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upCast RT 8.0 (Build 2094)

Release date: 2015-09-05

New features

^[UPL] New UPL function: xslt() ^UC-1261
^[UPL] Implement sourcefile-uri() function in UPL ^UC-1249
^[UPL] tokenize() for splitting up a string into a list of components at specified separators ^UC-1229
^[UPL] new signatures for caluclating min and max of a list of values: min( List ), max( List ) ^UC-1214
^[UPL] Facilitate binding to Java functions with native Java types using "javafunction" by coercing them back and forth to UPL types ^UC-1146
^[UPL] new UPL functions encode-for-uri() and decode-from-uri() ^UC-1141
^[UPL] UPL now also allows the combination of the two separate keywords else if instead of the keyword elseif in an if-cascade ^UC-1140
^[UPL] Allow creating explicit blocks for scoping ^UC-1139
^[UPL] New function fs-exists() to determine if a FILE, FOLDER or ANY file system object actually exists at the specified path ^UC-1137
^[UPL] get-attr() with 3 new signatures to support XPath target selection and default (fallback) value ^UC-1126
^[UPL] New function: to-string( $num as Numeric, $numbase as Numeric ) ^UC-1123
^[UPL] New function: to-numeric( $s as String, $numbase as Numeric ) ^UC-1122
^[UPL] Add bitwise AND, OR, NOT, XOR to UPL functions for Numeric values of power 0 ^UC-1121
^[UPL] Implemented for """-type and '''-type verbatim strings constants ^UC-1101
^[UPL] Implement new list functions: distinct-values(), intersect(), except() ^UC-1063
^{[CORE, EXPORTER]} Unicode Translation Map: new options to define replacement of invalid XML (v1.0) characters; add dedicated log message ^UC-1194
^[CORE] XPath custom function extensions: node-before(), node-after(), is-ancestor(), is-descendant() ^UC-1186
^{[CORE, UPL]} New option for #set directive: groupQName ^UC-1183
^[CORE] is-same-node() XPath extension function ^UC-1181
^{[CORE, UPL]} XSLT function current() implemented for eval-xpath() ^UC-1180
^{[CORE, UPL]} new UPL function system-exec() ^UC-1170
^{[CORE, UPL]} html-to-image(): render HTML to a pixmap image ^UC-1134
^{[CORE, UPL]} Add function to extract a, or files from, a zip file ^UC-1127
^[IMAGING] extract baseline information for WMF files ^UC-1115
^[IMPORTER] optionally attach locator info to element nodes ^UC-1189
^[MODULE] Validator: allow redirecting validation messages to a file or a pipeline variable ^UC-1190
^[RTFI] add generic uci:shape and uci:shapegroup elements for drawing shapes in RTF ^UC-814
^[UPL] New UPL function: <code>markup-style-with-roots()</code> ^UC-1152

Improvements

^[UPL] updated syntax highlighting ^UC-1104
^[UPL] Add a paint method that uses an XPath to select the target nodes for the painting ^UC-1075
^{[CORE, PIPELINE, UPL]} Store UPLValue objects natively in pipeline variable pool, coercing only lazily when needed ^UC-1131
^{[CORE, RTFE, RTFI]} Update table of defined language codes for RTF to rev 1.9.1 (RTF Spec) ^UC-1096
^{[CORE, UPL]} get-log-messages(): amend result list elements to include message number and separate out context and timestamp info ^UC-1092
^[GUI] Allow re-associating Parameter Set with its pipeline (if not looked up by Public ID) ^UC-1231
^[GUI] Don't ask to "copy license" when choosing one in a pipeline document, License tab ^UC-1198
^{[GUI, UPL]} UPL syntax highlighting: Directives colored inconsistently ^UC-1112
^[PIPELINE] Speedup RTF import by factor 2.5 ^UC-1084
^[RTFI] Support nested XE (index entry) fields ^UC-1279
^[RTFI] Log window remembers its open-state across application restarts ^UC-1259
^[RTFI] note marker text mismatch: include note text in error message as context info to better locate the issue in source document ^UC-1089

Changes

^[UPL] Support assigning 'null' to variables of any type ^UC-1135
^[CORE] DiskFile.exists() no longer compare case-sensitively on non-case-sensitive file systems ^UC-1240

