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@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ work. Here are the renames: * findPreviousSibling -> find_previous_sibling * findPreviousSiblings -> find_previous_siblings +Some attributes have also been renamed: + + * Tag.isSelfClosing -> Tag.is_empty_element + == Generators are now properties == The generators have been given more sensible (and PEP 8-compliant) @@ -51,6 +55,18 @@ and nothing else, then A.string is the same as B.string. So: The value of a.string used to be None, and now it's "foo". +== Empty-element tags == + +Beautiful Soup's handling of empty-element tags (aka self-closing +tags) has been improved, especially when parsing XML. Previously you +had to explicitly specify a list of empty-element tags. You can still +do that, but if you don't, Beautiful Soup now considers any empty tag +to be an empty-element tag. + +The determination of empty-element-ness is now made at runtime rather +than parse time. If you add a child to an empty-element tag, it stops +being an empty-element tag. + == Entities are always converted to Unicode == An HTML or XML entity is always converted into the corresponding |