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Last Update: Mon Nov 29 02:25:18 +0000 2010

1.4.4 / Unreleased

  • New Features
    • XML::Node#children= sets the node‘s inner html (much like inner_html=), but returns the reparent node(s).
    • XSLT supports function extensions. 336
    • XPath bind parameter substitution. 329
    • XML::Reader node type constants. 369
    • SAX Parser context provides line and column information
  • Bugfixes
    • XML::DTD#attributes returns an empty hash instead of nil when there are no attributes.
    • XML::DTD#{keys,each} now work as expected. 324
    • {XML,HTML}::DocumentFragment.{new,parse} no longer strip leading and trailing whitespace. 319
    • XML::Node#{add_child,add_previous_sibling,add_next_sibling,replace} return a NodeSet when passed a string.
    • Unclosed tags parsed more robustly in fragments. 315
    • XML::Node#{replace,add_previous_sibling,add_next_sibling} edge cases fixed related to libxml‘s text node merging. 308
    • Fixed a segfault when GC occurs during xpath handler argument marshalling. 345
    • Added hack to Slop decorator to work with previously defined methods. 330
    • Fix a memory leak when duplicating child nodes. 353
    • Fixed off-by-one bug with nth-last-{child,of-type} CSS selectors when NOT using an+b notation. 354
    • Fixed passing of non-namespace attributes to SAX::Document#start_element. 356
    • Workaround for libxml2 in-context parsing bug. 362
    • Fixed NodeSet#wrap on nodes within a fragment. 331

1.4.3 / 2010/07/28

  • New Features
    • XML::Reader#empty_element? returns true for empty elements. 262
    • Node#remove_namespaces! now removes namespace declarations as well. 294
    • NodeSet#at_xpath, NodeSet#at_css and NodeSet#> do what the corresponding methods of Node do.
  • Bugfixes
    • XML::NodeSet#{include?,delete,push} accept an XML::Namespace
    • XML::Document#parse added for parsing in the context of a document
    • XML::DocumentFragment#inner_html= works with contextual parsing! 298, 281
    • lib/nokogiri/css/parser.y Combined CSS functions + pseudo selectors fixed
    • Reparenting text nodes is safe, even when the operation frees adjacent merged nodes. 283
    • Fixed libxml2 versionitis issue with xmlFirstElementChild et al. 303
    • XML::Attr#add_namespace now works as expected. 252
    • HTML::DocumentFragment uses the string‘s encoding. 305
    • Fix the CSS3 selector translation rule for the general sibling combinator (a.k.a. preceding selector) that incorrectly converted "E + F G" to "//F//G[preceding-sibling::E]".

1.4.2 / 2010/05/22

  • New Features
    • XML::Node#parse will parse XML or HTML fragments with respect to the context node.
    • XML::Node#namespaces returns all namespaces defined in the node and all ancestor nodes (previously did not return ancestors’ namespace definitions).
    • Added Enumerable to XML::Node
    • Nokogiri::XML::Schema#validate now uses xmlSchemaValidateFile if a filename is passed, which is faster and more memory-efficient. GH 219
    • XML::Document#create_entity will create new EntityDecl objects. GH 174
    • JRuby FFI implementation no longer uses ObjectSpace._id2ref, instead using Charles Nutter‘s rocking Weakling gem.
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#first_element_child fetch the first child node that is an ELEMENT node.
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#last_element_child fetch the last child node that is an ELEMENT node.
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#elements fetch all children nodes that are ELEMENT nodes.
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#add_child, add_previous_sibling, before, add_next_sibling, after, inner_html, swap and replace all now accept a Node, DocumentFragment, NodeSet, or a string containing markup.
    • Node#fragment? indicates whether a node is a DocumentFragment.
  • Bugfixes
    • XML::NodeSet is now always decorated (if the document has decorators). GH 198
    • XML::NodeSet#slice gracefully handles offset+length larger than the set length. GH 200
    • XML::Node#content= safely unlinks previous content. GH 203
    • XML::Node#namespace= takes nil as a parameter
    • XML::Node#xpath returns things other than NodeSet objects. GH 208
    • XSLT::StyleSheet#transform accepts hashes for parameters. GH 223
    • Psuedo selectors inside not() work. GH 205
    • XML::Builder doesn‘t break when nodes are unlinked. Thanks to vihai! GH 228
    • Encoding can be forced on the SAX parser. Thanks Eugene Pimenov! GH 204
    • XML::DocumentFragment uses XML::Node#parse to determine children.
    • Fixed a memory leak in xml reader. Thanks sdor! GH 244
    • Node#replace returns the new child node as claimed in the RDoc. Previously returned self.
  • Notes
    • The Windows gems now bundle DLLs for libxml 2.7.6 and libxslt 1.1.26. Prior to this release, libxml 2.7.3 and libxslt 1.1.24 were bundled.

