Revision history for Parse-MediaWikiDump
0.33 Jun 18, 2006
* Added current_byte and size methods to page dumper.
0.32 Feb 25, 2006
* Added a line to create a package named Parse::MediaWikiDump so
the module will get listed on CPAN search and the cpan command
line tool.
0.31 Jan 10, 2006
* Fix bug 16981 - Parse::MediaWikiDump::page->redirect does not work
with redirects that have a : in them.
* Fix bug 16981 part two: title with a non-breaking space in it would
come through as undefined.
0.30 December 23, 2005
* the Pages and Links class now both use a method named next() to get
the next record. The old link() and page() methods are retained for
now but should be migrated away from as soon as is convenient.
* Added list of dump files that this module can process to the README
file.
0.24 December 19, 2005
* Fixed bug #16616 - the category method only works properly on English
language dump files.
0.23 December 19, 2005
* Fixed email address for author.
* Fixed omission of namespace method for pages objects in the
documentation.
* Added limitations section to README.
* Fixed http://rt.cpan.org bug #16583 - Module dies when parsing
the 20051211 German Wikipedia dump.
* Added some comments to the source code.
0.22 September 15, 2005
* Created some new and more comprehensive examples.
* Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages now dies with a specific error
if it is asked to parse a comprehensive (full pages) dump file.
* Updated Parse::MediaWikiDump::Links to new dump file format.
* Added tests for Parse::MediaWikiDump::Links.
* Solved a bug: Expat's current_byte method returns a 32 bit
signed integer and the english Wikipedia dumps cause the number to
wrap; implemented a work around for this.
0.21 September 10, 2005
* Improve testing of Parse::MediaWikiDump::Pages
* Fix silly bug related to opening file handle references
* Found new bug: The links dump format has been changed and the
existing code can not parse the new format
* Found new bug: comprehensive dump files like
20050909_pages_full.xml.gz cause the stack to grow too large and
the module to abort early.
0.2 September 9, 2005
* Add tests and test data
0.1 September 6, 2005
* First version, released on an unsuspecting world.