rexml 3.4.2

REXML 3.4.2 - 2025-08-26

on Ruby Gems

Improvement

• Improved performance.

  • GH-244
  • GH-245
  • GH-246
  • GH-249
  • GH-256
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Raise appropriate exception when failing to match start tag in DOCTYPE

  • GH-247
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Deprecate accepting array as an element in XPath.match, first and each

  • GH-252
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Don't call needless encoding_updated

  • GH-259
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Reuse XPath::match

  • GH-263
  • Patch by pboling

• Cache redundant calls for doctype

  • GH-264
  • Patch by pboling

• Use Safe Navigation (&.) from Ruby 2.3

  • GH-265
  • Patch by pboling

• Remove redundant return statements

  • GH-266
  • Patch by pboling

• Added XML declaration check & Source#skip_spaces method

  • GH-282
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun
  • Reported by Sofi Aberegg

Fixes

• Fix docs typo

  • GH-248
  • Patch by James Coleman

• Fix reverse sort in xpath_parser

  • GH-251
  • Patch by tomoya ishida

• Fix duplicate responses in XPath following, following-sibling, preceding, preceding-sibling

  • GH-255
  • Patch by NAITOH Jun

• Fix wrong Encoding resolution

  • GH-258
  • Patch by Sutou Kouhei

• Handle nil when parsing fragment

  • GH-267
  • GH-268
  • Patch by pboling

• [Documentation] Use # to reference instance methods

  • GH-269
  • GH-270
  • Patch by pboling

• Fix & Deprecate REXML::Text#text_indent

  • GH-273
  • GH-275
  • Patch by pboling

• remove bundler from dev deps

  • GH-276
  • GH-277
  • Patch by pboling

• remove ostruct from dev deps

  • GH-280
  • GH-281
  • Patch by pboling

Thanks

• NAITOH Jun

• tomoya ishida

• James Coleman

• pboling

• Sutou Kouhei

• Sofi Aberegg