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 specification-compliant 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

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