Revision history for Perl extension SVG.

2.89  2026-03-05 MANWAR
      - Fix RT#136789: Corrected misleading documentation for comment() and
        desc() methods.
      - Fixed logic in SVG::Element::xmlify to ensure comment elements are
        correctly rendered as XML comments rather than standard tags.
      - Updated desc() documentation to use cdata() for content, preventing
        hash assignment warnings.
      - Improved get_path() documentation to clarify return attributes (d vs
        points) based on element type.

2.88  2026.02.23 MANWAR
      [Bug Fix]
      - Fixed: element methods (circle, title, rect, path, etc.) were
        unavailable when module was loaded with empty import list
        'use SVG ()'.
        Perl suppresses the call to import() with empty parens, so element
        methods were never predeclared. Fixed by predeclaring all built-in
        element methods in SVG::Element at load time, regardless of how
        SVG.pm is imported. (RT issue: #132058)
      [Test]
      - Added t/33-use-empty-import.t to test element methods with 'use SVG ()'
      [Fixes]
      - Fixed xt/author/pod-coverage.t to include 'use lib lib' so module is
        found correctly when running tests from the distribution root

2.87  2022.05.19 MANWAR
      - Indent doc for text PR #15, thanks @benkasminbullock.
      - Remove dead links to domain-squatted site PR #16, thanks @benkasminbullock.
      - Perldity code base (still 2 not happy).

2.86  2021.04.22 MANWAR
      - Replace last use of "vars" with "our", thanks @JRaspass.

2.85  2020.07.02 MANWAR
      - Minor documentation fix, thanks @polettix.
      - Fixed broken author test (xt/author).

2.84  2018.02.19 MANWAR
      - Removed '+x' bits from the script "xt/author/pod-syntax.t".

2.83  2018.02.12 MANWAR
      - Merged PR #11 (Test Reports), thanks @genio.

2.82  2017.12.18 MANWAR
      - Fixed subquery (txn-1762542) of the issue RT #123896.

2.81  2017.12.17 MANWAR
      - Fixed issue RT #123896 (trailing space in credit comment).

2.80  2017.11.30 MANWAR
      - Added one more test author only as suggested by @DAVE. (RT #123705)

2.79  2017.11.30 MANWAR
      - Addressed RT #123705, making test t/96-perl-critic.t and t/99_test_pod_coverage.t author only.

2.78  2017.07.07 MANWAR
      - Merged PR #10 (fix entity escaping), thanks @haarg. This also resolved RT #121612.

2.77  2017.05.18 MANWAR
      - Proposed fix to the following test failure:
        http://www.cpantesters.org/cpan/report/ddc7eefc-3429-11e7-8430-9cfb106f656a

2.76  2017.05.08 MANWAR
      - Added AUTHOR ONLY test scripts (meta-json.t and meta-yml.t).

2.75  2017.05.07 MANWAR
      - Tidied up unit test scripts and removed '+x' attributes.
      - Tidied up SEE ALSO section in SVG::XML package pod.

2.74  2017.05.04 MANWAR
      - Added key 'provides' to the Makefile.PL script as recommended by CPANTS.

2.73  2017.05.03 MANWAR
      - Merged PR #8, thanks @CSSON. Modified slightly to keep tidyall happy.
      - Correct some spelling errors that were detected by codespell.
      - Don't insert whitespace between tag name and closing bracked when a tag has no attributes

2.72  2017.05.02 MANWAR
      - Added test script t/00-load.t
      - Fixed typo in the pod document.

2.71  2017.05.01 MANWAR
      - Fixed issue RT #57000 with regard to be explici about SVG instance.

2.70  2017.04.27 MANWAR
      - Added MIN_PERL_VERSION to the Makefile.PL script as suggested by CPANTS.

2.69  2017.04.20 MANWAR
      - Fixed issue RT #118091, skip test if Perl::Tidy is missing.

2.68  2017.04.19 MANWAR
      - Fixed issue RT #109521, adding min ver of Test::More v0.94.

2.67  2017.04.18 MANWAR
      - Fixed the issue with regard to github respository info in the Makefile.PL script, thanks @KENTNL.

2.66  2017.04.17 MANWAR
      - Addressed issue RT #121197 (incorrect meta spec), thanks @KENTNL.
      - Added 'clean' and 'dist' keys to the Makefile.PL script.
      - Tidied up .gitignore file.
      - Added MANIFEST file, no need to generate every time.

