Change History

Releases

Version 1.9.6.1 (23 Jan 2008) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed charset regression reported by

Version 1.9.6 (14 Dec 2007) [zip] [tgz]

Changed license to Apache 2.0; boosted the version number to reflect the maturity of the project; re-organized project files to decouple it from the rest of the CyberNeko Tools for XNI; updated xercesMinimal.jar and source so that NekoHTML compiles using Xerces-J 2.9.1; changed default behavior to not normalize attribute values and added new feature to allow user to turn on normalization; modified build to target compilation for Java 1.3 as suggested by Jacob Kjome; adjusted <p> tag-balancing suggested by Jacob Kjome; and fixed issues 1723287, 1746732, and 1790414.

Version 0.9.5 (18 Jun 2005) [zip] [tgz]

Added feature submitted by Asgeir Asgeirsson to allow scanner to fix character entity references for Microsoft Windows® characters; stopped building nekohtmlXni.jar file by default; fixed handling of <blockquote> reported by Joseph Walton to better match browser behavior; fixed tag-balancing bug for unknown elements reported by Marc Guillemot and Vadim Tashlikovich; fixed mapping of encoding name in <meta> element reported by Marc Guillemot; changed tag-balancing to allow headers inside of links suggested by Laurens Fridael; applied attribute namespace patch from Joseph Walton; fixed namespace bug for "xml" prefixes reported by Asgeir Asgeirsson; fixed namespace bug for "xmlns" prefixes reported by Johannes Koch; and fixed no-such-method exception bug when using augmentations feature with older versions of Xerces2 reported by Hans Donner.

Version 0.9.4 (17 Nov 2004) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed typo in proviso 5 of the license agreement; added features to strip CDATA delimiters (i.e. "<![CDATA[" and "]]>") from <script> and <style> elements suggested by Dan Sojka; fixed tag-balancing problem reported by Egor Samarkhanov; applied augmentations patches donated by Marc-André Morissette; implemented augmentation performance enhancements inspired by Marc-André Morissette; fixed ignore-outside-content bug reported by Chris Erskine; and updated link to Xerces download site.

Version 0.9.3 (30 Jun 2004) [zip] [tgz]

Implemented scanning of XML declaration; fixed <script> tag scanning bug reported by Vasiliev Ivan; added Version class and manifest entries to query product information; and fixed some Javadoc errors.

Version 0.9.2 (31 Mar 2004) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed entity reference scanning and tag-balancing bugs identified by Tommy Sandström; fixed tag-balancing bug reported by Oliver Pfeiffer; fixed doctype scanning bug reported by Jonathan Baxter; updated Purifier filter to synthesize missing namespace bindings; updated Writer filter to convert all known characters back to their entity names; and updated implementation to work with Xerces-J 2.6.2 that removed the ObjectFactory class in the org.apache.xerces.util package.

Version 0.9.1 (24 Feb 2004) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed namespace binding bug reported by Jonathan Baxter.

Version 0.9 (19 Feb 2004) [zip] [tgz]

Implemented scanning of CDATA sections; implemented namespace processing; added features to override namespace bindings, insert namespace bindings if not present, override doctype public and system identifiers, and insert doctype declaration if not present; added a filter to allow applications to "purify" the input, ensuring that the output is well-formed XML; added missing location augmentations from document type declaration callback; fixed newline scanning bugs reported by Jonathan Baxter; and fixed comment scanning bugs and infinite loop bug caused by extremely long element and attribute names found by Ram Subbaroyan.

Version 0.8.3 (12 Dec 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed null pointer exception for <frameset> tags reported by Dawid Weiss; and added missing file to xercesMinimal.jar file reported by Brent Beardsley.

Version 0.8.2 (14 Nov 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed array index out of bounds exception in special tags and doctype scanning bug reported by Leo Galambos; updated processing instruction scanning to handle weird PIs exported from Microsoft products as reported by Gabriele Bulfon; fixed erroneous reporting of missing whitespace before attributes reported by Arno Schatz; installed a default error handler that prints to standard error suggested by Arno Schatz; and fixed handling of dangling </p> reported by Gopi Murthy to better match browser behavior.