Bugfixes

^[UPL] While variables of any type can still be assigned null , Null is no longer an instance of any other type ^UC-1277
^[UPL] uci:part element lost when only thing between two tables ^UC-1270
^[UPL] Make uci:part a veritable inline item ^UC-1266
^[UPL] URL resolution for #include()s had issues ^UC-1263
^[UPL] Relative #include()s did not work within JARs ^UC-1260
^[UPL] infinite loop when doing replace-with-text() on a text node ^UC-1222
^[UPL] forward-log-message() throws UPL exception when called in top-level pipeline (i.e. there is no parent) ^UC-1215
^[UPL] markup-style() does not work as expected within a table cell ^UC-1193
^[UPL] javafunction:... does not work for functions that take parameters ^UC-1188
^[UPL] set-painter( $xpath, $color, $painters ) did not work (casting exception thrown) ^UC-1130
^[UPL] set-rulemode( "exit" ) does not work ^UC-1109
^[UPL] set-rulemode(): "jump:label" did not work as documented in the UPL manual ^UC-1108
^[UPL] replace-custom-...() now works as described ^UC-1098
^[UPL] markup-style() with two parameters did not work ^UC-1080
^[UPL] value-at() threw Exception when accessing invalid index, should return null (per documentation) ^UC-1061
^{[API, CORE]} When ucdocs passed via commandline parameters do not exist, no errors are reported ^UC-1068
^[CORE] Several characters in URL fragments and queries must not be quoted to keep URL functional with popular services like Vimeo and YouTube ^UC-1243
^[CORE] ':' (colon) in non-file-URLs or local paths are no longer turned into a '/' path separator character ^UC-1239
^{[CORE, MODULE]} Painters "start-end", "end-end" and "start-start" did not honour in-between markers in cases where start- and end-markers were placed on a single node. ^UC-1230
^[CORE] fs-copy() deletes source file when src and target are the same ^UC-1227
^{[CORE, MODULE]} Jaxen's document() function does not honor execution context's entity and URI resolver settings ^UC-1218
^{[CORE, RTFE]} CSS parsing errors on inline styles are reported as "external stylesheet" parsing errors ^UC-1207
^{[CORE, UPL]} relativize-uri() does not work correctly for folder URLs ^UC-1178
^{[CORE, UPL]} fs-create() does not create folder when using FOLDER-REPLACE and a folder doesn't already exist at that location ^UC-1175
^[CORE] Custom log writers do not flush their data during operation ^UC-1162
^{[CORE, UPL]} current-dateTime() incorrectly returns e.g. local German time (+0200) as UTC by specifying "Z" as timezone ^UC-1155
^{[CORE, GUI]} When saving an ucpar fails (e.g. insufficient access rights), no error dialog is shown and even the modified flag is cleared ^UC-1154
^{[CORE, MODULE]} Roundtripping XML through upCast loses default namespace attribute ^UC-1124
^[CORE] insert-nodes(): FIRST-CHILD and LAST-CHILD positions do not work ^UC-1087
^[CORE] Unit conversion to/from 'ex' and '%' was wrong ^UC-1060
^{[CORE, PIPELINE]} No ucdoc file format conversion path from unversioned to version 4 ^UC-1050
^{[DISTRIBUTION, TEMPLATE]} Suppress writing -ilx-word-style-id in "XHTML" template output ^UC-1065
^{[DISTRIBUTION, TEMPLATE]} Suppress writing -ilx-word-style-id in "upCast" template output ^UC-1048
^{[DOCS, MODULE]} Painter start-start does not work as documented ^UC-1144
^{[DOCS, UPL]} Document that #charset is not allowed in pipeline-internal UPL code ^UC-1113
^{[DOCS, UPL]} Some documentation bugs and omissions regarding "#set defaultRuleMode" and evaluation logic description ^UC-1110
^{[DOCS, UPL]} State that the context node of the UPL processor module (not: UPL tree processor!) is the document node ^UC-1073
^{[DOCS, UPL]} Wrong entry in operator matrix for "!=" and Lists: should be exists(AL op BL), not foreach(AL op BL) ^UC-1064
^[RTFE] Centered or right-aligned tables (i.e., margin-left: auto) were calculating wrong \cellx values ^UC-1256
^[RTFE] Nested tables do not retain their justification properties (left / center / right) ^UC-1255
^[RTFE] RTFE: fragment identifier in hyperlinks must quote " to not interfere with field syntax ^UC-1172
^{[RTFE, RTFI]} \titlepg was not supported, which made roundtripping documents with different first page header/footer impossible ^UC-1091
^[RTFE] List table calculation bug: 'preceding' value is calculated wrongly ^UC-1090
^[RTFE] CALS: colsep="1" does not work if set on spanned entry ^UC-1059
^[RTFE] CALS: a cell that spans up to the right border of a tgroup does not get set the table's border on its right edge ^UC-1058
