Revision history for XML-Rules
0.01 2006-10-9
First version, not released on an unsuspecting world.
0.03 2006-10-29
First working version
0.04 2006-11-06
Added support for '.attrname', '+attrname' and '*attrname'
Silenced POD and POD-coverage tests
0.05 2006-11-07
Added "Start Tag" Rules to allow optional skipping of branches
0.09 2006-11-12
Added filter mode
0.12 2006-12-27
Fixed some errors in escaping output
Added automatic encoding of data
0.13 2006-12-28
Added tests for encode parameter, XML output and filter style
0.14 2007-01-22
Fixed boilerplate.t
Simplified filtering into a string
0.15 not sure
Added namespace handling
0.16 not sure
Added pretty-printing
0.17 2007-02-12
Finished the namespace handling and pretty-printing, including tests
0.18 2007-02-13
Added the forgotten prerequisities into Build.PL
Added passthrough Makefile.PL
0.22 2007-12-25
Added whitespace handling
1.00 2008-02-18
Reworked the whitespace handling
Added 'by <attrname' builtin rule
Fixed filter used as parser and parser used as filter error messages
Added return_nothing() and skip_rest() methods to allow you to stop parsing the XML
1.03 2008-07-09
Fixed escaping in filter mode
Added '%key' style returns
Added 'content by <attrname>' and 'no content by <attrname' builtin rules
Added inferRulesFromDTD and inferRulesFromExample
1.04 2008-08-16
Fixed incorrect handling of <tag/> in filters outside interesting tags
1.05 2008-09-05
Fixed handling of rules for tags that sometimes are within another
tag with sub{} rule and sometimes not in filters
1.06 2009-03-24
Improved namespace handling
1.08 2009-08-18
Improved ToXML (supported data structures and formatting)
TODO: document that, see the t/03-output.t for examples for now
1.10 2010-07-12
Added inferRulesFromDTD
fixed a memory leak that prevented the whole parser object from being garbage collected
1.12 2012-10-09
Added support for chunk processing
Added remove() and only() attribute filters
1.13 2012-10-11
Fixed dependency on XML::DTDParser in tests
1.14 2012-10-21
Removed frogotten debug print and Data::Dump dependency in a test
1.15 2012-12-12
Added imports and ability to call methods as class methods to get a subroutine reference
Added inferRules as a use statement parameter
1.16 2012-12-13
Added default method name to use statement handling
InferRulesFromXxx now sort tags alphabetically ... necessary for the tests to work across Perl versions