Version 2.10 of XML::Parser

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From      perl-xml-admin@lyris.activestate.com Fri Sep 25 18:03:40 1998
Date:     Fri, 25 Sep 1998 18:54:21 -0400 (EDT)
From:     Clark Cooper <coopercl@sch.ge.com>
To:       "Perl-XML Mailing List" <perl-xml@lyris.activestate.com>
Subject:  Version 2.10 of XML::Parser

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I've uploaded a new version (2.10) of XML::Parser to

     http://www.netheaven.com/~coopercc/xmlparser/intro.html.

This uses a new test version of expat from James Clark for supporting namespaces.

Here's the relevant part of the Changes file:

2.10 Fri Sep 25 18:36:46 1998

• Uses expat Version 19980924 (with local patch - see Expat/expat/xmlparse/xmlparse.c.diff)
• Use newSVpvn when PERL_VERSION >= 5.005
• Completed xmlfilter
• Added support for namespace processing:
  • Namespaces option to XML::Parser and XML::Parser::Expat
  • Two new methods in Expat: [1] namespace - to return namespace associated with name; [2] eq_name - compare 2 names for equality across namespaces.
• Use expat's new SetDefaultHandlerExpand instead of SetDefaultHandler so that entity expansion may continue even if the default handler is set.
• Moved test.pl back up main level and changed to work with XML::Parser
• Added tests for namespaces

Also (I should have put this in the Changes file), there's now a Comment handler type supported.

Read the new sections of the pod about what element and attribute names look like when you've got namespaces turned on.

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Clark Cooper    Logic Technology Inc.		cccooper@ltionline.com
(518) 385-8380  650 Franklin St., Suite 304	coopercl@sch.ge.com
		Schenectady,  NY 12305

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