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3.2.6 - 2023-07-27 {#version-3-2-6}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Required Ruby 2.5 or later explicitly. GH-69 [Patch by Ivo Anjo]

• Added documentation for maintenance cycle. GH-71 [Patch by Ivo Anjo]

• Added tutorial. GH-77 [GH-78] [Patch by Burdette Lamar]

• Improved performance and memory usage. GH-94 [Patch by fatkodima]

• REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for function arguments. GH-95 [Reported by pulver]

• REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for string literal that contains double-quote. GH-96 [Patch by pulver]

• REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added missing / to :descendant_or_self/:self/:parent. GH-97 [Reported by pulver]

• REXML::Parsers::XPathParser#abbreviate: Added support for more patterns. GH-97 [Reported by pulver]

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a typo in NEWS. GH-72 [Patch by Spencer Goodman]

• Fixed a typo in NEWS. GH-75 [Patch by Andrew Bromwich]

• Fixed documents. GH-87 [Patch by Alexander Ilyin]

• Fixed a bug that Attriute convert ' and ' even when attribute_quote: :quote is used. GH-92 [Reported by Edouard Brière]

• Fixed links in tutorial. GH-99 [Patch by gemmaro]

Thanks¶ ↑

• Ivo Anjo

• Spencer Goodman

• Andrew Bromwich

• Burdette Lamar

• Alexander Ilyin

• Edouard Brière

• fatkodima

• pulver

• gemmaro

3.2.5 - 2021-04-05 {#version-3-2-5}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Add more validations to XPath parser.

• require "rexml/document" by default. [GitHub#36][Patch by Koichi ITO]

• Don't add #dclone method to core classes globally. [GitHub#37][Patch by Akira Matsuda]

• Add more documentations. [Patch by Burdette Lamar]

• Added REXML::Elements#parent. [GitHub#52][Patch by Burdette Lamar]

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug that REXML::DocType#clone doesn't copy external ID information.

• Fixed round-trip vulnerability bugs. See also: www.ruby-lang.org/en/news/2021/04/05/xml-round-trip-vulnerability-in-rexml-cve-2021-28965/ [HackerOne#1104077][Reported by Juho Nurminen]

Thanks¶ ↑

• Koichi ITO

• Akira Matsuda

• Burdette Lamar

• Juho Nurminen

3.2.4 - 2020-01-31 {#version-3-2-4}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Don't use taint with Ruby 2.7 or later. [GitHub#21][Patch by Jeremy Evans]

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a elsif typo. [GitHub#22][Patch by Nobuyoshi Nakada]

Thanks¶ ↑

• Jeremy Evans

• Nobuyoshi Nakada

3.2.3 - 2019-10-12 {#version-3-2-3}¶ ↑

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug that REXML::XMLDecl#close doesn't copy @writethis. [GitHub#20][Patch by hirura]

Thanks¶ ↑

• hirura

3.2.2 - 2019-06-03 {#version-3-2-2}¶ ↑

Fixes¶ ↑

• xpath: Fixed a bug for equality and relational expressions. [GitHub#17][Reported by Mirko Budszuhn]

• xpath: Fixed boolean() implementation.

• xpath: Fixed local_name() with nonexistent node.

• xpath: Fixed number() implementation with node set. [GitHub#18][Reported by Mirko Budszuhn]

Thanks¶ ↑

• Mirko Budszuhn

3.2.1 - 2019-05-04 {#version-3-2-1}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Improved error message. [GitHub#12][Patch by FUJI Goro]

• Improved error message. [GitHub#16][Patch by ujihisa]

• Improved documentation markup. [GitHub#14][Patch by Alyssa Ross]

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug that nil variable value raises an unexpected exception. [GitHub#13][Patch by Alyssa Ross]

Thanks¶ ↑

• FUJI Goro

• Alyssa Ross

• ujihisa

3.2.0 - 2019-01-01 {#version-3-2-0}¶ ↑

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug that no namespace attribute isn't matched with prefix.

  [ruby-list:50731][Reported by Yasuhiro KIMURA]

• Fixed a bug that the default namespace is applied to attribute names.

  NOTE: It's a backward incompatible change. If your program has any problem with this change, please report it. We may revert this fix.

  • REXML::Attribute#prefix returns "" for no namespace attribute.

  • REXML::Attribute#namespace returns "" for no namespace attribute.

Thanks¶ ↑

• Yasuhiro KIMURA

3.1.9 - 2018-12-20 {#version-3-1-9}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Improved backward compatibility.

  Restored REXML::Parsers::BaseParser::UNQME_STR because it's used by kramdown.

3.1.8 - 2018-12-20 {#version-3-1-8}¶ ↑

Improvements¶ ↑

• Added support for customizing quote character in prologue. [GitHub#8][Bug #9367][Reported by Takashi Oguma]

  • You can use " as quote character by specifying :quote to REXML::Document#context[:prologue_quote].

  • You can use ' as quote character by specifying :apostrophe to REXML::Document#context[:prologue_quote].

• Added processing instruction target check. The target must not nil. [GitHub#7][Reported by Ariel Zelivansky]

• Added name check for element and attribute. [GitHub#7][Reported by Ariel Zelivansky]

• Stopped to use Exception. [GitHub#9][Patch by Jean Boussier]

Fixes¶ ↑

• Fixed a bug that REXML::Text#clone escapes value twice. [ruby-dev:50626][Bug #15058][Reported by Ryosuke Nanba]

Thanks¶ ↑

• Takashi Oguma

• Ariel Zelivansky

• Jean Boussier

• Ryosuke Nanba