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# Change log for HTML::WikiConverter

version: 0.41
date:    Mon Jan 9 10:46:00 EST 2006
 - update documentation for version 0.40 (no code changes)

version: 0.40
date:    Mon Jan 9 12:56:00 EST 2006
 - (bug 13561) support multiple encodings via 'encoding' attribute
 - (bug 13106) DokuWiki: rename from DocuWiki
 - (bug 13167) PmWiki: handle <a name="anchor">
 - (bug 13171) PmWiki: inline style rules fixed
 - (bug 14274) MediaWiki: better <nowiki> handling
 - (bug 14527) MediaWiki: better handling of <pre> blocks with empty lines
 - trim whitespace at end of each wiki line
 - html2wiki utility now installed by 'make install'
 - 'wrap_in_html' attribute now enabled by default in H::WC

version: 0.30
date:    Fri Jun 3 15:55:00 PDT 2005
 - add support for WakkaWiki, SnipSnap, Oddmuse, and TikiWiki (see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?TopTenWikiEngines)
 - add DokuWiki support for links, blockquotes, images, and tables
 - add 'strip_scripts', 'strip_head', and 'strip_comments' options, on by default
 - allow 'start' and 'end' rules to be specified with 'preserve' to allow for wiki escaping
 - allow reading from HTML files using "html2wiki( file => ... )"
 - (bug 12944, 12303) preserve HTML entities in text nodes
 - (bug 13017) MediaWiki should allow <i> and <b> to be preserved rather than converting to '' and '''
 - backend API changes; dialect modules now subclass HTML::WikiConverter
 - dialects specify their attributes using the attributes() method
 - more complete tests using larger input HTML file
 - document individual dialects
 - lots of documentation fixes

version: 0.23
date:    Sat May 22 02:19:00 PDT 2005
 - add DokuWiki dialect (with thanks to Thomas J. Messenger)
 - (bug 12441) allow dialects to post-process wiki markup
 - (bug 12440) add 'empty' rule for elements with no content
 - (bug 12439) unknown HTML elements no longer ignored
 - (bug 12396) added command line tool bin/html2wiki
 - (bug 12395) MoinMoin: added postprocessing step in MoinMoin dialect to replace "URL[[BR]]" with "URL [[BR]]"
 - (bug 12433) MediaWiki: added complete set of whitelisted tags and attributes from Sanitizer.php

version: 0.22
date:    Mon Apr 25 09:04:31 PDT 2005
 - (bug 12393) added 'wrap_in_html' option to wrap HTML input in <html> and </html> prior to wiki conversion
 - (bug 12303) MediaWiki: bracketed content is nowiki-escaped if it resembles an external link reference
 - (bug 12438) PmWiki: add <td> whitespace trimming

version: 0.21
date:    Thu Mar 17 13:36:00 PDT 2005
 - misc. documentation fixes
 - use '' as default return value from base_uri() method
 - add 'wiki_uri' parameter to specify how wiki links are formed
 - add get_attr_str() and get_wiki_page() utility methods
 - rename elem_contents() to get_elem_contents() for consistency
 - added support for PmWiki
 - fix postprocess whitespace trimming bug; only leading newlines and trailing whitespace is trimmed
 - add URI 1.35 requirement (though some earlier versions will probably work)
 - fix whitespace trimming in test suite
 - added new tests
 - Kwiki-specific changes:
    - add <strike> as alias of <s>
    - add <caption> preprocessing to convert it into a <p>
    - update wiki link handling code to use get_wiki_page()
    - removed markup around CamelCase links
 - MediaWiki-specific changes:
    - use new get_wiki_page() utility method
    - no longer passes a full URI to basename(); uses URI->path()
    - added support for attributes in <table>, <tr>, and <td>
 - MoinMoin-specific changes:
    - add <caption> preprocessing as in Kwiki
    - make rules less redundant (use 'alias' rule)
 - PhpWiki-specific changes:
    - add <caption> preprocessing as in Kwiki
    - improve support for <dl>
 - UseMod-specific changes:
    - add <caption> preprocessing as in Kwiki

version: 0.20
date:    Sat Mar 12 00:59:29 PDT 2005
 - complete rewrite, significant API changes
 - added support for Kwiki, MediaWiki, MoinMoin, PhpWiki, and UseMod