2.65  2017.04.16 MANWAR
      - Merged PR #9, correcting typo in the pod. Thanks @vti.
      - Tidied up Changes file.
      - Tidied up Makefile.PL script.
      - Tidied up README file.

2.64  2015.06.02
      - RT #103938 SVG::DOM insertSiblingAfter calls nonexistent 'parent' method (Marius Gavrilescu)

2.63  2015.03.06
      - Move SVG results from POD to external files.

2.62  2015.03.06
      - Remove more duplicate pod.
      - Encoding of the pod RT #89414

2.61  2015.03.03
      - Eliminate a bunch of duplicate documentation.
      - Skip tidy testing if module is not available (RT #102484)
      - POD formatting.

2.60  2015.03.03
      - Convert source files to utf8
      - Add more tests
      - CSS styles are now sorted to make it easeier to test
      - Run Perltidy on the code

2.59  2013.03.31
      - Experiment to show images on MetaCPAN

2.56  2013.03.30
      - Move all the content of SVG::Manual to SVG

2.55  2013.03.30
      - Add an image to the pod generated by and example.
      - Rename SVG::Manual from .pm to .pod.
      - Stop violating the Subroutines::ProhibitExplicitReturnUndef policy,
        eliminate 'return undef' and return wantarray?():undef; from the code.

2.54  2013.02.16
      - Update the dates in the Changes file.
      - Remove the function prototypes that don't work on methods anyway.
        Stop violating the Subroutines::ProhibitSubroutinePrototypes policy.

2.53  2012.08.09
      - missing test file removed from MANIFEST (RT #78856)

2.52  2012.05.29
      - move POD testing to xt/
      - Some example cleanup - Shlomi Fish
      - Removing prototype - Shlomi Fish
      - POD fixes - David Paleino

2.51  2012.03.30
      - Maintenance by Gabor Szabo
      - Some documentation fixes.
      - Modernizing test suite.
      - Link to new public repository.

2.50  2010.04.05
      - Fixed inline SVG generation method (bug # 43814 and 50075)
      - Fixed XML-escaped characters (bug # 53918 and 44454)
      - Fixed undef bug in findChildIndex (bug # 48932)
      - Fixed memory leaks with Scalar::Util::weaken() (bug # 54458)
      - Fixed cloning method (bug # 36194)
      - DOM::insertAtIndex() and removeAtIndex() now update the ID and element list

2.49  2009.01.23
      - Fixed bugtracker URL in YAML

2.48  2009.01.08
      - Improved YAML and MANIFEST for cpan testers game

2.47  2008.12.15
      - Fixed MANIFEST - replaced Changes entry

2.46  2008.12.15
      - Improved META.yml
      - Fixed MANIFEST
      - Removed all pointless files

2.45  2008.12.15
      - Improved META.yml

2.44  2008.04.21
      - Improved META.yml

2.43  2008.04.21
     - Improved META.yml

2.42  2008.04.16
      - Removed Makefile from MANIFEST

2.41  2008.04.16
      - Fixed MANIFEST and added license data to the SVG.pm file

2.40  2008.04.14
      - Changed tests to current recommendation. Moved to t/ directory.
      - Added POD and POD Coverage tests

2.39  2008.04.08
      - Added warnings

2.38  2008.04.03
      - Modified SVG::Element to answer a bug report in rt.perl.org by slaven
        regarding the redefined methods warnings when SVG is used twice.
      - Fixed the POD to reflect annotation comments.

2.37  2008.03.02
      - Added NS definitions for svg and xlink to enable xlink:href and svg: namespace usage in Firefox.

2.36  2007.09.16
      - Fixed SVG::DOM POD

2.35  2007.09.14
      - Fixed SVG::DOM POD

2.34  2005.05.17
      - SVG::Element - Removed elsep entry for CDATA, cdata, cdata_noxmlesc fields to get rid of
        artificial blank spaces that confuse some browsers
      - SVG::DOM - added getRootNode method
      - Added user-contributed DOM2 methods to SVG::DOM

2.33  2005.05.14
      - Fixed the xlink reference behaviour which was wrong and
        broke Mozilla native SVG. Fix submitted by Ian Hickson

2.32  2004.10.10
      - Bufgix to repair broken test which causes failure of make test
      - Added sorting to attribute list so output is consistent
      - Added generic support for -href for any method that adds it as an attribute
      - Added xlink support to any tag with an -href attribute
      - Added 'a' and 'g' autosubs
      - Added numerous tests including pi, polygon, script, anchor, style tests
      - Bugfix for pi() method
      - Repaired script and style examples