^[RTFE] CALS: references to existing <spanspec>s cannot be resolved ^UC-1055
^[RTFE] CALS: adjacent tgroups in a table must not draw their outer borders according to their table's frame setting between them ^UC-1052
^{[GUI, PIPELINE]} Parameter set update on impl change resets parameter values to pipeline defaults instead of previous values (when compatible) ^UC-1150
^{[GUI, PIPELINE]} Error in pipeline param definition code (parsing error) does not show error message ^UC-1106
^{[GUI, PIPELINE]} Changing param config in ucdoc, then switching to already open ucpar wipes out all manual parameter settings ^UC-1026
^[GUI] Unsaved parameter edits in Parameter Set get lost when running requires a reload of the underlying pipeline implementation ^UC-676
^{[IMAGING, RTFI]} "No WMF substitute found for EMF" error issued though WMF is present ^UC-1145
^[IMPORTER] Tokenizer error is thrown during RTF import ^UC-1099
^[TEMPLATE] XHTML Template: Output mode was "html", should be "xhtml" for correct writing of empty elements like <br/> ^UC-1269
^[TEMPLATE] XHTML Template: Output resolution not propagated to renderer(s) ^UC-1268
^[TEMPLATE] "upCast" template: content of a footnote reference must not contain a upcast-NOTENUMBER gentext element ^UC-1051
^[RTFI] Report undefined fonts only for fonts used in document contents (not only in styledefs) ^UC-1280
^[RTFI] Issue dedicated error message when encountering nested XE destinations ^UC-1278
^[RTFI] RTF Importer must not generate tables that contain completely spanned (→ empty) rows ^UC-1275
^[RTFI] Some shape parameters mapped to non-XML Names ^UC-1274
^[RTFI] upCast throws a DataFormatException when for an OLE object in the RTF, the \*\objdata destination is empty ^UC-1267
^[RTFI] Outer table border missing in HTML+CSS result ^UC-1258
^[RTFI] NPE in Footnote Ref Optimizer when the target a NOTEREF filed refers to does not exist in the document ^UC-1251
^[RTFI] @uci:id must be a NCName, not a Name to be namespace-valid XML (i.e. must not contain colons) ^UC-1248
^[RTFI] Handling of nested INCLUDEPICTURE fields buggy ^UC-1246
^[RTFI] Paragraph (border) padding values were incorrectly interpreted as border style values ^UC-1244
^[RTFI] Nested HYPERLINK field in other field produces unexpected result ^UC-1238
^[RTFI] QUOTE field with instruction containing image not handled correctly ^UC-1225
^[RTFI] Footnote handling: Must ensure that single preceding character before {\footnote } is treated as and moved into <reference> ^UC-1220
^[RTFI] Paint attributes propagated to grouping parent in random insetad of the last value set on a node (in document order) ^UC-1216
^[RTFI] Distinct footnotes not separated when references wrapped by contigous run of "footnote reference" style ^UC-1213
^[RTFI] \*\pn destination does not honour \pnf font selection keyword for its character content ^UC-1205
^[RTFI] \fcharset1 translates (hard-coded) to code page 1252, but should translate to the default RTF document's codepage ^UC-1203
^[RTFI] Section break after a \listtext destination must result in discarding its contents and ignore it w/ respect to indicating a list item paragraph ^UC-1202
^[RTFI] Several issues regarding handling of "vertical-align" ^UC-1201
^[RTFI] Certain table code construction not handled correctly by RTF Importer ^UC-1197
^[RTFI] Handling of Word section breaks in field result destinations wrong ^UC-1196
^[RTFI] RTFI: vertical-align property not set correctly ^UC-1185
^[RTFI] List-building and item number counting algorithm flawed in RTF Importer ^UC-1177
^[RTFI] uci:block elements created by e.g. the grouper return wrong margin-xxx values when at top (body) level ^UC-1171
^[RTFI] Detecting list continuation par does not respect position tolerance setting ^UC-1165
^[RTFI] RTFShpPictDest: lookahead counter not reset to current reading position before getting next lookahead token ^UC-1125
^[RTFI] Table borders problem (border-top on cells below spanned cell) ^UC-1107
^[RTFI] When note marker mode="Delete marker based on content of reference" and it does not match, the mangled gentext element remains as CDATA in the note content ^UC-1097
^[RTFI] border-spacing property not created/written ^UC-1077
^[RTFI] Internal properties border-spacing-h and border-spacing-v are missing vendor prefix in output ^UC-1076
^[RTFI] uci:gentext: revision-tracked parts of an instruction marked for deletion must be hard-removed from @uci:data ^UC-1069