Windows: use libxml2 from Rtools if found
Update maintainer
Minor cleanups
Now compatible with libxml2 2.12.0 and later (@KNnut).
Fixed format string issues detected in R-devel.
Remove unused dependencies on glue, withr and lifecycle (@mgirlich).
print() is faster for very long
xml_nodeset inputs (#366, @michaelchirico).
xml_attr(), xml_attrs(),
xml_double(), xml_integer(),
xml_length(), xml_name(),
xml_path(), xml_text(), and
xml_type() no longer use S3 dispatch but instead dispatch
in C, leading to considerable performance improvements in many cases
(@mgirlich,
#400).
xml_find_int() analogous to
xml_find_num() for returning integers matched by an XPath
(#365, @michaelchirico).
xml_serialize() now includes the document type so
that xml_unserialize() works also for HTML documents (#407,
@HenrikBengtsson).
Small speedup for xml_find_all() (@mgirlich, #393).
Fixes for R CMD check problems.
Fixes for R CMD check problems.
Windows: update to libxml2 2.10.3
Hadley Wickham is now (again) the maintainer.
xml2 has been re-licensed as MIT (#317).
xml_find_all.xml_node() fails more informatively the
xpath parameter is the wrong type (@michaelchirico)
xml_find_all.xml_nodeset() gains a
flatten argument to control whether to return a single
nodeset or a list of nodesets (#311, @jakejh)
write_xml() and write_html() now return
NULL invisibly, as they did prior to version 1.3.0 (#307)
XPtr gets explicit copy constructor and assignment
operator definitions, which were two missing components of the Rule
of three (@michaelchirico)
Windows: update to libxml2 2.9.10 and libxslt 1.1.34 and add ucrt libs
read_html() and read_xml() now error if
passed strings of length greater than one (#121)
read_xml.raw() had an inadvertent regression in
1.3.0 and is now again fixed (#300)
Compilation fix on macOS 10.15.4 (@kevinushey, #296)
read_html() now again works with HTML files with
non-ASCII encodings (#293).Fix potential dangling pointer with internal
asXmlChar() function (@michaelquinn32, #287).
as_xml_document() now handles cases with text nodes
trailing normal nodes (#274).
xml_add_child() can now create nodes with a
par attribute. These previously errored due to partial name
matching of the parent function in the internal
create_node() function. (@jennybc, #285)
libxml2_version() now returns a semantic version
rather than alphanumeric version, so “2.9.10” > “2.9.9”
(#277)
xml2 now has a pkgdown site! https://xml2.r-lib.org (@jayhesselberth, #211).
Windows: upgrade to libxml2 2.9.8
print methods now match the type of document,
e.g. read_html() prints as “{html_document}” rather than
“{xml_document}” (#227)
Generic xml2 error are now forwarded as R errors. Previously these errors were output to stderr, so could not be suppressed (#209).
Fix for ICU 59+ defaulting to use char16_t, which is only available in C++11 (#231)
No longer uses the C connections API
Better error message when trying to run
download_xml() without the curl package installed
(#262)
xml2 classes are now registered for use with S4 by calling
setOldClass() (#248)
Nodes with nested data type definition entities now work without crashing (#241)
Test failure fixed due to behavior change with relative paths in libxml2 2.9.9 (#245).
read_xml() now has a better error message when given
zero length character inputs (#212).
read_xml() and read_html() now
automatically check if the response succeeded before trying to read from
a HTTP response (#255).
xml_root() can now create root nodes with namespaces
(#239)
xml_set_attr() no longer crashes if you try to set
the same namespace on the same node multiple times (#253).
xml_set_attr() now recycles the values if needed
(#221)
xml_structure() gains a file argument,
to support writing to a file rather than the console (#244).
as_list() on xml_document objects did not
properly include the root node in the returned list. Previous behavior
can be obtained by using as_list()[[1L]] in place of
as_list().download_xml() and download_html()
helper functions to make it easy to download files (#193).
xml_attr() can now set attributes with no value
(#198).
xml_serialize() and xml_unserialize()
now create file connections when given character input (#179).
xml_find_first() no longer de-duplicates results, so
the results are always the same length as the inputs (as documented)
(#194).
xml2 can now build using libxml2 2.7.0
Use Rcpp symbol registration and visibility to prevent symbol conflicts on Linux
xml_add_child() now requires less resources to
insert a node when called with .where = 0L (@heckendorfc,
#175).
