From: Rich <rich@...>
Date: 2004-06-07T04:44:17+09:00
Subject: Re: REXML 3.1.1

I really appreciate the hard work you're putting into this... and I'm
_really_ looking forward to the tutorials and new documentation!!

-Richard

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sean Russell" <ser@germane-software.com>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 06, 2004 1:18 PM
Subject: ANN: REXML 3.1.1


> This release consists primarily of improvements to the RelaxNG
> validation mechanism, although there are some bug fixes in here.
> Unless you're testing the validation code, you probably aren't
> interested in this.
>
> Here's the list of changes from 3.1.0:
>
> * Improved support for converting XPaths to strings.
> * XPath wasn't parsing ")" correctly.
>
> Validation improvements:
> * Fixed text support
> * Fixed <attribute>s in <choice>s
> * Fixed text in choices.  This change improves handling of all events
>   that occur without an end step (which is most of them).
> * Fixed a bunch of cases
> * Added support for <group>
> * Added support for <value>
>
> To be more concise, here is the list of implemented and unimplemented
> RelaxNG features:
>
> Implemented:
> * empty
> * element
> * attribute
> * text
> * optional
> * choice
> * oneOrMore
> * zeroOrMore
> * group
> * value
>
> Not implemented:
> * ref
> * interleave
> * mixed
> * grammar
> * start
> * define
> * data
> * param
> * include
>
> Incidentally, the documentation -- which has long been due for a
> rewrite -- is now scheduled to get that rewrite.  There are a number
> of undocumented features of REXML, and most of the new documentation
> will be in the form of an expanded tutorial.
>
> As usual, you can get this version from the REXML homepage:
>
> http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml
>
> --- SER
>