Revision history for Perl extension XML::Writer.

0.612 Mon Aug 16 00:10:16 2010 +1000 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Allow DATA_INDENT to specify arbitrary white space for indentation. If it is numeric then use that many space characters.

0.611 Thu Apr 22 13:09:12 BST 2010 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Adopt rewritten license text to explicitly allow modification.

0.610 Mon Mar 29 02:29:32 BST 2010 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Add a CHECK_PRINT constructor parameter to check the output print success (#50465). It will croak when printing to output fails.

0.607 Mon Mar 22 14:46:26 GMT 2010 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Address license confusion by reverting to the original license, with contributor permission, and removing unintentional references to the (more restrictive) GPL/Artistic.

0.606 Wed Dec 3 00:09:34 GMT 2008 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Ensure META.yml spec version matches URL.

0.605 Mon Dec 1 23:01:21 GMT 2008 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Use MIT license, formalising David Megginson's original ("No warranty. Commercial and non-commercial use freely permitted.").
• Fix from Yanick Champoux for dataElements namespaces (#41359).

0.604 Thu Feb 21 00:42:06 GMT 2008 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Patch from Andreas Koenig for lc(undef) warning in 5.11 (#32874).
• Include example code.

0.603 Mon Jun 25 22:31:40 BST 2007 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Escape all necessary white space in attributes (#25499).

0.602 Sat Nov 11 16:54:22 GMT 2006 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Fix bugs in test case to avoid breaking with new Perls.
• Make test case work with older Perls, tested against 5.004 (#17288).
• Include pod syntax and coverage tests.

0.601 Fri Sep 1 15:01:45 BST 2006 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Don't modify list references passed as tag or attribute names (cpan #14854).

0.600 Thu Jun 30 23:17:00 BST 2005 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Don't include an encoding in the XML declaration unless one is specified.
• Check for, and croak on, invalid characters (including ASCII NUL).
• Fixed 'ancestor' with out-of-bounds indexes.

0.545 Mon May 16 08:11:17 BST 2005 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Format comments like elements when in data mode.
• Only attempt Unicode tests for Perl >= 5.8.1.

0.540 Tue May 10 18:18:58 BST 2005 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Don't die when ENCODING is specified with a scalar OUTPUT.
• Add support for US-ASCII encoding.

0.531 Mon Mar 14 22:11:33 GMT 2005 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Rename internal String package to avoid clash with external modules.
• Fix Unicode test skipping for Perls before 5.8.

0.530 Tue Feb 1 13:09:31 GMT 2005 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Allow scalar references for the OUTPUT parameter, inspired by Simon Oliver's XML::Writer::String (patch from Yanick Champoux)
• Added ENCODING parameter; currently only UTF-8 is supported
• Escape newlines in attribute values

0.520 Wed Sep 1 16:18:46 BST 2004 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Fixed bug with forced declaration of the default namespace (#7266)
• Removed dead code. Added copyright notices to pod.
• Improved test coverage

0.510 Tue May 25 19:46:04 BST 2004 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Permitted in-document namespace prefix control
• Don't reopen STDOUT for output (closes #6232)
• Moved tests into t/. Added tests for mid-document namespace changes. Show diffs when comparison tests fail

0.500 Sat Mar 6 22:45:54 GMT 2004 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• Prepared metadata for a consistent, CPAN-friendly 0.500 release
• Added a META.yml to prevent XML::Writer::Namespaces from being indexed
• Writer.pm: Removed a duplicate check for valid attribute names
• test.pl: Added more tests for full coverage of the cdata method

0.4.6 Tue Mar 2 16:54:04 GMT 2004 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• test.pl: Revert to using a temporary file, rather than an IO::String, for compatibility with older Perls

0.4.5 Mon Mar 1 14:46:47 GMT 2004 <joe@kafsemo.org>

• added FORCED_NS_DECLS parameter, to declare namespaces ahead of use
• fixed check for duplicate attributes
• correctly take the default namespace from the supplied prefix map
• no longer produce namespace declarations for the 'xml:' prefix
• allow xml-stylesheet PIs
• fixed warnings about uninitialised values
• added a comprehensive suite of tests, using Test::More

0.4.2 Sun Feb 22 15:33:44 GMT 2004 ed@membled.com

• added raw() to print raw, unescaped text
• patch from srinithan adding cdata() and cdataElement() to write CDATA sections

0.4.1 Sat Oct 18 19:51:51 BST 2003 ed@membled.com

• fixed deprecation warning from 'use IO'

0.4 Tue Apr 4 21:59:51 EDT 2000

• added support for a simple data mode (off by default), with no mixed content and automatic whitespace and indenting
• added get/setDataMode and get/setDataIndent methods
• added DATA_MODE and DATA_INDENT parameters to constructor
• added dataElement method for simple case (character data content only)

0.3 Thu Dec 9 12:49:28 EST 1999

• fixed frequently-reported attribute-list bug
• changed xmlDecl() so that first argument is the encoding
• added 'use IO;' to avoid errors
• documented the doctype() method

0.2

• added Namespace support (XML::Writer::Namespaces subclass and NAMESPACES constructor parameter)
• added PREFIX_MAP constructor parameter, and add/removePrefix() methods for Namespace support
• added getOutput() and setOutput() methods
• added new query methods in_element(), within_element(), current_element(), and ancestor()
• changed constructor to use parameterized arguments
• added constructor option to insert newlines in tags
• element name is now optional in endTag() method
• fixed test.pl to work on Mac, and added new test
• added more examples in documentation
• require at least Perl 5.004

0.1 Mon Apr 19 12:27:36 1999

• original version; created by h2xs 1.19