Oga is an XML/HTML parser written in Ruby.
This release fixes a bug where setting the text of an element using
Oga::XML::Element#inner_text= would not set the parent element of the newly
created text node. This would result in the following:
some_element.inner_text = 'foo'
some_element.children[0].parent # => nil
Here parent is supposed to return some_element instead. See commit
142b467277dc9864df8279347ba737ddf60f4836 for more information.
When serializing an HTML document back to HTML (as a String) the contents of
<script> tags are serialized correctly. Previously XML unsafe characters
(e.g. <) would be converted to XML entities, which results in invalid
Javascript syntax. This has been changed so that <script> tags in HTML
documents don't have their contents converted, ensuring proper Javascript
syntax upon output.
See commit 874d7124af540f0bc78e6c586868bbffb4310c5d and issue https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/79 for more information.
When lexing HTML documents the XML lexer is now capable of lexing the contents
of <script> tags properly. Previously input such as <script>x >y</script>
would result in incorrect tokens being emitted. See commit
ba2177e2cfda958ea12c5b04dbf60907aaa8816d and issue
https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/70 for more information.
When setting the inner text of an element using Oga::XML::Element#inner_text=
all child nodes of the element are now removed first, instead of only text
nodes being removed.
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/64 for more information.
Support for encoding/decoding extra XML entities was added by Dmitry
Krasnoukhov. This includes entities such as <, ", etc. See commit
26baf89440d97bd9dd5e50ec3d6d9b7ab3bdf737 for more information.
The XML lexer (and thus the parser) can now handle inline doctypes containing newlines when using an IO object as the input. For example:
<!DOCTYPE html[foo
bar]>
Previously this would result in incorrect tokens being emitted by the lexer. See commit cbb2815146a79805b8da483d2ef48d17e2959e72 for more information.
Alternative version: https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/blob/b8f9d04b17b2f56eed6e8a5d1ab77a6123fd985e/doc/changelog.md#020---2014-11-17
Probably the biggest feature of this release: support for querying documents using CSS selectors. Oga supports a subset of the CSS3 selector specification, in particular the following selectors are supported:
foo[x ~= "y"])The following pseudo classes are supported:
:root
:nth-child(n)
:nth-last-child(n)
:nth-of-type(n)
:nth-last-of-type(n)
:first-child
:last-child
:first-of-type
:last-of-type
:only-child
:only-of-type
:empty
You can use CSS selectors using the methods css and at_css on an instance of
Oga::XML::Document or Oga::XML::Element. For example:
document = Oga.parse_xml('<people><person>Alice</person></people>')
document.css('people person') # => NodeSet(Element(name: "person" ...))
The architecture behind this is quite similar to parsing XPath. There's a lexer
(Oga::CSS::Lexer) and a parser (Oga::CSS::Parser). Unlike Nokogiri (and
perhaps other libraries) the parser does not output XPath expressions as a
String or a CSS specific AST. Instead it directly emits an XPath AST. This
allows the resulting AST to be directly evaluated by Oga::XPath::Evaluator.
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/11 for more information.
Oga can now lex/parse elements that have attributes with newlines in them. Previously this would trigger memory allocation errors.
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/58 for more information.
The after_element method in the SAX parsing API now always takes two
arguments: the namespace name and element name. Previously this method would
always receive a single nil value as its argument, which is rather pointless.
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/54 for more information.
XPath expressions can now be grouped together using parenthesis. This allows one to specify a custom operator precedence.
Enumerator instances can now be used as input for Oga.parse_xml and friends.
This can be used to download and parse XML files on the fly. For example:
enum = Enumerator.new do |yielder|
HTTPClient.get('http://some-website.com/some-big-file.xml') do |chunk|
yielder << chunk
end
end
document = Oga.parse_xml(enum)
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/48 for more information.
