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@@ -1,11 +1,16 @@ = 4.8.0 (20190720, "One Small Soup") -* It's now possible to customize the TreeBuilder object by passing - keyword arguments into the BeautifulSoup constructor. The main - reason to do this right now is to change how which attributes are - treated as multi-valued attributes (the way 'class' is treated by - default). You can do this with the `multi_valued_attributes` argument. - [bug=1832978] +This release focuses on making it easier to customize Beautiful Soup's +input mechanism (the TreeBuilder) and output mechanism (the Formatter). + +* You can customize the TreeBuilder object by passing keyword + arguments into the BeautifulSoup constructor. Those keyword + arguments will be passed along into the TreeBuilder constructor. + + The main reason to do this right now is to change how which + attributes are treated as multi-valued attributes (the way 'class' + is treated by default). You can do this with the + 'multi_valued_attributes' argument. [bug=1832978] * The role of Formatter objects has been greatly expanded. The Formatter class now controls the following: @@ -20,9 +25,9 @@ All preexisting code should work as before. * Added a new method to the API, Tag.smooth(), which consolidates - multiple adjacent NavigableString elements. + multiple adjacent NavigableString elements. [bug=1697296] -* ' (which is valid in XML, XHTML, and HTML 5, but not HTML 4) is now +* ' (which is valid in XML, XHTML, and HTML 5, but not HTML 4) is always recognized as a named entity and converted to a single quote. [bug=1818721] = 4.7.1 (20190106) |