I know we sort of promised that the next release would be devoted to
implementing the replacement for the orxscript support, but the more I
look at doing this, the less I feel motivated to spend the time trying
to fix this.  I frankly am a bit exhausted by the 4.0 release, and I
would like to spend a release working on enhancements that I will find
fun and somewhat satisfying.  So, the new features I want to implement
are:

1)  Full-featured XML support, including a DOM and XPath support.
2)  NetRexx block-style exception model
3)  Finish my regex replacement classes that I'd once started.
4)  Other small enhancements that might make the items above easier to
implement or perform more efficiently.
5)  Allow subcommand handlers to be defined within library package files.

I know Mark is working on some enhancements to oodialog and on
converting more of oodialog to use the new APIs.  This is all good
stuff.

Additional items I'd like to see in this next release if we can find
the resources to complete them:

1)  A java-like File class.
2)  Moritz's Enumerations from the incubator
3)  The in-memory stream classes from the incubator

Also, the block-style exception model changes could really use a
thorough regression test suite for the existing condition handling to
ensure I don't break existing behavior with the new support.

Feel free to chime in with additional items you feel like working on.

Rick

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