1.4.1 / 2009/12/10

  • New Features
    • Added Nokogiri::LIBXML_ICONV_ENABLED
    • Alias Node#[] to Node#attr
    • XML::Node#next_element added
    • XML::Node#> added for searching a nodes immediate children
    • XML::NodeSet#reverse added
    • Added fragment support to Node#add_child, Node#add_next_sibling, Node#add_previous_sibling, and Node#replace.
    • XML::Node#previous_element implemented
    • Rubinius support
    • Ths CSS selector engine now supports :has()
    • XML::NodeSet#filter() was added
    • XML::Node.next= and .previous= are aliases for add_next_sibling and add_previous_sibling. GH 183
  • Bugfixes
    • XML fragments with namespaces do not raise an exception (regression in 1.4.0)
    • Node#matches? works in nodes contained by a DocumentFragment. GH 158
    • Document should not define add_namespace() method. GH 169
    • XPath queries returning namespace declarations do not segfault.
    • Node#replace works with nodes from different documents. GH 162
    • Adding XML::Document#collect_namespaces
    • Fixed bugs in the SOAP4R adapter
    • Fixed bug in XML::Node#next_element for certain edge cases
    • Fixed load path issue with JRuby under Windows. GH 160.
    • XSLT#apply_to will honor the "output method". Thanks richardlehane!
    • Fragments containing leading text nodes with newlines now parse properly. GH 178.

1.4.0 / 2009/10/30

  • Happy Birthday!
  • New Features
    • Node#at_xpath returns the first element of the NodeSet matching the XPath expression.
    • Node#at_css returns the first element of the NodeSet matching the CSS selector.
    • NodeSet#| for unions GH 119 (Thanks Serabe!)
    • NodeSet#inspect makes prettier output
    • Node#inspect implemented for more rubyish document inspecting
    • Added XML::DTD#external_id
    • Added XML::DTD#system_id
    • Added XML::ElementContent for DTD Element content validity
    • Better namespace declaration support in Nokogiri::XML::Builder
    • Added XML::Node#external_subset
    • Added XML::Node#create_external_subset
    • Added XML::Node#create_internal_subset
    • XML Builder can append raw strings (GH 141, patch from dudleyf)
    • XML::SAX::ParserContext added
    • XML::Document#remove_namespaces! for the namespace-impaired
  • Bugfixes
    • returns nil when HTML documents do not declare a meta encoding tag. GH 115
    • Uses RbConfig::CONFIG[‘host_os’] to adjust ENV[‘PATH’] GH 113
    • NodeSet#search is more efficient GH 119 (Thanks Serabe!)
    • NodeSet#xpath handles custom xpath functions
    • Fixing a SEGV when XML::Reader gets attributes for current node
    • Node#inner_html takes the same arguments as Node#to_html GH 117
    • DocumentFragment#css delegates to it‘s child nodes GH 123
    • NodeSet#[] works with slices larger than NodeSet#length GH 131
    • Reparented nodes maintain their namespace. GH 134
    • Fixed SEGV when adding an XML::Document to NodeSet
    • XML::SyntaxError can be duplicated. GH 148
  • Deprecations
    • Hpricot compatibility layer removed

1.3.3 / 2009/07/26

  • New Features
    • NodeSet#children returns all children of all nodes
  • Bugfixes
    • Override libxml-ruby‘s global error handler
    • ParseOption#strict fixed
    • Fixed a segfault when sending an empty string to Node#inner_html= GH 88
    • String encoding is now set to UTF-8 in Ruby 1.9
    • Fixed a segfault when moving root nodes between documents. GH 91
    • Fixed an O(n) penalty on node creation. GH 101
    • Allowing XML documents to be output as HTML documents
  • Deprecations
    • Hpricot compatibility layer will be removed in 1.4.0

