Things To Do for Cocoon 1.x

Todo

high

[docs] Write Tomcat 3.3 installation instructions.
[code] Fix redundant XSP namespace declarations output quirk/bugs. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Fix caching bug with Lynx. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Add standard WEB-INF/classes and WEB-INF/lib to XSP classpath.
[docs] Write a full guide to logicsheets, including: (1) What they are and how they work - explaining why XSP results can't be assigned to XSLT variables; (2) What all the supplied logicsheets do (long-term aim: document every tag and every attribute); (3) How to write your own and use it; (4) How to specify logicsheet execution order with the as-yet-undocumented <?xml-logicsheet?> processing instruction. Partial contributions welcome! :-) (assigned to RDG)
[code] Fix error reporting for resource:// logicsheets in cocoon.properties (assigned to RDG)
[code] Add XMLFragmentBase as described in docs. (assigned to RDG)
[docs] Fix dead links in docs. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Fix XSP string escaping bug, e.g. in util:include-expr
[code] Fix cache problem with SSI and JSP including [first-pass patch is in bug report]
[code] Fix problem with not being able to call getInputStream on a POST in XSP because Cocoon has already called request.getParameter ().
[code] Allow configuring of formatters in PIs.
[design] Need better exception-handling architecture - converting exceptions to strings in taglibs may not be best solution.
[samples] Update xinclude samples for new spec. (assigned to DB)
[code] Upgrade Turbine-pool. (assigned to DB)

medium

[code] Add StoredProcedure support to esql. (assigned to DB)
[code] Browsers object not available from Manager??
[code] Write and test Xalan 2 Transformer.
[build] Work out how to integrate inline XSP docs (such as inline esql docs) into the build docs procedure. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Fix remaining caching bugs. Cleanup caching code, which is messy. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Better HTTP support and conformance (assigned to RDG)
[code] Fix stylesheet-chaining bug. (assigned to RDG)
[code] Add a working version of JQ's multiline string template to util logicsheet. (assigned to RDG)
[docs] Cleanup and improve documentation. (in progress.)
[code] Class auto-reloading for XSP pages (and Processors)? (code written; just needs to be merged in and documented.) (assigned to RDG)
[code] Dependency tracking for [bug12]. (???)
[docs] Ensure that all HTML docs are not too wide for screen/printer width (as appropriate - there are separate directories for screen and printer docs).
[docs] FAQ (particularly) and XSP docs are too long lengthwise. Split them up. Their length (or complexity) causes extremely slow rendering on Netscape 4.x and recent Mozilla builds.

low

[code] Taglib (not part of esql) to dynamically specify connection parameters (with or without connection pooling).
[code] Make handle.errors.internally return a suitable HTTP error code.
[code] Add hooks for user-defined error-handling (better than just handle.errors.internally flag in cocoon.properties).
[docs] Make <connect> tags work correctly when xdocs are transformed to HTML docs.
[code] Add GroupingProcessor which makes it easy to group elements together in bundles of N (this is messy in XSLT). (assigned to RDG)
[code] Semi-portable (to C2) XSP redirect semantics (topic for xsp-dev list).
[code] Make cocoon.properties (i.e. Configurations objects) easily accessible from XSP. (assigned to RDG)
[docs] Make authors appear on all HTML docs (where appropriate).
[code] Fix Jikes compilation error reporting bug.
[code] Make cache more configurable (e.g. to turn off per-user-agent caching, maybe for specific pages only). However, Mark Washeim thinks that this offers only "trivial" overhead reduction, even on large sites.
[code] Selection based on domain name not just user agent.
[code] Better error reporting for typos in stylesheet URIs.
[code] XSP logicsheet dependency tracking.
[code] Provide optional conversion from Java line numbers back to XSP line numbers, to aid debugging XSP pages.

wish

[code] Add Jeremy Quinn's multiline get-nested-content template to all relevant logicsheets.
[code] Automated test suite - maybe build upon samples and JMeter??
[design] Work out best way of breaking the 64K method barrier in XSP. (The ESQL logicsheet already tries to address this by executing queries in separate methods.)
[code] More powerful request taglib, e.g. list of parameters are read into local variables.
[code] More logicsheets for common requirements, e.g. upload logicsheet. (see infozone, turbine, etc. for examples; O'Reilly is NOT open source) - but first fix tomcat+apache+cocoon upload bug.
[code] Support disable-output-escaping for MathML using IBM TechExplorer and other uses.
[code] Support XSLT-style Attribute Value Templates in XSP as suggested in XSP documentation.
[code] Better support for not applying stylesheets for e.g. IE6 - but note, we can't currently detect whether the dll on the client supports XSLT 1.0!