Hi,

REXML, the pure-Ruby XML parser, v3.0.8 is out.

The Ruby CVS HEAD is up to date with 3.0.8; I'm in the process of
porting it back to the stable CVS branch.  REXML is also available as a
seperate download at the REXML website:

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

Here's a list of changes since 3.0.3:

* Fixes to transitive pretty-printing
* Attributes can now be non-Strings; they'll be to_s()'ed when set.
* Text now works on frozen strings
* Fixed a bug where, in some cases, the parser would fail to read
enough characters from the input stream, and would consequently fail.
* In reporting a parse exception on an input stream, in some cases the
code that calculated the position in the stream of the error would
raise an IO error, which wasn't caught.
* Fixed Text so that using Elements outside of a Document wouldn't
cause errors.
* US-ASCII encoding was incorrectly outputing 8-bit ASCII. (fix from
Stefan Scholl)
* Mikko Tiihonen contributed encoding support for CP-1252 and
ISO-8859-15
* Fixed XPath bug where any string equaled zero (ruby converts all
non-numeric strings to 0, whereas XPath says they're NaN)
* Added a test for descendant-or-self ordering
* Added a test for deep cloning
* Added a getter for the source in BaseParser
* Replaced #inspect in both Element and Attribute. This should make
stack traces nicer.
* Fixed a bug in ParseException. Line numbers in Ruby IO are a real
pain in the ass!
* Functions::number is more correct
* Added Kou's backward-compatability fix for DocTypes using a Source as
an argument to the constructor. This constructor has been deprecated;
there isn't any reason
for it to exist, except for backwards compatability. I will probably
remove it in the future.
* Fixed indentation with CDATA bug, #23

Ciao,

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