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2019-01-02Added symlink to fix old hyperlinks.Leonard Richardson
2018-12-31Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2018-12-30Fixed a problem with multi-valued attributes where the valueLeonard Richardson
contained whitespace. Thanks to Jens Svalgaard for the fix. [bug=1787453]
2018-12-30Merging the linkage checker and html5lib fixes by Isaac Muse found in ↵Leonard Richardson
https://code.launchpad.net/~facelessuser/beautifulsoup/html5lib-fix/+merge/361282. [bug=1809910]
2018-12-24Clarified the software license.Leonard Richardson
2018-12-24Issue a warning and raise a more useful exception if someone tries to call ↵Leonard Richardson
Tag.select() without SoupSieve installed.
2018-12-23Merged in next_previous_fixes from Isaac Muse. [bug=1782928,1798699]Leonard Richardson
2018-08-12Bump up to version 4.6.3 so I can re-release.Leonard Richardson
2018-08-12Converted README to Markdown format.Leonard Richardson
2018-07-30Fix an exception when a custom formatter was asked to format a voidLeonard Richardson
element. [bug=1784408]
2018-07-28Prep for release.Leonard Richardson
2018-07-28When markup contains duplicate elements, a select() call thatLeonard Richardson
includes multiple match clauses will match all relevant elements. [bug=1770596]
2018-07-28Correctly handle invalid HTML numeric character entities like “Leonard Richardson
which reference code points that are not Unicode code points. Note that this is only fixed when Beautiful Soup is used with the html.parser parser -- html5lib already worked and I couldn't fix it with lxml. [bug=1782933]
2018-07-21Clarified the deprecation warning when accessing tag.fooTag, to coverLeonard Richardson
the possibility that you might really have been looking for a tag called 'fooTag'.
2018-07-21Fixed a problem where the html.parser tree builder interpretedLeonard Richardson
a string like '&foo ' as the character entity '&foo;' [bug=1728706]
2018-07-18Fixed a bug where find_all() was not working when asked to find aLeonard Richardson
tag with a namespaced name in an XML document that was parsed as HTML. [bug=1723783]
2018-07-18Preserve XML namespaces when they are introduced inside an XMLLeonard Richardson
document, not just the ones introduced at the top level. [bug=1718787]
2018-07-15You can pass a dictionary of intoLeonard Richardson
BeautifulSoup.new_tag. This makes it possible to create a tag with an attribute like 'name' that would otherwise be masked by another argument of new_tag. [bug=1779276]
2018-07-15Introduced the Formatter system. [bug=1716272].Leonard Richardson
2018-07-15It's possible for a TreeBuilder subclass to specify that voidLeonard Richardson
elements should be represented as <element> rather than <element/>, by setting TreeBuilder.void_element_close_prefix to the empty string. [bug=1716272]
2018-07-15Stop data loss when encountering an empty numeric entity, andLeonard Richardson
possibly in other cases. Thanks to tos.kamiya for the fix. [bug=1698503]
2018-07-14Stopped HTMLParser from raising an exception in very rare cases ofLeonard Richardson
bad markup. [bug=1708831]
2018-07-14Fixed a Windows crash in diagnose() when checking whether a longLeonard Richardson
markup string is a filename. [bug=1737121]
2018-07-14Fixed code that was causing deprecation warnings in recent Python 3Leonard Richardson
versions. Includes a patch from Ville Skyttä. [bug=1778909] [bug=1689496]
2018-07-14Improve the warning given when no parser is specified. [bug=1780571]Leonard Richardson
2017-05-07Prep for 4.6.0 release.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-07Namespace prefix is preserved when an XML tag is copied. ThanksLeonard Richardson
to Vikas for a patch and test. [bug=1685172]
2017-05-06Replace get_attribute_text with get_attribute_list.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-06 Improved the handling of empty-element tags like <br> when using theLeonard Richardson
html.parser parser. [bug=1676935]
2017-05-06Renamed convenience method to get_attribute_text.Leonard Richardson
2017-05-06Added the method, which acts like forLeonard Richardson
getting the value of an attribute, but which joins attribute multi-values into a single string value. [bug=1678589]
2017-05-06HTML parsers treat all HTML4 and HTML5 empty element tags (aka void element ↵Leonard Richardson
tags) correctly. [bug=1656909]
2017-05-06It's now possible to use a tag's namespace prefix when searching,Leonard Richardson
e.g. soup.find('namespace:tag') [bug=1655332]
2017-01-02I need to do another release because of an error while running the release ↵Leonard Richardson
script.
2017-01-02Prep for 4.5.2 release.Leonard Richardson
2016-12-19Fixed foster parenting when html5lib is the tree builder. Thanks to Geoffrey ↵Leonard Richardson
Sneddon for a patch and test.
2016-12-19Fixed yet another problem that caused the html5lib tree builder toLeonard Richardson
2016-08-02Bump version number.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-30Explained why we test both unicode and bytestring processing instructions.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-26Fixed a reported (but not duplicated) bug involving processing instructions ↵Leonard Richardson
fed into the lxml HTML parser.
2016-07-26Spelling fixesVille Skyttä
2016-07-19Updated NEWS in preparation for release.Leonard Richardson
2016-07-18If a search against each individual value of a multi-valuedLeonard Richardson
attribute fails, the search will be run one final time against the complete attribute value considered as a single string. [bug=1476868]
2016-07-18Corrected an encoding error that happened when a BeautifulSoupLeonard Richardson
object was copied. [bug=1554439]
2016-07-18Added support for CSS selector values that contain quoted spaces,Leonard Richardson
such as tag[style="display: foo"]. [bug=1540588]
2016-07-18The argument to now works correctly, though it'sLeonard Richardson
not implemented very efficiently. [bug=1520530]
2016-07-17 When a BeautifulSoup object is pickled but its tree builder cannotLeonard Richardson
be pickled, its .builder attribute is set to None instead of being destroyed. This avoids a performance problem once the object is unpickled. [bug=1523629]
2016-07-17Although the previously fixed problem only occurs when using the html5lib ↵Leonard Richardson
tree builder, it's not actually a problem with the tree builder itself.
2016-07-17Fixed a bug in the html5lib treebuilder that deranged the treeLeonard Richardson
when a whitespace element was reparented into a tag that contained an identical whitespace element. [bug=1505351]
2016-07-16Beautiful Soup will now work with versions of html5lib greater thanLeonard Richardson
0.99999999. [bug=1603299]
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