Changes for version 1.77 - 2011-07-01

  • Change the signature of XML::LibXML::Reader::byteConsumed to be "long" instead of "int", so it can return values above 2**31 in 64-bit platforms.
    • should fix https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57085
  • Change "a XML::LibXML::*" to "an XML::LibXML::*" in the documentation.
  • Document XML::LibXML::NamedNodeMap :
    • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57652 .
  • Add an external entity resolver (for XSLT/etc.):
    • Fixing https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=69166 .
    • Thanks to SAMSK for the patch.
  • Add the missing string comparison overload in lib/XML/LibXML/NodeList.pm :
    • https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=57737
    • Thanks to MSCHWERN .
  • Fix https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58024 :
    • <<< In XML::LibXML, warnings are not suppressed when specifying the recover() or recover_silently() flags as per the following excerpt from the manpage: >>>
    • Now XML-LibXML requires perl-5.8.x (to print to a buffer trick.).
    • Thanks to Michael Ludwig for the report.
  • Fix https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=56671 :
    • limit the length of the chain of the previous errors.
    • New files:
      • t/60error_prev_chain.t
      • example/JBR-ALLENtrees.htm
    • Thanks to SCOP.
  • Fix https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=58848 :
    • "Malformed UTF-8 character (fatal) at" exception thrown on invalid UTF-8.
    • Thanks to David E. Wheeler (DWHEELER) for the report.

Documentation

XML::LibXML Attribute Class
XML::LibXML Class for CDATA Sections
XML::LibXML Comment Class
XML::LibXML DOM Implementation
XML::LibXML DOM Document Class
XML::LibXML's DOM L2 Document Fragment Implementation
XML::LibXML DTD Handling
XML::LibXML Class for Element Nodes
XML::LibXML Class for Input Callbacks
XML::LibXML Namespace Implementation
Abstract Base Class of XML::LibXML Nodes
XML::LibXML Processing Instructions
Parsing XML Data with XML::LibXML
XML::LibXML::Pattern - interface to libxml2 XPath patterns
XML::LibXML::RegExp - interface to libxml2 regular expressions
RelaxNG Schema Validation
XML Schema Validation
XML::LibXML Class for Text Nodes
XML::LibXML::XPathExpression - interface to libxml2 pre-compiled XPath expressions
semi-automatically and partially convert Test.pm scripts to Test::More.

Modules

Perl Binding for libxml2
Boolean true/false values
Constants and Character Encoding Routines
Structured Errors This module is based on xmlerror.h libxml2 C header file. It defines symbolic constants for all libxml2 error codes. Currently libxml2 uses over 480 different error codes. See also XML::LibXML::Error.
Structured Errors
Simple string values.
a list of XML document nodes
Simple numeric values.
XML::LibXML::Reader - interface to libxml2 pull parser
XML::LibXML direct SAX parser
Building DOM trees from SAX events.
Generate SAX events from a LibXML tree
XPath Evaluation

Provides

in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm
in lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Generator.pm
in lib/XML/LibXML/SAX/Parser.pm
in LibXML.pm
in LibXML.pm