ANN: docbook2X 0.8.3 release

Hello all,

Without much fanfare I release docbook2X version 0.8.3.
Change log:

* Incorporated Michael Smith's much expanded roff character maps
  (contains a few thousand translations).
* There are some improvements to the stylesheets themselves, here
  and there.
  Also I made the Texinfo stylesheets adapt to the XSLT processor
  automatically (with regards to the XSLT extensions). This might be
  of interest to anybody wanting to use the stylesheets with some
  other XSLT processor (especially SAXON).
* Fixed a couple of bugs that prevented docbook2X from working on
  Cygwin.
* Fixed a programming error in utf8trans that caused it to segfault.
  At the same time, I rewrote parts of it to make it more efficient
  for large character maps (those with more than a thousand
  entries).
* The Perl component of docbook2X has switched from using
  libxml-perl (a SAX1 interface) to XML-SAX (a SAX2 interface). I
  had always wanted to do the switch since libxml-perl is not
  maintained, but the real impetus this time is that XML-SAX has a
  pure Perl XML parser. If you have difficulties building
  XML::Parser on Cygwin, like I did, the Perl component will
  automatically fall back on the pure Perl parser.

=== end change log ===

You may notice the conspicuous absence of that "portable" docbook2X
that was discussed on this mailing list before. I'll try to start on that
for the next release.

-- 
Steve Cheng
鄭君博
(The reason for the weird e-mail address I'm sending this from
 is that my current e-mail is broken.)


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