DOM guide: What's new

This page documents the major new features and bug fixes in each release of the COLLADA DOM since version 2.0.

New in 2.0 (April 5 2008)

• Added daeElement methods for working with element attributes and character data as strings: [get,set]Attribute, [get,set]CharData
• Added xml tree navigation functions in daeElement: getChild, getDescendant, getAncestor
• Added DAE::open and DAE::write, both of which work with file paths as well as URIs
• Added Mac Framework support
• Added PS3 support
• Greatly simplified/improved the make build architecture
• Improved performance of loading large arrays
• Fixed all (hopefully!) memory leaks. Memory leaks/errors are now checked for using valgrind.
• Added shared library support on Linux
• Improved the SID ref resolver to make it more compliant with the COLLADA Specification and simpler to use
• Added a new xml parser. TinyXml can be used as an alternative to Libxml.
• Improved URI, ID ref, and SID ref resolving. No more resolve() or resolveAll() calls
• The DOM previously built as 5 separate static libs. Now it builds to just one lib.
• The code generator source is now provided with the DOM
• Added utility functions for converting URIs to/from file paths
• Fixed several crashes and logic bugs
• Added a make install command for Linux/Mac

New in 2.1 (May 5 2008)

• MinGW is now supported as a compiler for the DOM
• Fixed Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 builds
• Fixed a crash caused by bad caching in daeURI, daIDRef, or daeSIDResolver
• Added a new daeSidRef class, which provides a simpler interface for resolving sid refs

New in 2.2 (January 6 2009)

• Added basic support for reading ZAE archives
• Added Xcode build support for Mac