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Re: Latests TODOs

From: Paul Sandoz <Paul.Sandoz_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 16:11:59 +0200

Paul Sandoz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have four development tasks left to do:
>
> - SAX serializer CDATA support
>
> - XML header. There are 9 possible character strings. Should be possible
> to use an efficient algorithm for comparison.

The above are done.


> - Remaining built-in encoding algorithms support
>
> - SAX serializer
> - All parsers
> - Unit tests
>
>

Alan, have you made any progress on this? I can complete this as we are
up against a code freeze deadline.

Paul.


> - Array size limiting feature to reduce DoS style attacks
>
> It is possible that malicious FI documents will be created that
> deliberately take advantage of the indexing feature to eat up resources.
> The developer needs to set limits on the number of index items such that
> when the limit is reached an exception is thrown.
>
> Paul.
>

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