• fixed some major bugs, works now with libxml2 2.5.x
  
• fixed problem with empty document fragments
  
• bad tag and attribute names cannot be created anymore
  
• Catalog interface is aware about libxml2 configuration
  
• XML::LibXML should work now on systems without having zlib installed
  
• cleaned the error handling code, which
  
  • fixes bad reporting of the validating parser
    
  • fixes bad reporting in xpath functions
    
• added getElementsBy*Name() functions for the Document Class
  
• fixed memory management problem introduced in 1.53
  (that fixes a lot strange things)
  
• interface for raw libxml2 DOM building functions
  (currently just addChild() and addNewChild(), others will follow)
  
• fixed namespace handling if nodes are imported to a new DOM.
  
• fixed segmentation fault during validation under libxml2 2.4.25
  
• fixed bad CDATA handing in XML::LibXML::SAX::Builder
  
• fixed namespace handing in XML::LibXML::SAX
  
• fixed attribute handing in XML::LibXML::SAX
  
• fixed memory leak in XML::LibXML::SAX
  
• fixed memory leak in XML::LibXML::Document
  
• fixed segfault while appending entity ref nodes to documents
  
• fixed some backward compatibility issues
  
• fixed cloning with namespaces misbehaviour
  
• fixed parser problems with libxml2 2.5.3+
  
• moved iterator classes into a separate package
  (after realizing some CPAN testers refuse to read their warnings
  from Makefile.PL)
  
• improved parser testsuite
  
• improved M
  
• more documentation