From: Sean Russell <ser@...>
Date: 2002-05-15T04:10:03+09:00
Subject: ANN: REXML 2.3.3

Getting tired of the upgrades yet?

Here's the changelog:

2.3.3: 
* Added an alternate pretty printer by Thomas Sawyer; it is in the contrib/ 
directory. 
* Speed optimizations; REXML is noticably faster now. In particular, 
PullParser is now just as fast as Stream parsing (10x speed increase over 
first version). 
* Fixed a bug in Element.add_namespace. 
* Fixed a problem that occurred on some systems with Entities (I /think/ it 
is fixed.)
* Mike Stock fixed a bug in the starts_with XPath function. 
* Added, on request, methods to Element to filter children on type. 
cdatas(), instructions(), comments(), and texts() now return immutable 
arrays of only those child nodes. 
* News: Kouhei Sutou has done a Japanese translation of the REXML API docs. 
See the section in the main REXML page about the API documentation for 
links to the Japanese version. Note that the translated pages have banners; 
these are not associated with REXML in any way.

The REXML homepage is:

   http://www.germane-software.com/software/rexml

Version 2.2.2, the stable branch, will also include a couple of the bug 
fixes.  In the interest of staving off the pitchfork-bearing peasants angry 
at my frequent announcements, I /won't/ be announcing 2.2.2... you'll have 
to discover it from the main REXML web page.  

For clarification, the even minor versions (2.0.x, 2.2.x, 2.4.x) are the 
stable releases.  They are closed to new features and API changes, but open 
to bug fixes.  Therefore, they should be safe to upgrade revisions for 
production work.  The 2.x.0 releases /can/ include new features and API 
changes, so check before you upgrade a full minor revision.  The odd minor 
versions (2.1.x, 2.3.x, etc) are development versions, and probably contain 
bugs and changing APIs.

---SER