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Updated to the status, daniel.

           TODO for the XML parser:

- Support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding (Urgent !!!).
  => added some convertion routines provided by Martin Durst but I didn't
     try to glue them in. I plan to keep everything internally as UTF-8
     this is slightly more costly but more compact, and recent processors
     efficiency is cache related. The key for good performances is keeping
     the data set small, so will I.

- progressive parsing. The entity support is a first step toward
  asbtraction of an input stream. A large part of the context is still
  located on the stack, moving to a state machine and putting everyting
  in the parsing context should provide an adequate solution.
  => Rather than progressive parsing, give more power to the SAX-like
     interface. Currently the DOM-like representation is built but
     it should be possible to define that only as a set of SAX callbacks
     and remove the tree creation from the parser code.

- DOM support, instead of using a proprietary in memory
  format for the document representation, the parser should
  call a DOM API to actually build the resulting document.
  Then the parser becomes independent of the in-memory
  representation of the document. Even better using RPC's
  the parser can actually build the document in another
  program.
  => Work started, now the internal representation is by default
     very near a direct DOM implementation. The DOM glue is implemented
     as a separate module. See gnome-dom !

Done:
- C++ support : John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
- Updated code to follow more recent specs, added compatibility flag
- Better error handling, use a dedicated, overridable error
  handling function.
- Support for CDATA.
- Keep track of line numbers for better error reporting.
- Support for PI (SAX one).
- Support for Comments (bad, should be in ASAP, they are parsed
  but not stored), should be configurable.
- Improve the support of entities on save (+SAX).

$Id: TODO,v 1.8 1998/11/16 02:36:31 daniel Exp $