bug fix and performance improvements

• fix #775: transformTagName with allowBooleanAttributes adds an unnecessary attribute
• Performance improvement for stopNodes (By Maciek Lamberski)

Replace `Buffer` with `Uint8Array`

• Launched Separate CLI module
• Replace Buffer with Uint8Array

Support EMPTY and ANY with ELEMENT in DOCTYPE

Full Changelog: v5.2.4...v5.2.4

upgrade to ESM module and fixing value parsing issues

• Support ESM modules
• fix value parsing issues
• a feature to access tag location is added (metadata)
• fix to read DOCTYPE correctly

Full Changelog: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

Summary update on all the previous releases from v4.2.4

• Multiple minor fixes provided in the validator and parser
• v6 is added for experimental use.
• ignoreAttributes support function, and array of string or regex
• Add support for parsing HTML numeric entities
• v5 of the application is ESM module now. However, JS is also supported

Note: Release section in not updated frequently. Please check CHANGELOG or Tags for latest release information.

Security Fix

Update to this release if you use entity parsing in Fast XML Parser.

v4

• Generating different combined, parser only, builder only, validator only browser bundles
• Keeping cjs modules as they can be imported in cjs and esm modules both. Otherwise refer esm branch.

4.0.0-beta.8 / 2021-12-13

• call tagValueProcessor for stop nodes

4.0.0-beta.7 / 2021-12-09

• fix Validator bug when an attribute has no value but '=' only
• XML Builder should suppress unpaired tags by default.
• documents update for missing features
• refactoring to use Object.assign
• refactoring to remove repeated code

4.0.0-beta.6 / 2021-12-05

• Support PI Tags processing
• Support suppressBooleanAttributes by XML Builder for attributes with value true.

4.0.0-beta.5 / 2021-12-04

• fix: when a tag with name "attributes"

4.0.0-beta.4 / 2021-12-02

• Support HTML document parsing
• skip stop nodes parsing when building the XML from JS object
• Support external entites without DOCTYPE
• update dev dependency: strnum v1.0.5 to fix long number issue

4.0.0-beta.3 / 2021-11-30

• support global stopNodes expression like "*.stop"
• support self-closing and paired unpaired tags
• fix: CDATA should not be parsed.
• Fix typings for XMLBuilder (#396)(By Anders Emil Salvesen)
• supports XML entities, HTML entities, DOCTYPE entities

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.2 / 2021-11-19

• rename attrMap to attibutes in parser output when preserveOrder:true
• supports unpairedTags

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.1 / 2021-11-18

• Parser returns an array now
  • to make the structure common
  • and to return root level detail
• renamed cdataTagName to cdataPropName
• Added commentPropName
• fix typings

⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.0 / 2021-11-16

• Name change of many configuration properties.
  • attrNodeName to attributesGroupName
  • attrValueProcessor to attributeValueProcessor
  • parseNodeValue to parseTagValue
  • ignoreNameSpace to removeNSPrefix
  • numParseOptions to numberParseOptions
  • spelling correction for suppressEmptyNode
• Name change of cli and browser bundle to fxparser
• isArray option is added to parse a tag into array
• preserveOrder option is added to render XML in such a way that the result js Object maintains the order of properties same as in XML.
• Processing behaviour of tagValueProcessor and attributeValueProcessor are changes with extra input parameters
• j2xparser is renamed to XMLBuilder.
• You need to build XML parser instance for given options first before parsing XML.
• fix #327, #336: throw error when extra text after XML content
• fix #330: attribute value can have '\n',
• fix #350: attributes can be separated by '\n' from tagname

Fixed Parsing issues

I have fixed some old rare parsing issues which were being difficult to handle.

Validator fix for & characters and no more settings for locale range

• validator: fix for ampersand characters (#215)
• refactoring to support Unicode chars in the tag name
• update typing for validator error

Update validator for error message

After this release some error messages return by validator will be updated. Validator will also return line number now.