2001-03-25 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.19_92
HTML::HeadParser made more efficient by using 'ignore_elements'.
HTML::LinkExtor made more efficient by using 'report_only_tags'.
HTML::TokeParser generalized into HTML::PullParser. HTML::PullParser
only support the get_token/unget_token interface of HTML::TokeParser,
but is more flexible because the information that make up an token
is customisable. HTML::TokeParser is made into an HTML::PullParser
subclass.
2001-03-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.19_91
Array references can be passed to the filter methods. Makes it easier
to use them as constructor options.
Example programs updated to use filters.
Reset ignored_element state on EOF.
Documentation updates.
The netscape_buggy_comment() method now generates mandatory warning
about its deprecation.
2001-03-13 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.19_90
This is an developer only release. It contains some new
experimental features. The interface to these might still change.
Implemented filters to reduce the numbers of callbacks generated:
- $p->ignore_tags()
- $p->report_only_tags()
- $p->ignore_elements()
New @attr argspec. Less overhead than 'attr' and allow
compatibility with XML::Parser style start events.
The whole argspec can be wrapped up in @{...} to signal
flattening. Only makes a difference when the target is an
array.
2001-03-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.19
Avoid the entity2char global. That should make the module
more thread safe. Patch by Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@ActiveState.com>.
2001-02-24 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.18
There was a C++ style comment left in util.c. Strict C
compilers do not like that kind of stuff.
2001-02-23 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.17
The 3.16 release broke MULTIPLICITY builds. Fixed.
2001-02-22 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.16
The unbroken_text option now works across ignored tags.
Fix casting of pointers on some 64 bit platforms.
Fix decoding of Unicode entities. Only optionally available for
perl-5.7.0 or better.
Expose internal decode_entities() function at the Perl level.
Reindented some code.
2000-12-26 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.15
HTML::TokeParser's get_tag() method now takes multiple
tags to match. Hopefully the documentation is also a bit clearer.
#define PERL_NO_GET_CONTEXT: Should speed up things for thread
enabled versions of perl.
Quote some more entities that also happens to be perl keywords.
This avoids warnings on perl-5.004.
Unicode entities only triggered for perl-5.7.0 or higher.
2000-12-03 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.14
If a handler triggered by flushing text at eof called the
eof method then infinite recursion occurred. Fixed.
Bug discovered by Jonathan Stowe <gellyfish@gellyfish.com>.
Allow <!doctype ...> to be parsed as declaration.
2000-09-17 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.13
Experimental support for decoding of Unicode entities.
2000-09-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.12
Some tweaks to get it to compile with "Optimierender Microsoft (R)
32-Bit C/C++-Compiler, Version 12.00.8168, fuer x86."
Patch by Matthias Waldorf <matthias.waldorf@zoom.de>.
HTML::Entities documentation spelling patch by
David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>.
2000-08-22 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.11
HTML::LinkExtor and eg/hrefsub now obtain %linkElements from
the HTML::Tagset module.
2000-06-29 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.10
Avoid core dump when stack gets relocated as the result of
text handler invocation while $p->unbroken_text is enabled.
Needed to refresh the stack pointer.
2000-06-28 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.09
Avoid core dump if somebody clobbers the aliased $self argument of
a handler.
HTML::TokeParser documentation update suggested by
Paul Makepeace <Paul.Makepeace@realprogrammers.com>.
2000-05-23 Gisle Aas <gisle@ActiveState.com>
Release 3.08
Fix core dump for large start tags.
Bug spotted by Alexander Fraser <green795@hotmail.com>
Added yet another example program: eg/hanchors
Typo fix by Jamie McCarthy <jamie@mccarthy.org>
2000-03-20 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.07
Fix perl5.004 builds (was broken in 3.06)
Declaration parsing mode now only triggers for <!DOCTYPE ...> and
<!ENTITY ...>. Based on patch by la mouton <kero@3sheep.com>.
2000-03-06 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.06
Multi-threading/MULTIPLICITY compilation fix.
Both Doug MacEachern <dougm@pobox.com> and
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@noris.net> provided a patch.
Avoid some "statement not reached" warnings from picky
compilers.
Remove final commas in enums as ANSI C does not allow
them and some compilers actually care.
Patch by James Walden <jamesw@ichips.intel.com>
Added eg/htextsub example program.
