Revision history for HTML::DOM

0.014   20 August, 2008
        • Fixed the Makefile.PL so it installs properly and doesn’t
          downgrade CSS::DOM after installing 0.03.
        • HTML::DOM->createEvent now dies if the arg passed to it is
          an unsupported event category.

0.013   19 August, 2008
        New features:
        • HTML::DOM::Interface now indicates which members have UTF-16
          equivalents.
        • Changes to conform to the Level-2 HTML DOM module:
          • HTML::DOM::Element::Input’s ‘type’ method is no longer
            read-only.
          • HTML::DOM::Element::Object now has a contentDocument,
            which returns nothing for now.
          • HTML::DOM::Element::Table’s caption, tHead and tFoot meth-
            ods now die when passed something other an element of the
            right type.
          • The  insertRow  methods of  HTML::DOM::Element::Table  and
            ::TableSection and the insertCell method of ::TableRow now
            die if the index is out of range.
          • Frame and iframe elements now each have a contentDocument
            method, which, for now, returns an empty HTML::DOM object.
            Later I need to add support for  callback  routines  that
            create the object.
        • HTML::DOM::Exception now has a ‘code’ method.
        • The brand new shiny  default_event_handler_for  method has
          been added. It makes it less cumbersome to provide default
          behaviours for different event types.
        • All HTML elements now have a click method--something from
          HTML 5 (I seem to be getting ahead of myself).
        Bug fixes:
        • removeChild now works on the document tree.
        • Modification of an Attr object for an event attribute now
          modifies the event handler itself.
        • HTML::DOM::Interface no longer lists the index property of
          the HTMLOptionsElement interface as read-only.
        • HTML::DOM::Table’s and ::TableSection’s insertRow methods
          and ::TableRow’s insertCell method now insert the new row
          or cell into the right place when called  with  an  index
          other than 0 or -1.
        • HTML::DOM::Implementation->hasFeature now returns true for
          Core 1.0, and not just Core 2.0. (Oops!)

0.012   29 July, 2008
        Incompatible changes:
        • The parse_file method now uses HTML::Encoding to detect the
          encoding of the file,  if given a file  name,  and  if  the
          encoding has not been set with the new ‘charset’  method or
          the constructor’s new ‘charset’  option.  It used to assume
          ISO  Latin  1.  It  still  treats  file  handles  the  same
          way, though;  that is, it assumes the file handle is produc-
          ing Unicode text (you have to ‘binmode’ to set the encoding
          if that’s not the case).
        New features:
        • The constructor now accepts a ‘charset’ option which is used
          by  parse_file  and  by  the  make_request  method  of  form
          form elements.
        • A ‘charset’ method has been added to HTML::DOM,  which
          returns the encoding passed to the constructor or that
          parse_file  used.  You can  also  use  it  to  set  it.
        • parse_file’s return value is now useful: true upon success;
          false upon failure (to open the file)
        • Upward references in the object tree are now weak
          references.
        • I’ve started work on Level-2 HTML features. So far,
          • HTML::DOM::Interface lists HTMLOptionsCollection as a sepa-
            rate interface from HTMLCollection and
          • HTML::DOM::Collection::Options now throws an error if
            length is set.
        • A callback routine passed to event_attr_handler now receives
          the offset within the source of the attribute’s value as the
          fourth argument.
        • Attribute methods of elements now support  implicit  attri-
          butes (those with default values in the DTD).
        Bug fixes:
        • Suppressed an erroneous warning triggered in bleadperl (5.11
          to be) by HTML::DOM::Element::Form’s inputs method.
        • HTML::DOM’s close method had an erroneous eval, which would
          catch errors that should have been propagated,  in addition
          to the specific error it was intended to catch.
        • HTML::DOM::Collection::Option’s name and form_name_value
          methods no longer die when there are no options.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Option’s text method now supports multi-
          ple child nodes,  and no longer assumes that there is  just
          one text node within the option.
        • In cases where the HTML DTD specifies a list of alternates
          for an attribute’s value,  the corresponding DOM 0 methods
          return a normalised (lc) value.
        • HTML::DOM::Element’s removeAttributeNode method used to emit
          warnings when the node did not belong to the element and the
          element either had no attribute with the node’s name  or  an
          attribute that had never been accessed as a node.

