2.9.0 (2026-07-05) Changed * The :standards profile no longer applies schema-less typing. Under Nori.new(standards: true), :advanced_typecasting now defaults to false (an explicit advanced_typecasting: true still wins), and the bare un-namespaced type= and nil= attributes become ordinary attributes instead of casting instructions. No more type= conversions (integer, date, decimal, array, file, ...), and only a prefixed xsi:nil="true" marks an element nil. These conventions come from Rails' Hash.from_xml (inherited via crack and merb), not from any XML spec. Without a schema, character data is just text. Knowing that <id>123</id> holds an integer is the business of a schema-aware layer, not a guess from string shape. Parsing …