Release 1.8.2:
Changes since 1.8 (CVS)
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Incompatible changes:
- xsh now uses UTF8 as the default encoding and query-encoding.
You may change it to your prefered charset by adding
lines
encoding <charset>;
query-encoding <charset>;
into your ~/.xshrc.
New features:
- new xsh option --format to start with indent 1 and keep_blanks 0
- new xsh options --input (-I), --output (-O), and --process (-P) to
automatically open given file (as a default document called _ - underscore)
and save it after the processing
- external DTD validation support (valid, validate)
- RelaxNG and XSD validation support for valid and validate
(may require CVS LibXML)
- conditional variant of include (ifinclude) added
- new commands set-enc and set-standalone allow changing the
values in document's XML decl
- new option commands affecting serialization: empty-tags ($EMPTY_TAGS) and
skip-dtd ($SKIP_DTD)
Support:
- new Perl module: Inline::XSH to simplify inclusion of inline XSH
code in Perl programs
Bug fixes:
- fixed broken XPath extension functions (xsh:grep, xsh:matches, ...)
- encoding related fix for Perl 5.8 (now using Encode in Perl 5.8)
- serialization now doesn't force utf-8 encoding on files with no
encoding specified
- fixed @ARGV passing
- documentation fixes
- bug fixes
Release 1.8:
Changes since 1.7 (CVS)
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New features:
* User Interface:
- Major TAB-completion improvements: XPath-completion (can be disabled
for large documents), improved filename, command, variable and
keyword completion.
- xsh without arguments starts in interactive shell mode if run from a
terminal
- xsh -p for easier pipe-line XML processing.
- xsh now defines long variants for command-line options.
- xsh --man displays nice manual page.
* Language:
- register-namespace (regns) command for registering a namespace
prefix to be used in XPath queries.
- register-function (regfunc) command allowing writing a custom
XPath extension functions (in Perl) - EXPERIMENTAL
- XPath extensions functions xsh:doc,xsh:matches,xsh:grep,xsh:same
(check xsh help xpath or the on-line documentation here).
- undef command to undefine existing XSH subroutines allowing
include-scripts to be reloaded - EXPERIMENTAL
- stream command for processing huge documents, that do not fit into
memory - EXPERIMENTAL
- rename command similar to map but working on node's name rather
than content.
- Some document-oriented commands (such as save) no longer require
arguments (assuming current document's ID by default)
* Support:
- Improved documentation: manpages (xsh(1) and XSH(3)), and
command-line help xsh --help, xsh --man.
- xsh now uses long options.
- Simplified Windows installation based on PPM.
- Disabled GDOME support
- Bug fixes.
- Updated bundle of requred modules
Changes since 1.7 (CVS)
-----------------------
- bug fixes.
- new try {...} catch [[local] $var] {...} syntactic construction
allows to catch and handle parsing and other errors.
- new throw command (aka perl { die "...\n" })
- new Perl/PHP-like last, next, redo, return loop and subroutine
interruption commands
- new strip command for stripping whitespace
- new normalize command for puting adjacent text nodes together
- new catalog command makes the XML parser use a given catalog file
- new experimental iterate command
- changed sort command syntax (you've been warned)
- completion improvements (now little more context sensitive and
completes variable, subroutine and help chapter names)
- new Perl support function type to check node types
- Perl support functions now return lists in array context
- added -w command-line option to turn all DTD related stuff off
- added -a command-line option to pass command line arguments to a
XSH script via Perl's @ARGV added -l command-line option to pass
script name
- access to all configuration flags/options (such as validation)
through variables to allow making changes local (read `help flag'
or run var to see a list) and some more...
Changes since 1.5
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Requires:
- XML::LibXML 1.54
New features:
- local (temporary) variables
- subroutine may take parameters
- forward defs (with no body) allow recursion
- call strongly checks argument types
- new location keywords: append, prepend
- new location semantics (mostly clean-up)
- perl-code result substitution in expressions using ${{{ ... }}}
- string xpath result substitution in expressions using ${( ... )}
- new Perl functions: literal, xml_list and count
- new switch-to-new-documents flag (allows to disable selecting
- simplified and more general open/save commands
- support document level node insertion
- improved error reporting from XSH grammar parser
- docbook loading support
- pipeline redirection may follow statements
- grammar optimizations (some more speed-up achieved)
Other changes:
- XSH now starts with validation 0
- new xsh option -v allows starting with validation on
- obsolete xsh -c flag removed
- documentation enhancements
Bug fixes:
- indentation fixes
- fixed ReadLine::Gnu completion support
- ~/.xsh_history works for Term::ReadLine::Gnu now
- fixed doubled history entries
- double/single quoting fixed in expressions
- experimental support for entity reference insertion
- fixed error catching
- fixed and improved Ctrl+C handling
- some more bug-fixes