1124907 HTML parse buffer problem when parsing larse in-memory docs
2124110 DTD validation && wrong namespace
3123564 xmllint --html --format
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5           TODO for the XML parser and stuff:
6	   ==================================
7
8      $Id$
9
10    this tend to be outdated :-\ ...
11
12DOCS:
13=====
14
15- use case of using XInclude to load for example a description.
16  order document + product base -(XSLT)-> quote with XIncludes
17                                                   |
18  HTML output with description of parts <---(XSLT)--
19
20TODO:
21=====
22- XInclude at the SAX level (libSRVG)
23- fix the C code prototype to bring back doc/libxml-undocumented.txt
24  to a reasonable level
25- Computation of base when HTTP redirect occurs, might affect HTTP
26  interfaces.
27- Computation of base in XInclude. Relativization of URIs.
28- listing all attributes in a node.
29- Better checking of external parsed entities TAG 1234
30- Go through erratas and do the cleanup.
31  http://www.w3.org/XML/xml-19980210-errata ... started ...
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
35  + inversted SAX, initial patch in April 2002 archives.
36- htmlParseDoc has parameter encoding which is not used.
37  Function htmlCreateDocParserCtxt ignore it.
38- fix realloc() usage.
39- Stricten the UTF8 conformance (Martin Duerst):
40  http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/.
41  The bad files are in http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-wrong/.
42- xml:id normalized value
43
44TODO:
45=====
46
47- move all string manipulation functions (xmlStrdup, xmlStrlen, etc.) to
48  global.c. Bjorn noted that the following files depends on parser.o solely
49  because of these string functions: entities.o, global.o, hash.o, tree.o,
50  xmlIO.o, and xpath.o.
51
52- Optimization of tag strings allocation ?
53
54- maintain coherency of namespace when doing cut'n paste operations
55  => the functions are coded, but need testing
56
57- function to rebuild the ID table
58- functions to rebuild the DTD hash tables (after DTD changes).
59
60
61EXTENSIONS:
62===========
63
64- Tools to produce man pages from the SGML docs.
65
66- Add Xpointer recognition/API
67
68- Add Xlink recognition/API
69  => started adding an xlink.[ch] with a unified API for XML and HTML.
70     it's crap :-(
71
72- Implement XSchemas
73  => Really need to be done <grin/>
74  - datatype are complete, but structure support is very limited.
75
76- extend the shell with:
77   - edit
78   - load/save
79   - mv (yum, yum, but it's harder because directories are ordered in
80     our case, mvup and mvdown would be required)
81
82
83Done:
84=====
85
86- Add HTML validation using the XHTML DTD
87  - problem: do we want to keep and maintain the code for handling
88    DTD/System ID cache directly in libxml ?
89  => not really done that way, but there are new APIs to check elements
90     or attributes. Otherwise XHTML validation directly ...
91
92- XML Schemas datatypes except Base64 and BinHex
93
94- Relax NG validation
95
96- XmlTextReader streaming API + validation
97
98- Add a DTD cache prefilled with xhtml DTDs and entities and a program to
99  manage them -> like the /usr/bin/install-catalog from SGML
100  right place seems $datadir/xmldtds
101  Maybe this is better left to user apps
102  => use a catalog instead , and xhtml1-dtd package
103
104- Add output to XHTML
105  => XML serializer automatically recognize the DTd and apply the specific
106     rules.
107
108- Fix output of <tst val="x&#xA;y"/>
109
110- compliance to XML-Namespace checking, see section 6 of
111  http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/
112
113- Correct standalone checking/emitting (hard)
114  2.9 Standalone Document Declaration
115
116- Implement OASIS XML Catalog support
117  http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/entity/
118
119- Get OASIS testsuite to a more friendly result, check all the results
120  once stable. the check-xml-test-suite.py script does this
121
122- Implement XSLT
123  => libxslt
124
125- Finish XPath
126  => attributes addressing troubles
127  => defaulted attributes handling
128  => namespace axis ?
129  done as XSLT got debugged
130
131- bug reported by Michael Meallin on validation problems
132  => Actually means I need to add support (and warn) for non-deterministic
133     content model.
134- Handle undefined namespaces in entity contents better ... at least
135  issue a warning
136- DOM needs
137  int xmlPruneProp(xmlNodePtr node, xmlAtttrPtr attr);
138  => done it's actually xmlRemoveProp xmlUnsetProp xmlUnsetNsProp
139
140- HTML: handling of Script and style data elements, need special code in
141  the parser and saving functions (handling of < > " ' ...):
142  http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/types.html#type-script
143  Attributes are no problems since entities are accepted.
144- DOM needs
145  xmlAttrPtr xmlNewDocProp(xmlDocPtr doc, const xmlChar *name, const xmlChar *value)
146- problem when parsing hrefs with & with the HTML parser (IRC ac)
147- If the internal encoding is not UTF8 saving to a given encoding doesn't
148  work => fix to force UTF8 encoding ...
149  done, added documentation too
150- Add an ASCII I/O encoder (asciiToUTF8 and UTF8Toascii)
151- Issue warning when using non-absolute namespaces URI.
152- the html parser should add <head> and <body> if they don't exist
153  started, not finished.
154  Done, the automatic closing is added and 3 testcases were inserted
155- Command to force the parser to stop parsing and ignore the rest of the file.
156  xmlStopParser() should allow this, mostly untested
157- support for HTML empty attributes like <hr noshade>
158- plugged iconv() in for support of a large set of encodings.