Element attributes can now be removed using Oga::XML::Element#unset:
element = Oga::XML::Element.new(:name => 'foo')
element.set('class', 'foo')
element.unset('class')
XPath predicates are now evaluated for every context node opposed to being
evaluated once for the entire context. This ensures that expressions such as
descendant-or-self::node()/foo[1] are evaluated correctly.
When calling Oga::XML::Element#available_namespaces the Hash returned by
Oga::XML::Element#namespaces would be modified in place. This was a bug that
has been fixed in this release.
NodeSet instances can now be compared with each other using ==. Previously
this would always consider two instances to be different from each other due to
the usage of the default Object#== method.
XML entities such as & and < are now encoded/decoded by the lexer,
string and text nodes.
See https://github.com/YorickPeterse/oga/issues/49 for more information.
Source lines are no longer included in error messages generated by the XML parser. This simplifies the code and removes the need of re-reading the input (in case of IO/Enumerable inputs).
Newlines in the XML lexer are now counted in native code (C/Java). On MRI and
JRuby the improvement is quite small, but on Rubinius it's a massive
improvement. See commit 8db77c0a09bf6c996dd2856a6dbe1ad076b1d30a for more
information.
Performance for detecting HTML void elements (e.g. <br> and <link>) has been
improved by removing String allocations that were not needed.
A SAX parser/API has been added. This API is useful when even the overhead of the pull-parser is too much memory wise. Example:
class ElementNames
attr_reader :names
def initialize
@names = []
end
def on_element(namespace, name, attrs = {})
@names << name
end
end
handler = ElementNames.new
Oga.sax_parse_xml(handler, '<foo><bar></bar></foo>')
handler.names # => ["foo", "bar"]
Oga will now always use the Racc gem instead of the version shipped with the Ruby standard library.
XML parser errors have been made a little bit more user friendly, though they can still be quite cryptic.
Elements serialized to XML/HTML will use self-closing tags whenever possible.
When parsing HTML documents only HTML void elements will use self-closing tags
(e.g. <link> tags). Example:
Oga.parse_xml('<foo></foo>').to_xml # => "<foo />"
Oga.parse_html('<script></script>').to_xml # => "<script></script>"
Namespaces are no longer removed from the attributes list when an element is created.
Default XML namespaces can now be registered using xmlns="...". Previously
this would be ignored. Example:
document = Oga.parse_xml('<root xmlns="baz"></root>')
root = document.children[0]
root.namespace # => Namespace(name: "xmlns" uri: "baz")
Oga can now lex input such as </ without entering an infinite loop. Example:
Oga.parse_xml('</') # => Document(children: NodeSet(Text("</")))
Oga can now parse and evaluate the XPath expression "/" (that is, just "/"). This will return the root node (usually a Document instance). Example:
document = Oga.parse_xml('<root></root>')
document.xpath('/') # => NodeSet(Document(children: NodeSet(Element(name: "root"))))
Namespaces available to an element are now returned in the correct order. Previously outer namespaces would take precedence over inner namespaces, instead of it being the other way around. Example:
document = Oga.parse_xml <<-EOF
<root xmlns:foo="bar">
<container xmlns:foo="baz">
<foo:text>Text!</foo:text>
</container>
</root>
EOF
foo = document.at_xpath('root/container/foo:text')
foo.namespace # => Namespace(name: "foo" uri: "baz")
Oga is now capable of parsing capitalized HTML void elements (e.g. <BR>).
Previously it could only parse lower-cased void elements. Thanks to Tero Tasanen
for fixing this. Example:
Oga.parse_html('<BR>') # => Document(children: NodeSet(Element(name: "BR")))
The node_type method has been removed and its purpose has been moved into
the XML::PullParser class itself. This method was solely used by the pull
parser to provide shorthands for node classes. As such it doesn't make sense to
expose this as a method to the outside world as a public method.
This release fixes a problem where element attributes were not separated by spaces. Thanks to Jonathan Rochkind for reporting it and Bill Dueber providing an initial patch for this problem.
The first public release of Oga. This release contains support for parsing XML, basic support for parsing HTML, support for querying documents using XPath and more.