2.6.17: Jan 16 2005:
   - build fixes: Windows, warnings removal (William Brack), 
      maintainer-clean dependency(William), build in a different directory
      (William), fixing --with-minimum configure build (William), BeOS
      build (Marcin Konicki), Python-2.4 detection (William), compilation
      on AIX (Dan McNichol)
   - bug fixes: xmlTextReaderHasAttributes (Rob Richards), xmlCtxtReadFile()
      to use the catalog(s), loop on output (William Brack), XPath memory leak,
      ID deallocation problem (Steve Shepard), debugDumpNode crash (William),
      warning not using error callback (William), xmlStopParser bug (William),
      UTF-16 with BOM on DTDs (William), namespace bug on empty elements
      in push mode (Rob Richards), line and col computations fixups (Aleksey
      Sanin), xmlURIEscape fix (William), xmlXPathErr on bad range (William),
      patterns with too many steps, bug in RNG choice optimization, line
      number sometimes missing.
      
   - improvements: XSD Schemas (Kasimier Buchcik), python generator (William),
      xmlUTF8Strpos speedup (William), unicode Python strings (William),
      XSD error reports (Kasimier Buchcik), Python __str__ call serialize().
      
   - new APIs: added xmlDictExists(), GetLineNumber and GetColumnNumber
      for the xmlReader (Aleksey Sanin), Dynamic Shared Libraries APIs
      (mostly Joel Reed), error extraction API from regexps, new XMLSave
      option for format (Phil Shafer)
   - documentation: site improvement (John Fleck), FAQ entries (William).