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1.1       daniel      1: 
                      2:            TODO for the XML parser:
                      3: 
1.14    ! daniel      4: - API to search the lang of an attribute
        !             5: 
1.13      daniel      6: - Optimization of tag strings allocation.
                      7: 
1.12      daniel      8: - Language identification code, productions [33] to [38]
                      9: 
                     10: - Conditional sections in DTDs [61] to [65]
                     11: 
                     12: - External Parsed entities, either XML or external Subset [78] and [79]
1.14    ! daniel     13:   (on the workbench) parsing the xmllang DtD seems to end up in an
        !            14:   infinite loop though...
1.12      daniel     15: 
1.11      daniel     16: - Collect IDs at parsing and maintain a table. PBM: maintain the table coherency
                     17: 
1.14    ! daniel     18: - Use it for XPath ID support
1.11      daniel     19: 
1.10      daniel     20: - Start adding validation, now that the DTD are fully parsed.
                     21: 
1.7       daniel     22: - Support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding (Urgent !!!).
1.8       daniel     23:   => added some convertion routines provided by Martin Durst but I didn't
                     24:      try to glue them in. I plan to keep everything internally as UTF-8
                     25:      this is slightly more costly but more compact, and recent processors
                     26:      efficiency is cache related. The key for good performances is keeping
                     27:      the data set small, so will I.
                     28: 
1.7       daniel     29: - progressive parsing. The entity support is a first step toward
                     30:   asbtraction of an input stream. A large part of the context is still
                     31:   located on the stack, moving to a state machine and putting everyting
                     32:   in the parsing context should provide an adequate solution.
1.8       daniel     33:   => Rather than progressive parsing, give more power to the SAX-like
                     34:      interface. Currently the DOM-like representation is built but
                     35:      it should be possible to define that only as a set of SAX callbacks
                     36:      and remove the tree creation from the parser code.
                     37: 
1.14    ! daniel     38: 
        !            39: Done:
1.1       daniel     40: - DOM support, instead of using a proprietary in memory
                     41:   format for the document representation, the parser should
                     42:   call a DOM API to actually build the resulting document.
                     43:   Then the parser becomes independent of the in-memory
                     44:   representation of the document. Even better using RPC's
                     45:   the parser can actually build the document in another
                     46:   program.
1.8       daniel     47:   => Work started, now the internal representation is by default
                     48:      very near a direct DOM implementation. The DOM glue is implemented
1.14    ! daniel     49:      as a separate module. See the gdome module.
1.2       daniel     50: - C++ support : John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
1.6       daniel     51: - Updated code to follow more recent specs, added compatibility flag
1.7       daniel     52: - Better error handling, use a dedicated, overridable error
                     53:   handling function.
                     54: - Support for CDATA.
                     55: - Keep track of line numbers for better error reporting.
                     56: - Support for PI (SAX one).
1.8       daniel     57: - Support for Comments (bad, should be in ASAP, they are parsed
                     58:   but not stored), should be configurable.
                     59: - Improve the support of entities on save (+SAX).
1.2       daniel     60: 
1.14    ! daniel     61: $Id: TODO,v 1.13 1999/07/08 18:33:41 daniel Exp $