<small>Note: If you find missing information about particular minor version, that version must have been changed without any functional change in this library.</small>

Note: Due to some last quick changes on v4, detail of v4.5.3 & v4.5.4 are not updated here. v4.5.4x is the last tag of v4 in github repository. I'm extremely sorry for the confusion

**5.7.2 / 2026-04-25**
- allow numerical external entity for backward compatibility
- fix #705: attributesGroupName working with preserveOrder
- fix #817: stackoverflow when tag expression is very long

**5.7.1 / 2026-04-20**
- fix typo in CJS typing file

**5.7.0 / 2026-04-17**
- Use `@nodable/entities` v2.1.0
  - breaking changes
    - single entity scan. You're not allowed to user entity value to form another entity name.
    - you cant add numeric external entity
    - entity error message when expantion limit is crossed might change
  - typings are updated for new options related to process entity
  - please follow documentation of `@nodable/entities` for more detail.
  - performance
    - if processEntities is false, then there should not be impact on performance.
    - if processEntities is true, but you dont pass entity decoder separately then performance may degrade by approx 8-10%
    - if processEntities is true, and you pass entity decoder separately
      - if no entity then performance should be same as before
      - if there are entities then performance should be increased from past versions
  - ignoreAttributes is not required to be set to set xml version for NCR entity value
- update 'fast-xml-builder' to sanitize malicious CDATA and comment's content

**5.6.0 / 2026-04-15**
- fix: entity replacement for numeric entities
- use @nodable/entities to replace entities
  - this may change some error messages related to entities expansion limit or inavlid use
  - post check would be exposed in future version

**5.5.12 / 2026-04-13**
- Performance Improvement: update path-expression-matcher
  - use proxy pattern than Proxy class

**5.5.11 / 2026-04-08**
- Performance Improvement
  - integrate ExpressionSet for stopNodes

**5.5.10 / 2026-04-03**
- increase default entity explansion limit as many projects demand for that
- performance improvement
  - reduce calls to toString
  - early return when entities are not present
  - prepare rawAttrsForMatcher only if user sets `jPath: false`

**5.5.9 / 2026-03-23**
- combine typing files


**4.5.5 / 2026-03-22**

apply fixes from v5 (legacy maintenance branch v4-maintenance)

- support maxEntityCount
- support onDangerousProperty
- support maxNestedTags
- handle prototype pollution
- fix incorrect entity name replacement
- fix incorrect condition for entity expansion

**5.5.8 / 2026-03-20**
- pass read only matcher in callback

**5.5.7 / 2026-03-19**
- fix: entity expansion limits
- update strnum package to 2.2.0

**5.5.6 / 2026-03-16**
- update builder dependency
- fix incorrect regex to replace \. in entity name
- fix check for entitiy expansion for lastEntities and html entities too

**5.5.5 / 2026-03-13**
- sanitize dangerous tag or attribute name
- error on critical property name
- support onDangerousProperty option

**5.5.4 / 2026-03-13**
- declare Matcher & Expression as unknown so user is not forced to install path-expression-matcher


**5.5.3 / 2026-03-11**
- upgrade builder

**5.5.2 / 2026-03-11**
- update dependency to fix typings

**5.5.1 / 2026-03-10**
- fix dependency

**5.5.0 / 2026-03-10**
- support path-expression-matcher
- fix: stopNode should not be parsed
- performance improvement for stopNode checking

**5.4.2 / 2026-03-03**
- support maxEntityCount option

**5.4.1  / 2026-02-25**
- fix (#785) unpairedTag node should not have tag content

**5.4.0  / 2026-02-25**
- migrate to fast-xml-builder

**5.3.9 / 2026-02-25**
- support strictReservedNames 

**5.3.8 / 2026-02-25**
- support maxNestedTags 
- handle non-array input for XML builder when preserveOrder is true (By [Angelo Coetzee](https://github.com/Angelopvtac))
- save use of js properies

