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authorGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2012-01-28 19:16:54 -0800
committerGlenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>2012-01-28 19:16:54 -0800
commit043efd5637df45a99ff5a610f99b2b6d5d2ceda0 (patch)
tree32b60c6e57371ca7794023600fb0a69974616a51
parent641cac09925abffa5e6ea82e7120c7998defdf5f (diff)
downloademacs-043efd5637df45a99ff5a610f99b2b6d5d2ceda0.tar.gz
* etc/NEWS: Minor libxml changes.
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1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 18b6d1d5f22..2a499b5995e 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -49,6 +49,12 @@ found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
`--without-imagemagick'. See below for ImageMagick features.
---
+** Emacs can be compiled with libxml2 support.
+This happens by default if a suitably recent version of the library is
+found at build time. To prevent this, use the configure option
+`--without-xml2'. See below for libxml2 features.
+
+---
** There is a new configure option --with-wide-int.
With it, Emacs integers typically have 62 bits, even on 32-bit machines.
On 32-bit hosts, this raises the limit on buffer sizes from about 512 MiB
@@ -1324,12 +1330,10 @@ these image types, minus those listed in `imagemagick-types-inhibit'.
See the Emacs Lisp Reference Manual for more information.
** XML and HTML parsing
-
-*** If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support (which is the default),
-two new Emacs Lisp-level functions are defined:
-`libxml-parse-html-region' (which will parse "real world" HTML)
-and `libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an
-Emacs Lisp parse tree.
+If Emacs is compiled with libxml2 support, there are two new functions:
+`libxml-parse-html-region' (which parses "real world" HTML) and
+`libxml-parse-xml-region' (which parses XML). Both return an Emacs
+Lisp parse tree.
FIXME: These should be front-ended by xml.el.