
Change Log
2.3.5
- 2.3.5:
- Fixed a bug that caused text
containing > to be split into two text nodes. This incurred a speed
penalty, but I'll try to improve that later.
- Added a bug
tracking system.
- Fixed a comment parsing bug.
- Mike
Stok fixed Functions#translate and cleaned up some cruft that slipped
through in Functions#substring.
- Fixed a bug in
Element#prefixes, and fixed Attributes#prefixes to use DOCTYPE declared
namespaces. Added DocType#attributes_of(Element).
- Fixed a
bug in writing Attlist declarations.
- Added AttlistDecl#each;
AttlistDecl now includes Enumerable
- Fixed Functions#name and
Functions#local_name; fixed unit test.
- Fixed a bug re.
functions w/in predicates in XPath
- Fixes for Child#parent=()
- Fixes
and speed improvement for creating Text nodes
- SAX2Parser bug
fixes
- Added dist.xml and an ant build file
- Tom
sent a new version of his pretty printer
- Kouhei has a new
version of his Japanese API documentation translation online
- 2.3.4: Fixed a bug in XPath that kept non-Element nodes
from being returned from recursive paths. This had a side effect of
speeding up XPath recursions. Fixed a bug in Document WRT text outside
of the document. Added peek and unshift methods to the PullParser API.
XPath methods now accept an array of nodes in addition to a single node.
Fixed a bug in Functions::string(). Changed the unit tests to the
Test::Unit platform. This allows the unit tests to be run under a GUI.
More Function fixes (substring) by Mike Stok. There was a major bug in
XPath handling of math operations, which is fixed. Strings pulled from
IO streams are now tainted. Lots of bug fixes in PullParser -- it now
passes 100% of the Oasis tests. Bug fix for stream parsing in Entity.
Bug fixes in DocType -- SAX2Parser now passes 100% of Oasis tests. REXML
now processes internal ATTLIST declarations in the doctype. This
includes processing of XML namespaces in the doctype. Changed pretty
printing. Whitespace is now never added around Text nodes, and
there's a new context property, :ignore_whitespace_nodes.
There's also a new transitive pretty printer, obtained by passing
'true' as the third argument to write().
- 2.3.3: Added an alternate pretty printer by Thomas
Sawyer; it is in the contrib/ directory. Speed optimizations; REXML is
noticably faster now. In particular, PullParser is now just as fast as
Stream parsing (10x speed increase over first version). Fixed a bug in
Element.add_namespace. Fixed a problem that occurred on some systems
with Entities. News: Kouhei Sutou has done a Japanese
translation of the REXML API docs. See the section in the main REXML
page about the API documentation for links. Mike Stock fixed a bug in
the starts_with XPath function. Added, on request, methods to Element to
filter children on type. cdatas(), instructions(), comments(), and
texts() now return immutable arrays of only those child nodes.
- 2.3.2: Added a (more or less) SAX2 conforming parser.
Really, this and the pull parser are just a thin layer over the legacy
REXML stream parser, and you'll get better results with the original
API. The best thing about this (and the primary reason I did it this
way) is that REXML maintains backward compatibility with the old Stream
API. After I play with pure pull parsing some more, I may decide to
reimplement stream parsing on top of pull parsing, but it shouldn't
affect SAX2 in any way. The SAX2 parser is slower primarily because SAX2
requires the parser to do a lot more work -- resolving namespaces and so
on -- so while I know I can improve the speed some, SAX2 will never
be as fast as REXML vanilla stream parsing. That said, the SAX2 API is
pretty nice, and includes all of those stream API changes I wanted to
get in, except for filter parsing. Check out the tutorial for usage
information.
- 2.3.1: Added a pull parser. This is VERY experimental,
and the API is likely to change.
- 2.3.0: Internal entities are now handled10. Speed has been further improved for most
operations, but especially for stream parsing, writing, and large
document parsing.
- 2.2.1: Fixed a bug in benchmark/bench.rb that kept it
from running. Added stand_alone?() to XMLDecl as an alias for the
standalone accessor. Improvements to the streaming API; in particular,
pulling data from non-closing streams doesn't require passing a
block size of 1 to the IOSource class any longer; in fact, the block
size is ignored. Added a user-supplied patch to fix the fact that not
all of the DTD events were getting passed to the listener. Improved
entity parsing. Better test suite; you can now pass --help
to the main test suite to get a list of the new options, which include
listing the available suites and listing methods in the suites, as well
as instructions on how to run only certain suites or methods in suites.
- 2.1.3: Fixed broken links in documentation. Added new
documentation layout; the old format -- everything on one page -- was
getting a bit overwhelming. Added RSS for changelog. Bugfix for element
cloning namespace loss. The Streaming API wasn't normalizing input
strings; this has been fixed. Added support for deep cloning via
Parent.deep_clone(). Fixed some streaming issues for SOAP4RUBY. In
particular, text normalization is now also done for the Streaming API.
'\r' handling is now correct, as per the XML spec, and entities
are handled better. is now converted to '\r'
internally, and then translated back to '\r' on output. All
other numeric entities (&#nnn; and &#xnnn;) are now converted to
unicode on input, but are only converted back to entities if they
don't fit in the requested encoding.