Version 0.8.1 (30 Sep 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed bug reported by Yuan Ji that allowed multiple <html> tags; fixed bug in stripping leading comments in <script> tags as reported by Lawrence McCartin; added feature to be able to strip HTML comment delimiters (i.e. "<!--" and "-->") from <style> element content suggested by Lawrence McCartin; updated DOMParser to work around a bug in the Xerces HTML DOM implementation when a doctype node was inserted into the document, reported by Troy Waldrep; updated the DOMFragmentParser to allow setting of features and properties as requested by Paul Reeves; changed the status of the document fragment parser from experimental to supported; added feature to allow application to ignore a character encoding specified in a <meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html;charset=...'> tag requested by Roger Fullerton; and changed feature identifier for document fragment tag balancing to be more in line with other features (but retained old feature identifier for backwards compatibility).

Version 0.8 (05 Aug 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Implemented scanning of doctype declaration; implemented non-normalized attribute value for XNI filters that want to know original attribute value; fixed bug scanning entity references inside of unquoted attributes; fixed line counting bug in attribute values reported by Arno Schatz; and updated files in xercesMinimal.jar noted by Brent Beardsley.

Version 0.7.7 (25 Jun 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed handling of <font> tags reported by Dave King; fixed bugs that caused multiple <head> and <body> tags as reported by Mike Bowler; fixed missing <tr> bug in nested tables reported by Troy Waldrep; and normalized newlines in attribute values to spaces.

Version 0.7.6 (06 May 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed infinite loop in special tags reported by Mike Bowler.

Version 0.7.5 (02 May 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed parsing of entity reference within <textarea> tags reported by Mattias Jiderhamn; changed behavior of tag balancer to not consume content after the end <body> and <html> tags but retained old behavior through new feature; fixed <noscript> bug reported by Takashi Tomokiyo; and updated implementation for XNI changes introduced in Xerces-J 2.4.0.

Version 0.7.4 (03 Mar 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed <form> element balancing problem reported by Dan Rocco; fixed null pointer exception reported by Michael Dynin that was caused by a null XMLResourceIdentifier object passed to the startGeneralEntity method in the Xerces DOM parser classes; fixed handling of <font> element as requested by Arno Schatz to better match current browsers; replaced generic catch exception blocks with explicit catch blocks suggested by Arno Schatz; fixed <center> tag-balancing problem reported by Russell Gold; fixed null pointer exception caused by null namespace context object passed to Xerces SAX parser class reported by David Leslie; and added FAQ entry describing how to insert custom filters before the tag-balancer.

Version 0.7.3 (28 Jan 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Updated implementation for XNI changes introduced in Xerces-J 2.3.0; and fixed hack string to accommodate XML4J build of Xerces included in the Eclipse editor reported by Geoffrey Longman.

Version 0.7.2 (10 Jan 2003) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed class-cast exception bug in DOMFragmentParser reported by Joseph Artsimovich; fixed <span> tag-balancing bug reported by Ron Cemer; and fixed handling of form tags missing a parent element reported by Russell Gold in order to better match browser behavior.

Version 0.7.1 (06 Dec 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed null pointer exception caused by null attributes object passed to Xerces SAX parser class as reported by Kevin Huber; and fixed infinite loop condition when encountering "</html[eof]" as reported by Matt Hurst.

Version 0.7 (27 Nov 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Changed behavior of tag balancer for unbalanced elements as requested by Troy Waldrep to make output match that produced by browsers such as Mozilla; fixed other tag balancing problems identified by a bug reported by Laurens Fridael; added experimental HTML fragment parsing feature and DOM fragment parser class; fixed buffer boundary bug in skipMarkup method reported by Mike Bowler; added constructor to the Writer filter that accepts a Java writer object parameter as requested by Alain Gilbert; fixed HTMLScanner class so that it can compile with JDK 1.1 as reported by Mikko Honkala; and fixed bug reported by Russell Gold that would ignore the <param> element within an <applet> element.

Version 0.6.8 (30 Sep 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Implemented scanning of processing instructions; improved performance of HTMLElements#getElement method inspired by Sam Cheung; changed tag balancer algorithm as requested by Mike Bowler so that it does not close the <body> element to insert a proper parent element; fixed <isindex> proper parent bug and <script> empty element tag bug reported by Mike Bowler; fixed bug reported by YingLCS that a <form> tag would prematurely close a <p> tag; and updated implementation for XNI changes introduced in Xerces-J 2.2.0.