**5.3.7 / 2026-02-20**
- fix typings for CJS (By [Corentin Girard](https://github.com/Drarig29))



**5.3.6 / 2026-02-14**
- Improve security and performance of entity processing
  - new options `maxEntitySize`, `maxExpansionDepth`, `maxTotalExpansions`, `maxExpandedLength`, `allowedTags`,`tagFilter`
  - fast return when no edtity is present
  - improvement replacement logic to reduce number of calls


**5.3.5 / 2026-02-08**
- fix: Escape regex char in entity name
- update strnum to 2.1.2
- add missing exports in CJS typings


**5.3.4 / 2026-01-30**
- fix: handle HTML numeric and hex entities when out of range


**5.3.3 / 2025-12-12**
- fix #775: transformTagName with allowBooleanAttributes adds an unnecessary attribute

**5.3.2 / 2025-11-14**
- fix for import statement for v6

**5.3.1 / 2025-11-03**
- Performance improvement for stopNodes (By [Maciek Lamberski](https://github.com/macieklamberski))

**5.3.0 / 2025-10-03**
- Use `Uint8Array` in place of `Buffer` in Parser

**5.2.5 / 2025-06-08**
- Inform user to use [fxp-cli](https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fxp-cli) instead of in-built CLI feature
- Export typings  for direct use

**5.2.4 / 2025-06-06**
- fix (#747): fix EMPTY and ANY with ELEMENT in DOCTYPE

**5.2.3 / 2025-05-11**
- fix (#747): support EMPTY and ANY with ELEMENT in DOCTYPE

**5.2.2 / 2025-05-05**
- fix (#746): update strnum to fix parsing issues related to enotations

**5.2.1 / 2025-04-22**
- fix: read DOCTYPE entity value correctly
- read DOCTYPE NOTATION, ELEMENT exp but not using read values


**5.2.0 / 2025-04-03**
- feat: support metadata on nodes (#593) (By [Steven R. Loomis](https://github.com/srl295))

**5.1.0 / 2025-04-02**
- feat: declare package as side-effect free (#738) (By [Thomas Bouffard](https://github.com/tbouffard))
- fix cjs build mode
- fix builder return type to string
- 

**5.0.9 / 2025-03-14**
- fix: support numeric entities with values over 0xFFFF (#726) (By [Marc Durdin](https://github.com/mcdurdin))
- fix: update strnum to fix parsing 0 if skiplike option is used

**5.0.8 / 2025-02-27**
- fix parsing 0 if skiplike option is used.
  - updating strnum dependency

**5.0.7 / 2025-02-25**
- fix (#724) typings for cjs.

**5.0.6 / 2025-02-20**
- fix cli output (By [Angel Delgado](https://github.com/angeld7))
  - remove multiple JSON parsing

**5.0.5 / 2025-02-20**
- fix parsing of string starting with 'e' or 'E' by updating strnum

**5.0.4 / 2025-02-20**
- fix CLI to support all the versions of node js when displaying library version.
- fix CJS import in v5
  - by fixing webpack config

**5.0.3 / 2025-02-20**
- Using strnum ESM module
  - new fixes in strum may break your experience

**5.0.2 / 2025-02-20**
- fix: include CommonJS resources in the npm package #714 (By [Thomas Bouffard](https://github.com/tbouffard))
- fix: move babel deps to dev deps

**5.0.1 / 2025-02-19**
- fix syntax error for CLI command

**5.0.0 / 2025-02-19**
- ESM support
  - no change in the functionality, syntax, APIs, options, or documentation.

**4.5.2 / 2025-02-18**
- Fix null CDATA to comply with undefined behavior (#701) (By [Matthieu BOHEAS](https://github.com/Kelgors))
- Fix(performance): Update check for leaf node in saveTextToParentTag function in OrderedObjParser.js (#707) (By [...](https://github.com/tomingtoming))
- Fix: emit full JSON string from CLI when no output filename specified (#710) (By [Matt Benson](https://github.com/mbenson))