159- xmlSwitchToEncoding() rewrite done
160- URI checkings (no fragments) rfc2396.txt
161- Added a clean mechanism for overload or added input methods:
162  xmlRegisterInputCallbacks()
163- dynamically adapt the alloc entry point to use g_alloc()/g_free()
164  if the programmer wants it:
165    - use xmlMemSetup() to reset the routines used.
166- Check attribute normalization especially xmlGetProp()
167- Validity checking problems for NOTATIONS attributes
168- Validity checking problems for ENTITY ENTITIES attributes
169- Parsing of a well balanced chunk xmlParseBalancedChunkMemory()
170- URI module: validation, base, etc ... see uri.[ch]
171- turn tester into a generic program xmllint installed with libxml
172- extend validity checks to go through entities content instead of
173  just labelling them PCDATA
174- Save Dtds using the children list instead of dumping the tables,
175  order is preserved as well as comments and PIs
176- Wrote a notice of changes requires to go from 1.x to 2.x
177- make sure that all SAX callbacks are disabled if a WF error is detected
178- checking/handling of newline normalization
179  http://localhost/www.xml.com/axml/target.html#sec-line-ends
180- correct checking of '&' '%' on entities content.
181- checking of PE/Nesting on entities declaration
182- checking/handling of xml:space
183   - checking done.
184   - handling done, not well tested
185- Language identification code, productions [33] to [38]
186  => done, the check has been added and report WFness errors
187- Conditional sections in DTDs [61] to [65]
188  => should this crap be really implemented ???
189  => Yep OASIS testsuite uses them
190- Allow parsed entities defined in the internal subset to override
191  the ones defined in the external subset (DtD customization).
192  => This mean that the entity content should be computed only at
193     use time, i.e. keep the orig string only at parse time and expand
194     only when referenced from the external subset :-(
195     Needed for complete use of most DTD from Eve Maler
196- Add regression tests for all WFC errors
197  => did some in test/WFC
198  => added OASIS testsuite routines
199     http://xmlsoft.org/conf/result.html
200
201- I18N: http://wap.trondheim.com/vaer/index.phtml is not XML and accepted
202  by the XML parser, UTF-8 should be checked when there is no "encoding"
203  declared !
204- Support for UTF-8 and UTF-16 encoding
205  => added some convertion routines provided by Martin Durst
206     patched them, got fixes from @@@
207     I plan to keep everything internally as UTF-8 (or ISO-Latin-X)
208     this is slightly more costly but more compact, and recent processors
209     efficiency is cache related. The key for good performances is keeping
210     the data set small, so will I.
211  => the new progressive reading routines call the detection code
212     is enabled, tested the ISO->UTF-8 stuff
213- External entities loading:
214   - allow override by client code
215   - make sure it is alled for all external entities referenced
216  Done, client code should use xmlSetExternalEntityLoader() to set
217  the default loading routine. It will be called each time an external
218  entity entity resolution is triggered.
219- maintain ID coherency when removing/changing attributes
220  The function used to deallocate attributes now check for it being an
221  ID and removes it from the table.
222- push mode parsing i.e. non-blocking state based parser
223  done, both for XML and HTML parsers. Use xmlCreatePushParserCtxt()
224  and xmlParseChunk() and html counterparts.
225  The tester program now has a --push option to select that parser
226  front-end. Douplicated tests to use both and check results are similar.
227
228- Most of XPath, still see some troubles and occasionnal memleaks.
229- an XML shell, allowing to traverse/manipulate an XML document with
230  a shell like interface, and using XPath for the anming syntax
231  - use of readline and history added when available
232  - the shell interface has been cleanly separated and moved to debugXML.c
233- HTML parser, should be fairly stable now
234- API to search the lang of an attribute
235- Collect IDs at parsing and maintain a table.
236   PBM: maintain the table coherency
237   PBM: how to detect ID types in absence of DtD !
238- Use it for XPath ID support
239- Add validity checking
240  Should be finished now !
241- Add regression tests with entity substitutions
242
243- External Parsed entities, either XML or external Subset [78] and [79]
244  parsing the xmllang DtD now works, so it should be sufficient for
245  most cases !
246
247- progressive reading. The entity support is a first step toward
248  asbtraction of an input stream. A large part of the context is still
249  located on the stack, moving to a state machine and putting everyting
250  in the parsing context should provide an adequate solution.
251  => Rather than progressive parsing, give more power to the SAX-like
252     interface. Currently the DOM-like representation is built but
253     => it should be possible to define that only as a set of SAX callbacks
254	and remove the tree creation from the parser code.
255	DONE
256
257- DOM support, instead of using a proprietary in memory
258  format for the document representation, the parser should
259  call a DOM API to actually build the resulting document.
260  Then the parser becomes independent of the in-memory
261  representation of the document. Even better using RPC's
262  the parser can actually build the document in another
263  program.
264  => Work started, now the internal representation is by default
265     very near a direct DOM implementation. The DOM glue is implemented
266     as a separate module. See the GNOME gdome module.
267
268- C++ support : John Ehresman <jehresma@dsg.harvard.edu>
269- Updated code to follow more recent specs, added compatibility flag
270- Better error handling, use a dedicated, overridable error
271  handling function.
272- Support for CDATA.
273- Keep track of line numbers for better error reporting.
274- Support for PI (SAX one).
275- Support for Comments (bad, should be in ASAP, they are parsed
276  but not stored), should be configurable.
277- Improve the support of entities on save (+SAX).
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