NEWS

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tm.plugin.factiva 1.8 (2019-10-19)

• Stop truncating article IDs to avoid duplicates (thanks to Tom Nicholls).
• Handle non-numeric 'page' metadata entries (thanks to Tom Nicholls).

tm.plugin.factiva 1.7 (2017-11-20)

• Port from XML to xml2 package to support tm 0.8.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.6 (2017-02-08)

• Avoid importing each article twice with new Factiva HTML format.
• Add screencast showing how to export correct HTML files in ?FactivaSource.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.5 (2014-07-05)

• Fix encoding issues on non-UTF-8 systems, adding back the 'encoding' argument to work around a bug in package XML.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.4 (2014-06-11)

• Adapt to tm 0.6.
• Remove the 'encoding' argument to FactivaSource() as it is not supported by tm 0.6 (normally not needed).
• Change all tags to lowercase (for consistency with tm).
• Ensure meta-data variables which are supposed to contain only one value always do so.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.3 (2014-01-11)

• Extract Company, Industry, Information Provider Code (IPC) and Information Provider Description (IPD) meta-data (based on a patch by Grigorij Ljubownikow).
• Remove inconsistent line breaks in HTML format.
• Update to support tm 0.5-10 and clean the code a bit.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.2 (2013-01-29)

• Extract Subject and Coverage meta-data.
• Add Reuters21578 example.
• Fix handling of articles with no header or body.
• Split lead paragraphs into separate lines.
• Fix package help page to mention HTML.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.1 (2012-07-01)

• Add support for HTML files since Factiva no longer allows exporting to XML.
• Work around encoding issues on Windows (for HTML only).
• Preserve paragraphs information so that e.g. makeChunks() from tm can be used to split documents into smaller pieces.

tm.plugin.factiva 1.0 (2012-05-14)

• Initial release with support for XML files.