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   1 20041004
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   4 Support for outlining has been added. See the manual for more details.
   5
   6 C-u C-c C-n goes to the first error.
   7
   8 20040910
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  10
  11 C-c RET splits the current element as in PSGML.
  12
  13 20040908
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  15
  16 Indentation has been rewritten.  Indentation of attribute names and
  17 values should work better.  The default value of
  18 `nxml-attribute-indent' has been changed to 4.
  19
  20 Syntax highlighting with a dark background should now work.
  21
  22 20040726
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  24
  25 The attribute pathSuffix on the uri element in schema locating files
  26 has been replaced by a more general pattern attribute. The
  27 transformURI element now has required fromPattern and toPattern
  28 attributes.
  29
  30 The schema related bindings have been changed to use C-c C-s as a prefix
  31 as follows:
  32
  33   C-c C-s => C-c C-s C-f (f for file)
  34   C-c C-a => C-c C-s C-a
  35   C-c C-t => C-c C-s C-t
  36   C-c C-l => C-c C-s C-l
  37   C-c C-w => C-c C-s C-w
  38
  39 There's now an XML menu on the menu-bar.
  40
  41 20031031
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  43
  44 C-c C-d "dynamically" chooses a tag to put around the word before
  45 point, rather like M-/.
  46
  47 The mechanism for locating the schema has changed completely.  The new
  48 mechanism is described in the manual.  Any existing customizations of
  49 `rng-auto-element-alist' or `rng-auto-file-name-alist' will no longer
  50 be effective.
  51
  52 C-c C-a is now bound to rng-auto-set-schema.
  53
  54 20031018
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  57 Unicode names can be used to insert characters with the new command
  58 C-c C-u.  Normally, this inserts a character reference.  With a prefix
  59 arg (i.e. C-u C-c C-u), it inserts the character directly.  You can
  60 customize `nxml-enabled-unicode-blocks' to control what Unicode blocks
  61 are used for completing names.
  62
  63 Extra information is displayed for character references.  The Unicode
  64 name is displayed in a tooltip. A glyph for the referenced character
  65 is displayed in a distinguished face following the character
  66 reference; this can be disabled by customizing
  67 `nxml-char-ref-display-glyph-flag'.  The command
  68 `nxml-toggle-char-ref-extra-display' dynamically toggles the display
  69 of extra information for character references for a particular buffer.
  70 This can be used if the display of extra information is causing
  71 performance problems. nXML mode tries to figure out which glyphs can
  72 be displayed. Unfortunately Emacs doesn't provide the primitives
  73 necessary to do this properly, so nXML mode has to guess and will
  74 sometimes guess wrong.  The hook `nxml-glyph-set-hook' can be used to
  75 change nXML mode's guess.
  76
  77 New command C-c C-w says what schema is being used.
  78
  79 C-c C-s now turns on validation if it is not already on.
  80
  81 20030928
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  84 M-q has been implemented so that it works reasonably with XML.  Other
  85 paragraph-related commands (M-{, M-}, M-h) have also been implemented.
  86
  87 New command M-x rng-auto-set-schema to set the schema based on the
  88 buffer's current contents and file-name. This is called automatically
  89 when rng-validate-mode is first enabled.
  90
  91 There's now a C-M-d to go with C-M-u.  C-M-d moves forward down into
  92 the content of an element.  C-M-n and C-M-p move to the next or
  93 previous element.
  94
  95 By default, the sexp commands (C-M-f, C-M-b, C-M-k, C-M-SPC) operate
  96 on tags rather than elements.  To restore the old behavior,
  97 customize nxml-sexp-element-flag.
  98
  99 The file TUTORIAL has been replaced by nxml-mode.info; this is in info
 100 format and can be read using Emacs.  The source is maintained in a
 101 simple, ad-hoc XML format.
 102
 103 20030915
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 105
 106 XML encodings should now work properly.  When saving a buffer,
 107 nxml-mode arranges to use the encoding declared in the XML
 108 declaration.  If there is no encoding declared, then nxml-mode will
 109 use utf-8 or utf-16 according to the user options
 110 `nxml-prefer-utf-16-to-utf-8-flag' and
 111 `nxml-prefer-utf-16-little-to-big-endian-flag'. If the chosen encoding
 112 cannot encode all the characters in the buffer, nxml-mode will
 113 complain and give the user an opportunity to use an encoding that can.
 114
 115 A new command C-c C-x inserts an XML declaration.
 116
 117 The option `nxml-auto-insert-xml-declaration-flag' automatically
 118 inserts an XML declaration in new files.
 119
 120 The `nxml-default-buffer-file-coding-system' option allows a different
 121 default buffer-file-coding-system for nXML mode buffers.  This affects
 122 what XML declaration is inserted.
 123
 124 Encoding names in XML declarations are now validated by
 125 rng-validate-mode.
 126
 127 RDF/XML schema was updated to version in 05 September 2003 WD.
 128
 129 20030912
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 132 The tutorial has a new section on inserting end-tags.
 133
 134 By default </ no longer automatically inserts the rest of the end-tag.
 135 You can do
 136
 137   M-x customize-variable RET nxml-slash-auto-complete-flag RET
 138
 139 and then follow the instructions displayed in the buffer to get the
 140 old behavior.
 141
 142 Completion after </ will complete the rest of the end-tag. Completion
 143 after < will include the end-tag in the possibilities if allowed by
 144 the schema.
 145
 146 You can use C-c C-i instead of > to close the start-tag of an
 147 inline-level element.  After inserting the >, it will insert the
 148 end-tag and leave point before the end-tag. The `i' is supposed to be
 149 mnemonic for `inline'. C-c C-b is similar, but for block elements: the
 150 start-tag, point and the end-tag will all be on separate lines.
 151
 152 The binding for inserting an end-tag has changed from C-c / to C-c C-f
 153 to comply with Emacs guidelines about what keys major modes should
 154 bind.  The `f' is supposed to be mnemonic for `finish'.
 155
 156 Completion always puts point after all the characters it inserts. It
 157 doesn't insert a `>' after completing a start-tag name.
 158
 159 Completion no longer completes CDATA section and comment delimiters.
 160
 161 The nxml-start-auto-coding command enables auto-detection of a file's
 162 encoding as specified in the XML Recommendation for files that use
 163 nxml-mode; rng-auto.el calls this.
 164
 165 20030906
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 168 Validation messages applicable to point are displayed automatically.
 169
 170 Completion can deal with prefixes that haven't yet been declared.
 171
 172 rng-preferred-prefix-alist variable added.
 173
 174 Namespace URIs can be completed.
 175
 176 xmlns and xmlns:* attributes can be completed.
 177
 178 CDATA section and comment delimiters can be completed.
 179
 180 Each kind of completion has its own history.
 181
 182 Completion function moved to nxml-mode; uses a hook to allow
 183 schema-sensitive completion.  Completion function bound to C-return.
 184 Also bound to M-TAB as before, unless
 185 nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag is nil.  When there is a window
 186 system, nxml-bind-meta-tab-to-complete-flag is nil by default, This
 187 avoid problems with M-TAB, which is not passed through by several
 188 window systems/managers.
 189
 190 TUTORIAL file added.
 191
 192 NEWS file added.
 193
 194 Bug fixes.
 195
 196 20030901
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 198
 199 Initial release.