0.8.0

Release Notes v0.8.0 (November 3, 2024)

This release brings significant internal refactoring, new filtering capabilities, and improvements to node manipulation methods.

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🔄 Major Changes

• Simplified internal architecture by replacing generic types with concrete NodeData type
• Moved implementations from Node to NodeRef (Node is now an alias for NodeRef)
• Simplified the internal logic of several methods (replace_with_html, set_html, append_html) using Tree::merge

✨ New Features

• Added new Selection filtering methods:
  • Selection::filter
  • Selection::filter_matcher
  • Selection::try_filter
  • Selection::filter_selection
• Introduced new NodeRef manipulation methods:
  • NodeRef::replace_with - replace a node with another one
  • NodeRef::replace_with_html - replace a node with HTML content
  • NodeRef::set_text - set node's text content
  • NodeRef::append_prev_siblings - prepend nodes before selected node
• Added new :only-text pseudo-class for selecting nodes with single text child
• Implemented NodeIdProver trait for NodeRef and Node to simplify API usage

🛠️ Minor Changes

• Simplified Node::has_text functionality

🐛 Bug Fixes

• Corrected <NodeRef<'a> as selectors::Element>::is_empty to handle line breaks and whitespace properly.

🗑️ Removals

The following deprecated methods have been removed:

• Tree::append_children_from_another_tree
• Tree::append_prev_siblings_from_another_tree
• Node::append_children_from_another_tree
• Node::append_prev_siblings_from_another_tree

Changelog

Full Changelog: 0.7.0...0.8.0