[lxml-dev] lxml 2.0alpha3 released

[Stefan Behnel]

Hi all,

I'm happy to announce the third alpha release of lxml 2.0.

It features a number of clean-ups and another large refactoring of the parser
code. The feed parser and the normal parsers now use separate contexts, so
that you can use both concurrently on the same parser instance.

Have fun,
Stefan

2.0alpha3 (2007-09-26)
Features added

    * Separate feed_error_log property for the feed parser interface. The
      normal parser interface and iterparse continue to use error_log.
    * The normal parsers and the feed parser interface are now separated and
      can be used concurrently on the same parser instance.
    * fromstringlist() and tostringlist() functions as in ElementTree 1.3
    * iterparse() accepts an 'html' boolean keyword argument for parsing with
      the HTML parser (note that this interface may be subject to change)
    * Parsers accept an 'encoding' keyword argument that overrides the
      encoding of the parsed documents.
    * New C-API function hasChild() to test for children
    * annotate() function in objectify can annotate with Python types and XSI
      types in one step. Accompanied by xsiannotate() and pyannotate().

Bugs fixed

    * XML feed parser setup problem
    * Type annotation for unicode strings in DataElement()

Other changes

    * lxml.etree now emits a warning if you use XPath with libxml2 2.6.27
      (which can crash on certain XPath errors)
    * Type annotation in objectify now preserves the already annotated type be
      default to prevent loosing type information that is already there.