- Features added
-
- * Injecting default attributes into a document during XML Schema
- validation (also at parse time).
- * Pass huge_tree parser option to disable parser security restrictions
- imposed by libxml2 2.7.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * The script for statically building libxml2 and libxslt didn't work
- in Py3.
- * XMLSchema() also passes invalid schema documents on to libxml2 for
- parsing (which could lead to a crash before release 2.6.24).
- Features added
-
- * Support for standalone flag in XML declaration through
- tree.docinfo.standalone and by passing standalone=True/False on
- serialisation.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Crash when parsing an XML Schema with external imports from a
- filename.
- Features added
-
- * Support strings and instantiable Element classes as child arguments
- to the constructor of custom Element classes.
- * GZip compression support for serialisation to files and file-like
- objects.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Deep-copying an ElementTree copied neither its sibling PIs and
- comments nor its internal/external DTD subsets.
- * Soupparser failed on broken attributes without values.
- * Crash in XSLT when overwriting an already defined attribute using
- xsl:attribute.
- * Crash bug in exception handling code under Python 3. This was due to
- a problem in Cython, not lxml itself.
- * lxml.html.FormElement._name() failed for non top-level forms.
- * TAG special attribute in constructor of custom Element classes was
- evaluated incorrectly.
-
- Other changes
-
- * Official support for Python 3.0.1.
- * Element.findtext() now returns an empty string instead of None for
- Elements without text content.
- Features added
-
- * XSLT.strparam() class method to wrap quoted string parameters that
- require escaping.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Memory leak in XPath evaluators.
- * Crash when parsing indented XML in one thread and merging it with
- other documents parsed in another thread.
- * Setting the base attribute in lxml.objectify from a unicode string
- failed.
- * Fixes following changes in Python 3.0.1.
- * Minor fixes for Python 3.
-
- Other changes
-
- * The global error log (which is copied into the exception log) is now
- local to a thread, which fixes some race conditions.
- * More robust error handling on serialisation.
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Potential memory leak on exception handling. This was due to a
- problem in Cython, not lxml itself.
- * iter_links (and related link-rewriting functions) in lxml.html would
- interpret CSS like url("link") incorrectly (treating the quotation
- marks as part of the link).
- * Failing import on systems that have an io module.
- Features added
-
- * Allow lxml.html.diff.htmldiff to accept Element objects,
- not just HTML strings.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Crash when using an XPath evaluator in multiple threads.
- * Fixed missing whitespace before Link:... in lxml.html.diff.
-
- Other changes
-
- * Export lxml.html.parse.
- Features added
-
- * Support for XSLT result tree fragments in XPath/XSLT extension
- functions.
- * QName objects have new properties namespace and localname.
- * New options for exclusive C14N and C14N without comments.
- * Instantiating a custom Element classes creates a new Element.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * XSLT didn't inherit the parse options of the input document.
- * 0-bytes could slip through the API when used inside of Unicode
- strings.
- * With lxml.html.clean.autolink, links with balanced parenthesis, that
- end in a parenthesis, will be linked in their entirety (typical with
- Wikipedia links).
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Ref-count leaks when lxml enters a try-except statement while an
- outside exception lives in sys.exc_*(). This was due to a problem
- in Cython, not lxml itself.
- * Parser Unicode decoding errors could get swallowed by other
- exceptions.
- * Name/import errors in some Python modules.
- * Internal DTD subsets that did not specify a system or public ID
- were not serialised and did not appear in the docinfo property
- of ElementTrees.
- * Fix a pre-Py3k warning when parsing from a gzip file in Py2.6.
- * Test suite fixes for libxml2 2.7.
- * Resolver.resolve_string() did not work for non-ASCII byte strings.
- * Resolver.resolve_file() was broken.
- * Overriding the parser encoding didn't work for many encodings.
- Features added
-
- * lxml.etree now tries to find the absolute path name of files when
- parsing from a file-like object. This helps custom resolvers when
- resolving relative URLs, as lixbml2 can prepend them with the path of
- the source document.
-
- Bugs fixed
-
- * Memory problem when passing documents between threads.
- * Target parser did not honour the recover option and raised an exception
- instead of calling .close() on the target.