**4.5.1 / 2024-12-15**
- Fix empty tag key name for v5 (#697).  no impact on v4
- Fixes entity parsing when used in strict mode (#699)

**4.5.0 / 2024-09-03**
- feat #666: ignoreAttributes support function, and array of string or regex (By [ArtemM](https://github.com/mav-rik))

**4.4.1 / 2024-07-28**
- v5 fix: maximum length limit to currency value
- fix #634: build attributes with oneListGroup and attributesGroupName (#653)(By [Andreas Naziris](https://github.com/a-rasin))
- fix: get oneListGroup to work as expected for array of strings (#662)(By [Andreas Naziris](https://github.com/a-rasin))

**4.4.0 / 2024-05-18**
- fix #654: parse attribute list correctly for self closing stop node.
- fix: validator bug when closing tag is not opened. (#647) (By [Ryosuke Fukatani](https://github.com/RyosukeFukatani))
- fix #581: typings; return type of `tagValueProcessor` & `attributeValueProcessor` (#582) (By [monholm]())

**4.3.6 / 2024-03-16**
- Add support for parsing HTML numeric entities (#645) (By [Jonas Schade ](https://github.com/DerZade))

**4.3.5 / 2024-02-24**
- code for v5 is added for experimental use

**4.3.4 / 2024-01-10**
- fix: Don't escape entities in CDATA sections (#633) (By [wackbyte](https://github.com/wackbyte))

**4.3.3 / 2024-01-10**
- Remove unnecessary regex

**4.3.2 / 2023-10-02**
- fix `jObj.hasOwnProperty` when give input is null (By [Arda TANRIKULU](https://github.com/ardatan)) 

**4.3.1 / 2023-09-24**
- revert back "Fix typings for builder and parser to make return type generic" to avoid failure of existing projects. Need to decide a common approach.

**4.3.0 / 2023-09-20**
- Fix stopNodes to work with removeNSPrefix (#607) (#608) (By [Craig Andrews]https://github.com/candrews))
- Fix #610 ignore properties set to Object.prototype
- Fix typings for builder and parser to make return type generic (By [Sarah Dayan](https://github.com/sarahdayan))

**4.2.7 / 2023-07-30**
- Fix: builder should set text node correctly when only textnode is present (#589) (By [qianqing](https://github.com/joneqian))
- Fix: Fix for null and undefined attributes when building xml (#585) (#598). A null or undefined value should be ignored. (By [Eugenio Ceschia](https://github.com/cecia234))

**4.2.6 / 2023-07-17**
- Fix: Remove trailing slash from jPath for self-closing tags (#595) (By [Maciej Radzikowski](https://github.com/m-radzikowski))

**4.2.5 / 2023-06-22**
- change code implementation

**4.2.4 / 2023-06-06**
- fix security bug

**4.2.3 / 2023-06-05**
- fix security bug

**4.2.2 / 2023-04-18**
- fix #562: fix unpaired tag when it comes in last of a nested tag. Also throw error when unpaired tag is used as closing tag

**4.2.1 / 2023-04-18**
- fix: jpath after unpaired tags

**4.2.0 / 2023-04-09**
- support `updateTag` parser property

**4.1.4 / 2023-04-08**
- update typings to let user create XMLBuilder instance without options (#556) (By [Patrick](https://github.com/omggga))
- fix: IsArray option isn't parsing tags with 0 as value correctly #490 (#557) (By [Aleksandr Murashkin](https://github.com/p-kuen))
- feature: support `oneListGroup` to group repeated children tags udder single group
 
