Revision history for HTML::TableExtract

2.10 Sat Jul 15 20:50:41 EDT 2006

• minor bug fixed in HTML repair routines (thanks to Dave Gray)

2.09 Thu Jun 8 15:46:17 EDT 2006

• Tweaked rasterizer to handle some situations where the HTML is broken but tables can still be inferred.
• Fixed TREE() definition for situations where import() is not invoked. (thanks to DDICK on cpan.org)

2.08 Wed May 3 17:17:33 EDT 2006

• Implemented new rasterizer for grid mapping. Thanks to Roland Schar for a tortuous example of span issues.
• This also fixes a bug the old skew method had when it encountered ridiculously large spans (out of memory). Thanks to Andreas Gustafsson.
• Regular extraction and TREE mode are using the same rasterizer now.
• Fixed HTML stripping for a header matching bug on single word text in keep_html mode (thanks to Michael S. Muegel for pointing the bug out)

2.07 Sun Feb 19 13:40:44 EST 2006

• Fixed subtable slicing bug
• Fixed hrow() attachment bug
• Added tests

2.06 Tue Oct 18 13:13:52 EDT 2005

• Tightened up element interactions in TREE() mode when examining rows, columns, cells, etc. Was running into trouble with dereferencing scalars vs objects.
• Documented space() H::TE::T method, added tests
• Added POD tests
• Documentation updates and fixes

2.05 Tue Oct 4 16:00:02 EDT 2005

• Fixed a TREE() definition bug and class method assignments
• Fixed a 'row above header' bug, added tests

2.04 Wed Aug 3 14:42:23 EDT 2005

• Fixed some conditional optional dependency tests in order to avoid falure assertions on some test boxes.

2.03 Wed Jul 20 12:45:56 EDT 2005

• Fixed greedy attribute bug (non qualifying tables were being selected under certain circumstances)
• Moved more completely to File::Spec operations in testload.pm in order to make windows boxes happy.

2.02 Thu Jun 23 12:42:44 EDT 2005

• squelched TREE() creation warnings for subclasses
• fixed a rows() bug involving keep_headers

2.01 Tue Jun 21 22:05:53 EDT 2005

• fixed some test changes

2.00 Fri Jun 17 17:28:10 EDT 2005

• Can now return parsed tables as HTML::TableElement objects within an HTML::Element tree structure (via HTML::TreeBuilder) for such purposes as in-line editing of table content within documents. Invoked via 'use HTML::TableExtract qw(tree);'.
• Added columns(), row(), column(), and cell() methods.
• Added some handy reporting methods: tables_report() and tables_dump(). These are almost always handy while first analyzing a new HTML document for table content.
• Debugging and error output can now be assigned to arbitrary file handles. ! Old 'table_state' methods are now merely 'table' methods, though the old table_state style is still supported. ! Chains have been dropped. Though interesting (think xpath), they needlessly complicated matters as they were nearly universally unused.

1.09 Fri Feb 25 17:49:00 EST 2005

• Tables can now be selected by table tag attributes
• lineage() method now returns row and column information, as well as depth and count, for each ancestor (potential backwards incompatability, entries are now 4 element arrays now rather than 2)
• header matching and column retention enhancements
• header retention
• old-style procedures deprecated in prepration for them to become methods
• various bug fixes

1.08 Thu Apr 4 11:26:27 CST 2002

• Added some more crufty HTML tolerance -- not PC (puristicly correct) but HTML correctness is probably of no interest to those merely trying to extract information out of HTML.
• Fixed a mapback problem with the legacy methods

1.07 Wed Aug 22 06:14:24 CDT 2001

• Added keep_html option for HTML retention
• bug fix for depth/count targets

1.06 Thu Nov 2 15:29:49 CST 2000

• Added <br> translation to newlines (enabled by default)
• cleaned up some warnings

1.05 Sun Aug 6 06:38:14 CDT 2000

• minor bug fix involving empty cells

1.04 Sat Jul 15 02:18:04 CDT 2000

• fixed gridmap bug involving skew calcs on unwanted columns
• added example page reference in README

1.03 Tue Jul 7 03:43:30 CDT 2000

• gridmap option, columns are really columns regardless of cell span skew
• Added chains for relative targeting
  • Terminus-matching by default
  • Elasticity option
  • Waypoint retention option
  • Lineage tracking (match record along chain)
• Significant tests added to 'make test'
• Documentation rewrite

0.05 Tue Mar 21 08:11:54 CST 2000

• Fixed -w init warnings for dangling columns in header mode
• added 'decode' option to turn off text decoding when desired
• internally stores real slices right now rather than sparse tables that later get massaged.

0.03 Thu Mar 9 13:10:03 CST 2000

• Fixed bug regarding incomplete defaults
• Tables, rows, and cells that are either empty or contain no text are now properly noted
• Header patterns now match across stripped tags
• In some cases, mangled HTML tables are properly scanned by inferring missing <TR> tags.
• Depth/Count votes are now properly honored.
• Cleaned up some -w noise.

0.02 Thu Feb 10 13:43:04 CST 2000

• Fixed some problems tracking counts at revisited depths.
• Minor doc fix, added mailing list

0.01 Wed Feb 2 18:24:07 CST 2000

• Initial version.