JOSEPHW / XML-Writer-0.620 / Changes 
Revision history for Perl extension XML::Writer.

0.620 Sun Apr 14 22:20:33 2013 +1000    <joe@kafsemo.org>
        - Allow OUTPUT => 'self' (#81327).

0.615 Tue Jan 17 01:32:07 2012 +1100    <joe@kafsemo.org>
        - Fix test skipping when Unicode is unsupported.

0.614 Mon Jan  9 00:24:10 2012 +1100    <joe@kafsemo.org>
        - Fix regression in 0.613 and set encoding on GLOBs.

0.613 Sat Jan  7 22:51:26 2012 +1100    <joe@kafsemo.org>
        - Use 'Object->new()' syntax throughout (#65840).
        - Support passing in any arbitrary object that has a print()
           method (from Jason Rodrigues).

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