Revision history for Perl module XML::Simple

2.18 Aug 15 2007

• Non-unique key attribute values now trigger a warning (or a fatal error in strict mode) rather than silently discarding data (patch from Daniel Baysinger)

2.17 Aug 02 2007

• Added parse_string(), parse_file() and parse_fh() methods
• Added default_config_file(), and build_simple_tree() hook methods
• Tweak to implementation of exporting (patch from Stuart Moore)
• Documented hook methods
• Fixed test suite race condition (RT#28603 from Andreas J. König)

2.16 Oct 30 2006

• Added test/fix for bad GroupTags option (report from Lee Goddard)
• Added new_hashref() hook method
• refactored cache save/restore methods for easier overriding

2.15 Oct 03 2006

• Makefile.PL changes: reject known-bad PurePerl and RTF parser modules; default to XML::SAX::Expat if no parser installed
• allow '.' characters in variable names (suggested by Cosimo Streppone)
• fix output of undefs in arrayrefs with SuppressEmpty (reported by ã��ã��ã�ª - Kanna)
• tidy up code and docs around lexical filehandle passed to OutputFile (report from Helge Sauer)
• reduce memory usage by passing XML strings by reference (patch from Dan Sully)

2.14 Jan 29 2005

• unlink and lock fixes for VMS (patch from Peter (Stig) Edwards)

2.13 Nov 17 2004

• Fixed bug where NoIndent broke KeyAttr (reported by David Haas)
• Added copy_hash helper method which may be overridden to avoid tied hashes becoming untied during XMLout (patch from Jan Sundberg)
• Fixed bug where GroupTags corrupted source hashref in XMLout (reported by Bram)
• Tweaks to SuppressEmpty for undef with XMLout (report from jamesb), behaviour now matches docs and additional behaviour of setting option to 1 will skip undefined values altogether

2.12 Apr 05 2004

• added NumericEscape option
• added ValueAttr option (patch from Anton Berezin)
• suppress 'wide character in print' warning (reported by Dawei Lin)

2.11 Mar 02 2004

• Fixed hash ordering assumption in a new test (reported by Jost Krieger)

2.10 Feb 29 2004

• Added AttrIndent option (patch from Volker Moell)
• Hash keys are now sorted alphabetically by default; enable the new NoSort option if you don't want this (patch from Volker Moell)
• Fixed bug where disabling array folding broke anonymous array handling
• Fixed bug when unfolding a tied hash
• SuppressEmpty patch from Douglas Wilson
• Numerous test improvements - Devel::Cover rocks!
• POD update re XMLin(XMLout($data)) caveats (bug report from Slaven Rezic)

2.09 Sep 09 2003

• Makefile.PL makeover contributed by Joshua Keroes
• fixed hash ordering assumption in test script (reported by Michel Rodriguez)
• POD updates
• updated link to Perl XML FAQ

2.08 Jun 13 2003

• fixed variable expansion not happening in attributes (patch from Paul Bussé)

2.07 May 20 2003

• added test to catch old versions of Storable which lack locking support
• removed new-style loop which broke on 5.005_03
• suppress more uninitialised variable warnings

2.06 May 18 2003

• fixed strict mode requiring ForceArray on output (fix from Igor Román Mariño)
• fixed warnings about uninitialised values
• minor POD update (link to FAQ)

2.05 Apr 16 2003

• fixed warnings when NormaliseSpace undefined (reported by Peter Scott and others)
• added support for specifying ForceArray using regular expressions (patch from Jim Cromie)
• added check to escape_value to guard against undefined argument (reported by Henrik Gemal)
• added NoIndent option (requested by Afroze Husain Zubairi)

2.04 Apr 10 2003

• integrated a patch from Michel Rodriguez + new facility for removing extra levels of indirection (using the new 'GroupTags' option) + new facility for rolling the dreaded 'content' hash up into a scalar if there are no keys left after array folding (using the '-' prefix mode on the ContentKey option) + new facility for doing variable substitution in the XML; variables can be defined in Perl (using the new 'Variables' option) or in the XML document (using the new 'VarAttr' option)
• added 'NormaliseSpace' option for tidying up hash keys and other text content if required (feature requested by Alex Manoussakis)
• option names are now case-insensitive and can include underscores
• XMLin() and XMLout() are now aliased to xml_in() and xml_out() when called as methods or imported explicitly
• option names passed to XML::Simple->new() are now validated

2.03 Jan 20 2003

• fixed circular reference check which was incorrectly catching 'parallel' references (patch from Theo Lengyel)

2.02 Dec 15 2002

• changed Storable calls to use locking (reported by Randal Schwarz)

2.01 Dec 11 2002

• fixed bug whereby :strict mode required forcearray on XMLout() (reported by Ville Skytta)

