| This is the Status file for the Xerces for Java code base. |
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| There are lots of things that need to be done: |
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| * Additional Support for W3C XML schema. (andyc, ericy, jeffr are |
| working on it) |
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| * Figuring out what support for DTD access should look like. This |
| version of Xerces supports access to the DTD via a special node in |
| the DOM tree. There's also room for a more programmatic API to the |
| DTD / Schema. This is a meaty one, and would be a good place for |
| somebody to jump in and help. |
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| * Enabling support for a DTD Caching mechanism. This would be |
| especially beneficial in a server environment. Part of the work |
| that helps Schema will help this. |
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| * Revalidation architecture work (i.e. How to validate, after a DOM |
| tree has been edited - we used to be able to do this...) |
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| * DOM Write validation (i.e. what is legal to insert here?) |
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| * refinement and extension of the incremental parsing API |
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| * scripts to build parser subconfigurations (i.e. if I don't need |
| WML/WAP, take it out of the jar) |
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| * additional configuration options. |
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| * performance, performance, performance. Always need help here. |
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| * conformance, conformance, conformance. We're pretty darn good, but |
| we can always do better. |
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| * a bunch of things that haven't been thought of yet. |
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| * more documentation. The docs need to be updated, especially the FAQ. |
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| * more samples (lots, especially code fragments that accomplish specific |
| tasks) |
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| * kill bugs (always) |
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| * Major work on the build system. |
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| ANT vs Makefiles is the current discussion |
| Is ANT ready for us to use? It has to get beyond the "compile everything" |
| stage, because we have files (e.g. for Schema) that should NOT be compiled |
| into the build yet. |
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| * Hook up JavaScript DOM API tests (see http://www.nist.gov/xml) |
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| * JAXP Wrappers for Xerces |
| [pending resolution of licensing issues] |