Late Night Software releases XML Tools 2.4



XML Tools is a Scripting Addition that allows AppleScript to parse and generate XML data. XML Tools 2.4 runs natively on MacOS 8.6-9.2 and MacOS X 10.x. [Direct Download]

Changes in this version (version history not updated) are:

-- Added a new allowing leading whitespace parameter to the parse XML command. This parameter, which is false by default, causes XML Tools to ignore any leading white space in an XML data stream.

-- NOTE: XML Tools 2.3.2 introduced a change where leading white space was always ignored. This raised the ire of XML purists and so we've made this an optional behavior for XML Tools 2.4.

-- The XML leading comments property of the XML Document class has been renamed XML Prolog and now includes both comments and processing instructions appearing before the root tag in an XML document.

-- The generate XML command now properly encodes entities for markup characters appearing in tag attribute values.

-- Processing instructions containing colons are now parsed correctly.

-- The generate XML command can now handle the case where processing instructions appear in the XML prolog (i.e. before the root tag).
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