Revision history for Perl extension XML::Generator.

1.03 Thu Jul 30 17:02:00 2009

• Version bump because somebody released an unauthorized XML-Generator-1.02

1.01     Tue Jul 8  11:45:00 2007
        - Documentation cleanup.

1.0      Fri Jun 22 16:51:00 2007
        - Fixed bug #23594, "Embedded escaping does not work as expected",
          reported by M. Zizka; clarified documentation and added 'even-entities'
          argument to 'escape' parameter.
        - As part of above fix, supplying an unexpected true argument to 'escape'
          parameter results in warning. 
        - Fixed bug #18609, "cdata also pretty-printed", reported by Daniel Schroeer.
        - Fixed bug #18656, reported by Peter (Stig) Edwards; just removed single
          quotes around Tie::IxHash in require line.

0.99_02 Tue Oct 19 23:02:00 2004

• Fixed mistake in RDF example.

0.99_01 Tue Oct 19 22:58:00 2004

• Changed default behavior of 'use XML::Generator' to not attempt to export AUTOLOAD. Removed ':noimport' option.
• Allowed more than two components in a namespace, to allow explicit xmlns: attributes to be output on demand. Introduced '#default' token.
• Improved output aesthetics when there are lot of attributes and the generator was configured with the 'pretty' option.
• Added allowedXMLTags (alias to allowed_xml_tags) and qualified_attributes (alias to qualifiedAttributes) to rationalize interface.

0.99 Tue Mar 23 11:17:00 2004

• Removed automatic prefixing of attribute names when using a namespace.
• Added 'qualifiedAttributes' constructor option to emulate prior attribute prefixing behavior.
• Always syntax check attribute names under strict conformance.
• Add documentation on using Tie::IxHash to get predictable attribute ordering.
• Allow tag 'AUTOLOAD'.
• Fixed bug with default namespace.
• More tests

0.98 Mon Mar 1 18:26:00 2004

• Fixed bug in DOM.t when XML::DOM not installed (caused by fix in 0.97)

0.97 Mon Mar 1 15:22:00 2004

• Fixed bugs in DOM.t reported by David Wheeler.

0.96 Sun Feb 29 23:00:00 2004

• More documentation fixups.
• Only check for xml() subs under strict conformance.
• Small performance optimizations.

0.95 Sun Feb 29 22:21:00 2004

• Enhanced STACKED AUTOLOAD feature to provide a default import()
• Documentation fixups.

0.94 Sun Feb 29 14:21:00 2004

• FIXED IMPLEMENTATION OF NAMESPACES!! XML::Generator is now conformant. Note that the semantics of namespaces have changed!
• Implemented AUTOLOAD exporting to simplify syntax.
• Implement STACKED AUTOLOADs to simplify sub-classing.
• Added "macro" options ':standard', ':std', ':strict' and ':pretty'.
• Added new 'allowed_xml_tags' option to allow tags starting with 'xml' under strict conformance.
• Documented the 'version', 'encoding' and 'dtd' options.
• Added arguments to xmldecl() to allow more control.
• Changed XML comment behavior when escaping '--' to escape both dashes.
• Fixed memory leak in constructor. Bug #4513.
• Fixed bug in t/DOM.t that caused it to fail when DOM.pm was installed. Bug #3220.

0.93 Wed Jan 22 10:41:00 2003

• Added 'high-bit' option to escape to allow escaping of upper ASCII.
• Fixed a test bug that assumed the order of elements in a hash.

0.92 Tue Jan 21 13:12:00 2003

• Finally (after multiple bug reports) stopped requiring that XML::DOM be installed for the tests to pass. Sorry this took so long to get fixed.
• Also fixed a bug in XML::Generator::DOM's POD that made it look strange on search.cpan.org (reported by Ken Williams).

0.91 Mon Dec 11 11:33:32 2000

• Added XML::Generator::DOM subclass for producing DOM trees instead of strings.
• New choices for the 'empty' option: 'compact' and 'args'.
• Changed the semantics of 'pretty' option; CDATA sections and Processing Instructions are no longer subject to the pretty printing rules. Thanks for the bug report from Murat Uenalan.
• Using closures for tag generation, which seems to save a little bit of time. Might not be worth it in the long run, for maintainability's sake.
• Fix for perl versions that can't use 'for' as a statement modifier (pre 5.005) courtesy of Neil Prockter (n.prockter@lse.ac.uk).
• Some documentation fixups.

0.9 Sat Nov 18 11:13:24 2000

• Massive code reorganization to support subclassing, courtesy of Nathan Winger (nate@nateware.com)
• New instantiation option, 'empty', to control how empty tags are rendered.
• Improved internal representation for improved performance ( $gen->foo($gen->bar($gen->baz( $really_big_string ))) used to copy $really_big_string three times; as long as the 'pretty' option is not supplied, this is no longer the case. )
• Fixed xml() tag to allow comments and processing instructions before and/or after the xml document.
• New special tag, xmldtd(), which used to be part of xmldecl().

0.8 Wed Jul 12 17:10:12 2000

• Bug-fix for pretty-printing
• New special tag, "xml" which takes a complete XML document and "finalizes" it, so it can't be further embedded.
• Arguments passed as scalar refs will not be escaped, even if the XML::Generator object was constructed with the 'escape' => "always" option.

0.7 Mon Jun 13 09:14:32 2000

• Pretty-printing patch from Bron Gondwana
• Undefined warnings patch from Bron Gondwana

0.6 Sun Jun 11 16:02:00 2000

• Cleaned-up, modularized rewrite courtesy of Bron Gondwana (perlcode@brong.net)
• XML::Generator now returns objects blessed into XML::Generator::auto which contains only an AUTOLOAD that redirects requests to the proper method in XML::Generator.
• A new option is available in the constructor to force stricter conformance to the XML specification ('conformance' => 'strict'). This also enables some special tags; "xmlpi", "xmlcmnt", "xmldecl" and "xmlcdata" that can be used to generate, respectively, processing instructions, comments, the XML declaration, and character data sections.

0.5 Thu Sep 08 11:12:04 1999

• Fixed one lingering definedness bug
• Added escaping options to XMLify content
• Added global namespace option
• Fixed namespace support somewhat

0.4 Fri Jul 02 11:44:32 1999

• Fixed a few remarkably dumb bugs which I can't believe survived this long. Improved the documentation slightly.

0.3 Tue Apr 13 09:11:13 1999

• Fixed undefined variables warnings as reported by John Labovitz (johnl@meer.net)

0.2 Wed Feb 10 12:00:00 1999

• Added support for namespaces; bholzman
• Allowed "new" as a tag name; bholzman

0.1 Wed Nov 11 20:39:11 1998

• first public version; bholzman

0.01 Wed Nov 11 20:17:39 1998

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18