2000-01-22 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.05
Implemented $p->unbroken_text option
Don't parse content of certain HTML elements as CDATA when
xml_mode is enabled.
Offset was reported with wrong sign for text at end of chunk.
2000-01-15 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.04
Backed out 3.03-patch that checked for legal handler and attribute
names in the HTML::Parser constructor.
Documentation typo fixed by Michael.
2000-01-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.03
We did not get out of comment mode for comments ending with an
odd number of "-" before ">". Patch by la mouton <kero@3sheep.com>
Documentation patch by Michael.
1999-12-21 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.02
Hide ~-magic IV-pointer to 'struct p_state' behind a reference.
This allow copying of the internal _hparser_xs_state element, and
will make HTML-Tree-0.61 work again.
Introduced $p->init() which might be useful for subclasses that
only want the initialization part of the constructor.
Filled out DIAGNOSTICS section of the HTML::Parser POD.
1999-12-19 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.01
Rely on ~-magic instead of a DESTROY method to deallocate
the internal 'struct p_state'. This avoid memory leaks
when people simply wipe of the content of the object hash.
One of the assertion in hparser.c had opposite logic. This made
the parser fail when compiled with a -DDEBUGGING perl.
Don't assume any specific order of hash keys in the t/cases.t.
This test failed with some newer development releases of perl.
1999-12-14 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 3.00
Documentation update (most of it from Michael)
Minor patch to eg/hstrip so that it use a "" handler
instead of &ignore.
Test suite patches from Michael
1999-12-13 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_96
Patches from Michael:
- A handler of "" means that the event will be ignored.
More efficient than using 'sub {}' as handler.
- Don't use a perl hash for looking up argspec keywords.
- Documentation tweaks.
1999-12-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_95 (this is a 3.00 candidate)
Fixed core dump when "<" was followed by an 8-bit character.
Spotted and test case provided by Doug MacEachern. Doug had
been running HTML-Parser-XS through more that 1 million urls that
had been downloaded via LWP.
Handlers can now invoke $p->eof to request the parsing to terminate.
HTML::HeadParser has been simplified by taking advantage of this.
Also added a title-extraction example that uses this.
Michael once again fixed my bad English in the HTML::Parser
documentation.
netscape_buggy_comment will carp instead of warn
updated TODO/README
Documented that HTML::Filter is depreciated.
Made backslash reserved in literal argspec strings.
Added several new test scripts.
1999-12-08 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_94 (should almost be a 3.00 candidate)
Renamed 'cdata_flag' as 'is_cdata'.
Dropped support for wrapping callback handler and argspec
in an array and passing a reference to $p->handler. It
created ambiguities when you want to pass a array as
handler destination and not update argspec. The wrapping
for constructor arguments are unchanged.
Reworked the documentation after updates from Michael.
Simplified internal check_handler(). It should probably simply
be inlined in handler() again.
Added argspec 'length' and 'undef'
Fix statement-less label. Fix suggested by Matthew Langford
<langfml@Eng.Auburn.EDU>.
Added two more example programs: eg/hstrip and eg/htext.
Various minor patches from Michael.
1999-12-07 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_93
Documentation update
$p->bool_attr_value renamed as $p->boolean_attribute_value
Internal renaming: attrspec --> argspec
Introduced internal 'enum argcode' in hparser.c
Added eg/hrefsub
1999-12-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_92
More documentation patches from Michael
Renamed 'token1' as 'token0' as suggested by Michael
For artificial end tags we now report 'tokens', but not 'tokenpos'.
Boolean attribute values show up as (0, 0) in 'tokenpos' now.
If $p->bool_attr_value is set it will influence 'tokens'
Fix for core dump when parsing <a "> when $p->strict_names(0).
Based on fix by Michael.
Will av_extend() the tokens/tokenspos arrays.
New test suite script by Michael: t/attrspec.t
1999-12-04 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_91
Implemented attrspec 'offset'
Documentation patch from Michael
Some more cleanup/updated TODO
1999-12-03 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_90 (first beta for 3.00)
Using "realloc" as a parameter name in grow_tokens created
problems for some people. Fix by Paul Schinder <schinder@pobox.com>
Patch by Michael that makes array handler destinations really work.
Patch by Michael that make HTML::TokeParser use this. This gave a
a speedup of about 80%.
