XML::RSS 1.02

[Ian Davis <iand@internetalchemy.org>]

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We are pleased to announce the 1.02 release of XML::RSS!

This is the first stable release of XML::RSS since maintainer-ship was
taken over by brian d foy, and development was moved to Sourceforge.

Since XML::RSS 0.96 (17 Mar 2001) there have been several important bug
fixes and features enhancements.


* XML Encoding Bug (FIXED)

XML::RSS failed to escape illegal characters and entities when generating
RSS.  This was particularly troublesome because it auto-unescaped them.

* Improved RSS 2.0 Support (NEW)

XML::RSS can now output RSS 2.0, as well as RSS 0.9, 0.91, and 1.0.

* Parsers Support for Tags with Attributes (NEW)

XML::RSS can now properly parse RSS feeds that use attribute based tags,
e.g.  <admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://perl-rss.sf.net";>

* Auto-Add Non-Standard Namespaces [optional] (NEW)

XML::RSS can optionally auto-add short cuts to any non-standard
namespaces.  This is on top of the add_module() method that has always
been available.

* Much improved and expanded test suite (NEW)

XML::RSS now comes with an extensive test suite based on Perl Test::*
hierarchy


About XML::RSS
------------------

XML::RSS is a Perl module that provides a basic framework for creating and
parsing RSS files.  It supports most major RSS versions, and includes
support for the RSS 1.0 modules: Dublin Core, Admin, Syndication, and
Taxonomy.

Homepage:  http://perl-rss.sourceforge.net/
CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/XML-RSS/
SourceForge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/perl-rss/
RT: http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=XML-RSS


- Ian <iand@internetalchemy.org>
"The test of all knowledge is experiment."