Soupault 4.11.0 release

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Date: 2024-09-06

Soupault 4.11.0 is available for download from my own server and from GitHub releases. It adds a plugin function for checking if HTML element tree nodes are tree nodes (HTML.is_text()), and fixes and issue with HTML.is_document(). Also, thanks to a lambdasoup update, now there is support for :has() selector in options that accept CSS selectors and another bug fix: namespaces are now correctly preserved in attribute named.

New features

It’s now possible to use :has() selector in options that accept CSS selectors (implemented in lambdasoup 1.1.0)

New plugin API functions

HTML.is_text(e) — checks if an HTML element tree node is a text node. Thanks to Jayesh Bhoot

Bug fixes

HTML.is_document(e) now correctly returns true for values created with HTML.parse() and HTML.create_document().
Namespaces are now correctly preserved in HTML element attribute names (implemented in lambdasoup 1.1.1).