Patch by Michael that makes t/cases into a real test.
Small HTML::Parser documentation patch by Michael.
Renamed attrspec 'origtext' to 'text' and 'decoded_text' to 'dtext'
Split up Parser.xs. Moved stuff into hparser.c and util.c
Dropped html_ prefix from internal parser functions.
Renamed internal function html_handle() as report_event().
1999-12-02 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_17
HTML::Parser documentation patch from Michael.
Fix memory leaks in html_handler()
Patch that makes an array legal as handler destination.
Also from Michael.
The end of marked sections does not eat successive newline
any more.
The artificial end event for empty tag in xml_mode did not
report an empty origtext.
New constructor option: 'api_version'
1999-12-01 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_16
Support "event" in argspec. It expands to the name of the
handler (minus "default").
Fix core dump for large start tags. The tokens_grow() routine
needed an adjustment. Added test for this; t/largstags.t.
1999-11-30 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_15
Major restructuring/simplification of callback interface based on
initial work by Michael. The main news is that you now need to
tell what arguments you want to be provided to your callbacks.
The following parser options has been eliminated:
$p->decode_text_entities
$p->keep_case
$p->v2_compat
$p->pass_self
$p->attr_pos
1999-11-26 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_14
Documentation update by Michael A. Chase.
Fix for declaration parsing by Michael A. Chase.
Workaround for perl5.004_05 bug. Can't return &PL_sv_undef.
1999-11-22 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_13
New Parser.pm POD based on initial work by Michael A. Chase.
All new features should now be described.
$p->callback(start => undef) will not reset the callback.
$p->xml_mode() did not parse attributes correct because
HCTYPE_NOT_SPACE_EQ_SLASH_GT flag was never set.
A few more tests.
1999-11-18 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_12
Implemented $p->attr_pos attribute. This causes attr positions
within $origtext of the start tag to be reported instead of the
attribute values. The positions are reported as 4 numbers; end of
previous attr, start of this attr, start of attr value, and end of
attr. This should make substr() manipulations of $origtext easy.
Implemented $p->unbroken_text attribute. This makes sure that
text segments are never broken and given back as separate text
callbacks. It delays text callbacks until some other markup
has been recognized.
More English corrections by Michael A. Chase.
HTML::LinkExtor now recognizes even more URI attributes as
suggested by Sean M. Burke <sburke@netadventure.net>
Completed marked sections support. It is also now a compile
time decision if you want this supported or not. The only
drawback of enabling it should be a possible parsing speed
reduction. I have not measured this yet.
The keys for callbacks initialized in the constructor are now
suffixed with "_cb".
Renamed $p->pass_cbdata to $p->pass_self.
Added magic number to the p_state struct.
1999-11-17 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_11
Don't leak $@ modifications from HTML::Parser constructor.
Included HTML::Parser POD.
Marked sections almost work. CDATA and RCDATA should work.
For tags that take us into literal_mode; <script>, <style>,
<xmp>, we did not recognize the end tag unless it was written
in all lower case.
1999-11-16 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_10
The mkhctype and mkpfunc scripts were using \z inside RE. This
did not work for perl5.004. Replaced them with plain old
dollar signs.
1999-11-15 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_09
Grammar fixes by Michael A. Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com>
Some more test suite patches for Win32 by Michael A. Chase
<mchase@ix.netcom.com>
Implemented $p->strict_names attribute. By default we now
allow almost anything in tag and attribute names. This is much
closer to the behaviour of some popular browsers. This allows us
to parse broken tags like this example from the LWP mailing list:
<IMG ALIGN=MIDDLE SRC=newprevlstGr.gif ALT=[PREV LIST] BORDER=0>
Introduced some tables in "hctype.h" and "pfunc.h". These
are built by the corresponding "mk..." script.
1999-11-10 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_08
Make Parser.xs compile on perl5.004_05 too.
New callback called 'default'. This will be called for any
document text no other callback shows an interest in.
Patch by Michael A. Chase <mchase@ix.netcom.com> that should
help clean up files for the test suite on Win32.
Can now set up various attributes with key/value pairs passed to
the constructor.
$p->parse_file() will open the file in binmode()
Pass complete processing instruction tag as second argument
to process callback.
New boolean attribute v2_compat. This influences how attributes
are reported for start tags.
