# \[ANN\] nokogiri 1.4.1 Released **URL:** \ **Category:** ruby-talk\ **Created:** [11 December 2009 05:32 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585 "2009-12-11T05:32:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aaron\_Patterson1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aaron\_Patterson1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Aaron_Patterson1)\ **Post date:** [11 December 2009 05:32 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/1 "2009-12-11T05:32:27Z")
Hey everyone! Have you finished your holiday shopping yet? I know I haven't. Fortunately for you guys, Mike and I like programming a lot more than shopping. I mean, don't get me wrong. I \*love\* shopping for myself, I just find shopping for other people to be, well, difficult. Anyway, let's get down to business: nokogiri version 1.4.1 has been released! \* \<[http://nokogiri.org](http://nokogiri.org)\> \* \<[http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis)\> \* \<[http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master)\> \* \<[http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk](http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk)\> \* \<[http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues)\> Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser. Among Nokogiri's many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors. XML is like violence - if it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it. Changes: ### 1.4.1 / 2009/12/10 \* New Features   \* Added Nokogiri::LIBXML\_ICONV\_ENABLED   \* Alias Node#[] to Node#attr   \* XML::Node#next\_element added   \* XML::Node#\> added for searching a nodes immediate children   \* XML::NodeSet#reverse added   \* Added fragment support to Node#add\_child, Node#add\_next\_sibling,     Node#add\_previous\_sibling, and Node#replace.   \* XML::Node#previous\_element implemented   \* Rubinius support   \* Ths CSS selector engine now supports :has()   \* XML::NodeSet#filter() was added   \* XML::Node.next= and .previous= are aliases for add\_next\_sibling and     add\_previous\_sibling. GH #183 \* Bugfixes   \* XML fragments with namespaces do not raise an exception     (regression in 1.4.0)   \* Node#matches? works in nodes contained by a DocumentFragment. GH #158   \* Document should not define add\_namespace() method. GH #169   \* XPath queries returning namespace declarations do not segfault.   \* Node#replace works with nodes from different documents. GH #162   \* Adding XML::Document#collect\_namespaces   \* Fixed bugs in the SOAP4R adapter   \* Fixed bug in XML::Node#next\_element for certain edge cases   \* Fixed load path issue with JRuby under Windows. GH #160.   \* XSLT#apply\_to will honor the "output method". Thanks richardlehane!   \* Fragments containing leading text nodes with newlines now parse properly.     GH #178. ## FEATURES: \* XPath support for document searching \* CSS3 selector support for document searching \* XML/HTML builder Nokogiri parses and searches XML/HTML very quickly, and also has correctly implemented CSS3 selector support as well as XPath support. Here is a speed test:   \* [http://gist.github.com/24605](http://gist.github.com/24605) ## SUPPORT: The Nokogiri {mailing list}[[http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk](http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk)] is available here:   \* [http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk](http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk) The {bug tracker}[[http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues)] is available here:   \* [http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues](http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues) The IRC channel is #nokogiri on freenode. ## SYNOPSIS:   require 'nokogiri'   require 'open-uri'      # Get a Nokogiri::HTML:Document for the page we’re interested in...   doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('[http://www.google.com/search?q=tenderlove](http://www.google.com/search?q=tenderlove)'))      # Do funky things with it using Nokogiri::XML::Node methods... > **···** > > #### >   # Search for nodes by css >   doc.css('h3.r a.l').each do |link| >     puts link.content >   end >    >   #### >   # Search for nodes by xpath >   doc.xpath('//h3/a[@class="l"]').each do |link| >     puts link.content >   end >    >   #### >   # Or mix and match. >   doc.search('h3.r a.l', '//h3/a[@class="l"]').each do |link| >     puts link.content >   end > > ## REQUIREMENTS: > > \* ruby 1.8 or 1.9 > \* libxml2 > \* libxml2-dev > \* libxslt > \* libxslt-dev > > ## INSTALL: > > \* sudo gem install nokogiri > > -- > Aaron Patterson > [http://tenderlovemaking.com/](http://tenderlovemaking.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Bapabooiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bapabooiee](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bapabooiee)\ **Post date:** [11 December 2009 19:55 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/2 "2009-12-11T19:55:05Z")
Good to hear mate -- and I have to admit, Nokogiri is quite possibly the most elegant XML/HTML parser I've ever used. Just letting you know your work is thoroughly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Henty1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Henty1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Henty1)\ **Post date:** [11 December 2009 21:25 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/3 "2009-12-11T21:25:05Z")
