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

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

The library has been completely rewritten and requires more testing before a release mode build is in order
Removed Xcode build support for Mac (if you have a Mac you can help add it back)
ZAE is currently offline. It will reinstated prior to release
Much improvement. Refer to ColladaDOM 3 and the Release Notes[1]

COLLADA DOM - Version 2.4 Historical Reference

List of main articles under the DOM portal.

User Guide chapters: • Intro • Architecture • Setting up • Working with documents • Creating docs • Importing docs • Representing elements • Working with elements • Resolving URIs • Resolving SIDs • Using custom COLLADA data • Integration templates • Error handling

Systems: • URI resolver • Meta • Load/save flow • Runtime database • Memory • StringRef • Code generator
Additional information: • What's new • Backward compatibility • Future work
Terminology categories: • COLLADA • DOM • XML