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New features:
- The 'test' function is now available to code used in 'python:' paths.
Usage is the same as zope: test (test1,val1[,test2,val2][,default]).
(Thanks to Mark McEahern for the feature request)
- Uses PyXML (http://pyxml.sourceforge.net/) to determine the DOCTYPE of
XML templates (if installed). (Thanks to Myers Carpenter for the
implementation)
Bug fixes:
- CGI Example fixes.
- XML Templates containing attributes with character entities are now
output correctly.
- HTML Templates with special characters as part of TAL or METAL commands
are now handled correctly.
- Default encoding is now iso-8859-1 rather than iso8859-1

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New features:
- TemplateCache now uses MTIME rather than CTIME to spot
changes to templates.
- SimpleTAL is now compatible with PyXML 0.8.2 (Thanks to
Myers Carpenter for the testing).
- Added support for passing in an XML Doctype when calling
template.expand
- Added support to maintain XML singleton tags, including use of
METAL and TAL on singleton tags.
- Added support for using variables in paths (e.g. If colour='blue' then
the path 'colourMap/?colour' is equivalent to 'colourMap/blue'). This
is not part of the TALES specification, but is supported by Zope.
(Thanks to Bastian Kleineidam for the initial implementation).

Bug fixes:
- If the logging module was not installed exceptions would be thrown
when SimpleTAL attempted to log errors - fixed.

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New features:
- TemplateCache now supports inputEncoding, allowing HTML templates using
character sets other than ISO8859-1 to be used.
- Functions path, string, exists, and nocall are available to python: paths.
- Functions can now receive parameters via paths by wrapping them in
simpleTALES.PathFunctionVariable before placing them into the Context.

Bug fixes:
- In tal:attributes and tal:define double escaped semi-colons are now handled.
- Space after a semi-colon in tal:attributes and tal:define is now handled
(thanks to Sean Reifschneider)
- Handling of stray quotes at the start and end of attributes shouldn't interfere
with python: paths anymore.

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This release incorporates patches from Wichert Akkerman implementing the Python TAL path
and moving to string methods instead of using the string module.

New features:
- The 'python:' path can now be used, pass the parameter 'allowPythonPath=1' to the
constructor of SimpleTALES.Context to enable this to be used.
- simpleTALUtils now contains a template caching class (TemplateCache) that
can be used to cache compiled templates, automatically invalidating the cache if
the template file has changed.
- The string module is no longer used, replaced by string methods

Bug fixes:
- Nested repeat variables with the same name are now scoped correctly.
- If logging is available all error messages are now suppressed during testing.

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With this release import statements need to be changed. Please now use:
from simpletal import simpleTAL, simpleTALES. The API has not changed.

New features:
- SimpleTAL can now be installed using distutils, thanks to Michael Twomey.

Bug fixes:
- If tal:repeat and tal:content were used on the same element, the last piece of
content would be present twice - fixed.
- If a path element inside a string: path evaluated to something other than a string or
unicode string, it would not be evaluated. Now an attempt to coerce the value to a
string is done using the str function.

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New features:
- METAL Support added
- The TAL and METAL name-spaces can now be bound to any prefix
- When using XML Templates any elements in the TAL or METAL name-space
have their start and end tags suppressed.