**4.1.3 / 2023-02-26**
- fix #546: Support complex entity value

**4.1.2 / 2023-02-12**
- Security Fix

**4.1.1 / 2023-02-03**
- Fix #540: ignoreAttributes breaks unpairedTags
- Refactor XML builder code

**4.1.0 / 2023-02-02**
- Fix '<' or '>' in DTD comment throwing an error. (#533) (By [Adam Baker](https://github.com/Cwazywierdo))
- Set "eNotation" to 'true' as default

**4.0.15 / 2023-01-25**
- make "eNotation" optional

**4.0.14 / 2023-01-22**
- fixed: add missed typing "eNotation" to parse values

**4.0.13 / 2023-01-07**
- preserveorder formatting (By [mdeknowis](https://github.com/mdeknowis))
- support `transformAttributeName` (By [Erik Rothoff Andersson](https://github.com/erkie))

**4.0.12 / 2022-11-19**
- fix typescript

**4.0.11 / 2022-10-05**
- fix #501: parse for entities only once

**4.0.10 / 2022-09-14**
- fix broken links in demo site (By [Yannick Lang](https://github.com/layaxx))
- fix #491: tagValueProcessor type definition (By [Andrea Francesco Speziale](https://github.com/andreafspeziale))
- Add jsdocs for tagValueProcessor


**4.0.9 / 2022-07-10**
- fix #470: stop-tag can have self-closing tag with same name
- fix #472: stopNode can have any special tag inside
- Allow !ATTLIST and !NOTATION with DOCTYPE
- Add transformTagName option to transform tag names when parsing (#469) (By [Erik Rothoff Andersson](https://github.com/erkie))

**4.0.8 / 2022-05-28**
- Fix CDATA parsing returning empty string when value = 0 (#451) (By [ndelanou](https://github.com/ndelanou))
- Fix stopNodes when same tag appears inside node (#456) (By [patrickshipe](https://github.com/patrickshipe))
- fix #468: prettify own properties only

**4.0.7 / 2022-03-18**
- support CDATA even if tag order is not preserved
- support Comments even if tag order is not preserved
- fix #446: XMLbuilder should not indent XML declaration

**4.0.6 / 2022-03-08**
- fix: call tagValueProcessor only once for array items
- fix: missing changed for #437

**4.0.5 / 2022-03-06**
- fix #437: call tagValueProcessor from XML builder

**4.0.4 / 2022-03-03**
- fix #435: should skip unpaired and self-closing nodes when set as stopnodes

**4.0.3 / 2022-02-15**
- fix: ReferenceError when Bundled with Strict (#431) (By [Andreas Heissenberger](https://github.com/aheissenberger))


**4.0.2 / 2022-02-04**
- builder supports `suppressUnpairedNode`
- parser supports `ignoreDeclaration` and `ignorePiTags`
- fix: when comment is parsed as text value if given as `<!--> ...` #423
- builder supports decoding `&`

**4.0.1 / 2022-01-08**
- fix builder for pi tag
- fix: support suppressBooleanAttrs by builder

**4.0.0 / 2022-01-06**
- Generating different combined, parser only, builder only, validator only browser bundles
- Keeping cjs modules as they can be imported in cjs and esm modules both. Otherwise refer `esm` branch.

**4.0.0-beta.8 / 2021-12-13**
- call tagValueProcessor for stop nodes

**4.0.0-beta.7 / 2021-12-09**
- fix Validator bug when an attribute has no value but '=' only
- XML Builder should suppress unpaired tags by default.
- documents update for missing features
- refactoring to use Object.assign
- refactoring to remove repeated code

**4.0.0-beta.6 / 2021-12-05**
- Support PI Tags processing
- Support `suppressBooleanAttributes` by XML Builder for attributes with value `true`.

