint updates.

1.4

• Config directives no longer implemented by Apache::ExtUtils
• New TaglibHelper module, makes writing XSP taglibs almost trivial.
• Build checks for iconv library - should make things smoother on *BSD
• Known bug in Filter provider is fixed
• Major memory leak cleanup
• Added LibXSLT language module (for use with XML::LibXSLT). This is over twice as fast as XML::Sablotron, and more compliant.
• Added AxAddURIProcessor config directive
• Added AxLogDeclines config directive (replaces PerlSetVar equivalent)
• Added import_templates() to XPathScript
• XSP now uses SAX to generate code
• Sablot.pm allows you to set the outgoing mime type
• Many fixes to AxKit.xs compiled directives (hopefully making it work for more people now)
• Removed eval{} stuff around XML parsing in Provider.pm as it seemed to be causing segfaults in Perl 5.6.1
• Fixes to LibXSLT language module to make it work with new versions of XML::LibXSLT (and the core libxslt library).
• Cleaned up error handling, and error stylesheets significantly
• Removed Storable from XPathScript (to get control of the segfaults)
• Implemented has_changed() for all "cache" bits
• Improved error handling with an AxStackTrace config directive allowing the Error Stylesheet to get a full stack trace.
• Doc fixes to stop pod2man complaining.
• AxKit now adds AxKit/Version to your Server string (for netcraft!)
• Switched xml_string to pnotes so you can have binary nulls in the output (e.g. for PDFs).
• Added some configuration tidbits to INSTALL
• Much better (though not 100% there) test harness code
• Major fixes to Makefile.PL (to work better on *BSD and Win32)
• XML::Parser no longer needed if you have libxml2 installed. This will allow AxKit to work with Apaches that have expat enabled!
• XSP pages can implement a has_changed() function, which allows you to control the caching of the results (can have significant performance increases on dynamic pages)
• Providers responsible for returning declined (this allows for non-file providers to not end up in a 404 when doing e.g. passthru)
• Added AxNoCache option to turn off caching on purpose.
• split AxKit.xs into more managable files
• Better error messages from CharsetConv (iconv)
• Added a PDF slideshow builder called AxPoint
• Sablot fix for changing content-type.
• Much cleaner handling of character set conversions
• AxKit::Apache->request() added (similar to Apache->request())
• Cache maintains content-type more sanely.
• Many, many minor bug fixes.

1.3

• Re-written XSP engine
• Much better dependencies checking
• XPathScript adds import_template() function and other minor changes
• Better shared memory usage when using directives in httpd.conf
• All XSP namespaces updated to Apache normalised versions (these are http://apache.org/xsp/<module>/<version>; although these may well change again shortly)

1.2

• XPathScript can interpolate "{xpath}" in $t hash
• reduced required modules list
• Removed Sablotron from AxKit.pm due to some segfaults
• Fixed segfaults in aborted conversions with iconv
• Added AxResetProcessors
• Improved Apache::Filter support
• Much improved installer
• Many XSP changes/fixes. Now uses XML::XPath DOM tree.
• Memoize methods that call stat() in Cache and Providers
• Many miscellaneous improvements

1.1

• Uses iconv rather than Unicode::* modules to do character set conversions
• Fix for AxMediaType/AxStyleName bug (Owen Stenseth)
• Fix for compilation under mod_perl 1.24_01
• Fix for relative URI's and file:// sub requests
• Minor stylesheet cache bug fixed
• Updated Filter provider for Apache::Filter >= 1.13
• Fix for filehandle leak
• Fix for Virtual Host Stash bug.