v1.7.0 (2021-08-02)

• Make XSD annotations parsing lazy
• Add lazy annotations to schema instances
• Add get_annotation() method to multiple-facets classes (issue #255)

v1.6.4 (2021-06-09)

• Add testing config for Python 3.10 (Tox and CI)
• Fix internal _PurePath class with Python 3.10 (issue #251)
• Remove redundant xmlns="" declaration when encoding with lxml (issue #252)

v1.6.3 (2021-06-07)

• Refactor normalize_url() using pathlib.PurePath
• Support UNC paths (issue #246)
• Fix API docs (issue #248)
• Fix encoding of non-root elements (PR #250)

v1.6.2 (2021-05-03)

• Fix for issue #245 (key/keyref with dynamic types)
• Change default decoding of mixed content with only text to a string
  instead of a dictionary (issue #242)

v1.6.1 (2021-04-11)

• Add multi-source initialization and add_schema() to schema class
• Add bytes strings to accepted XML sources

v1.6.0 (2021-04-06)

XML data bindings and code generators

• XML data bindings and code generators are now considered stable
• Add arguments 'max_depth' and 'extra_validator' to validation methods
• Enhance decoding with 'value_hook' argument

v1.5.3 (2021-03-14)

• Fix schema logger (issue #228)
• Fix ElementPathMixin to avoid conflicts when schema is used by an XPath 3 parser

v1.5.2 (2021-03-04)

• Improve empty content checking
• Fix simple content restriction of xs:complexType
• Fix facets retrieving for xs:complexType with simple content

v1.5.1 (2021-02-11)

Dynamic XML data binding and code generators (experimental)

• Add experimental XML data bindings with a DataBindingConverter
• Add experimental PythonGenerator for static codegen with Jinja2
• Optimize NamespaceView read-only mapping

v1.5.0 (2021-02-05)

Decoding XML to data elements with schema bindings

• Add DataElement class for creating objects with schema bindings
• Add DataElementConverter for decode to structured objects
• Add an experimental abstract base class for building jinja2 based
  code generators (jinja2 as an optional dependency)