0.011   19 May, 2008
        New features:
        • Link and style elements now have their ‘sheet’ attribute (in
          other words, the LinkStyle interface has been added).
        • HTML::DOM now has a C<styleSheets> method (the DocumentStyle
          interface has been implemented).
        One bug fix:
        • The so-called  ‘content_offset’  bug (RT  #34404) has been
          fixed.  It actually had nothing to do with  content_offset
          (which merely exposed the bug), but text after the </html>
          tag that was inserted in the  document,  rather  than  the
          HTML element.

0.010   23 December, 2007
        New features:
        • HTML::DOM::Node’s trigger_event method now returns nothing.
          (It used to return the return value of the  default  event
          handler.)  As  a  side  effect,  this  fixes  a  few  bugs.
        • The classes for HTML tables and frames have been added.
        • HTML::DOM::Element now has a content_offset method.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Form now has its reset method.
        • The DOM Level-2 core interfaces are now supported.
        • I’ve started work on CSS features. So far, elements have a
         ‘style’ method.
        • You can now access forms by using an HTML::DOM object as
          a hash ref.
        • A checkbox’s click method now toggles the checkbox’s state.
        Fixed bugs:
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Form’s submit method now
          returns nothing.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Select’s blur and focus methods now
          return nothing.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Button’s type method now works.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Label’s htmlFor method now works.
        • Heading elements (h1..h6) are now blessed into the
          HTML::DOM::Element::Heading class,  so  the  align
          method works.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Object’s useMap method now works.
        • HTML::DOM::Element::Applet’s codeBase method now works.
        • tbody elements are now inserted into the tree if a <tr>
          occurs directly within a <table>.
        • HTML::DOM::Interface now includes  HTML::DOM::TreeBuilder,
          which is used for the document’s <html> element while the
          HTML code is being parsed.
        • The as_text and as_HTML methods now work on the document’s
          <html> element during parsing.
        • The <html> element’s ‘version’ method now works dur-
          ing parsing.
        • getElementById and getElementsByTagName now stringify the
          name or ID  (in order to make  HTML::Element’s  look_down
          method happy).  These both used to return false negatives
          when passed objects with string overloading.
        • HTML::DOM::Element’s normalize method (which has been moved
          to HTML::DOM::Node) now actually does something.
        • HTML::DOM::Node’s cloneNode method used not  to  erase  the
          clone’s parentNode attribute unless the  cloning  was  deep.
          Nor did it erase the list of child nodes in a shallow clone,
          so those nodes would have multiple parents.
        • cloneNode now works with HTML elements (the attributes are
          now cloned).
        • HTML::DOM::CharacterData’s deleteData16  method  now  works
          properly, instead of getting offsets wrong and then convert-
          ing all the text into UTF-16.
        • HTML::DOM::Collection’s namedItem method used to return
          undef for form, img and map elements.
        • HTML::DOM::Collection::Elements’s namedItem method used to
          die if there were multiple form fields with the same  name.
        • HTML::DOM’s open method no longer clobbers element handlers.

