File: CHANGELOG

# CHANGELOG

Path: | CHANGELOG
Last Update: | Mon Mar 08 08:30:02 -0700 2010

# 0.8

### 31st March, 2009

- Saving memory and speed by using RStruct-based elements in the C extension.
- Bug in tag parsing, causing runaway <script> and <style> tags in HTML.
- Problem compiling under Ruby 1.9, due to our_rb_hash_lookup function meant for Ruby 1.8.
- CData was missing inner_text method.

# 0.7

### 17th March, 2009

- Rewritten parser routine, much lighter on memory, quite a bit faster.
- Friendlier with Ruby 1.9.
- Fixes to nth-child and text() selectors.

# 0.6

### 15th June, 2007

- Hpricot for JRuby — nice work Ola Bini!
- Inline Markaby for Hpricot documents.
- XML tags and attributes are no longer downcased like HTML is.
- new syntax for grabbing everything between two elements using a Range in the search method: (doc/("font".."font/br")) or in nodes_at like so: (doc/"font").nodes_at("*".."br"). Only works with either a pair of siblings or a set of a parent and a sibling.
- Ignore self-closing endings on tags (such as form) which are containers. Treat them like open parent tags. Reported by Jonathan Nichols on the hpricot list.
- Escaping of attributes, yanked from Jim Weirich and Sam Ruby‘s work in Builder.
- Element#raw_attributes gives unescaped data. Element#attributes gives escaped.
- Added: Elements#attr, Elements#remove_attr, Elements#remove_class.
- Added: Traverse#preceding, Traverse#following, Traverse#previous, Traverse#next.

# 0.5

### 31rd January, 2007

- support for a[text()="Click Me!"] and h3[text()*="space"] and the like.
- Hpricot.buffer_size accessor for increasing Hpricot‘s buffer if you‘re encountering huge ASP.NET viewstate attribs.
- some support for colons in tag names (not full namespace support yet.)
- Element.to_original_html will attempt to preserve the original HTML while merging your changes.
- Element.to_plain_text converts an element‘s contents to a simple text format.
- Element.inner_text removes all tags and returns text nodes concatenated into a single string.
- no @raw_string variable kept for comments, text, and cdata — as it‘s redundant.
- xpath-style indices (//p/a[1]) but keep in mind that they aren‘t zero-based.
- node_position is the index among all sibling nodes, while position is the position among children of identical type.
- comment() and text() search criteria, like: //p/text(), which selects all text inside paragraph tags.
- every element has css_path and xpath methods which return respective absolute paths.
- more flexibility all around: in parsing attributes, tags, comments and cdata.

# 0.4

### 11th August, 2006

- The :fixup_tags option will try to sort out the hierarchy so elements end up with the right parents.
- Elements such as script and style (identified as having CDATA contents) receive a single text node as their children now. Previously, Hpricot was parsing out tags found in scripts.
- Better scanning of partially quoted attributes (found by Brent Beardsly on uswebgen.com/)
- Better scanning of unquoted attributes — thanks to Aaron Patterson for the test cases!
- Some tags were being output in the empty tag style, although browsers hated that. FIXED!
- Added Elements#at for finding single elements.
- Added Elem::Trav#[] and Elem::Trav#[]= for reading and writing attributes.

# 0.3

### 7th July, 2006

- Fixed negative string size error on empty tokens. (news.bbc.co.uk)
- Allow the parser to accept just text nodes. (such as: `Hpricot.parse(‘TEXT’)`)
- from JQuery to Hpricot::Elements: remove, empty, append, prepend, before, after, wrap, set, html(…), to_html, to_s.
- on containers: to_html, replace_child, insert_before, insert_after, innerHTML=.
- Hpricot(…) is an alias for parse.
- open up all properties to setters, let people do as they may.
- use to_html for the full html of a node or set of elements.
- doctypes were messed.

# 0.2

### 4th July, 2006

- Rewrote the HTree parser to be simpler, more adequate for the common man. Will add encoding back in later.

# 0.1

### 3rd July, 2006

- For whatever reason, wrote this HTML parser in C. I guess Ragel is addictive and I want to improve HTree.

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