Reader

Basic features:

• [x] Parsing XML 1.0 documents and returning a stream of events
  • [ ] Support reading embedded DTD schemas
  • [ ] Support for embedded entities
• [x] Support for namespaces and emitting namespace information in events
• [ ] [maybe] push-based wrapper
• Missing XML features
  • [ ] Support for different encodings
  • [ ] Attribute values normalization
  • [ ] EOL characters normalization

Advanced features:

• [ ] DTD schema validation
• [ ] XSD schema validation

Writer

Basic features:

• [x] Writing basic XML 1.0 documents in UTF-8
• [x] Writing XML 1.0 documents with namespace support
• [x] Support for writing elements with empty body as empty elements
• [x] Pretty-printed and compact output
• [ ] Writing XML document with embedded DTDs and DTD references
• Misc features:
  • [ ] Support for different encodings
  • [x] Support for writing CDATA as characters
  • [ ] Checking events for invalid characters (e.g. -- in comments)
  • [ ] Check for namespaces more correctly, i.e. check both for prefix and namespace URI
  • [ ] Support checking namespace prefix presence in the current namespace for events with prefix but without namespace
  • [ ] Support checking namespace prefix for events with both prefix and namespace URI

Other

DOM-based API:

• [ ] Basic support for DOM-based API