• ANNOUNCE: tDOM 0.9.4

    From Rolf Ade@rolf@pointsman.de to comp.lang.tcl on Fri Jul 26 03:11:20 2024
    From Newsgroup: comp.lang.tcl


    tDOM 0.9.4 works with Tcl 8.5, 8.6 and 9.0.

    The migration to Tcl 9 is the main point of this release.

    Other works include:

    - Updated expat (2.6.2) and TEA.

    - Better HTML 5 entities support with the -simple parser

    - More flexibility of dom clearString

    - Cascading XPath 1.0 expressions.

    See the CHANGES files in the top-level directory of the source
    distribution for a more detailed list, and the timeline of the official
    tDOM repository at http://tdom.org for a complete list of changes.

    For downloads and other information see the README below. Bare access at http://tdom.org/downloads/

    rolf

    The README follows:


    ## tDOM - a XML / DOM / XPath / XSLT / HTML / JSON implementation for Tcl
    ### Version 0.9.4

    ### tDOM contains:

    * for convenience expat 2.6.2, the XML parser originated from
    James Clark, although you're able to link tDOM with other
    expat versions or the library provided by the system.

    * building a DOM tree from XML in one go implemented in C for
    maximum performance and minimum memory usage, and DOM I and II
    methods to work on such a tree using either a OO-like or a
    handle syntax.

    * a Tcl interface to expat for event-like (SAX-like) XML parsing.

    * a complete, compliant and fast XPath implementation in C
    following the November 99 W3C recommendation for navigating and
    data extraction.

    * a fast XSLT implementation in C following the W3C Recommendation
    16 November 1999.

    * optional DTD validation.

    * a rich and Tcl'ish language to describe structures and text
    content and to validate XML data or DOM trees or other forms of
    hierarchically data with that.

    * a JSON parser which parses any possible JSON input into a DOM
    tree without losing information.

    * an efficient and Tcl'ish way to create XML and HTML documents
    and JSON strings.

    * as build option an interface to the gumbo HTML5 parser, which
    also digests almost any other HTML.

    * an even faster simple XML parser for trusted XML input.

    * a slim Tcl interface to use expat as pull-parser.

    * a secure way to share DOM trees by threads

    * additional convenience methods.

    * and more.


    ### Documentation

    The documentation is included into the source distribution in HTML and
    man format. Alternatively, read it [online](http://tdom.org/index.html/doc/trunk/doc/index.html).


    ### Getting the code

    The development repository is hosted at <http://tdom.org> and is
    mirrored at <http://core.tcl.tk/tdom>. You are invited to use trunk
    which you get as [tarball](http://tdom.org/index.html/tarball/trunk/tdom-trunk.tar.gz)
    or as [zip archive](http://tdom.org/index.html/zip/trunk/tdom-trunk.zip)

    The latest release is 0.9.4. Get the source code as [tarball](http://tdom.org/downloads/tdom-0.9.4-src.tgz) or
    as [zip archive](http://tdom.org/downloads/tdom-0.9.4-src.zip).

    Windows binaries of the 0.9.4 release are also available. Get it for
    [Tcl 8.6 / 64 bit](http://tdom.org/downloads/tdom-0.9.4-windows-x64.zip) or [Tcl 8.6
    / 32 bit](http://tdom.org/downloads/tdom-0.9.4-windows-x86.zip) or
    [Tcl 9 / 64 bit](http://tdom.org/downloads/tcl9-tdom-0.9.4-windows-x64.zip)
    or [Tcl 9 / 32 bit](http://tdom.org/downloads/tcl9-tdom-0.9.4-windows-x86.zip)

    The provided windows binaries include (statically linked) the
    HTML5 parser.


    ### Compiling tdom

    Depending on your platform (unix/mac or win), go to the
    corresponding directory and invoke the configure script:

    ../configure
    make
    make test
    make install

    Alternatively, you can build the tDOM package in just about any
    directory elsewhere on the filesystem (since TEA-compatible).

    You might also want to do "../configure --help" to get a list of
    all supported options of the configure script. In the "unix"
    directory there is a "CONFIG" file containing some examples on how
    to invoke the "configure" script for some common cases. You can
    peek there. This file also includes a short description of the
    tDOM specific configure options.

    Since tDOM is TEA-compatible you should be able to build it using
    the MinGW build environment for Windows. There is also the MSVC
    nmake file so you can compile the package with Microsoft tools.
    Refer to the README in the win directory for more details about
    building on Windows.

    The compile process will build the tDOM shared library suitable for
    loading into the Tcl shell using standard "package require" mechanism.


    ### Reporting bugs

    Open a [ticket](http://tdom.org/index.html/ticket). Log in as
    anonymous and report your findings. If you prefer to have an
    individual login write Rolf a mail.


    ### History

    tDOM was started by Jochen Loewer (loewerj@hotmail.com) and
    developed by Jochen and Rolf Ade (rolf@pointsman.de) with
    contributions by Zoran Vasiljevic (zv@archiware.com). Since more
    than a dozen years it is maintained and developed by Rolf Ade.


    ### ... ahh, Licensing!!

    Sigh. See LICENSE file.

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  • From neophytos@neophytos@gmail.com (neophytos) to comp.lang.tcl on Sat Jul 27 17:48:21 2024
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    Hi Rolf,

    This is a much awaited release. Thanks for making it happen.

    All the best,
    Neophytos
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