From: Paul Battley Date: 2007-03-16T22:19:25+09:00 Subject: [ANN] HTMLEntities 4.0.0 I wrapped up and released a new version of HTMLEntities last night. The version number has inflated to 4.0.0 to reflect some significant changes in the interface. What is it? ----------- HTMLEntities is a simple library to facilitate encoding and decoding of named (ý and so on) or numerical ({ or Ī) entities in HTML and XHTML documents. What's changed? --------------- This update has many requested improvements and fixes: * Now understands all the entities referred to in the XHTML 1.0 DTD (253 entities compared with 131 in version 3.0.1). * Calls to_s on parameters to play nicely with Rails 1.2.1. * Entity mapping data is now lazily loaded. * New instantiation-based interface (but legacy interface is preserved for compatibility). * Handles HTML4 as well as XHTML1 (the former lacks the ' entity). * Encodes basic entities numerically when :basic isn't specified and :decimal or :hexadecimal is. * Performs a maximum of two gsub passes instead of three when encoding, which should be more efficient on long strings. What about existing code? ------------------------- Using HTMLEntities already? You probably don't need to change anything. The old syntax still works, although it should be considered deprecated. However, HTMLEntities is now a class instead of a module, so if you have been including HTMLEntities and calling the methods directly, you'll need to make a few changes. Learn more ---------- Examples and documentation are available at http://htmlentities.rubyforge.org/ Get it ------ gem install htmlentities Or grab a tarball here: http://rubyforge.org/frs/?group_id=1462 Credits ------- Thanks to Dallas DeVries, Johan Duflost, Paul Wright, Marcos Kuhns and Jaime Iniesta for bug reports and feature requests.