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<title>dom4j changes</title>
<author email="maartenc@users.sourceforge.net">Maarten Coene</author>
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<release version="1.6.1" date="2005-05-16">
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Wolfgang Baer">
Updated the XPP2 implementation to version 2.1.10.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Thomas Fromm">
Fixed a problem with <code>XMLWriter</code> that was causing too many
new lines to be written to the resulting XML.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Gili Tzabari">
Include more information about the cause if an <code>XPathException</code>
or <code>InvalidXPathException</code> is thrown.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.6" date="2005-04-15">
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Filip Jirsak">
Added a methods to <code>SAXReader</code> allowing to specify the encoding
used when reading XML sources.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Changed the <code>DocumentHelper.parseText(String)</code> method to make sure
that the XML encoding is always set (if known) on the returned <code>Document</code>,
even if the used SAXParser doesn't provide a way to retrieve that encoding.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add">
Added a <code>setXMLEncoding(String)</code> method to the <code>Document</code>
interface.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="John Plaxton">
Removed a static <code>OutputFormat</code> field from <code>AbstractBranch</code>.
This can cause problems if multiple threads are using the <code>asXML()</code>
method simultaniously.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Brett Porter">
Fixed a whitespace problem with the pretty-print <code>OutputFormat</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Peter Schaefer">
Fixed a bug in the <code>DefaultElement.setContent(List)</code> method that
caused incorrectly resetting the parent of the nodes in the list.
</action>
<action dev="wolfftw" type="remove">
Removed <code>persistence</code> package and sub-package.
</action>
<action dev="wolfftw" type="update">
Modified <code>SAXEventRecorder</code> to accomodate sax events generated when
writing a <code>DOMDocument</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Pieter Valcke">
Fixed a problem in <code>AbstractDocument.asXML()</code> when an encoding was
specified on the <code>Document</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
The <code>DefaultNamespace.isReadOnly()</code> method now returns <code>false</code>.
This fixes issues with cloning this <code>Node</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Brian Topping">
Updated <code>DocumentFactory</code> to create the instance untill the
first time it is needed.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Brett Porter">
Fixed a bug in <code>Stylesheet</code> when an xpath expressions was used
to select the nodes.
</action>
<action dev="ddlucas" type="add">
Added a <code>SingletonStrategy</code> class for managing singletons. This
allows to use different strategies for singletons, like: one instance per
VM, one instance per thread, ... This change removed the usage of
<code>ThreadLocal</code>s.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5.2" date="2004-11-15">
<action dev="maartenc" type="remove">
Removed the internal Aelfred2 parser due to incompatible license.
</action>
<action dev="wolfftw" type="add">
Added a <code>SAXEventRecorder</code> that can replay SAX events at a later
time. This provides an alternative serialization approach.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5.1" date="2004-10-29">
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Ara Vartanian">
Fixed problem where the namespace prefix was lost using <code>DOMDocument</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="David Karlsen">
Fixed bug in <code>Document.asXML()</code> which ignored the encoding
of the document.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Updated <code>NamespaceCache</code> to use <code>WeakReference</code>s
to allow <code>Namespace</code> objects to be garbage collected.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
Updated <code>JAXBReader</code> to allow ElementHandlers to be notified
when the specified path is encountered, without having to unmarshall
XML content.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Daniel Hopper">
Fixed a bug in <code>XMLWriter</code> where a <code>NullPointerException</code>
was thrown if trying to write a CData section containing <code>null</code>
content.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Modified the internal Aelfred2 parser to no longer support the
SAX2 Extensions 1.1 API. As a result, the SAX2 sources are no
included with dom4j.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Pelle Braendgaard">
Added support for the XPP3 parser.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5" date="2004-09-03">
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Dion Gillard">
Fixed bug in <code>XMLWriter.characters(...)</code> where the escapeText
property of the writer was ignored.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Peter Stibrany">
Fixed the <code>Stylesheet.removeRule(Rule)</code> method which didn't remove the
<code>Rule</code> but added it again.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Robert Koberg">
Fixed bug in <code>BackedList</code> causing new elements to always
be added at the first position if the size of the list is 1.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Upgraded the internal Aelfred2 parser to the latest version.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
Added initial JAXB support.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Christian Niles">
Updated the STAX classes to provide document encoding.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add">
Added <code>getXMLEncoding()</code> method to <code>org.dom4j.Document</code>
which returns the encoding of the document.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5-rc1" date="2004-07-04">
<action dev="maartenc" type="remove">
Removed the <code>DocumentHelper.parseText(String xml, String encoding)</code>
method that was introduced in dom4j-1.5-beta2.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Added the GNU JAXP DOM implementation to the default list of implementations in
<code>DOMWriter</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
Added method to <code>ElementStack</code> and <code>DispatchHandler</code> to check
if a handler is registered for a given path.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
<code>ElementStack</code> is now a public class.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
<code>SAXContentHandler.endElement(...)</code> can now throw <code>SAXException</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Aaron Bell">
