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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 Veillard36650692000-07-21 15:16:39 +0000[diff] [blame]9- If the internal encoding is not UTF8 saving to a given encoding doesn't
10 work => fix to force UTF8 encoding ...
Daniel Veillardbe803962000-06-28 23:40:59 +0000[diff] [blame]11- problem when parsing hrefs with & with the HTML parser (IRC ac)
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]12- DOM needs
13 xmlAttrPtr xmlNewDocProp(xmlDocPtr doc, const xmlChar *name, const xmlChar *value)
14 int xmlPruneProp(xmlNodePtr node, xmlAtttrPtr attr);
Daniel Veillardbe803962000-06-28 23:40:59 +0000[diff] [blame]15- General checking of DTD validation in presence of namespaces ... hairy
16 mostly done
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]17- Fix DTD + namespace validity problem
18 "Not valid: root and DtD name do not match 'ROOT' and 'prefix:ROOT'"
Daniel Veillardbe803962000-06-28 23:40:59 +0000[diff] [blame]19 mostly done
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]20- Correct standalone checking/emitting (hard)
21 2.9 Standalone Document Declaration
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]22- Better checking of external parsed entities TAG 1234
23- Find way of representing PERefs in the Dtd so that %entity; can
24 be saved back.
25- Go through erratas and do the cleanup.
26 http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata ... bummmer
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]27- Handle undefined namespaces in entity contents better ... at least
28 issue a warning
Daniel Veillard06047432000-04-24 11:33:38 +0000[diff] [blame]29- fix --disable-corba configure switch handling, and use XML_WITHOUT_CORBA
30 not WITHOUT_CORBA flag
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]31
32TODO:
33=====
34
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]35- Get OASIS testsuite to a more friendly result, check all the results
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]36 once stable. Current state at:
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]37 http://xmlsoft.org/conf/result.html
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]38
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]39- Optimization of tag strings allocation ?
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]40
41- maintain coherency of namespace when doing cut'n paste operations
42 => the functions are coded, but need testing
43
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]44- function to rebuild the ID table
45- functions to rebuild the DTD hash tables (after DTD changes).
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]46
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]47
48EXTENSIONS:
49===========
Daniel Veillard3dd82e72000-03-20 11:48:04 +0000[diff] [blame]50
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]51- Tools to produce man pages from the SGML docs.
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]52- Finish XPath
53 => attributes addressing troubles
54 => defaulted attributes handling
55 => namespace axis ?
56
57- Add Xpointer recognition/API
58
59- Add Xlink recognition/API
60 => started adding an xlink.[ch] with a unified API for XML and HTML.
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]61 it's crap :-(
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]62
63- Implement XSLT
64 => seems that someone volunteered ?!?
65
66- Implement XSchemas
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]67 => Really need to be done <grin/>
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]68
69- O2K parsing;
70 => this is a somewhat ugly mix of HTML and XML, adding a specific
71 routine in the comment parsing code of HTML and plug the XML
72 parsing one in-there should not be too hard. Key point is to get
73 XSL to transform all this to something decent ...
74
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]75- extend the shell with:
76 - edit
77 - load/save
78 - mv (yum, yum, but it's harder because directories are ordered in
79 our case, mvup and mvdown would be required)
80
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]81- Add HTML validation using the XHTML DTD
82 - problem: do we want to keep and maintain the code for handling
83 DTD/System ID cache directly in libxml ?
84
85- Add a DTD cache prefilled with xhtml DTDs and entities and a program to
86 manage them -> like the /usr/bin/install-catalog from SGML
87 right place seems $datadir/xmldtds
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]88 Maybe this is better left to user apps
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]89
90- Add output to XHTML in case of HTML documents.
91
Daniel Veillarde3d88ef2000-01-24 13:55:06 +0000[diff] [blame]92
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]93Done:
94=====
95
Daniel Veillard32bc74e2000-07-14 14:49:25 +0000[diff] [blame]96- Add an ASCII I/O encoder (asciiToUTF8 and UTF8Toascii)
97- Issue warning when using non-absolute namespaces URI.
98- the html parser should add <head> and <body> if they don't exist
99 started, not finished.
100 Done, the automatic closing is added and 3 testcases were inserted
Daniel Veillard3f6f7f62000-06-30 17:58:25 +0000[diff] [blame]101- 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]102 xmlStopParser() should allow this, mostly untested
Daniel Veillardbe803962000-06-28 23:40:59 +0000[diff] [blame]103- support for HTML empty attributes like <hr noshade>
104- plugged iconv() in for support of a large set of encodings.
105- xmlSwitchToEncoding() rewrite done
Daniel Veillard496a1cf2000-05-03 14:20:55 +0000[diff] [blame]106- URI checkings (no fragments) rfc2396.txt
Daniel Veillard5d211f42000-04-07 17:00:24 +0000[diff] [blame]107- Added a clean mechanism for overload or added input methods:
108 xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()
Daniel Veillard361d8452000-04-03 19:48:13 +0000[diff] [blame]109- dynamically adapt the alloc entry point to use g_alloc()/g_free()
110 if the programmer wants it:
111 - use xmlMemSetup() to reset the routines used.
