Ann: rexml 2.5.8

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Greetings!

REXML 2.5.8 is out, and includes mostly bug fixes, although there are
some behavior changes and two minor (probably seldom used) API
changes. 2.4.8 will follow, probably on 4/22 or 4/23, and includes
most of the bug fixes.

Here’s the URL:

http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml

and here’s the obligatory blurb:

REXML is an XML 1.0 compliant, reasonably fast, non-validating XML
parser that supports multiple encodings. It has an API that is
designed to be intuitive, straightforward, and terse. REXML includes a
tree model parser, a SAX2 streaming parser, and a pull parser. It
also includes a full XPath implementation. All of REXML’s parsers
pass 100% of the Oasis XML non-validating tests.

Changelog (since 2.5.7):

  • Forward-ported some unit tests from the 2.4 branch.
  • Made write() send to $stdout by default; this means that the first
    argument is no longer required.
  • Some documentation fixes
  • When a child was added to a parent, the parent wasn’t making sure
    that the child was removed from any previous parent. This has been
    fixed.
  • Applied patch that escapes “-” in character ranges in regular
    expressions to keep Ruby 1.8 from complaining (Tom Payne)
  • Applied patch that allows entities to contain upper case characters
    (Shin-ichi Hirata)
  • Fixed a bug in moving child nodes between parents
  • Fixed an XPath bug in predicate evaluation
  • Applied a patch that fixes != equality checks in XPath (Kou)
  • Fixed Function::string() behavior, so elements evaluate to the
    correct string value in XPaths.
  • Fixed text() evaluation in XPath predicates
  • Added more () to method calls, which Ruby 1.8 seems to prefer
  • Fixed a recently introduced bug in Comment that caused
    Comment::write to fail.
  • WARNING: API CHANGE ##### Attlist events have been improved;

this affects StreamListeners, so check attlistdecl()

  • WARNING: API CHANGE ##### @element in AttlistDecl is now

@element_name

  • Many READMEs were really file lists, and have been renamed to FILES
  • There’s a nacent INSTALL in the root directory now, on user request.