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Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]1
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]2 TODO for the XML parser and stuff:
3 ==================================
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]4
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]5
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]6TODO:
7=====
8
Daniel Veillardbf432752000-11-12 15:56:56 +0000[diff] [blame^]9- Computation of base when HTTP redirect occurs, might affect HTTP
10 interfaces.
Daniel Veillarde0854c32000-08-27 21:12:29 +0000[diff] [blame]11- performances: there is still improvements needed when parsing Docbook DTD
12 a single function to optimize/avoid.
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]13- DOM needs
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]14 int xmlPruneProp(xmlNodePtr node, xmlAtttrPtr attr);
Daniel Veillarde0854c32000-08-27 21:12:29 +0000[diff] [blame]15- listing all attributes in a node.
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]16- Correct standalone checking/emitting (hard)
17 2.9 Standalone Document Declaration
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]18- Better checking of external parsed entities TAG 1234
19- Find way of representing PERefs in the Dtd so that %entity; can
20 be saved back.
21- Go through erratas and do the cleanup.
Daniel Veillarde0854c32000-08-27 21:12:29 +0000[diff] [blame]22 http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata ... started ...
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]23- Handle undefined namespaces in entity contents better ... at least
24 issue a warning
Daniel Veillard06047432000-04-24 11:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]25- fix --disable-corba configure switch handling, and use XML_WITHOUT_CORBA
26 not WITHOUT_CORBA flag
Daniel Veillardf0cc7cc2000-08-26 21:40:43 +0000[diff] [blame]27- reported by Michael, update of doc node when pasting on a new document
28 There can be far more than simply the doc pointer which refers to
29 the old document, for example namespace declarations or entities
30 references can also be a nasty problem, far more than updating the
31 doc values.
Daniel Veillard46057e12000-09-24 18:49:59 +0000[diff] [blame]32- jamesh suggestion: SAX like functions to save a document ie. call a
33 function to open a new element with given attributes, write character
34 data, close last element, etc
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]35
36TODO:
37=====
38
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]39- Get OASIS testsuite to a more friendly result, check all the results
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]40 once stable. Current state at:
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]41 http://xmlsoft.org/conf/result.html
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]42
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]43- Optimization of tag strings allocation ?
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]44
45- maintain coherency of namespace when doing cut'n paste operations
46 => the functions are coded, but need testing
47
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]48- function to rebuild the ID table
49- functions to rebuild the DTD hash tables (after DTD changes).
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]51
52EXTENSIONS:
53===========
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]54
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]55- Tools to produce man pages from the SGML docs.
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]56- Finish XPath
57 => attributes addressing troubles
58 => defaulted attributes handling
59 => namespace axis ?
60
61- Add Xpointer recognition/API
62
63- Add Xlink recognition/API
64 => started adding an xlink.[ch] with a unified API for XML and HTML.
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]65 it's crap :-(
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]66
67- Implement XSLT
68 => seems that someone volunteered ?!?
69
70- Implement XSchemas
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]71 => Really need to be done <grin/>
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]72
73- O2K parsing;
74 => this is a somewhat ugly mix of HTML and XML, adding a specific
75 routine in the comment parsing code of HTML and plug the XML
76 parsing one in-there should not be too hard. Key point is to get
77 XSL to transform all this to something decent ...
78
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]79- extend the shell with:
80 - edit
81 - load/save
82 - mv (yum, yum, but it's harder because directories are ordered in
83 our case, mvup and mvdown would be required)
84
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]85- Add HTML validation using the XHTML DTD
86 - problem: do we want to keep and maintain the code for handling
87 DTD/System ID cache directly in libxml ?
88
89- Add a DTD cache prefilled with xhtml DTDs and entities and a program to
90 manage them -> like the /usr/bin/install-catalog from SGML
91 right place seems $datadir/xmldtds
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]92 Maybe this is better left to user apps
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]93
94- Add output to XHTML in case of HTML documents.
95
Daniel Veillarde3d88ef2000-01-24 13:55:06 +0000[diff] [blame]96
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]97Done:
98=====
99
Daniel Veillard1e851392000-10-15 10:02:56 +0000[diff] [blame]100- HTML: handling of Script and style data elements, need special code in
101 the parser and saving functions (handling of < > " ' ...):
102 http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-script
103 Attributes are no problems since entities are accepted.
Daniel Veillarde0854c32000-08-27 21:12:29 +0000[diff] [blame]104- DOM needs
105 xmlAttrPtr xmlNewDocProp(xmlDocPtr doc, const xmlChar *name, const xmlChar *value)
Daniel Veillard2f2bf412000-08-20 15:11:02 +0000[diff] [blame]106- problem when parsing hrefs with & with the HTML parser (IRC ac)
107- If the internal encoding is not UTF8 saving to a given encoding doesn't
108 work => fix to force UTF8 encoding ...
109 done, added documentation too
Daniel Veillard32bc74e2000-07-14 14:49:25 +0000[diff] [blame]110- Add an ASCII I/O encoder (asciiToUTF8 and UTF8Toascii)
111- Issue warning when using non-absolute namespaces URI.
112- the html parser should add <head> and <body> if they don't exist
113 started, not finished.
114 Done, the automatic closing is added and 3 testcases were inserted
Daniel Veillard3f6f7f62000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000[diff] [blame]115- Command to force the parser to stop parsing and ignore the rest of the file.
Daniel Veillard32bc74e2000-07-14 14:49:25 +0000[diff] [blame]116 xmlStopParser() should allow this, mostly untested
Daniel Veillardbe803962000-06-28 23:40:59 +0000[diff] [blame]117- support for HTML empty attributes like <hr noshade>
118- plugged iconv() in for support of a large set of encodings.