0.009   23 November, 2007
        Changes/new features:
        *  You can do something with errors produced by event handlers
           by passing a coderef to the new error_handler method.  That
           coderef will be called for each error. (Before, such errors
           were ignored.)
        *  HTML::DOM::Interface has been modified, such that
          'Document' is no longer a separate interface--since there is
           no corresponding HTML::DOM module--,  but all  its  members
           are  now under HTMLDocument,  which inherits directly  from
           Node. Likewise, 'Element' has been merged into HTMLElement.
        *  HTML::DOM::Element::Select now has 'add' and
          'remove' methods.
        * 'Select' elements can now be used as array refs, so you can
           write $select->[0] instead of $select->options->[0].
        *  You can now assign undef to such an array element to delete
           it,  so  '$select->[0] = undef'  does  the  same  thing  as
          'shift @$select'. 'delete $select->[0]' also works.
        Bug fixes:
        * $form->action now works when the document has no base url
          (used to die)
        * HTML::DOM::Element::Select's type method now works.
        * HTML::DOM::Element::Select's  selectedIndex  method  and
          HTML::DOM::Element::Option's selected method should work
          reliably now.
        * HTML::DOM::Collection::Options is now listed by
          HTML::DOM::Interface.
        * HTML::DOM::Element::Input's click method now returns an
          empty list.
        * HTML::DOM's event_attr_handler is now actually useful. (It
          used to be ignored most of the time.)

0.008   5 October, 2007
        * New HTML::DOM::Interface module
        * Added type and value methods to HTML::DOM::Element::Button
        * Added the charset, coords and tabIndex methods to 
          HTML::DOM::Element::A.
        * HTML::DOM's createElement method now throws an 
          HTML::DOM::Exception.

0.007   29 September, 2007
        Two bug fixes:
        * The URL method no longer warns if there is no URL.
        * The previous release broke parsing of forms. (The rest of
          the document would be within the form element.) Now it
          should work.

0.006   27 September, 2007
      - The following interfaces have been implemented:
            HTMLFormElement
            HTMLSelectElement
            HTMLOptGroupElement
            HTMLOptionElement
            HTMLInputElement
            HTMLTextAreaElement
            HTMLButtonElement
            HTMLLabelElement
            HTMLFieldSetElement
            HTMLLegendElement
            HTMLUListElement
            HTMLOListElement
            HTMLDListElement
            HTMLDirectoryElement
            HTMLMenuElement
            HTMLLIElement
            HTMLDivElement
            HTMLParagraphElement
            HTMLHeadingElement
            HTMLQuoteElement
            HTMLPreElement
            HTMLBRElement
            HTMLBaseFontElement
            HTMLFontElement
            HTMLHRElement
            HTMLModElement
            HTMLAnchorElement
            HTMLImageElement
            HTMLObjectElement
            HTMLParamElement
            HTMLAppletElement
            HTMLMapElement
            HTMLAreaElement
            HTMLScriptElement
      - Some methods have also been added for compatibility with 
        WWW::Mechanize.
      - The 'open' method no longer stops the ownerDocument method
        from working properly.
      - Furthermore,  'open' is no longer anywhere near as powerful as
        it was; it used to obliterate the coderefs that were passed to
        event_attr_handler and default_event_handler.
      - &HTML::DOM::base has been added.
      - The parse and eof methods have been deleted, since write and
        close do the same thing.

0.005   26 August, 2007
        The HTMLCollection interface has now been implemented, and so
        have the attribute  methods  of  the  HTMLDocument  interface
        (Level 1). The HTMLHtmlElement, HTMLHeadElement,
        HTMLLinkElement, HTMLTitleElement, HTMLMetaElement,
        HTMLBaseElement, HTMLIsIndexElement, HTMLStyleElement and
        HTMLBodyElement interfaces (again, Level 1) have also been
        implemented.

0.004   22 July, 2007
        Fixed infinite recursion triggered by element handlers calling
        $dom_tree->write($html)  when  $html contains elements handled
        by the same handler. E.g.,
        <script>document.write('<script>...<\/script>')</script>

0.003   15 July, 2007
      - HTML::DOM::Text now has its nodeValue method, which I forgot
        about before. (Actually, I moved HTML::DOM::Comment's
        nodeValue to HTML::DOM::CharacterData.)
      - as_text and as_HTML have been overridden and now work.

0.002   9 July, 2007
        The basic mechanism for event handling has been implemented.
        The various different flavours of event objects still  need
        to be added.

0.001   27 June, 2007
        The first version. So far, most of the level-1 core DOM is
        implemented,  and a couple of HTML-specific  methods,  but
        that's all.
