Caveats and Limitations

This is a list of the limitations in this release of XML4C.

Encodings

• Encodings cannot be arbitrarily set programmatically, i.e. we only go by the encoding that is auto-sensed or found in encoding=""
• The following encodings are not currently supported: Chinese for PRC (mixed 1/2 byte) (gb2312), Japanese ISO-2022-JP (iso-2022-jp) and Cyrllic (koi8-r).

Validation

• Validation of notations/enumerations is not complete. For instance you can have a notation or enumeration type attribute that does not refer to the valid notations or enum values listed in the attribute type.

Miscellaneous

• SAXPrint does not output the <?XML ... ?> prologue line (this means that it cannot process its own output). This is because the SAX API doesn't provide a callback handler for the prologue.
• Only URL's of the form 'file://' are currently supported. Others will be supported in future versions.
• Error text is not translatable yet, its only in English
• There is no support for namespaces.
• There is no catalog support.

Known Defects

• DOM Entity reference nodes are modifiable. They should be read-only.
• Some James Clark tests do not pass.
• DOM Element names are not checked for comformance to XML spec for element names.
• DOM getDocType() returns null, even if DTD is present.
• Parser configuration class is not documented.