119- xmlSwitchToEncoding() rewrite done
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]120- URI checkings (no fragments) rfc2396.txt
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]121- Added a clean mechanism for overload or added input methods:
122 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]123- dynamically adapt the alloc entry point to use g_alloc()/g_free()
124 if the programmer wants it:
125 - use xmlMemSetup() to reset the routines used.
126- Check attribute normalization especially xmlGetProp()
127- Validity checking problems for NOTATIONS attributes
128- Validity checking problems for ENTITY ENTITIES attributes
129- Parsing of a well balanced chunk xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory()
130- URI module: validation, base, etc ... see uri.[ch]
131- turn tester into a generic program xmllint installed with libxml
Daniel Veillardec303412000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000[diff] [blame]132- extend validity checks to go through entities content instead of
133 just labelling them PCDATA
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]134- Save Dtds using the children list instead of dumping the tables,
135 order is preserved as well as comments and PIs
136- Wrote a notice of changes requires to go from 1.x to 2.x
137- make sure that all SAX callbacks are disabled if a WF error is detected
138- checking/handling of newline normalization
139 http://localhost/www.xml.com/axml/target.html#sec-line-ends
140- correct checking of '&' '%' on entities content.
141- checking of PE/Nesting on entities declaration
142- checking/handling of xml:space
143 - checking done.
144 - handling done, not well tested
145- Language identification code, productions [33] to [38]
146 => done, the check has been added and report WFness errors
147- Conditional sections in DTDs [61] to [65]
148 => should this crap be really implemented ???
149 => Yep OASIS testsuite uses them
150- Allow parsed entities defined in the internal subset to override
151 the ones defined in the external subset (DtD customization).
152 => This mean that the entity content should be computed only at
153 use time, i.e. keep the orig string only at parse time and expand
154 only when referenced from the external subset :-(
155 Needed for complete use of most DTD from Eve Maler
156- Add regression tests for all WFC errors
157 => did some in test/WFC
158 => added OASIS testsuite routines
159 http://xmlsoft.org/conf/result.html
160
161- I18N: http://wap.trondheim.com/vaer/index.phtml is not XML and accepted
162 by the XML parser, UTF-8 should be checked when there is no "encoding"
163 declared !
164- Support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding
165 => added some convertion routines provided by Martin Durst
166 patched them, got fixes from @@@
167 I plan to keep everything internally as UTF-8 (or ISO-Latin-X)
168 this is slightly more costly but more compact, and recent processors
169 efficiency is cache related. The key for good performances is keeping
170 the data set small, so will I.
171 => the new progressive reading routines call the detection code
172 is enabled, tested the ISO->UTF-8 stuff
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]173- External entities loading:
174 - allow override by client code
175 - make sure it is alled for all external entities referenced
176 Done, client code should use xmlSetExternalEntityLoader() to set
177 the default loading routine. It will be called each time an external
178 entity entity resolution is triggered.
179- maintain ID coherency when removing/changing attributes
180 The function used to deallocate attributes now check for it being an
181 ID and removes it from the table.
182- push mode parsing i.e. non-blocking state based parser
183 done, both for XML and HTML parsers. Use xmlCreatePushParserCtxt()
184 and xmlParseChunk() and html counterparts.
185 The tester program now has a --push option to select that parser
186 front-end. Douplicated tests to use both and check results are similar.
187
188- Most of XPath, still see some troubles and occasionnal memleaks.
189- an XML shell, allowing to traverse/manipulate an XML document with
190 a shell like interface, and using XPath for the anming syntax
191 - use of readline and history added when available
192 - the shell interface has been cleanly separated and moved to debugXML.c
193- HTML parser, should be fairly stable now
194- API to search the lang of an attribute
195- Collect IDs at parsing and maintain a table.
196 PBM: maintain the table coherency
197 PBM: how to detect ID types in absence of DtD !
198- Use it for XPath ID support
199- Add validity checking
200 Should be finished now !
201- Add regression tests with entity substitutions
202
203- External Parsed entities, either XML or external Subset [78] and [79]
204 parsing the xmllang DtD now works, so it should be sufficient for
205 most cases !
206
207- progressive reading. The entity support is a first step toward
Daniel Veillard260a68f1998-08-13 03:39:55 +0000[diff] [blame]208 asbtraction of an input stream. A large part of the context is still
209 located on the stack, moving to a state machine and putting everyting
210 in the parsing context should provide an adequate solution.
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]211 => Rather than progressive parsing, give more power to the SAX-like
212 interface. Currently the DOM-like representation is built but
213 => it should be possible to define that only as a set of SAX callbacks
214 and remove the tree creation from the parser code.
215 DONE
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]216
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]217- DOM support, instead of using a proprietary in memory
218 format for the document representation, the parser should
219 call a DOM API to actually build the resulting document.
220 Then the parser becomes independent of the in-memory
221 representation of the document. Even better using RPC's
222 the parser can actually build the document in another
223 program.
224 => Work started, now the internal representation is by default
225 very near a direct DOM implementation. The DOM glue is implemented
226 as a separate module. See the GNOME gdome module.
227
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]228- C++ support : John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
229- Updated code to follow more recent specs, added compatibility flag
Daniel Veillard260a68f1998-08-13 03:39:55 +0000[diff] [blame]230- Better error handling, use a dedicated, overridable error
231 handling function.
232- Support for CDATA.
233- Keep track of line numbers for better error reporting.
234- Support for PI (SAX one).
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]235- Support for Comments (bad, should be in ASAP, they are parsed
236 but not stored), should be configurable.
237- Improve the support of entities on save (+SAX).
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]238