Version 0.6.7 (06 Sep 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Added a FAQ section; and updated implementation for XNI changes introduced in Xerces-J 2.1.0.

Version 0.6.6 (25 Aug 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Changed packaging to include product name and version in directory name; updated HTMLConfiguration to implement the XMLPullParserConfiguration interface; fixed bug reported by Martin Jericho to correct handling of <col> element; fixed bug reported by Dave King that would skip to end of document if bad markup was found; fixed numerous bugs related to scanning <script> tags reported by Sam Cheung; added feature to be able to strip HTML comment delimiters (i.e. "<!--" and "-->") from <script> element content; changed the status of the feature to dynamically insert content from experimental to supported; added code to be able to compare test files against canonical output for regression testing; and fixed minor bugs found by the tests.

Version 0.6.5 (17 Jul 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed bug in changing character encoding when "charset=..." is not written in lowercase; and mark attributes as "specified".

Version 0.6.4 (15 Jun 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Re-organized package contents for integration into the CyberNeko Tools for XNI package; fixed table closing bug reported by Oskar Liljeblad; fixed newline bug reported by OtisG; and fixed line counting bug reported by Donald Ball.

Version 0.6.3 (29 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed bug in handling of <th> elements reported by Oskar Liljeblad; and fixed various tag-balancing problems.

Version 0.6.2 (26 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Changed scanner behavior as requested by Alexey Shananin to report malformed start elements (e.g. <...>) as characters and fixed tag balancing bug introduced in previous version. Oops!

Version 0.6.1 (23 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Changed tag balancer behavior to swallow events after the close of the <html> tag to ensure that the document stream remains well-formed; added additional Ruby elements; and improved tag balancer performance.

Version 0.6 (12 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Added property to allow custom document filters to be appended to the default NekoHTML parser pipeline; added convenience filters for serializing HTML documents and removing elements from the document event stream; added samples to demonstrate the filtering feature; added experimental functionality to allow applications to dynamically insert content into the HTML document stream; added a minimal Xerces2 Jar file containing just the files required for using the HTMLConfiguration class directly to alleviate full dependence on Xerces2 distribution; applied patch from Serge Proskuryakov to fix handling of misplaced <title> within <body>; fixed minor tag balancing bug; and re-organized and added new documentation.

Version 0.5 (07 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed some location reporting information bugs and added feature to report character boundaries of events via the associated augmentations object; added feature to disable tag balancing; and added features to notify handlers of start and end of character and built-in XML and HTML entity references.

Version 0.4.1 (03 May 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed some unquoted attribute value scanning bugs reported by Xiaowei Jiang; fixed hack for Xerces-J 2.0.1 reported by Ron Cemer; now passing locator object to startDocument method; and celebrated opening of the Spider-Man movie.

Version 0.4 (14 Apr 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Added properties to control case of element and attribute names; changed behavior of parser so that only known HTML elements have their names modified according to the properties — all unknown tags are left as-is; added property to set default encoding; added feature to augment infoset to report "synthesized" events; added feature to be able to report errors and localized the error messages; implemented the locator so that location information can be reported; and fixed element information so that more elements are properly scanned as "special".

Version 0.3.3 (02 Apr 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Separated META-INF/services/* files to separate Jar so that HTML parser configuration selection can be controlled more explicitly; added DOM and SAX parser classes for convenience; and fixed bug so that parser now obeys the encoding specified in the input source.

Version 0.3.2 (15 Mar 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed problem with bare <input> elements appearing outside of <form> tag.

Version 0.3.1 (07 Mar 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Fixed handling of bare ampersands in content and attribute values.

Version 0.3 (25 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Changed license to an Apache style license and fixed a few bugs.

Version 0.2.3 (19 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Nested tables bug fix.

Version 0.2.2 (17 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

More bug fixes to allow the parser to be used with Xalan 2.3.0. The parser wasn't keeping track of features and properties and without namespaces turned on, Xalan would not correctly transform the SAX events emitted using NekoHTML.

Version 0.2.1 (16 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Minor bug fix to work around problem in Xerces-J 2.0.0 SAX parser that drops attributes when parser configuration doesn't have a symbol table.

Version 0.2 (14 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Adding support for UTF-8, UTF-16, and other 8-bit encodings supported by Java.

Version 0.1 (04 Feb 2002) [zip] [tgz]

Initial writing.