CHANGELOG - The Hpricot Reference

# 0.8.6¶ ↑

### 17 January 2012¶ ↑

- Allow any tags to contain unknown tags (Steven Parkes)

# 0.8.5¶ ↑

### 29 November 2011¶ ↑

- Remove escaped quote (') from matching (#55)

- Fix 'undefined method downcase for nil:NilClass' on JRuby (#58)

- Unescape hex numeric character references

# 0.8.4¶ ↑

### 28 February, 2011¶ ↑

- GH #21, #32, #33, #36: Fix for reported segfaults

# 0.8.3¶ ↑

### 3 November, 2010¶ ↑

- GH#8: Nil-check before downcasing attribute key

- GH#25: Proper ruby 1.9 encoding support

- GH#28. Use integers instead of ?? on 1.9, which is just a string.

- including noscript to ElementInclusions , so that hpricot wont fail when trying to parse a meta tag inside head section when noscript is present.

- latest changes from fast_xs mainline

- Fixes to get Hpricot running on Rubinius:

  - Use free, not XFREE

  - Remove RSTRUCT craziness, don't break Array#at

# 0.8.2¶ ↑

### 5 November, 2009¶ ↑

- Bring JRuby support up to speed, including Java-based hpricot_css support

- Change JRuby fast_xs to have same escaping behavior as C fast_xs

- fix for issue #2, downcasing of html attributes inside the parser.

- solve issue #3 with bogus etags being preserved in `to_s` rather than just `to_original_html`.

- fix error when attempting to reparent cleared node. (issue #5)

- Hpricot::Attributes proxy object for using `ele.attributes = v` directly. however, it is preferred to use the jquery-like `elements.attr(k, v)`.

# 0.8.1¶ ↑

### 3 April, 2009¶ ↑

- big problems on Ruby 1.8.6, use INT2FIX instead of INT2NUM. hashes were being cast to bignums.

- patch for 1.8.5 to define RARRAY_PTR. thanks, mike perham!

- inspecting empty document bug, courtesy of @TalLevAmi.

# 0.8¶ ↑

### 31st March, 2009¶ ↑

- Saving memory and speed by using RStruct-based elements in the C extension.

- Bug in tag parsing, causing runaway <script> and <style> tags in HTML.

- Problem compiling under Ruby 1.9, due to our_rb_hash_lookup function meant for Ruby 1.8.

- CData was missing inner_text method.

# 0.7¶ ↑

### 17th March, 2009¶ ↑

- Rewritten parser routine, much lighter on memory, quite a bit faster.

- Friendlier with Ruby 1.9.

- Fixes to nth-child and text() selectors.

# 0.6¶ ↑

### 15th June, 2007¶ ↑

- Hpricot for JRuby – nice work Ola Bini!

- Inline Markaby for Hpricot documents.

- XML tags and attributes are no longer downcased like HTML is.

- new syntax for grabbing everything between two elements using a Range in the search method: (doc/(“font”..“font/br”)) or in nodes_at like so: (doc/“font”).nodes_at(“*”..“br”). Only works with either a pair of siblings or a set of a parent and a sibling.

- Ignore self-closing endings on tags (such as form) which are containers. Treat them like open parent tags. Reported by Jonathan Nichols on the hpricot list.

- Escaping of attributes, yanked from Jim Weirich and Sam Ruby's work in Builder.

- Element#raw_attributes gives unescaped data. Element#attributes gives escaped.

- Added: Elements#attr, Elements#remove_attr, Elements#remove_class.

- Added: Traverse#preceding, Traverse#following, Traverse#previous, Traverse#next.

# 0.5¶ ↑

### 31rd January, 2007¶ ↑

- support for a[text()=“Click Me!”] and h3 and the like.

- Hpricot.buffer_size accessor for increasing Hpricot's buffer if you're encountering huge ASP.NET viewstate attribs.

- some support for colons in tag names (not full namespace support yet.)

- Element.to_original_html will attempt to preserve the original HTML while merging your changes.

- Element.to_plain_text converts an element's contents to a simple text format.

- Element.inner_text removes all tags and returns text nodes concatenated into a single string.

- no @raw_string variable kept for comments, text, and cdata – as it's redundant.

- xpath-style indices (//p/a) but keep in mind that they aren't zero-based.

- node_position is the index among all sibling nodes, while position is the position among children of identical type.

- comment() and text() search criteria, like: //p/text(), which selects all text inside paragraph tags.

- every element has css_path and xpath methods which return respective absolute paths.

- more flexibility all around: in parsing attributes, tags, comments and cdata.

# 0.4¶ ↑

### 11th August, 2006¶ ↑

- The :fixup_tags option will try to sort out the hierarchy so elements end up with the right parents.

- Elements such as script and style (identified as having CDATA contents) receive a single text node as their children now. Previously, Hpricot was parsing out tags found in scripts.

- Better scanning of partially quoted attributes (found by Brent Beardsly on uswebgen.com/)

- Better scanning of unquoted attributes – thanks to Aaron Patterson for the test cases!

- Some tags were being output in the empty tag style, although browsers hated that. FIXED!

- Added Elements#at for finding single elements.

- Added Elem::Trav#[] and Elem::Trav#[]= for reading and writing attributes.

# 0.3¶ ↑

### 7th July, 2006¶ ↑

- Fixed negative string size error on empty tokens. (news.bbc.co.uk)

- Allow the parser to accept just text nodes. (such as: `Hpricot.parse('TEXT')`)

- from JQuery to Hpricot::Elements: remove, empty, append, prepend, before, after, wrap, set, html(…), to_html, to_s.

- on containers: to_html, replace_child, insert_before, insert_after, innerHTML=.

- Hpricot(…) is an alias for parse.

- open up all properties to setters, let people do as they may.

- use to_html for the full html of a node or set of elements.

- doctypes were messed.

# 0.2¶ ↑

### 4th July, 2006¶ ↑

- Rewrote the HTree parser to be simpler, more adequate for the common man. Will add encoding back in later.

# 0.1¶ ↑

### 3rd July, 2006¶ ↑

- For whatever reason, wrote this HTML parser in C. I guess Ragel is addictive and I want to improve HTree.