Revision history for Perl extension XML::Writer. 0.545 Mon May 16 08:11:17 BST 2005 - Format comments like elements when in data mode. - Only attempt Unicode tests for Perl >= 5.8.1. 0.540 Tue May 10 18:18:58 BST 2005 - Don't die when ENCODING is specified with a scalar OUTPUT. - Add support for US-ASCII encoding. 0.531 Mon Mar 14 22:11:33 GMT 2005 - Rename internal String package to avoid clash with external modules. - Fix Unicode test skipping for Perls before 5.8. 0.530 Tue Feb 1 13:09:31 GMT 2005 - Allow scalar references for the OUTPUT parameter, inspired by Simon Oliver's XML::Writer::String (patch from Yanick Champoux) - Added ENCODING parameter; currently only UTF-8 is supported - Escape newlines in attribute values 0.520 Wed Sep 1 16:18:46 BST 2004 - Fixed bug with forced declaration of the default namespace (#7266) - Removed dead code. Added copyright notices to pod. - Improved test coverage 0.510 Tue May 25 19:46:04 BST 2004 - Permitted in-document namespace prefix control - Don't reopen STDOUT for output (closes #6232) - Moved tests into t/. Added tests for mid-document namespace changes. Show diffs when comparison tests fail 0.500 Sat Mar 6 22:45:54 GMT 2004 - Prepared metadata for a consistent, CPAN-friendly 0.500 release - Added a META.yml to prevent XML::Writer::Namespaces from being indexed - Writer.pm: Removed a duplicate check for valid attribute names - test.pl: Added more tests for full coverage of the cdata method 0.4.6 Tue Mar 2 16:54:04 GMT 2004 - test.pl: Revert to using a temporary file, rather than an IO::String, for compatibility with older Perls 0.4.5 Mon Mar 1 14:46:47 GMT 2004 - added FORCED_NS_DECLS parameter, to declare namespaces ahead of use - fixed check for duplicate attributes - correctly take the default namespace from the supplied prefix map - no longer produce namespace declarations for the 'xml:' prefix - allow xml-stylesheet PIs - fixed warnings about uninitialised values - added a comprehensive suite of tests, using Test::More 0.4.2 Sun Feb 22 15:33:44 GMT 2004 ed@membled.com - added raw() to print raw, unescaped text - patch from srinithan adding cdata() and cdataElement() to write CDATA sections 0.4.1 Sat Oct 18 19:51:51 BST 2003 ed@membled.com - fixed deprecation warning from 'use IO' 0.4 Tue Apr 4 21:59:51 EDT 2000 - added support for a simple data mode (off by default), with no mixed content and automatic whitespace and indenting - added get/setDataMode and get/setDataIndent methods - added DATA_MODE and DATA_INDENT parameters to constructor - added dataElement method for simple case (character data content only) 0.3 Thu Dec 9 12:49:28 EST 1999 - fixed frequently-reported attribute-list bug - changed xmlDecl() so that first argument is the encoding - added 'use IO;' to avoid errors - documented the doctype() method 0.2 - added Namespace support (XML::Writer::Namespaces subclass and NAMESPACES constructor parameter) - added PREFIX_MAP constructor parameter, and add/removePrefix() methods for Namespace support - added getOutput() and setOutput() methods - added new query methods in_element(), within_element(), current_element(), and ancestor() - changed constructor to use parameterized arguments - added constructor option to insert newlines in tags - element name is now optional in endTag() method - fixed test.pl to work on Mac, and added new test - added more examples in documentation - require at least Perl 5.004 0.1 Mon Apr 19 12:27:36 1999 - original version; created by h2xs 1.19