**4.0.0-beta.5 / 2021-12-04**
- fix: when a tag with name "attributes"

**4.0.0-beta.4 / 2021-12-02**
- Support HTML document parsing
- skip stop nodes parsing when building the XML from JS object
- Support external entites without DOCTYPE
- update dev dependency: strnum v1.0.5 to fix long number issue

**4.0.0-beta.3 / 2021-11-30**
- support global stopNodes expression like "*.stop"
- support self-closing and paired unpaired tags
- fix: CDATA should not be parsed.
- Fix typings for XMLBuilder (#396)(By [Anders Emil Salvesen](https://github.com/andersem))
- supports XML entities, HTML entities, DOCTYPE entities

**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.2 / 2021-11-19**
- rename `attrMap` to `attibutes` in parser output when `preserveOrder:true`
- supports unpairedTags

**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.1 / 2021-11-18**
- Parser returns an array now
  - to make the structure common
  - and to return root level detail
- renamed `cdataTagName` to `cdataPropName`
- Added `commentPropName`
- fix typings

**⚠️ 4.0.0-beta.0 / 2021-11-16**
- Name change of many configuration properties.
  - `attrNodeName` to `attributesGroupName`
  - `attrValueProcessor` to `attributeValueProcessor`
  - `parseNodeValue` to `parseTagValue`
  - `ignoreNameSpace` to `removeNSPrefix`
  - `numParseOptions` to `numberParseOptions`
  - spelling correction for `suppressEmptyNode`
- Name change of cli and browser bundle to **fxparser**
- `isArray` option is added to parse a tag into array
- `preserveOrder` option is added to render XML in such a way that the result js Object maintains the order of properties same as in XML.
- Processing behaviour of `tagValueProcessor` and `attributeValueProcessor` are changes with extra input parameters
- j2xparser is renamed to XMLBuilder.
- You need to build XML parser instance for given options first before parsing XML.
- fix #327, #336: throw error when extra text after XML content
- fix #330: attribute value can have '\n', 
- fix #350: attrbiutes can be separated by '\n' from tagname

3.21.1 / 2021-10-31
- Correctly format JSON elements with a text prop but no attribute props ( By [haddadnj](https://github.com/haddadnj) )

3.21.0 / 2021-10-25
  - feat: added option `rootNodeName` to set tag name for array input when converting js object to XML.
  - feat: added option `alwaysCreateTextNode` to force text node creation (by: *@massimo-ua*)
  - ⚠️ feat: Better error location for unclosed tags. (by *@Gei0r*)
    - Some error messages would be changed when validating XML. Eg
      - `{ InvalidXml: "Invalid '[    \"rootNode\"]' found." }` → `{InvalidTag: "Unclosed tag 'rootNode'."}`
      - `{ InvalidTag: "Closing tag 'rootNode' is expected inplace of 'rootnode'." }` → `{ InvalidTag: "Expected closing tag 'rootNode' (opened in line 1) instead of closing tag 'rootnode'."}`
  - ⚠️ feat: Column in error response when validating XML
```js
{
  "code": "InvalidAttr",
  "msg":  "Attribute 'abc' is repeated.",
  "line": 1,
  "col": 22
}
```

3.20.1 / 2021-09-25
  - update strnum package

3.20.0 / 2021-09-10
  - Use strnum npm package to parse string to number
    - breaking change: long number will be parsed to scientific notation.

3.19.0 / 2021-03-14
  - License changed to MIT original
  - Fix #321 : namespace tag parsing

3.18.0 / 2021-02-05
  - Support RegEx and function in arrayMode option 
  - Fix #317 : validate nested PI tags

3.17.4 / 2020-06-07
  - Refactor some code to support IE11
  - Fix: `<tag >` space as attribute string

3.17.3 / 2020-05-23
  - Fix: tag name separated by \n \t
  - Fix: throw error for unclosed tags

3.17.2 / 2020-05-23
  - Fixed an issue in processing doctype tag
  - Fixed tagName where it should not have whitespace chars

3.17.1 / 2020-05-19
  - Fixed an issue in checking opening tag
  
3.17.0 / 2020-05-18
  - parser: fix '<' issue when it comes in aatr value
  - parser: refactoring to remove dependency from regex
  - validator: fix IE 11 issue for error messages
  - updated dev dependencies
  - separated benchmark module to sub-module
  - breaking change: comments will not be removed from CDATA data