+1 I recently needed to script up a web scraper and Nokogiri was the hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank you for an excellent piece of work. Regards, Jeremy Henty > **···** > > On 2009-12-11, Bapabooiee \ wrote: > > > Good to hear mate -- and I have to admit, Nokogiri is quite possibly > > the most elegant XML/HTML parser I've ever used. > > > > Just letting you know your work is thoroughly appreciated. ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Davis1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/rubytalk.org/ryan_davis1/32/1848_2.png) [@Ryan\_Davis1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ryan_Davis1)\ **Post date:** [11 December 2009 22:11 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/4 "2009-12-11T22:11:55Z")
next time I'd suggest using mechanize. > **···** > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 13:25 , Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > On 2009-12-11, Bapabooiee \ wrote: > > > > > Good to hear mate -- and I have to admit, Nokogiri is quite possibly > > > the most elegant XML/HTML parser I've ever used. > > > > > > Just letting you know your work is thoroughly appreciated. > > > > +1 > > > > I recently needed to script up a web scraper and Nokogiri was the > > hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank > > you for an excellent piece of work. ---
**Author:** ![Aaron\_Patterson1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aaron\_Patterson1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Aaron_Patterson1)\ **Post date:** [12 December 2009 18:33 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/5 "2009-12-12T18:33:42Z")
Thanks guys! It's good to hear nice things once in a while. 😃 Thanks for using nokogiri, and if you run in to bugs, make sure to report them! > **···** > > On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 06:25:05AM +0900, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > On 2009-12-11, Bapabooiee \ wrote: > > \> Good to hear mate -- and I have to admit, Nokogiri is quite possibly > > \> the most elegant XML/HTML parser I've ever used. > > \> > > \> Just letting you know your work is thoroughly appreciated. > > > > +1 > > > > I recently needed to script up a web scraper and Nokogiri was the > > hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank > > you for an excellent piece of work. > > -- > Aaron Patterson > [http://tenderlovemaking.com/](http://tenderlovemaking.com/) ---
**Author:** ![Jeremy\_Henty1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ebca7d/32.png) [@Jeremy\_Henty1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Jeremy_Henty1)\ **Post date:** [12 December 2009 11:30 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/6 "2009-12-12T11:30:06Z")
I'll keep it in mind, thanks. \*sigh\*, so many toys, so little time! 🙂 Jeremy Henty > **···** > > On 2009-12-11, Ryan Davis \ wrote: > > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 13:25 , Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > > I recently needed to script up a web scraper and Nokogiri was the > > > hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank > > > you for an excellent piece of work. > > > > next time I'd suggest using mechanize. ---
**Author:** ![Bapabooiee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@Bapabooiee](https://rubytalk.org/u/Bapabooiee)\ **Post date:** [14 December 2009 22:00 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/7 "2009-12-14T22:00:09Z")
You would actually probably want to use a combination of both, depending on what you're doing. You could use Mechanize for crawling & scraping the site, and then you use Nokogiri to pry the information you want out of the markup. > **···** > > On Dec 12, 4:26 am, Jeremy Henty \ wrote: > > > On 2009-12-11, Ryan Davis \ wrote: > > > > \> On Dec 11, 2009, at 13:25 , Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > \>\> I recently needed to script up a web scraper andNokogiri was the > > \>\> hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank > > \>\> you for an excellent piece of work. > > > > \> next time I'd suggest using mechanize. > > > > I'll keep it in mind, thanks. \*sigh\*, so many toys, so little time! 🙂 > > > > Jeremy Henty ---
**Author:** ![Ryan\_Davis1](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/rubytalk.org/ryan_davis1/32/1848_2.png) [@Ryan\_Davis1](https://rubytalk.org/u/Ryan_Davis1)\ **Post date:** [14 December 2009 22:37 UTC](https://rubytalk.org/t/ann-nokogiri-1-4-1-released/56585/8 "2009-12-14T22:37:08Z")
mechanize already uses nokogiri. > **···** > > On Dec 14, 2009, at 14:00 , Bapabooiee wrote: > > > On Dec 12, 4:26 am, Jeremy Henty \ wrote: > > > > > On 2009-12-11, Ryan Davis \ wrote: > > > > > > > On Dec 11, 2009, at 13:25 , Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > > > > > I recently needed to script up a web scraper andNokogiri was the > > > > > hammer that hit the nail of the problem squarely on the head. Thank > > > > > you for an excellent piece of work. > > > > > > > next time I'd suggest using mechanize. > > > > > > I'll keep it in mind, thanks. \*sigh\*, so many toys, so little time! 🙂 > > > > > > Jeremy Henty > > > > You would actually probably want to use a combination of both, > > depending on what you're doing. You could use Mechanize for crawling & > > scraping the site, and then you use Nokogiri to pry the information > > you want out of the markup.