1.3.2 / 2009-06-22

  • New Features
    • Nokogiri::XML::DTD#validate will validate your document
  • Bugfixes
    • Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#search will search top level nodes. GH 73
    • Removed namespace related methods from Nokogiri::XML::Document
    • Fixed a segfault when a namespace was added twice
    • Made nokogiri work with Snow Leopard GH 79
    • Mailing list has moved to: groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk
    • HTML fragments now correctly handle comments and CDATA blocks. GH 78
    • Nokogiri::XML::Document#clone is now an alias of dup
  • Deprecations
    • Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document#start_element_ns is deprecated, please switch to Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document#start_element_namespace
    • Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document#end_element_ns is deprecated, please switch to Nokogiri::XML::SAX::Document#end_element_namespace

1.3.1 / 2009-06-07

  • Bugfixes
    • extconf.rb checks for optional RelaxNG and Schema functions
    • Namespace nodes are added to the Document node cache

1.3.0 / 2009-05-30

  • New Features
    • Builder changes scope based on block arity
    • Builder supports methods ending in underscore similar to tagz
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#<=> compares nodes based on Document position
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#matches? returns true if Node can be found with given selector.
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#ancestors now returns an Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#ancestors will match parents against optional selector
    • Nokogiri::HTML::Document#meta_encoding for getting the meta encoding
    • Nokogiri::HTML::Document#meta_encoding= for setting the meta encoding
    • Nokogiri::XML::Document#encoding= to set the document encoding
    • Nokogiri::XML::Schema for validating documents against XSD schema
    • Nokogiri::XML::RelaxNG for validating documents against RelaxNG schema
    • Nokogiri::HTML::ElementDescription for fetching HTML element descriptions
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#description to fetch the node description
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#accept implements Visitor pattern
    • bin/nokogiri for easily examining documents (Thanks Yutaka HARA!)
    • Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet now supports more Array and Enumerable operators: index, delete, slice, - (difference), + (concatenation), & (intersection), push, pop, shift, ==
    • Nokogiri.XML, Nokogiri.HTML take blocks that receive Nokogiri::XML::ParseOptions objects
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#namespace returns a Nokogiri::XML::Namespace
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#namespace= for setting a node‘s namespace
    • Nokogiri::XML::DocumentFragment and Nokogiri::HTML::DocumentFragment have a sensible API and a more robust implementation.
    • JRuby 1.3.0 support via FFI.
  • Bugfixes
    • Fixed a problem with nil passed to CDATA constructor
    • Fragment method deals with regular expression characters (Thanks Joel!) LH 73
    • Fixing builder scope issues LH 61, LH 74, LH 70
    • Fixed a problem when adding a child could remove the child namespace LH#78
    • Fixed bug with unlinking a node then reparenting it. (GH#22)
    • Fixed failure to catch errors during XSLT parsing (GH#32)
    • Fixed a bug with attribute conditions in CSS selectors (GH#36)
    • Fixed intolerance of HTML attributes without values in Node#before/after/inner_html=. (GH#35)

1.2.3 / 2009-03-22

  • Bugfixes
    • Fixing bug where a node is passed in to Node#new
    • Namespace should be assigned on DocumentFragment creation. LH 66
    • Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#dup works GH 10
    • Nokogiri::HTML returns an empty Document when given a blank string GH#11
    • Adding a child will remove duplicate namespace declarations LH 67
    • Builder methods take a hash as a second argument

1.2.2 / 2009-03-14

  • New features
    • Nokogiri may be used with soap4r. See XSD::XMLParser::Nokogiri
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#inner_html= to set the inner html for a node
    • Nokogiri builder interface improvements
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#swap swaps html for current node (LH 50)
  • Bugfixes
    • Fixed a tag nesting problem in the Builder API (LH 41)
    • Nokogiri::HTML.fragment will properly handle text only nodes (LH 43)
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#before will prepend text nodes (LH 44)
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#after will append text nodes
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#search automatically registers root namepsaces (LH 42)
    • Nokogiri::XML::NodeSet#search automatically registers namespaces
    • Nokogiri::HTML::NamedCharacters delegates to libxml2
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#[] can take a symbol (LH 48)
    • vasprintf for windows updated. Thanks Geoffroy Couprie!
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#[]= should not encode entities (LH 55)
    • Namespaces should be copied to reparented nodes (LH 56)
    • Nokogiri uses encoding set on the string for default in Ruby 1.9
    • Document#dup should create a new document of the same type (LH 59)
    • Document should not have a parent method (LH 64)

1.2.1 / 2009-02-23

  • Bugfixes
    • Fixed a CSS selector space bug
    • Fixed Ruby 1.9 String Encoding (Thanks 角谷さん!)