3.16.0 / 2020-01-12
  - validaor: fix for ampersand characters (#215)
  - refactoring to support unicode chars in tag name
  - update typing for validator error

3.15.1 / 2019-12-09
  - validaor: fix multiple roots are not allowed

3.15.0 / 2019-11-23
  - validaor: improve error messaging
  - validator: add line number in case of error
  - validator: add more error scenarios to make it more descriptive

3.14.0 / 2019-10-25
  - arrayMode for XML to JS obj parsing

3.13.0 / 2019-10-02
  - pass tag/attr name to tag/attr value processor
  - inbuilt  optional validation with XML parser

3.12.21 / 2019-10-02
  - Fix validator for unclosed XMLs
  - move nimnjs dependency to dev dependency
  - update dependencies
  
3.12.20 / 2019-08-16
  - Revert:  Fix #167: '>' in attribute value as it is causing high performance degrade.
  
3.12.19 / 2019-07-28
  - Fix js to xml parser should work for date values. (broken: `tagValueProcessor` will receive the original value instead of string always) (breaking change)
  
3.12.18 / 2019-07-27
  - remove configstore dependency
  
3.12.17 / 2019-07-14
  - Fix #167: '>' in attribute value
  
3.12.16 / 2019-03-23
  - Support a new option "stopNodes". (#150)
Accept the list of tags which are not required to be parsed. Instead, all the nested tag and data will be assigned as string.
  - Don't show post-install message
  
3.12.12 / 2019-01-11
  - fix : IE parseInt, parseFloat error
  
3.12.11 / 2018-12-24
  - fix #132: "/" should not be parsed as boolean attr in case of self closing tags
  
3.12.9 / 2018-11-23
  - fix #129 : validator should not fail when an atrribute name is 'length'
  
3.12.8 / 2018-11-22
  - fix #128 : use 'attrValueProcessor' to process attribute value in json2xml parser
  
3.12.6 / 2018-11-10
  - Fix #126: check for type
  
3.12.4 / 2018-09-12
  - Fix: include tasks in npm package
  
3.12.3 / 2018-09-12
  - Fix CLI issue raised in last PR
  
3.12.2 / 2018-09-11
  - Fix formatting for JSON to XML output
  - Migrate to webpack (PR merged)
  - fix cli (PR merged)
  
3.12.0 / 2018-08-06
  - Support hexadecimal values
  - Support true number parsing 
  
3.11.2 / 2018-07-23
  - Update Demo for more options
  - Update license information
  - Update readme for formatting, users, and spelling mistakes
  - Add missing typescript definition for j2xParser
  - refactoring: change filenames
  
3.11.1 / 2018-06-05
  - fix #93: read the text after self closing tag
  
3.11.0 / 2018-05-20
  - return defaultOptions if there are not options in buildOptions function 
  - added localeRange declaration in parser.d.ts
  - Added support of cyrillic characters in validator XML
  - fixed bug in validator work when XML data with byte order marker
  
3.10.0 / 2018-05-13
  - Added support of cyrillic characters in parsing XML to JSON
  
3.9.11 / 2018-05-09
  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/80 fix nimn chars
  - update package information
  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/86: json 2 xml parser : property with null value should be parsed to self closing tag.
  - update online demo
  - revert zombiejs to old version to support old version of node
  - update dependencies
  
3.3.10 / 2018-04-23
  - fix #77 : parse even if closing tag has space before '>'
  - include all css & js lib in demo app
  - remove babel dependencies until needed
  
