[Filterproxy-devel] FilterProxy 0.30 is out

[Bob M. <mce...@dr...>]

...finally.  Get it here:
    http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net

This release marks the transition from Parse::ePerl to HTML::Mason.  Hopefully
Mason will be longer lived and better maintained than ePerl has been.

Also new in this release is "show filtering" and "edit filtering"
functionality.  Given a web page, it will mark up sections that were
stripped/rewritten by the Rewrite module, so you can see exactly what your
rules are doing.  The best way to explain this is to see it:
    http://filterproxy.sourceforge.net/showfiltering.html
The "edit filtering" functionality gives you two frames, one with the above
"show filtering" output, and the other with the Rewrite config for all the
rules that were applied to that page.  So now with one click you can see what
was filtered and change it.  When you first start FilterProxy, go to:
    http://your.host.here:8888/index.html
to get a set of javascript bookmarks that make this all very easy.

Also new in this release is an XSLT module, kindly contributed by Mario Lang.
XSLT is the XML Stylesheet Language Transformations.  Generically it transforms
one XML document into another XML document.  Treating HTML as XML, you can use
XSL to rearrange, rewrite, and strip out pices of a document.  It is very
powerful.  It works by examining the document's structure, and as such, is
guaranteed to produce a valid (X)HTML document in the end.  It does not,
however, have the matching power of regular expressions, so the XSLT module is
complementary to the existing Rewrite module.

I have rewritten the INSTALL file to reflect new dependencies.  rpm packages
for many things are just impossible to obtain, so I recommend everyone install
from the tarball and use CPAN to install dependencies.  If you have trouble
with this, please send me suggestions on how to make the install smoother.

Cheers,
-- Bob