Fixed failing examples due to a change in an external resource.
write_xml() and write_html() now accept
connections as well as filenames for output. (#157)
xml_add_child() now takes a .where
argument specifying where to add the new children. (#138)
as_xml() generic function to convert R objects to
xml. The most important method is for lists and enables full roundtrip
support for going to and back from xml for lists and enables full
roundtrip support to and from XML. (#137, #143)
xml_new_root() can be used to create a new document
and a root node in one step (#131).
xml_add_parent() inserts a new node between the node
and its parent (#129)
Add xml_validate() to validate a document against an
xml schema (#31, @jeroenooms).
Export xml2_types.h to allow for extension packages
such as xslt.
xml_comment() allows you to add comment nodes to a
document. (#111)
xml_cdata() allows you to add CDATA nodes to a
document. (#128)
Add xml_set_text() and xml_set_name()
equivalent to xml_text<- and xml_name<-.
(#130).
Add xml_set_attr() and xml_set_attrs()
equivalent to xml_attr<- and
xml_attrs<-. (#109, #130)
Add write_html() method (#133).
xml_new_document() now explicitly sets the encoding
(default UTF-8) (#142)
Document formatting options for write_xml()
(#132)
Add missing methods for xml_missing objects. (#134)
Bugfix for xml_length.xml_nodeset that caused it to fail unconditionally. (#140)
is.na() now returns TRUE for
xml_missing objects. (#139)
Trim non-breaking spaces in xml_text(trim = TRUE)
(#151).
Allow setting non-character attributes (values are coerced to characters). (@sjp, #117, #122).
Fixed return value in call to vapply in xml_integer.xml_nodeset. (@ddiez, #146, #147).
Allow docs missing a root element to be created and printed. (@sjp, #126, #121).
xml_add_* methods now return invisibly. (@sjp, #124)
as_list() now preserves element names when
attributes exist, and escapes XML attributes that conflict with special
R attributes (@peterfoley, #115).
All C++ functions now use checked_get() instead of
get() where possible, so NULL XPtrs properly throw an error
rather than crashing. (@jimhester, #101, #104).
xml_integer() and xml_double()
functions to make it easy to extract integer and double text from nodes
(@jimhester, #97,
#99).
xml2 now supports modification and creation of XML nodes. New
functions xml_new_document(), xml_new_child(),
xml_new_sibling(), xml_set_namespace(), ,
xml_remove(), xml_replace(),
xml_root() and replacement methods for
xml_name(), xml_attr(),
xml_attrs() and xml_text() (@jimhester, #9
#76)
xml_ns() now keeps namespace prefixes that point to
the same URI (@jimhester, #35, #95).
read_xml() and read_html() methods
added for httr::response() objects. (@jimhester, #63, #93)
xml_child() function to make selecting children a
little easier (@jimhester, #23, #94)
xml_find_one() has been deprecated in favor of
xml_find_first() (@jimhester, #58, #92)
xml_read() functions now default to passing the
document’s namespace object. Namespace definitions can now be removed as
well as added and xml_ns_strip() added to remove all
default namespaces from a document. (@jimhester, #28, #89)
xml_read() gains a options argument to
control all available parsing options, including HUGE to
turn off limits for parsing very large documents and now drops blank
text nodes by default, mimicking default behavior of XML package. (@jimhester, #49, #62,
#85, #88)
xml_write() expands the path on filenames, so
directories can be specified with ‘~/’ (@jimhester, #86, #80)
xml_find_one() now returns a ‘xml_missing’ node
object if there are 0 matches (@jimhester, #55, #53,
hadley/rvest#82).
xml_find_num(), xml_find_chr(),
xml_find_lgl() functions added to return numeric, character
and logical results from XPath expressions. (@jimhester, #55)
xml_name() and xml_text() always
correctly encode returned value as UTF-8 (#54).
Improved configure script - now works again on R-devel on windows.
Compiles with older versions of libxml2.,
Make configure script more cross platform.
Add xml_length() to count the number of children
(#32).