From: Aaron Patterson <aaron@...>
Date: 2009-12-11T14:32:27+09:00
Subject: [ANN] nokogiri 1.4.1 Released

Hey everyone!  Have you finished your holiday shopping yet?  I know I haven't.
Fortunately for you guys, Mike and I like programming a lot more than
shopping.  I mean, don't get me wrong.  I *love* shopping for myself, I
just find shopping for other people to be, well, difficult.

Anyway, let's get down to business:

nokogiri version 1.4.1 has been released!

* <http://nokogiri.org>
* <http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/wikis>
* <http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/tree/master>
* <http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk>
* <http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues>

Nokogiri (鋸) is an HTML, XML, SAX, and Reader parser.  Among Nokogiri's
many features is the ability to search documents via XPath or CSS3 selectors.

XML is like violence - if it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using
enough of it.

Changes:

### 1.4.1 / 2009/12/10

* New Features

  * Added Nokogiri::LIBXML_ICONV_ENABLED
  * Alias Node#[] to Node#attr
  * XML::Node#next_element added
  * XML::Node#> added for searching a nodes immediate children
  * XML::NodeSet#reverse added
  * Added fragment support to Node#add_child, Node#add_next_sibling,
    Node#add_previous_sibling, and Node#replace.
  * XML::Node#previous_element implemented
  * Rubinius support
  * Ths CSS selector engine now supports :has()
  * XML::NodeSet#filter() was added
  * XML::Node.next= and .previous= are aliases for add_next_sibling and
    add_previous_sibling. GH #183

* Bugfixes

  * XML fragments with namespaces do not raise an exception
    (regression in 1.4.0)
  * Node#matches? works in nodes contained by a DocumentFragment. GH #158
  * Document should not define add_namespace() method. GH #169
  * XPath queries returning namespace declarations do not segfault.
  * Node#replace works with nodes from different documents. GH #162
  * Adding XML::Document#collect_namespaces
  * Fixed bugs in the SOAP4R adapter
  * Fixed bug in XML::Node#next_element for certain edge cases
  * Fixed load path issue with JRuby under Windows. GH #160.
  * XSLT#apply_to will honor the "output method". Thanks richardlehane!
  * Fragments containing leading text nodes with newlines now parse properly.
    GH #178.

## FEATURES:

* XPath support for document searching
* CSS3 selector support for document searching
* XML/HTML builder

Nokogiri parses and searches XML/HTML very quickly, and also has
correctly implemented CSS3 selector support as well as XPath support.

Here is a speed test:

  * http://gist.github.com/24605

## SUPPORT:

The Nokogiri {mailing list}[http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk]
is available here:

  * http://groups.google.com/group/nokogiri-talk

The {bug tracker}[http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues]
is available here:

  * http://github.com/tenderlove/nokogiri/issues

The IRC channel is #nokogiri on freenode.

## SYNOPSIS:

  require 'nokogiri'
  require 'open-uri'
  
  # Get a Nokogiri::HTML:Document for the page we’re interested in...

  doc = Nokogiri::HTML(open('http://www.google.com/search?q=tenderlove'))
  
  # Do funky things with it using Nokogiri::XML::Node methods...

  ####
  # Search for nodes by css
  doc.css('h3.r a.l').each do |link|
    puts link.content
  end
  
  ####
  # Search for nodes by xpath
  doc.xpath('//h3/a[@class="l"]').each do |link|
    puts link.content
  end
  
  ####
  # Or mix and match.
  doc.search('h3.r a.l', '//h3/a[@class="l"]').each do |link|
    puts link.content
  end

## REQUIREMENTS:

* ruby 1.8 or 1.9
* libxml2
* libxml2-dev
* libxslt
* libxslt-dev

## INSTALL:

* sudo gem install nokogiri

-- 
Aaron Patterson
http://tenderlovemaking.com/