CHANGES.txt

2.0
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New reader and writer for BioC JSON, based on the converter by Don Comeau (https://github.com/ncbi-nlp/BioC-JSON).
Renamed the existing, XML-based BioCReader and BioCWriter to BioCXMLReader and BioCXMLWriter, respectively.

1.02.4
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New method `BioCWriter.iterfragments()`: Iterate over serialised XML fragments,
thus avoiding in-memory construction of the complete tree.

1.02.3
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Make `BioCWriter.tostring()` a public method.
Avoid rebuilding the whole structure for every call to `__str__()`.

1.02.2
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Various minor bugfixes

1.02.1
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Approach PEP8, especially by making implicit relative import explicit.
Changes by Tilia Ellendorff <ellendorff@ifi.uzh.ch>,
Max Nanis <max@maxnanis.com>, Lenz Furrer <furrer@cl.uzh.ch>.

1.02
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Don't assume text element in passage must be avilable.
(Thanks to Adrian van der Lek <avdl@gmx.ch>.)

1.01
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Fix invalid handling of id attributes for annotation and relation tags.
(Thanks to Tilia Ellendorff <ellendorff@ifi.uzh.ch> for pointing it out.)

1.00
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PyBioC library reaches usable state. The classes BioCReader and BioCWriter can 
be used to read in and write out PyBioC XML data, respectively.

0.1
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Initial (incomplete) version created in analogy to BioC_Java_1.0.1.