Merge pull request #71 from scrapy/update-news

kmike · web-flow · commit 41ded70ceee0 · 2016-11-22T18:18:07.000+05:00
[MRG+1] Update news for 1.1.0 release
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,17 @@
 History
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+1.1.0 (2016-11-22)
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+* Change default HTML parser to `lxml.html.HTMLParser <http://lxml.de/api/lxml.html.HTMLParser-class.html>`_,
+  which makes easier to use some HTML specific features
+* Add css2xpath function to translate CSS to XPath
+* Add support for ad-hoc namespaces declarations
+* Add support for XPath variables
+* Documentation improvements and updates
+
+
 1.0.3 (2016-07-29)
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
diff --git a/docs/usage.rst b/docs/usage.rst
@@ -822,8 +822,7 @@ Parsel is built on top of the `lxml`_ library, which means they're very similar
 in speed and parsing accuracy. The advantage of using Parsel over `lxml`_ is
 that Parsel is simpler to use and extend, unlike the `lxml`_ API which is much
 bigger because the `lxml`_ library can be used for many other tasks, besides
-selecting markup documents. Also, Parsel allows you to use CSS, by translating
-CSS to XPath using the `cssselect`_ library.
+selecting markup documents.
 
 
 .. _BeautifulSoup: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/