2.31  2004.10.08
      - Bugfix to stop xml escaping of attribute data.
      - Additional support of making fe element types case insensitive

2.30  2004.09.30
      - POD changes

2.29  2004.09.26
      - Exposed SVG::Extension
      - Exposed perlify
      - Added Mozilla native SVG support as default behaviour

2.28  2003.11.03
      - Added SVG::GD to allow GD users to output SVG for simple GD drawings (RO)
      - Added perlify support: Generate Perl code from an SVG document (PW)
      - Added SVG::Extension for DTD validation support during serialisation (PW)
      - Took away automatic xml escaping code. This belongs in user codei (RO).
      - Added attributeName and attributeType to legal animateTransform in
        SVG::Element SMIL animation per Mike Churchill bug report 2003.12.03
      - Bug fix to the inlinesvg.pl example Also per Mike Churchill bug report

2.27  2002.01.29
      - Added setAttribute and setAttributes to SVG::DOM

2.26  2002.08.04
      - Moved all -specialarguments to %default_attrs so they can be set at import time
      - Added strict checking for duplicate IDs in tag() and attribute()
      - Created test suite of 17 initial regession test scripts
      - Improved xmlesc method in

2.25  2002.07.13
      - Extended DOM module to cover many more DOM functions
      - Rewrote attrib() to also set and delete attributes
      - Added 'attribute' and 'attr' aliases for attrib()

2.22  2002.06.24
      - Minor bug fix - method script was changed to uppercase accidentally.
        Repaired this error.

2.21  2002.06.20
      - Added the internal hash $svg->{-docref} which contains
        the -elist and -idlist hashes for tracking the elements
        and ids in the document in the DOM
      - Added functionality to SVG::DOM including getElements, getElementByID
      - Added an example of the use of SVG DOM in the examples directory
      - Added element-level namespace support to override the document namespace

2.2   2002.06.15
      - Bug fix for SVG::DOM
      - Enabled SVG::DOM and added additional functionality

2.1   2002.05.27
      - Separated out the SVG module documentation and moved it to SVG::Manual.pm
      - Added experimental SVG::DOM
      - Improved script support and commenting.
      - Added an end-of-output credit

2.0   2001.12.24
      - Improved POD, and moved it to SVG::manual
      - Tested significantly
      - Added aliases for xmlify
      - broke out Element.pm module from SVG.pm file
      - Repaired scripting support
      - Added CDATA tag for unmollested text support
      - changed underlying datastructure to support SVG::Parser
      - Repaired inline SVG generation
      - Added configurability and NON-SVG support

1.12  2001.10.18
      - Repaired Animate command
      - Added import functionality
      - Improved AUTOLOAD functionality
      - Improved POD
      - Tested significantly
      - Modified constructor to accept XML-definition parameters in preparation for supporting SVG::Parser
      - 0.60-1.0  Internal releases
      - Not released to public.

0.50  2001.10.13
      - Maintenance release.
      - Repaired and added consistency to pod
      - Repaired small bug in inline.
      - Added svg.pm to examples. Tested sample of the synopsis script.

0.31  2001.10.10
      - Bug fix for careless error. Left a debugging comment in the code.
      - Next time, run the code through an interpreted rather than just looking at the raw XML.

0.30  2001.10.10
      - Now support -T and inline and namespace.

0.29  2001.10.09
      - Repaired bug in method $self->use(). The method was generating an <image > tag.

0.28  2001.10.08
      - Got the program to pass -w
      - Fixed user-reported bug in animate function $rtr{-method} was missing the minus.
      - ran significant tests for complex files. Most work but some crash.

0.26  2001.10.07
      - Repaired the pod file
      - Added title and desc support

0.25  2001.10.06
      - added image support; improved POD;
      - Provided DTD & XML version support:
        XML version     '1.0'
        XML encoding    'UTF-8'
        standalone      'yes'
        namespace       'svg'
        DTD identifier  '-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.0//EN';
        DTD url         'http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/REC-SVG-20010904/DTD/svg10.dtd'

0.2   2001.10.06
      - date: Sat Oct  6 02:47:02
      - added filter support; improved POD.

0.1   2001.10.04
      - date was: Thu Oct  4 09:46:28 2001
      - original version; created by h2xs 1.19
