Re: [Vala] GXml 0.10.0 Released

[Günther Wutz <info gunibert de>]

Is there somewhere a documentation for GXml? I tried to compile it
myself but i am stuck with an error "failed to load driver". I tried
the examples provided by GXml but they are outdated.

new Document.from_gfile(f, can)
should be
Document.new_default_for_file(f);

and doc.to_string(true, 8)
should be
doc.to_string();

I was irritated by the Nodes "#text" without a value - is there a
reason they exists?



Am Donnerstag, den 14.04.2016, 11:16 -0500 schrieb Daniel Espinosa:
> GXml provides a GObject API for manipulating XML and a Serializable
> framework to XML.
>
> Currently, GXml provides the DOM Level 1 Core API, Basic HTML
> support,
> Serialization.
>
> Provides a set of interfaces to access XML equivalent files with
> different
> implementations, some of them based on libxml but able to use
> different
> backends.
>
> It is written in Vala, but provides C API, while it is available to
> other
> high level
> languages, like Python or JavaScript, using GObject Introspection.
>
>
> ChangeLog
>
>
> ===============
> Version 0.10.0
> ===============
>
>
> * New and updated translations:
>     Added zh_CN         by Yating Kuang <yatingkuang ubuntukylin com>
>     Updated Swedish     by Anders Jonsson <anders jonsson norsjovalle
> n.se>
>     Updated German      by Mario Blättermann <mario blaettermann gmai
> l.com>
>     Updated Brazilian Portuguese by Enrico Nicoletto <liverig gmail c
> om>
>     Updated Czech       by Marek Černocký <marek manet cz>
>     Updated Serbian     by Марко М. Костић <marko m kostic gmail com>
>     Updated Hungarian   by Balázs Meskó <meskobalazs gmail com>
>     Updated Polish      by Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>
>
>
> ===============
> Version 0.9.92
> ===============
>
> * New contructor methods for TDocument using custome ReadTypeFunc
> * Bug fixes
> * New and updated translations:
>     Updated Polish      by Piotr Drąg <piotrdrag gmail com>
>     Updated Serbian     by Мирослав Николић <miroslavnikolic rocketma
> il.com>
>
> ==========================
> Version 0.9.90 and 0.9.91
> ==========================
>
> * New TDocument.from_stream(), .from_string and .from_uri() methods
> * API change TwNode and derived classes renamed to TNode
> * Added parse capabilities to TDocument
> * Improved performance tests, pointing: GDocument has better memory
> usage
> and
>   better performance than xDocument; TDocument has better performance
> but
> more
>   memory usage than GDocument.
> * Bug fixes
> * New and updated translations:
>     Added Hungarian              by Matej Urbančič <mateju svn gnome 
> org>
>     Added Slovenian              by Matej Urbančič <mateju svn gnome 
> org>
>     Added Greek                  by Γιάννης Κουτσούκος <giankoyt gmai
> l.com>
>     Added Swedish                by Anders Jonsson <
> anders jonsson norsjovallen se>
>     Updated Czech                by Marek Černocký <marek manet cz>
>     Updated Brazilian Portuguese by Rafael Fontenelle <rafaelff gnome
> .org>
>
>
> ===============
> Version 0.9.2
> ===============
>
> * API change Serializable.deserialize now return a boolean
>
> * API change SerializableCollection: added new abstract methods for
> post-deserialization
>
> * SerializableCollection: Implementations now support enable/disable
> deserialization
>   for post-deseralization using
> SerializableCollection.deserialize_children() for initial
>   document load time optimization
>
> * More memory optimizations: SerializableCollection implementations
> don't
> hold
>   objects for unknown properties/nodes
>
>
>
> ===============
> Version 0.9.1
> ===============
>
> * Added GXml.Node.parent property
> * Performance measuring: GDocument equivalent to xDocument
> * Memory usage: GDocument 42% less memory
> * Memory for de/serialization using GDocument+TwDocument Vs.
>   xDocument+TwDocument improved using 63% less memory
>
>
> ===============
> Version 0.9.0
> ===============
>
> API/ABI break
>
> * API change: Removed GXml.SerializableJson and GXml.Serialization,
> due to
> they
>   have been unmaintained for a while now.
>
> * API change: GXml.NodeList is now a Gee.ArrayList<GXml.Node>
> specialiced
> class for better
>   bindings support. The old class has been renamed to GXml.xNodeList.
>
> * API change: Most interfaces now return owned properties in order to
> allow
> implementations
>   to handle its internals without expose/keep in memory some data,
> returning
>   objects just on request.
>
> * New libxml2 implementation called GNode and derivatives, expected
> to
> replace
>   old implementation. It is a creating objects on demand.
>
> * New HtmlDocument for HTML handling
>
> * Element interface removed finalize_attr (), due it is unsed
>
> * Element added new get_ns_attr() for namespaced attributes
>
> * Element implements set_ns_attr()
>
> * xNode and derivatives enter to a maintenace status, in order
>   to be deprecated in future, some tests haven't been added
>   due to its internal complexity, like poor namespaces support. Is
>   better to relay on GNode and derivatives. DOM API will be added
>   in future versions to deprecate and remove xNode derivatives.
>
> * Serializable tests now relay on GDocument
>
> * Fixes on Unit Tests
>
> * Added more stressful performance tests, to compare xDocument vs
> GDocument
> with
>   equivalent performance