VERSION HISTORY
v0.4.6 pre 5, Tuesday, 10 July, 2001, 0:53
corrected some bugs that were occuring when processing image
maps
corrected a few other bugs
changed a little the presentation of the source code
v0.4.6 pre 5, Monday, 9 July, 2001, 23:26
html2wml(): corrected a bug: https urls weren't handled
correctly
the LWP agent is now created only once per session
added a few collapsing rules
v0.4.6 pre 4, Monday, 9 July, 2001, 1:04
get_url(): corrected two bugs; HTTP authentication is
beginning to work
xlate_url(): corrected a bug: respect server port when
creating relative URLs in CGI mode
v0.4.6 pre 3, Wednesday, 4 July, 2001, 0:56
work in progress: HTTP authentication support
v0.4.6 pre 3, Tuesday, 3rd July, 2001, 23:42
added function cgi_error()
v0.4.6 pre 2, Tuesday, 26 June, 2001, 1:35
added option -o, --output to write result to the given file
instead of stdout
v0.4.6 pre 1, Tuesday, 26 June, 2001, 0:53
opening tags forbidden inside <a> tags
v0.4.5r2, Tuesday, 26 June, 2001, 1:12
split_card(): corrected a bug (deck-split in non-cgi mode)
some warnings were corrected
v0.4.5, Friday, 21st June, 2001, 1:27
corrected several warnings; this also add another correction
for very bad HTML documents
v0.4.5, Friday, 21st June, 2001, 0:35
added support for rendering <frameset> and <area> tags
v0.4.5, Thursday, 20 June, 2001, 0:36
added full support for Latin Extended-A entities plus some
other non standard entities
v0.4.4r3, Wednesday, 20 June, 2001, 23:19
split_card(): doc_uri is a server-relative URL whenever
possible in order to save up a few bytes
v0.4.4r2, Wednesday, 20 June, 2001, 22:50
id bug corrected (Igor Khristophorov)
v0.4.4, Tuesday, 19 June, 2001, 1:56
corrected a bug when closing anchor tags
v0.4.4, Sunday, 17 June, 2001, 23:17
collapse_spaces(): some improvments
v0.4.4, Sunday, 17 June, 2001, 22:15
added support for some non-standard entities
v0.4.4 pre 2, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 21:32
post_conversion_cleanup(): special characters present in a
title are now converted (bug pointed by Igor Khristophorov)
v0.4.4 pre 1, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 1:53
some bugs corrections
v0.4.4 beta 4, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 1:53
xlate_url(): a part of the link is now generated only once,
which should give a nice code speedup
v0.4.4 beta 3, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 1:27
htmlize(): links are now clickable
xlate_url(): now uses ';' as parameter separator instead of
'&'
v0.4.4 beta 3, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 1:08
early support for deck splitting (in CGI mode only)
v0.4.4 beta 2, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 0:39
small changes in the settings of the HTML parser
v0.4.4 beta 1, Thursday, 13rd June, 2001, 23:32
bug correction: HTML pure anchors (tag A with only a NAME
attribute) are now correctly converted to WML anchors
v0.4.3, Sunday, June 3rd, 2001
split_card(): added a [prev] link; label is controled by the
`--prev-card-label' option
documentation updated
v0.4.3 pre 4, Saturday, June 2nd, 2001
short options are available; they sould be used in the CGI
mode in order to save up some bytes
xlate_url(): in CGI mode, generated URLs use server-relative
URLs in order to save up a few bytes per link
htmlize(): small improvments in the syntax highlighting
v0.4.3 pre 3, Thursday, May 30, 2001
HTTP headers: corrected the charset attribute; added the
Content-Length header
added timing in the debug mode
v0.4.3 pre 3, Wednesday, May 30, 2001
unclosed numeric entites are now closed (after a question
from Daniele Frijia)
v0.4.3 pre 3, Tuesday, May 29, 2001
xlate_url(): in CGI mode, generated URLs no longer use the
absolute URL of the CGI in order to save up a few bytes per
link; suggestion of Igor Khristophorov
v0.4.3 pre 2, Sunday, May 27, 2001
the `--img-alt-text' option should now work correctly
doc updated
v0.4.3 pre 2, Saturday, May 26, 2001
first attempts to fix some new bugs found by Igor
Khristophorov
v0.4.3 pre 1, Friday, May 25, 2001
added the `--img-alt-text' option to control whether the
images are replaced by their alternative text; on by
default; thanks to Igor Khristophorov for the suggestion
v0.4.3 pre 1, Thursday, May 24, 2001
cleaned up my debugging code; added the `debug()' function
corrected a weird bug pointed by Igor Khristophorov
several internal cleans-up
added support for sending compiled WML
added support for sending encoding information (from the
patch submitted by Igor Khristophorov)
added the `--numeric-non-ascii' option to control whether
the non-ASCII characters are converted into numeric
entities; off by default
v0.4.2, Saturday, May 12, 2001
non-ASCII characters are now converted to numeric entities
alone ampersand characters are now converted to the
corresponding entity
v0.4.2, Tuesday, May 8, 2001
corrected a small bug that prevent proper handling of https
URLs
corrected a small mistake in the HTML syntax highlight
changed a few things in the doc
v0.4.1, Saturday, April 21st, 2001
changed the default maximum size of a card to 1,000 bytes
corrected a mistake in the doc
v0.4.1, Sunday, April 1st, 2001
debug mode doesn't use Text::Wrap anymore, it's really too
messy. I've written a small function, `simple_wrap()', that
does what I had in mind
added support for very bad-formed HTML documents (with no
