v4.2.0

Faster! Smaller! Better in ways you can't even see and probably don't care about! And still completely backwards compatible.

Improved

• Parsing performance in Node.js 22 is up to 28% faster than version 4.1.0. Note that the performance gain will vary depending on the document being parsed.

• The minified bundle size has been reduced by a mind-blowing 87 bytes (uncompressed).

Changed

• Moved initial parsing steps out of the Parser constructor and into a new parse() method. #35

  This change is an internal refactoring that doesn't affect the public API, but may make error handling easier for people who like living dangerously and are using parse-xml internals in interesting ways.

Fixed

• The parser now throws an error when it encounters an invalid character in an encoding declaration.