19-sep-01



Stanley Knutson (knewt@alum.mit.edu)



Various items remaining here:



- the sax-basics file still has some unused stuff



- the CDATA handling in the sax api is not tested

[Also, the underlying CL-XML does not pass data in reasonable chunks

yet].  Not an issue for SOAP.



- There is no SOAP 'writer' yet.



- I've not yet verified this with many soap files. 

The true test will be interoperation with Apache soap

and that requires an HTTP 1.1 server



- Numerous bits of SOAP are not implemented:

TYPES:

arrayCoordinate

arrays with offset

decimal type

times [there are several kinds: time, date etc, duration, instances]

uri reference

binary

long

short

byte

unsigned-x types



PROTOCOL:

ID, IDREF, Entity, Notation,



The envelope and body should have distinct classes

so the headers can be properly handled [or generated]



There needs to be a 'fault' class



Various bits in the Apache Java API's would make sense to be copied

in some fashion



There is no support for UTF-8, just ISO-8859-1 right now

[this may be fixable in the lower level xml parser]