1.2.0 / 2009-02-22

  • New features
    • CSS search now supports CSS3 namespace queries
    • Namespaces on the root node are automatically registered
    • CSS queries use the default namespace
    • Nokogiri::XML::Document#encoding get encoding used for this document
    • Nokogiri::XML::Document#url get the document url
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#add_namespace add a namespace to the node LH#38
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#each iterate over attribute name, value pairs
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#keys get all attribute names
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#line get the line number for a node (Thanks Dirkjan Bussink!)
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#serialize now takes an optional encoding parameter
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#to_html, to_xml, and to_xhtml take an optional encoding
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#to_str
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#to_xhtml to produce XHTML documents
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#values get all attribute values
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#write_to writes the node to an IO object with optional encoding
    • Nokogiri::XML::ProcessingInstrunction.new
    • Nokogiri::XML::SAX::PushParser for all your push parsing needs.
  • Bugfixes
    • Fixed Nokogiri::XML::Document#dup
    • Fixed header detection. Thanks rubikitch!
    • Fixed a problem where invalid CSS would cause the parser to hang
  • Deprecations
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node.new_from_str will be deprecated in 1.3.0
  • API Changes
    • Nokogiri::HTML.fragment now returns an XML::DocumentFragment (LH 32)

1.1.1

  • New features
    • Added XML::Node#elem?
    • Added XML::Node#attribute_nodes
    • Added XML::Attr
    • XML::Node#delete added.
    • XML::NodeSet#inner_html added.
  • Bugfixes
    • Not including an HTML entity for \r for HTML nodes.
    • Removed CSS::SelectorHandler and XML::XPathHandler
    • XML::Node#attributes returns an Attr node for the value.
    • XML::NodeSet implements to_xml

1.1.0

  • New Features
    • Custom XPath functions are now supported. See Nokogiri::XML::Node#xpath
    • Custom CSS pseudo classes are now supported. See Nokogiri::XML::Node#css
    • Nokogiri::XML::Node#<< will add a child to the current node
  • Bugfixes
    • Mutex lock on CSS cache access
    • Fixed build problems with GCC 3.3.5
    • XML::Node#to_xml now takes an indentation argument
    • XML::Node#dup takes an optional depth argument
    • XML::Node#add_previous_sibling returns new sibling node.

1.0.7

  • Bugfixes
    • Fixed memory leak when using Dike
    • SAX parser now parses IO streams
    • Comment nodes have their own class
    • Nokogiri() should delegate to Nokogiri.parse()
    • Prepending rather than appending to ENV[‘PATH’] on windows
    • Fixed a bug in complex CSS negation selectors

1.0.6

  • 5 Bugfixes
    • XPath Parser raises a SyntaxError on parse failure
    • CSS Parser raises a SyntaxError on parse failure
    • filter() and not() hpricot compatibility added
    • CSS searches via Node#search are now always relative
    • CSS to XPath conversion is now cached

1.0.5

  • Bugfixes
    • Added mailing list and ticket tracking information to the README.txt
    • Sets ENV[‘PATH’] on windows if it doesn‘t exist
    • Caching results of NodeSet#[] on Document

1.0.4

  • Bugfixes
    • Changed memory mangement from weak refs to document refs
    • Plugged some memory leaks
    • Builder blocks can call methods from surrounding contexts

1.0.3

  • 5 Bugfixes
    • NodeSet now implements to_ary
    • XML::Document should not implement parent
    • More GC Bugs fixed. (Mike is AWESOME!)
    • Removed RARRAY_LEN for 1.8.5 compatibility. Thanks Shane Hanna.
    • inner_html fixed. (Thanks Yehuda!)

1.0.2

  • 1 Bugfix
    • extconf.rb should not check for frex and racc

1.0.1

  • 1 Bugfix
    • Made sure extconf.rb searched libdir and prefix so that ports libxml/ruby will link properly. Thanks lucsky!

1.0.0 / 2008-07-13

  • 1 major enhancement
    • Birthday!

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