Added the namespace-prefix of attributes to the paths returned by
<code>Attribute.getPath(Element context)</code> and
<code>Attribute.getUniquePath(Element context)</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Marc Pellmann">
<code>Element.declaredNamespaces()</code> now only returns the namespaces that are
declared on that element. <code>Element.additionalNamespaces()</code>
now only returns namespaces that are declared on that element and is not the same as the
namespace of that element.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Marc Pellmann">
Escape the values of internal DTD entity declarations when serializing to XML.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Rob Grzywinski">
Fixed bug in <code>AbstractElement</code> causing <code>Node.getPath(Element context)</code> to
return an absolute path, even if a the current element was the same as the context element. The
relative path "." is now returned.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Thomas Diesler">
Added method to <code>Element</code> to retrieve all <code>Namespaces</code> for a given URI.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Thomas Diesler">
Fixed bug in <code>DOMReader</code> causing namespace declarations to get lost in some situations.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Ben Scarlet">
Added a <code>booleanValueOf(Object node)</code> method to <code>XPath</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Wonne Keysers">
Fixed bug in <code>BeanElement</code> which prevented proper execution of the bean samples.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Christian Niles">
<code>STAXEventWriter</code> now uses <code>XMLEventConsumer</code> instead of <code>XMLEventWriter</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Paul Libbrecht">
Fixed bug in <code>SAXReader</code> that caused problems parsing files in OSX.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Paul Libbrecht">
Fixed bug in <code>XMLWriter</code> that caused whitespace to be added between successive
calls of the <code>characters(...)</code> method. This is used particularly frequent in Apache Jelly.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Brett Finnell">
Improved performance of <code>NamespaceCache</code> in multithreaded environments.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5-beta-2" date="2004-05-12">
<action dev="wolfftw" type="add">
Added flag to <code>OutputFormat</code> that supresses newline after XML declaration.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Upgraded dependencies to their latest version on ibiblio.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Todd Wolff">
Added method to <code>DocumentHelper</code> that allows user to specify encoding when parsing an xml <code>String</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
Fixed a ClassCastException bug in <code>BeanElement</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
Fixed a bug in <code>SAXContentHandler</code> which caused a <code>NullPointerException</code> in some situations.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Todd Wolff">
Fixed bug which prevented an element's namespace prefix from being registered for use in xpath expressions.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Todd Wolff">
Fixed bug in <code>XMLWriter</code> that caused duplication of the default namespace declaration.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Curt Arnold">
Added a bunch of patches to make the dom4j DOM classes more DOM compliant.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Ricardo Leon">
Fixed bug in <code>DispatchHandler</code> which made the handler not reusable.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Todd Wolff">
Fixed bug in <code>SAXContentHandler</code> that caused incorrect CDATA section parsing.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
Fixed bug in <code>SAXContentHandler</code> that caused incorrect entity handling.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Bo Gundersen">
Fixed bug in <code>XMLWriter</code> causing padding to be disabled, even if enabled in the specified outputformat.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="add" due-to="Christian Niles">
Added initial support for STaX streams.
</action>
</release>
<release version="1.5-beta-1" date="2004-03-25">
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
Fixed encoding bug in <code>Document.asXML()</code> and <code>DocumentHelper.parseText()</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Kohsuke Kawaguchi">
Fixed bug in <code>SAXReader</code> that caused problems resolving relative URIs when parsing <code>java.io.File</code> Objects.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
The iterators returned by the <code>Element.elementIterator(...)</code> methods now support <code>remove()</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Geert Dendoncker and Joury Gokel">
<code>DOMWriter</code> writes now DOM Level 2 attributes and elements.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Use latest implementation of the Aelfred parser.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Bryan Thompson">
Fixed some problems with internal/external DTD declarations.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Upgraded to Jaxen 1.1 beta 2.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Ignore attribute order when comparing elements in <code>NodeComparator</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Fixed bug in <code>XMLWriter</code> where namespace declarations were duplicated.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Vladimir Kralik">
Fixed bug in parsing a <code>ProcessingInstruction</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Mark Diggory">
Added support for <code>Stylesheet</code> modes.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update" due-to="Christian Niles">
Don't escape " and ' characters in attribute values if it's not necessary.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Henner Kollmann">
Fixed some <code>DOMNodeHelper</code> issues.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Thomas Draier">
Fixed some datatype issues.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix">
Fixed an bug where the EntityResolver was not set on the XMLReader.
</action>
<action dev="slehmann" type="fix">
Fixed multithreaded access on <code>DefaultElement</code>.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Geoffrey Vlassaks">
Fixed problem parsing XML Files.
</action>
<action dev="ddlucas" type="update">
Added xml:space attribute support based on XML Specification 1.0.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="update">
Maven build of dom4j is now nearly complete. Maven is now used for the website generation.
</action>
<action dev="maartenc" type="fix" due-to="Alessandro Vernet">
Fixed some bugs in BackedList.
</action>
</release>
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