HTML or BODY tags)
added the `--ignore-images' option
v0.4.0, Friday, March 9, 2001
corrected a small bug in doc/Makefile
added a section to the documentation
v0.4.0, Thursday, March 8, 2001
complete update of the documentation
v0.4.0 beta 4, Monday, January 24, 2001
improved the debug mode: now use Text::Wrap to avoid very
long lines
v0.4.0 beta 3, Monday, January 22, 2001
corrected the parts of the code that generated the bunch of
warnings; some of the bugfixes should speed up the code a
little
lowered the default `max-card-size' value to 1,500 bytes
v0.4.0 beta 2, Saturday, January 20, 2001
added attributes conversion
v0.4.0 beta 1, Friday, January 19, 2001
the software is now correctly packaged, and has a Makefile
that checks the system configuration and installs the
software and the documentation
changed the link reconstruction engine: it now uses
Text::Template, so you can do whatever you want with the
links
v0.3.9, Sunday, January 07, 2001
added support to compile WML using the compiler from WML
Tools
v0.3.9 beta 1, Tuesday, January 02, 2001
corected a small internal flaw: now, in CGI mode, if the
`url' parameter has no value, use / as a default value
v0.3.8, Saturday, December 30, 2000
corrected a small bug in the link reconstruction engine
the `card-split-threshold' was not available because of a
mistake; this is correctd
the way spaces are collapsed has been changed a little
the `no-pre' option is now `nopre'
v0.3.7, Friday, December 29, 2000
corrected a bug when getting the document title
corrected a bug in the text handler (skip mode was ignored)
ampersand characters are now escaped in URLs
added the `no-pre' option to disable the use of the `pre'
tag
v0.3.6, Saturday, December 23, 2000
cleaned up things in the card splitting process; this
correct a bug that could occur in certain circumstances
documentation has been updated
v0.3.5, Saturday, December 23, 2000
dollar caracters are now escaped
added a small HTML syntax highlighting when debugging in CGI
mode
several bug corrections and improvments in the syntax
correction engine
named HTML entities are now converted to numeric entities,
this is safer because direct conversion to Unicode didn't
seem to work
corrected the links reconstruction engine
named entities are now also converted when in attributes
v0.3.5 beta 1, Thursday, December 21, 2000
new feature: the size of the cards can be limited using the
`max-card-size' option
v0.3.4, Wednesday, December 20, 2000
corrected a bug in the de-nesting process
added features to the links reconstruction engine
corrected the local file disclosure vulnerability
until now, captions tags were always skipped; now they
appears when tables are linearized
v0.3.3, Monday, December 18, 2000
named entities are converted to real Unicode characters
non-breaking spaces ( ) are converted to spaces
v0.3.3 beta 4, Friday, December 15, 2000
links reconstruction is finalized
v0.3.3 beta 3, Friday, December 15, 2000
added the `ascii' option to convert entities to US-ASCII
v0.3.3 beta 2, Friday, December 15, 2000
named entities conversion is finalized
v0.3.3 beta 1, Friday, December 14, 2000
added preliminary support for named entities conversion and
images support
v0.3.2, Thursday, December 13, 2000
oops! file download was broken in 0.3.1; this is corrected
now
ampersand are now coded as & in links
a long standing bug that appeared in some cirumstances has
been fixed
v0.3.1, Tuesday, December 12, 2000
added a small SSI-like engine (not heavily tested)
corrected a stupid bug: I forgot to add the line that
translate the internal links so that the urls point to the
CGI
modification of the user agent signature so that it includes
the signature of the original client
rendering of header tags H1, H2 and H3 has been improved
added a links reconstruction engine (currently unfinished)
improved the debug mode when launched from shell
v0.3.0, Sunday, December 10, 2000
the syntax repair engine has been improved and should now be
able to correct most usual HTML pages (I hope)
v0.3.0 beta 6, Saturday, December 9, 2000
corrected a stupid bug in the CGI mode
added the `debug' option
corrected some mistakes in the documentation
added the LINKS section in the documentation
added several improvements and corrected several bugs
v0.3.0 beta 5, Thursday, December 6, 2000
added the `collapse' option to control whether redundant
white space chars are kept or not
added the documentation for the options
v0.3.0 beta 4, Monday, December 4, 2000
added the `linearize' option (on by default) so that it
linearizes tables
normal texts (i.e. not inside <pre> tags) are cleaned by
stripping multiples spaces and lines
the syntax repair engine has been rewritten, but it does not
work in all cases
v0.3.0 beta 3, Sunday, November 19, 2000
first try to add syntax check/repair
v0.2.3, Saturday, November 18, 2000
added URI translation
v0.2.2, Thursday, November 15, 2000
added XML checker; the output is given to Expat to check
that it is well-formed XML. Note that XML::Parser is loaded
on demand.
added options support (using Getopt::Long)
v0.2.1, Tuesday, November 14, 20000
cleaned up a few things;
added some attributes to the allow list
added url resolution
v0.2.0, Saturday, November 11, 2000
first functional version; now uses HTML::Parser v3
v0.1.0, Friday, November 10, 2000
prototype version