3.3.9 / 2018-04-18
  - fix #74 : TS2314 TypeScript compiler error
  
3.3.8 / 2018-04-17
  - fix #73 : IE doesn't support Object.assign
  
3.3.7 / 2018-04-14
  - fix: use let insted of const in for loop of validator
  - Merge pull request
    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/71 from bb/master
    first draft of typings for typescript
    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/69
  - Merge pull request
    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/70 from bb/patch-1
    fix some typos in readme
    
3.3.6 / 2018-03-21
  - change arrow functions to full notation for IE compatibility
  
3.3.5 / 2018-03-15
  - fix https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/67 : attrNodeName invalid behavior
  - fix: remove decodeHTML char condition
  
3.3.4 / 2018-03-14
  - remove dependency on "he" package
  - refactor code to separate methods in separate files.
  - draft code for transforming XML to json string. It is not officially documented due to performance issue.
  
3.3.0 / 2018-03-05
  - use common default options for XML parsing for consistency. And add `parseToNimn` method.
  - update nexttodo
  - update README about XML to Nimn transformation and remove special notes about 3.x release
  - update CONTRIBUTING.ms mentioning nexttodo
  - add negative case for XML PIs
  - validate xml processing instruction tags    https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/62
  - nimndata: handle array with object
  - nimndata: node with nested node and text node
  - nimndata: handle attributes and text node
  - nimndata: add options, handle array
  - add xml to nimn data converter
  - x2j: direct access property with tagname
  - update changelog
  - fix validator when single quote presents in value enclosed with double quotes or vice versa
  - Revert "remove unneded nimnjs dependency, move opencollective to devDependencies and replace it
    with more light opencollective-postinstall"
    This reverts commit d47aa7181075d82db4fee97fd8ea32b056fe3f46.
  - Merge pull request: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/63 from HaroldPutman/suppress-undefined
    Keep undefined nodes out of the XML output :     This is useful when you are deleting nodes from the JSON and rewriting XML.
    
3.2.4 / 2018-03-01
  - fix #59 fix in validator when open quote presents in attribute value
  - Create nexttodo.md
  - exclude static from bitHound tests
  - add package lock
  
3.2.3 / 2018-02-28
  - Merge pull request from  Delagen/master: fix namespaces can contain the same characters as xml names
  
3.2.2 / 2018-02-22
  - fix: attribute xmlns should not be removed if ignoreNameSpace is false
  - create CONTRIBUTING.md
  
3.2.1 / 2018-02-17
  - fix: empty attribute should be parsed
  
3.2.0 / 2018-02-16
  - Merge pull request : Dev to Master
  - Update README and version
  - j2x:add performance test
  - j2x: Remove extra empty line before closing tag
  - j2x: suppress empty nodes to self closing node if configured
  - j2x: provide option to give indentation depth
  - j2x: make optional formatting
  - j2x: encodeHTMLchat
  - j2x: handle cdata tag
  - j2x: handle grouped attributes
  - convert json to xml
    - nested object
    - array
    - attributes
    - text value
  - small refactoring
  - Merge pull request: Update cli.js to let user validate XML file or data
  - Add option for rendering CDATA as separate property
  
3.0.1 / 2018-02-09
  - fix CRLF: replace it with single space in attributes value only.
  
3.0.0 / 2018-02-08
  - change online tool with new changes
  - update info about new options
  - separate tag value processing to separate function
  - make HTML decoding optional
  - give an option to allow boolean attributes
  - change cli options as per v3
  - Correct comparison table format on README
  - update v3 information
  - some performance improvement changes
  - Make regex object local to the method and move some common methods to util
  - Change parser to
    - handle multiple instances of CDATA
    - make triming of value optionals
    - HTML decode attribute and text value
    - refactor code to separate files
  - Ignore newline chars without RE (in validator)
  - validate for XML prolog
  - Validate DOCTYPE without RE
  - Update validator to return error response
  - Update README to add detail about V3
  - Separate xmlNode model class
  - include vscode debug config
  - fix for repeated object
  - fix attribute regex for boolean attributes
  - Fix validator for invalid attributes
2.9.4 / 2018-02-02
  - Merge pull request: Decode HTML characters
  - refactor source folder name
  - ignore bundle / browser js to be published to npm
2.9.3 / 2018-01-26
  - Merge pull request: Correctly remove CRLF line breaks
  - Enable to parse attribute in online editor
  - Fix testing demo app test
  - Describe parsing options
  - Add options for online demo
2.9.2 / 2018-01-18
  - Remove check if tag starting with "XML"
  - Fix: when there are spaces before / after CDATA