HTML::Filter now filters process instructions too.
Faster HTML::LinkExtor by taking advantage of the new
callback interface. The module now also uses URI.pm (instead
of the old URI::URL) to do URI-absolutations.
Faster HTML::TokeParser by taking advantage of new
accum interface.
1999-11-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_07
Entities in attribute values are now always expanded.
If you set the $p->decode_text_entities to a true value, then
you don't have to decode the text yourself.
In xml_mode we don't report empty element tags as a start tag
with an extra parameter any more. Instead we generate an artificial
end tag.
'xml_mode' now implies 'keep_case'.
The parser now keeps its own copy of the bool_attr_value value.
Avoid memory leak for text callbacks
Avoid using ERROR as a goto label.
Introduced common internal accessor function for all boolean parser
attributes.
Tweaks to make Parser.xs compile under perl5.004.
1999-11-08 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_06
Internal fast decode_entities(). By using it we are able to make
the HTML::Entities::decode function 6 times faster than the old one
implemented in pure Perl.
$p->bool_attr_value() can be set to influence the value that
boolean attributes will be assigned. The default is to assign
a value identical to the attribute name.
Process instructions are reported as "PI" in @accum
$p->xml_mode(1) modifies how processing instructions are terminated
and allows "/>" at the end of start tags.
Turn off optimizations when compiling with gcc on Solaris. Avoids
what we believe to be a compiler bug. Should probably figure out
which versions of gcc have this bug.
1999-11-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_05
The previous release did not even compile. I forgot to try 'make test'
before uploading.
1999-11-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_04
Generalized <XMP>-support to cover all literal parsing. Currently
activated for <script>, <style>, <xmp> and <plaintext>.
1999-11-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_03
<XMP>-support.
Allow ":" in tag and attribute names
Include rest of the HTML::* files from the old HTML::Parser
package. This should make testing easier.
1999-11-04 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_02
Implemented keep_case() option. If this attribute is true, then
we don't lowercase tag and attribute names.
Implemented accum() that takes an array reference. Tokens are
pushed onto this array instead of sent to callbacks.
Implemented strict_comment().
1999-11-03 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.99_01
Baseline of XS implementation
1999-11-05 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.25
Allow ":" in attribute names as a workaround for Microsoft Excel
2000 which generates such files.
Make deprecate warning if netscape_buggy_comment() method is
used. The method is used in strict_comment().
Avoid duplication of parse_file() method in HTML::HeadParser.
1999-10-29 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.24
$p->parse_file() will not close a handle passed to it any more.
If passed a filename that can't be opened it will return undef
instead of raising an exception, and strings like "*STDIN" are not
treated as globs any more.
HTML::LinkExtor knowns about background attribute of <tables>.
Patch by Clinton Wong <clintdw@netcom.com>
HTML::TokeParser will parse large inline strings much faster now.
The string holding the document must not be changed during parsing.
1999-06-09 Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Release 2.23
Documentation updates.
1998-12-18 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.22
Protect HTML::HeadParser from evil $SIG{__DIE__} hooks.
1998-11-13 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.21
HTML::TokeParser can now parse strings directly and does the
right thing if you pass it a GLOB. Based on patch by
Sami Itkonen <si@iki.fi>.
HTML::Parser now allows space before and after "--" in Netscape
comments. Patch by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.au.dk>.
1998-07-08 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.20
Added HTML::TokeParser. Check it out!
1998-07-07 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.19
Don't end a text chunk with space when we try to avoid breaking up
words.
1998-06-22 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.18
HTML::HeadParser->parse_file will now stop parsing when the
<body> starts as it should.
HTML::LinkExtor more easily subclassable by introducing the
$self->_found_link method.
1998-04-28 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.17
Never split words (a sequence of non-space) between two invocations
of $self->text. This is just a simplification of the code that tried
not to break entities.
HTML::Parser->parse_file now use smaller chunks as already
suggested by the HTML::Parser documentation.
1998-04-02 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.16
The HTML::Parser could some times break hex entites (like )
in the middle.
Removed remaining forced dependencies on libwww-perl modules. It
means that all tests should now pass, even if libwww-perl was not
installed previously.
More tests.
1998-04-01 Gisle Aas <aas@sn.no>
Release 2.14, HTML::* modules unbundled from libwww-perl-5.22.