version: 0.17
date:    Wed July 7 12:40:33 PDT 2004
 - update test suite
 - remove warnings reported by cpan testers
 - lots of documentation additions
 - MediaWiki changes:
    - 'wikify_span' now removes elements intended only for URL expansion (as used by the MonoBook skin)
    - 'wikify_link' does not wikify anchor tags (i.e. A tags must have an HREF attribute)
    - bug fix: table heading markup like "! bgcolor=black !" is now properly generated as "! bgcolor=black |"
    - TH now accepts a colspan and rowspan attribute
    - "colspan=1" attribute is now stripped from table cells that only span a single column. Likewise for "rowspan"
    - added "taxo_format" option to help format taxoboxes
    - align attribute is now preserved in TH and TD
    - add "add_nowiki" parameter for adding NOWIKI tags around {{messages}}
    - table caption handling using "|+" wiki table markup
    - better nested table handling; a newline is now added before the "{|" for nested tables
    - improved handling of image thumbnails
    - now uses warnings, strict

version: 0.16
date:    Fri May 28 12:33:14 PDT 2004
 - Added 'elem_style_attr_props' method for parsing the STYLE attribute
 - Tags that are meant to be stripped (e.g. HTML, META, HEAD) no longer need an empty replacement handler (they can simply be excluded from the list of tag handlers)
 - Added handling of non-breaking elements (e.g. in some dialects, such as MediaWiki, P tags should not have any embedded newlines)
 - Fixed whitespace handling in H::W::Dialect
 - Documentation additions
 - Added benchmarking option
 - MediaWiki: added colspan and rowspan to allowed TD attrs
 - MW: Now supports 'pretty_tables' option for making nice borders/shading
 - MW: Removed arbitrary 20-char limit in conversion of {{...}} magic
 - MW: "[1]"-style links are now handled properly
 - MW: Hex codes/HTML entities in URLs now translated to appropriate char (requires URI::Escape)
 - MW: Major list handling cleanup and bug fixes
 - MW: Added new realworld test (my User: page)

version: 0.15
date:    Thu May 20 8:50:37 PDT 2004
 - Split module into several separate modules
 - HTML::WikiConverter is still the main interface
 - Added support for wiki dialects via HTML::WIkiConverter::Dialect interface
 - Added HTML::WikiConverter::Dialect
 - Added HTML::WikiConverter::Dialect::MediaWiki
 - Added HTML::WikiConverter::Dialect::PhpWiki
 - Added HTML::WikiConverter::Dialect::Kwiki
 - Fixed spacing issues in tidy_whitespace
 - Added container, block, and line element handling
 - Now supports multiply-indented blocks

version: 0.14
date:    Sun May 17 7:18:09 PDT 2004
changes
 - 'wikify_default' now called 'passthru'
 - NOWIKI blocks are no longer preserved
 - Bug fix: Add newline to HTML source before wikification -- avoids apparent bugs in HTML::TreeBuilder that prevent proper tag handling
 - Added trim method
 - Bug fix: Extra whitespace in PRE blocks no longer trimmed
 - Can now handle "[[language]]s" links (with trailing characters)

version: 0.12
date:    Thu May 14 5:23:08 PDT 2004
changes:
 - Bug fix: removed reference to non-existent 'has_parent' method within '_elem_has_ancestor' function
 - Bug fix: fixed potential bug in 'wikify_list_item' which used $node->parent->tag eq '...' instead of _elem_has_ancestor($node, '...')
 - Now supports definition lists via ; and :
 - Now supports indentation via :
 - Replaced code handler for P tag with flank handler
 - Replaced code handler for OL/UL tags with flank handlers
 - Renamed 'wikify_heading' method to 'wikify_h' for consistency with other wikify_* handlers
 - NOWIKI blocks are now preserved
 - Introduced beginnings of Unicode support with the use of HTML entities to HTML-escape high-bit characters
 - Added more tests to t/test.t

version: 0.11
date:    Sun May 10 1:01:09 PDT 2004
changes:
 - added wikify_default code handler for tags that should be preserved.
 - Added wikify_span
 - Now preserves FONT, SUP, and SUB tags
 - SPAN tags are converted into FONT if possible

version: 0.10
date:    Thu May 07 3:10:04 PDT 2004
changes:
  - Initial release