XML::Bare Changelog

0.45

• Missing UTF8 test files now included
• XML Saving functionality now does size checks to ensure concurrency issues do not corrupt XML.
• Linking under Solaris should now be fixed
• Line number defines removed from XS compilation to attempt to fix some strange compilation problems.

0.44

• Self closing nodes now printed by xml function
• UTF8 Handling fixed; thanks go to Nigel Metheringham for the fix recommendation as well as the test files
• Static linking has been fixed
• 'cc' now used properly in cases where 'gcc' is absent

0.43 ( 3-17-09 )

• Fixed newly broken add_node problem from 0.42
• Added a new test to detect fixed problem

0.42 ( 3-16-09 )

• A number of memory leaks have been fixed
• XML files included for benchmarking have been replaced with dummy test data to avoid licensing problems.

0.41 ( internal )

• Perl code has been optimized
• Fixed problem with merge function
• Added tohtml output
• Added flag to indicate node read in as CDATA

0.40 ( 12-14-08 )

• Added schema checking functionality
• Fixed parsing of nodes with more than one comment block
• Added error checking to ensure properly closed tags
• Fixed parsing of attributes without values

0.30 ( 7-02-08 )

• Add new parsing mode, simple, which simulates XML::Simple.

0.29 ( internal )

• New function add_node_after
• Fixed node ordering such that node order is preserved

0.28 ( internal )

• Altered xml output so that it cleans extraneous input spacing and indents mixed values properly.
• Added prereqs to Makefile.pl
• Added Test::POD and Test::POD::Coverage tests
• Fixed incorrect pointer type cast in parser.c
• Rewrote benchmark system to use templated benchmarking

0.27 ( 11-21-07 )

• makefile.pl modified to be compatible with Darwin and to error out if XCode ( gcc specifically ) is not installed
• makefile.pl modified to support Perl 5.6+ on Win32 MSVC ( previously only Perl 5.8 was supported )
• parser.c modified to include stdlib.h for malloc in Darwin.
• Cyclic equality test weakened to allow for differences in default sorting of hash keys per perl version.

0.26 ( 11-09-07 )

• Compatibility with versions before Perl 5.6 is not fruitful. Perl 5.6 now required and will likely remain as a requirement. It broke too many things.

0.25 ( 11-09-07 )

• makefile.pl modified to pass -shared option correctly to gcc and not the linker. This caused compilation failure on certain Solaris systems.

0.24 ( 11-09-07 )

• Continued makefile.pl changes to recognize some platforms use executable extensions for gcc.
• Remove blank require line from meta.yml. It seemed to break the kwalitee rating.

0.23 ( 11-08-07 )

• Minor change to XS code for potential future Perl 5.005 support

0.22 ( 11-07-07 )

• Altered makefile.pl to be compatible with more platforms.
• Removed dependency upon string.h for msvc because it was breaking activestate builds.
• Perl 5.005 allowed, but it fails
• Comment parsing had an issue when the node containing the comment had no direct value. This has now been resolved.
• Using comments caused ever increasing blank spaces to be added. This has now been resolved.
• A test for comment reading has been added.
• A test for cyclic equality ( repeated loading and saving ) has now been added.

0.21 ( 11-04-07 )

• Comments are no longer completely ignored. One comment node is recognized and stored per non immediate node.

0.20 ( internal )

• forcearray function has been added
• simplify function has been added
• croak now used to error out of an improper call to find_node
• obj2xml has been corrected; previously newlines would stack up at the end of the xml file

0.17 ( internal - unstable )

• Merge updated to handle array and overlap properly
• del_by_perl function has been added
• add_node modified to return the added node
• find_node modified to skip blank values
• Previously a set of nodes could not be printed out using the 'xml' function. This can now be done. ( see perldoc )

0.16 ( internal )

• Mixed XML is now supported.
• UTF8 is now parsed properly.

0.15 ( internal )

• C Parser has been revised greatly in order to make it faster. Internal state engine has been rewritten using gotos instead of a switch in order make each state more independent and easily optimized by the compiler.

0.14 ( internal )

• Code that creates Perl hash from parsed XML structure has been rewritten in XS instead of Perl. As a result overall speed has been increased by 40% or so.

0.13 ( internal )

• Code that creates Perl hash from parsed XML structure has been cleaned up in order to avoid use of a temporary Perl hash.

0.12 ( internal )

• 'find_node' and 'del_node' functions are now exportable.
• 'find_node' function will now work properly if called on a single item instead of a list of items.
• Added 'find_by_perl' function to select nodes from a list that match a specific perl expression.
• A performance test script and some xml files are now included and example runs of the test script are in the documentation. XML::Bare is ~14-80 times faster than the alternatives.

0.11 ( 6-25-07 )

• Changed XS code so that it is backwards compatible with older versions of Perl.
• Changed XS code to use 'blind' pointers, a custom created Perl Scalar. Speed is increased as a result for XML with large contiguous values.

0.10 ( 6-21-07 )

• Made XS routines 30% more efficient. Speed of parsing and perl hash creation is now very good in comparison to all currently available alternatives in perl.

0.09 ( 6-20-07 )

• Rewrote library using XS instead of swig.

0.08 ( 6-20-07 )

• Parser has been rewritten in C to avoid dependency on g++.
• After node parsing C tree structure memory is now freed.

0.07 ( 6-19-07 )

• Modified custom script because it was incorrect in its use of redirection, causing some platforms to fail to compile.

0.06 ( 6-17-07 )

• Modified Makefile to use custom script to switch between g++ and gcc for compilation. Even as c, swig interface still did not compile properly with g++ on some systems.

0.05 ( 6-16-07 )

• Ceased using c++ for swig interface; it caused compilation issues on some platforms
• Fix further output indentation issues due to {value} always being displayed. {value} is now displayed as documented.
• First line of changes was incorrect previously

0.04 ( 06-15-07 )

• Added clean function
• Added merge function
• Bugfix: xml output indentation was off due to parser changes in 0.03
• Updated documentation

0.03 ( 06-14-07 )

• Modified makefile to work under windows with Activestate and MSVC
• Cleaned up parser some and fixed basic mixed xml
• Added changelog to dist
• Dist now created from MakeMaker 6.32 ( license and abstract add to Meta.yml )

0.02 ( 06-13-07 )

• Changed version line in perl module from my to global to allow proper cpan indexing

0.01 ( 06-13-07 )

• First release