TODO

$Id: TODO,v 1.5 2004/02/23 08:19:27 thor Exp $

ERRORS TO FIX

* If --header flag is active and the output XML contains a multi-line
  introductory <?xml?> processing instruction, the header is inserted
  in the middle.  Oops.

* Vertical whitespace rules could be clearer (see Rewrite output stage todo)

TODO

* Rewrite output stage from
      Parse Tree -> String
  to
      Parse Tree -> Output stream -> String
  in order to make white space optimization cleaner and better.
 
  Rules:

  All blank lines after the last non-blank line of a macro
  definition are ignored.

  Otherwise, blank lines in content are preserved, as is.

  What about initial blank lines inside of a macro-definition body?




WISH LIST




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X Create RPM spec file for pxsl-tools.

X Add # as a PXSL comment that is stripped out upon processing

X Add switch that inserts a "translated-from-PXSL comment" to output XML

X Add new bracketing delimiters:
  X  <( )> -- contents are evaluated and inserted into the parse tree
              mainly for use in macro expansion in attribute values
  X  <{ }> -- exactly like << >> except that contents are treated as
              CDATA (i.e., < becomes &lt; in emitted XML)

X If (ddd)x is used a positional parameter, only x shows in value.

X If you leave off the -name=value (name=value), name=value gets
  parsed as an element.

X What if a line is continued between positional and named args?

X When <<text>> is expanded as an attribute value, < and & should be
  escaped.  Rationale: There is no such thing as mixed-mode content in
  attribute values -- it's CDATA w/ char-entity refs.  So escaping
  is the right thing to do.

  Resolution:  No it isn't.  If somebody used to programming in XML
  writes "xsl:test -when=$i&lt;5", he expects that the & won't be
  escaped.  So we need different behavior between << >> and <{ }>,
  even in attribute values.

X Add macro expansion capability.

X Switch to lexical scoping, instead of dynamic, for macro expansion.
  I.e., macros ought to carry around closures.

X Fix this:

    ,make-section title =
      section
        -- start of section
        title
          ,title
        ,BODY
        -- end of section

    ,make-section -title=<<Section containing another>>
      ,make-section -title=<<This is my title>>
        p <<This is a paragraph.>>
        p <<And another.>>
        p <<And so on.>>