AxKit

Separation of content and style providers, a new axkit:// URI scheme for internal requests, a new AxTraceIntermediate option for saving pipeline stages for debugging, many bugfixes, and other enhancements.

Performance improvements, dynamic plugins, AxKit as a proper Apache module, a rewritten XSP engine, TaglibHelper improvements, a PassiveTeX XSLFO renderer, and fixes for compilation on MacOS X and SunPRO/C were added.

This release contains many bug fixes.
Functionality has been improved in all areas, and
there are performance increases and an XSP engine
re-write (all taglib modules re-released to CPAN).
A TaglibHelper module has been added (for easier
XSP taglibs). Config directives code has been
re-implemented in pure C. There is better
content-type handling, XML::LibXSLT support, an
AxPoint PDF slideshow module, an AxNoCache option,
and much more.

This release includes improvements to the XSP
engine to allow taglibs to be written more easily,
better dependencies checking, and an
import_template() function in XPathScript.

Quite a few bugfixes (including some for segfaults), use of iconv rather than Unicode::* modules to do character set conversions, an updated filter provider for Apache::Filter >= 1.13, ability for XPathScript to interpolate "{xpath}" in $t hash, and a reduced required modules list. Sablotron was removed from AxKit.pm due to some segfaults. AxResetProcessors was added, and Apache::Filter support was improved. A much-improved installer, many XSP changes/fixes, use of the XML::XPath DOM tree, memoization of methods that call stat() in Cache and Providers, and many miscellaneous improvements are also included.