2.00 Dec 08 2002

• first production release with SAX support
• added support for 'strict mode' using :strict import tag
• removed locking code (as it was incompatible with iThreads)
• integrated patch for test failures from Sean Campbell
• fixed stringification of references during folding (reported by Trond Michelsen)
• fixed incompatability with Tie::IxHash (reported by Venkataramana Mokkapati)
• POD: alphabetised options (patch from John Borwick)
• POD: updated suppressempty (patch from Kjetil Kjernsmo)
• added FAQ.pod to distribution and added new questions

1.08_01 Feb 14 2002 - beta release for testing SAX support

• fixed errors with default namespace handling
• minor POD updates

1.08 Feb 09 2002

• re-release of 1.06 (stable) with minor updates ...
• searchpath option now defaults to current directory if not set
• fix to Storable test routine for test failures on Win32
• removed obselete 'convert' script from distribution

1.07b Feb 05 2002 - beta release for testing SAX support

• added SAX support including: + using SAX parsers + acting as a SAX handler + generating SAX events from XMLout() with new Handler option + acting as a SAX filter (via new DataHandler option)
• added $ENV{XML_SIMPLE_PREFERRED_PARSER} and $XML::Simple::PREFERRED_PARSER for selecting a parser module
• added namespace support (SAX only) with nsexpand option for both XMLin() and XMLout()
• searchpath now defaults to current directory
• parseropts option now officially deprecated
• removed obselete 'convert' script from distribution
• many POD updates (more to come)

1.06 Nov 19 2001

• fixed version number in default xmldecl (thanks to Matt Sergeant for bug report and patch)
• updated contact email address for author

1.05 Aug 31 2000

• code re-org to make internals all OO for easier extending
• added 'noattr' option to tell XMLout() not to use attributes (only nested elements) and XMLin() to discard attributes
• added 'suppressempty' option to tell XMLin what to do with elements with no attributes and no content
• added 'parseropts' option for specifying options which should be passed to the underlying XML::Parser object
• added 'forcecontent' option to force text content to parse to a hash value even if the element has no attributes
• fix for forcearray getting applied to text content
• integrated patch from Paul Lindner to work around filenames sometimes being seen as XML when running under mod_perl
• integrated patch from Edward Avis: filename '-' means stdin
• fixed bug where a missing key attribute could cause a crash
• added a warning message for above situation
• added 'support' for CDATA sections - they always worked, but now they're in the test suite which should ensure they keep working
• fixed error message when caching enabled but parsing from filehandle
• fixed empty elements being skipped by XMLout() when folding enabled
• fixed text content of '0' being skipped by XMLout()

1.04 Apr 03 2000

• fix for text content being skipped by XMLout
• added (optional) OO interface for changing default options
• added 'keeproot' option (requested by Mark D. Anderson - MDA)
• added 'contentkey' option (also requested by MDA)
• incorporated 'forcearray' as arrayref patch from Andrew McNaughton

1.03 Mar 05 2000

• added 'maketest' script for make impaired platforms
• yet more cross platform robustness added to test scripts incl workaround for Win32 problem where writing to file changed contents but not timestamp(!)
• backed out one overzealous use of File::Spec in test script
• POD updates including XML::Twig description contributed by Michel Rodriguez

1.02b Feb 16 2000 - limited distribution beta

• reinstated locking with new backwards compatibility code
• fixed platform dependant pathname handling to use File::Basename & File::Spec in XML::Simple.pm and test scripts
• fixed bug causing XMLout() to incorrectly barf on what it thought was a recursive data structure
• removed spurious checking code which stopped XMLout unfolding a single nested hash
• fixed t/4_MemShare.t to gracefully cope with the absense of utime()
• changed t/3_Storable.t and t/5_MemCopy.t to skip gracefully if no Storable.pm
• removed superflous eval blocks around requires

1.01 Dec 1 1999

• removed faulty locking code pending a fix

1.00 Nov 25 1999

• added escaping feature + noescape option
• added xmldecl option
• further tidy ups for thread safing
• more POD revisions (incl: pointers to other modules)

0.95 Nov 2 1999

• added rootname option
• added outputfile option
• lots of internal tidy ups for thread safing
• fixed bug in check for XML string to XMLin()
• extra tests (esp option handling)

0.90 Oct 14 1999 (first beta release)

• module renamed to XML::Simple ready for CPAN upload
• XMLToOpt() renamed to XMLin()
• OptToXML() renamed to XMLout()
• added 'convert' script

0.05 Sep 18 1999

• fixed location of XML.pm in distribution (make install didn't work)
• added tests for MemCopy
• fixed ABSTRACT_FROM in Makefile.PL
• fixed PREREQ_PM in Makefile.PL

0.04 Aug 10 1999

• added caching using Storable.pm
• updated MANIFEST to include missing test files

0.03 Jun 20 1999

• rewrite of OptToXML
• anonymous array support
• more and better test routines
• POD updates

0.02 Jun 10 1999

• added support for OptToXML
• fixed searchpath inconsistencies
• added 'forcearray' option
• POD improvements
• much improved test routines

0.01 May 27 1999

• original version; created by h2xs 1.18
• module called 'Getopt::XML'
• included basic XMLToOpt routine