0.85.0 – Tying things up

Features:

• Implement serialization of maps. The outer container will be eluded as with lists. If the key type can be an attribute (and doesn't overlap with an attribute in the value) it will be written on the value, otherwise an entry will be written with the key written on it (as attribute or tag). Note that as this point keys must precede values due to the implementation of map serialization. The behaviour can be customized through the policy.
• Add the possibility to specify namespace declarations that are ensured on tags (note that this does not yet participate in the namespace collating code)
• Fix polymorphic usage of value classes as children of a sealed interface.
• Add a defaultPolicy configurator to XmlConfig.Builder that allows more elegant configuration of the default policy. Some of the properties that can be specified on the XmlConfig.Builder have been deprecated in place of this new (more robust) mechanism.
• Within the default policy builder add support for configuring the unknown child handling with some defaults: ignoreUnknownChildren and ignoreUnknownNamespace. Note that these are shortcuts to setting an explicit handler.
• Now when a tag is marked to not preserve space (preserving is the default), but when the value starts or ends with whitespace this will result the xml:space="preserve" attribute to be emitted. The decoder will also honour this attribute over default behaviour for that type.
• Support custom delimiters by allowing a list of delimiters to be specified the policy.

Fixes:

• Make actual serialization of maps (that are not attributes) work
• Fix an infinite recursion bug in the namespace collection code that writes namespace declarations on the top level.
• Fix writing codepoints > 0x10000 that require surrogate pairs.
• Fix whitespace handling #120
• Remove stale logging code: #119