112- Check attribute normalization especially xmlGetProp()
113- Validity checking problems for NOTATIONS attributes
114- Validity checking problems for ENTITY ENTITIES attributes
115- Parsing of a well balanced chunk xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory()
116- URI module: validation, base, etc ... see uri.[ch]
117- turn tester into a generic program xmllint installed with libxml
Daniel Veillardec303412000-03-24 13:41:54 +0000[diff] [blame]118- extend validity checks to go through entities content instead of
119 just labelling them PCDATA
Daniel Veillard75c29212000-03-14 18:33:47 +0000[diff] [blame]120- Save Dtds using the children list instead of dumping the tables,
121 order is preserved as well as comments and PIs
122- Wrote a notice of changes requires to go from 1.x to 2.x
123- make sure that all SAX callbacks are disabled if a WF error is detected
124- checking/handling of newline normalization
125 http://localhost/www.xml.com/axml/target.html#sec-line-ends
126- correct checking of '&' '%' on entities content.
127- checking of PE/Nesting on entities declaration
128- checking/handling of xml:space
129 - checking done.
130 - handling done, not well tested
131- Language identification code, productions [33] to [38]
132 => done, the check has been added and report WFness errors
133- Conditional sections in DTDs [61] to [65]
134 => should this crap be really implemented ???
135 => Yep OASIS testsuite uses them
136- Allow parsed entities defined in the internal subset to override
137 the ones defined in the external subset (DtD customization).
138 => This mean that the entity content should be computed only at
139 use time, i.e. keep the orig string only at parse time and expand
140 only when referenced from the external subset :-(
141 Needed for complete use of most DTD from Eve Maler
142- Add regression tests for all WFC errors
143 => did some in test/WFC
144 => added OASIS testsuite routines
145 http://xmlsoft.org/conf/result.html
146
147- I18N: http://wap.trondheim.com/vaer/index.phtml is not XML and accepted
148 by the XML parser, UTF-8 should be checked when there is no "encoding"
149 declared !
150- Support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding
151 => added some convertion routines provided by Martin Durst
152 patched them, got fixes from @@@
153 I plan to keep everything internally as UTF-8 (or ISO-Latin-X)
154 this is slightly more costly but more compact, and recent processors
155 efficiency is cache related. The key for good performances is keeping
156 the data set small, so will I.
157 => the new progressive reading routines call the detection code
158 is enabled, tested the ISO->UTF-8 stuff
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]159- External entities loading:
160 - allow override by client code
161 - make sure it is alled for all external entities referenced
162 Done, client code should use xmlSetExternalEntityLoader() to set
163 the default loading routine. It will be called each time an external
164 entity entity resolution is triggered.
165- maintain ID coherency when removing/changing attributes
166 The function used to deallocate attributes now check for it being an
167 ID and removes it from the table.
168- push mode parsing i.e. non-blocking state based parser
169 done, both for XML and HTML parsers. Use xmlCreatePushParserCtxt()
170 and xmlParseChunk() and html counterparts.
171 The tester program now has a --push option to select that parser
172 front-end. Douplicated tests to use both and check results are similar.
173
174- Most of XPath, still see some troubles and occasionnal memleaks.
175- an XML shell, allowing to traverse/manipulate an XML document with
176 a shell like interface, and using XPath for the anming syntax
177 - use of readline and history added when available
178 - the shell interface has been cleanly separated and moved to debugXML.c
179- HTML parser, should be fairly stable now
180- API to search the lang of an attribute
181- Collect IDs at parsing and maintain a table.
182 PBM: maintain the table coherency
183 PBM: how to detect ID types in absence of DtD !
184- Use it for XPath ID support
185- Add validity checking
186 Should be finished now !
187- Add regression tests with entity substitutions
188
189- External Parsed entities, either XML or external Subset [78] and [79]
190 parsing the xmllang DtD now works, so it should be sufficient for
191 most cases !
192
193- progressive reading. The entity support is a first step toward
Daniel Veillard260a68f1998-08-13 03:39:55 +0000[diff] [blame]194 asbtraction of an input stream. A large part of the context is still
195 located on the stack, moving to a state machine and putting everyting
196 in the parsing context should provide an adequate solution.
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]197 => Rather than progressive parsing, give more power to the SAX-like
198 interface. Currently the DOM-like representation is built but
199 => it should be possible to define that only as a set of SAX callbacks
200 and remove the tree creation from the parser code.
201 DONE
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]202
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]203- DOM support, instead of using a proprietary in memory
204 format for the document representation, the parser should
205 call a DOM API to actually build the resulting document.
206 Then the parser becomes independent of the in-memory
207 representation of the document. Even better using RPC's
208 the parser can actually build the document in another
209 program.
210 => Work started, now the internal representation is by default
211 very near a direct DOM implementation. The DOM glue is implemented
212 as a separate module. See the GNOME gdome module.
213
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]214- C++ support : John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
215- Updated code to follow more recent specs, added compatibility flag
Daniel Veillard260a68f1998-08-13 03:39:55 +0000[diff] [blame]216- Better error handling, use a dedicated, overridable error
217 handling function.
218- Support for CDATA.
219- Keep track of line numbers for better error reporting.
220- Support for PI (SAX one).
Daniel Veillardad8f99d2000-01-15 14:20:03 +0000[diff] [blame]221- Support for Comments (bad, should be in ASAP, they are parsed
222 but not stored), should be configurable.
223- Improve the support of entities on save (+SAX).
Daniel Veillard01791d51998-07-24 19:24:09 +0000[diff] [blame]224