Development roadmap

Last update: $Date: 2001/03/27 20:54:51 $.

This document provides a high-level view of what the Python/XML developers plan to do with the package in the foreseeable future. It also contains some tasks that are considered desirable, but for which no one has yet assumed responsibility.

SAX

Responsible: Lars Marius Garshol.

• Develop a more complete test suite.
• Extend the pyexpat driver to support LexicalHandler and DeclHandler.
• Fully develop the xmlproc driver.
• Fully develop the Java SAX driver.

saxtools

Responsible: Lars Marius Garshol.

This is a collection of SAX-based utilities. To compile a more complete list of what it will contain is the first task.

• SAX filters for XInclude and XBase support.

xmlproc

Responsible: Lars Marius Garshol.

• Move development to the PyXML CVS tree. This includes moving the test suite.
• Release version 0.80 with updates for XML 1.0 2nd edition compliance, better validator independence (from parser), better location reporting and base sysid handling, Unicode support and improved convenience APIs. It may be that there will be several releases on the road to 0.80.
• Try to merge _read_char_ref and parse_charref.

XPath and XSLT

Responsible: Martin von Loewis.

It is planned to integrate 4XSLT and 4XPath into the PyXML package.

Documentation

Responsible: Nobody, yet

• Make more passes over it to ensure completeness and correctness
• Add more demo programs
• Add more docstrings
• Greg Stein owes doc on qp_xml

Miscellanea

Responsible: Nobody, yet

• Re-indent everything to 4-space indents
• Flesh out the test suite more

Responsible: Fred L. Drake, Jr.

• Update the XBEL demo and add a test suite