2.9.1 / 2018-01-16
  - Fix: newline should be replaced with single space
  - Fix: for single and multiline comments
  - validate xml with CDATA
  - Fix: the issue when there is no space between 2 attributes
  - Fix: https://github.com/NaturalIntelligence/fast-xml-parser/issues/33: when there is newline char in attr val, it doesn't parse
  - Merge pull request: fix ignoreNamespace
    - fix: don't wrap attributes if only namespace attrs
    - fix: use portfinder for run tests, update deps
    - fix: don't treat namespaces as attributes when ignoreNamespace enabled

2.9.0 / 2018-01-10
  - Rewrite the validator to handle large files.
    Ignore DOCTYPE validation. 
  - Fix: When attribute value has equal sign

2.8.3 / 2017-12-15
  - Fix: when a tag has value along with subtags

2.8.2 / 2017-12-04
  - Fix value parsing for IE

2.8.1 / 2017-12-01
  - fix: validator should return false instead of err when invalid XML

2.8.0 / 2017-11-29
  - Add CLI option to ignore value conversion
  - Fix variable name when filename is given on CLI
  - Update CLI help text
  - Merge pull request: xml2js: Accept standard input
  - Test Node 8
  - Update dependencies
  - Bundle readToEnd
  - Add ability to read from standard input

2.7.4 / 2017-09-22
  - Merge pull request: Allow wrap attributes with subobject to compatible with other parsers output

2.7.3 / 2017-08-02
  - fix: handle CDATA with regx

2.7.2 / 2017-07-30
  - Change travis config for yarn caching
  - fix validator: when tag property is same as array property
  - Merge pull request: Failing test case in validator for valid SVG

2.7.1 / 2017-07-26
  - Fix: Handle val 0

2.7.0 / 2017-07-25
  - Fix test for arrayMode
  - Merge pull request: Add arrayMode option to parse any nodes as arrays

2.6.0 / 2017-07-14
  - code improvement
  - Add unit tests for value conversion for attr
  - Merge pull request: option of an attribute value conversion to a number (textAttrConversion) the same way as the textNodeConversion option does. Default value is false.

2.5.1 / 2017-07-01
  - Fix XML element name pattern
  - Fix XML element name pattern while parsing
  - Fix validation for xml tag element

2.5.0 / 2017-06-25
  - Improve Validator performance
  - update attr matching regex
  - Add perf tests
  - Improve atrr regex to handle all cases

2.4.4 / 2017-06-08
  - Bug fix: when an attribute has single or double quote in value

2.4.3 / 2017-06-05
  - Bug fix: when multiple CDATA tags are given
  - Merge pull request: add option "textNodeConversion"
  - add option "textNodeConversion"

2.4.1 / 2017-04-14
  - fix tests
  - Bug fix: preserve initial space of node value
  - Handle CDATA

2.3.1 / 2017-03-15
  - Bug fix: when single self closing tag
  - Merge pull request: fix .codeclimate.yml
  - Update .codeclimate.yml - Fixed config so it does not error anymore.
  - Update .codeclimate.yml

2.3.0 / 2017-02-26
  - Code improvement
  - add bithound config
  - Update usage
  - Update travis to generate bundle js before running tests
  - 1.Browserify, 2. add more tests for validator
  - Add validator
  - Fix CLI default parameter bug

2.2.1 / 2017-02-05
  - Bug fix: CLI default option
