[Html2wml] [Announce] Html2Wml version 0.4.8 (plus info about 0.5)

[<mad...@fr...>]

Html2Wml version 0.4.8 is available.

There is not many differences since the version 0.4.8b3.
Mainly, this release indicates that the current code is quite
stable and good in terms of results. Out of the 153 HTML
pages used to test Html2Wml, less than 10 failed to produce
valid code (in the sense of WT wmlc). Some of the failures
seem to comes from limitations of Expat (on which is based
WT wmlc). The others are real Html2Wml issues. Particularly,
it seems that <br> inside <small> can produce extra <p>.

Currently, I don't have the time to work on that particular issue
for two reasons: first, I'd like to begin the dev on version 0.5
(more on that later), and second, my grand-mother died Sunday.


WHAT'S NEW (version 0.4.8)
     Many bugfixes and some small optimizations.
     Entities conversion has been improved. URLs are now correctly
     encoded. Warnings messages have been made more consistent.
     Security fix: accessing local files in CGI mode should now be
     completly impossible.


AVAILABILITY
     You can pick up the tarball from my web site (France) of from
     SourceForge (USA).

         http://maddingue.free.fr/techie/download/Html2Wml/

         http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=3D19711


ABOUT 0.5
     The current code has grown up since version 0.3 with no major
     redesign. As a result, it can produce average to quite good =
results,
     but the code is big and slow.
     Version 0.5 will be completly redesigned. The main word is=20
modularity.
     All the code specific to the CGI mode will be in one module, and =
the
     code for the shell mode in another. As a result, the code should be
     safer and faster.


S=E9bastien Aperghis-Tramoni
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