- 2.1.2: Fixed a bug with reading ISO-8859-1 encoded
documents, and Document now includes Output, which it always should
have.
- 2.1.1: Forgot to add output.rb to the repository.
- 2.1.0: IO optimizations, and support for ISO-8859-1
output. Fixed up pretty-printing a little. Now, if pretty-printing is
turned on, text nodes are stripped before printing. This, obviously, can
mess up what you'd expect from :respect_whitespace, but pretty
printing, by definition, must change your formatting. Updated the
tutorial a bit. Please see the section on adding text for a warning, if
you're using a non-UTF-8 compatable encoding. Changed behavior of
Element.attributes.each. It now itterates over key, value
pairs, rather than attributes. This was a feature request. Expanded the
unit tests and subsequently fixed a number of obscure bugs. I'm
distributing the API documentation seperately from the main distribution
now, because the API docs constitute nearly 50% of the total
distribution size. FIxed a bug in namespace handling in attributes.
Completely updated the API documentation for Element, Element.Elements,
and Element.Attributes; the rest of the classes to follow. I'm
seriously contemplating removing the examples from the API
documentation, because most of them are practically duplicates of the
unit tests in test/.
- 2.0.4: 2.0 munged the encoding value in output. This is
fixed. I left debugging turned on in XPath in 2.0.2 :-/
- 2.0.2: Added grouping '(...)' and preceding:: and
following:: axis. This means that, aside from functional bugs, XPath
should have no missing functionality bugs. Keep in mind that not all
Functions are tested, though.
- 2.0.1: Added some unit tests, and fixed a namespace XPath
bug WRT attribute default NS's. Unicode support was screwing up the
upper end of ASCII support; chars between 0xF0 and 0xFD were getting
munged. This has been fixed, at the cost of a small amount of speed.
Optimized the descendant axes of XPath; it should be significantly
faster for '//' and other descendant operations. Added several
user contributed unit tests. Re-added QuickPath, the old,
non-fully-XPath compliant, yet much faster, XPath processor. Everything
is being converted to UTF8 now, and the XML declaration reflects this.
See the bugs for more information.
- 2.0: True XPath support. Finally. XPath is fully
implemented now, and passes all of the tests I can throw at it,
including complex XPaths such as '*[* and not(*/node()) and
not(*[not(@style)]) and not(*/@style != */@style)]'. It may
be slower than it was, but it should be reasonably efficient for what it
is doing. The XPath spec doesn't help, and thwarts most attempts at
optimization. Please see the notes on XPath for more information. Oh,
and some minor bugs were fixed in the XML parser.
- 1.2.8: Fixed a bug pointed out by Peter Verhage where the
element names weren't being properly parsed if a namespace was
involved.
- 1.2.7: Fixing problems with the 1.2.6 distribution :-/.
Added an "applications using REXML" section in this document --
send me those links! Added rdoc documentation. I'm not using API2XML
anymore. I think API2XML was the right model, generating XML rather than
HTML (which is what rdoc does), but rdoc does a much better job at
parsing Ruby source, and I really didn't want to go there in the
first place. Also, I had forgotten to generate the Tutorial HTML.
- 1.2.6: Documentation fix (TR). Fixed a bug in Element.add
(and, therefore, Element.add_element). Added Robert Feldt's terse
xml constructor to contrib/ (check it out; it's handy). Tobias
discovered a terrible bug, whereby ENTITY wasn't printing out a
final '>'. After a long discussion with a couple of users,
and some review of the XML spec, I decided to reverse the default
handling of whitespace and pretty printing. REXML now no longer defaults
to pretty printing, and preserves whitespace unless otherwise directed.
Added provisional namespace support to XPath. XPath is going to require
another rewrite.
- 1.2.5: Bug fixes: doctypes that had spaces between the
closing ] and > generated errors. There was a small bug that caused
too many newlines to be generated in some output. Eelis van der Weegen
(what a great name!) pointed out one of the numerous API errors. Julian
requested that add_attributes take both Hash (original) and array of
arrays (as produced by StreamListener). I killed the mailing list,
accidentally, and fixed it again. Fixed a bug in next_sibling, caused by
a combination of mixing overriding <=>() and using
Array.index().
- 1.2.4: Changes since 1.1b: 100% OASIS valid tests passed.
UTF-8/16 support. Many bug fixes. to_a() added to Parent and
Element.elements. Updated tutorial. Added variable IOSource buffer size,
for stream parsing. delete() now fails silently rather than throwing an
exception if it can't find the elemnt to delete. Added a patch to
support REXMLBuilder. Reorganized file layout in distribution; added a
repackaging program; added the logo.
- 1.1b: Changes since 1.1a: Stream parsing added. Bug fixes
in entity parsing. New XPath implementation, fixing many bugs and making
feature complete. Completed whitespace handling, adding much
functionality and fixing several bugs. Added convenience methods for
inserting elememnts. Improved error reporting. Fixed attribute content
to correctly handle quotes and apostrophes. Added mechanisms for
handling raw text. Cleaned up utility programs (profile.rb,
comparison.rb, etc.). Improved speed a little. Brought REXML up to 98.9%
OASIS valid source compliance.