ANNOUNCE: XML::LibXML 1.64 and XML::LibXSLT 1.63

Hallo everybody,
I'd like to inform you that I have just released new
versions of XML::LibXML 
and XML::LibXSLT. These are just maintanance releases with
several bugfixes 
and documentation improvements (more details follow). Note
that it may take 
some time before the tarballs get to your local mirrors.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs, provided patches, or
annotated the docs 
on annoCPAN.

 -- Petr

XML-LibXSLT-1.63.tar.gz has entered CPAN as
  file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXSLT-1.63.tar.gz
  size: 41023 bytes
   md5: 684dfa3a7eee08cd2f9a3459a6cc1125

XML-LibXSLT-1.63.tar.gz has entered CPAN as
  file: $CPAN/authors/id/P/PA/PAJAS/XML-LibXSLT-1.63.tar.gz
  size: 41023 bytes
   md5: 684dfa3a7eee08cd2f9a3459a6cc1125

Changes in XML-LibXML-1.64
   - fix reconcilation of the "xml" namespace
[rt.cpan.org #26450]
   - make tests pass with libxml2 2.9.29 - PI regression
tests now
     accept "" as data of an empty PI [rt.cpan.org
#27659]
   - strip-off UTF8 flag with $node->toString($format,1)
for consistent
     behavior independent on the actual document encoding
   - fix in XML::LibXML::Reader::nextSiblingElment
   - fix synopsis for XML::LibXML::Reader
   - skip tests that require Encode module if not available
(perl 5.6)
   - finally removed the iterator() method deprecated since
1.54
   - set_document_locator support in
XML::LibXML::SAX::Parser
   - SYNOPSIS sections of the docs now mention which module
to use
     and which other manpage to look into for inherited
methods
   - XML::LibXML::Namespace API fixed in order to achieve
     an agreement between the docs and the implementation

Changes in XML-LibXSLT-1.63
     - fix SIGSEGV regarding freeing nodes created by
extension functions
       (reported by Elizabeth Mattijsen)
     - use pkg-config to determine linker flags for
libexslt

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Petr Pajas wrote:
> Hallo everybody,
> I'd like to inform you that I have just released new
versions of XML::LibXML 
> and XML::LibXSLT. 

Yay Petr!

This prompts me to ask a couple of questions that
are more perl module management than LibXML specific.
Please forgive me if they're totally offtopic.

I have a package that depends on XML::LibXML,
and would like to have as portable as possible.
Alas, fedora hasn't kept as uptodate as I'd like
(fedora 6 has 1.58, and fedora 7 has 1.62).

Other than badgering them to update, I'd like to
figure out how to conditionalize my code.

There are really only 2 changes that give me problems:
 * 1.63 "$doc->toString always returns octets"
   I _think_ I can come up with a workaround here
   though if anybody has a tested snippet, I'd
   welcome it.
 * 1.61 "XML::LibXML::XPathContext" merged in.
   Here, the code is unchanged, but the Makefile.PL
   needs to somehow include XPathContext in PREREQ_PM
   _only_ if XML::LibXML < 1.61
   I'm sure that is possible, but MakeMaker is weird.

If anybody has worked around these, or has suggestions,
I'd very much appreciate it.
Apologies, again, for the off-topic-ness.

Thanks;
-- 
bruce.millernist.gov
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