Hi there,
Since a while happy users of the Helma XML-RPC library we have made a
few patches.
Two things that seem important for everyone and one that was important
only for us:
-> we wanted to have the ability to exchange UTF-8 encoded messages so
the XMLWriter has been enriched and the MinML parser as well. XMLWriter
now writes its messages with encoding either ASCII, ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8
depending on the highest character found when sending. MinML has been
patched to support reading this (the patch is not really perfect, I
expect John Wilson to present something better one day).
-> we had Security Exceptions in the applets when run in any other
applet VM than the InternetExplorer pilotted ones (tests were on MacOSX
and Linux). This was due to the usage of Sun classes in the applet
package. The Base64 class has been inserted there as well as the calls
to it. Note that, I'd suppose a clean thing would be to quote the usage
of this library (as the XML-RPC library) when using an applet.
-> and the minor ones is that we have at least one parser, made for some
Lisp, did not like the lack of the string element around textual values,
so we've added it.
The patched version is distributed under the same license as the
previous ones (Apache for the org.apache.xmlrpc modifications, and BSD
for the MinML modifications) and I would like if XML-RPC developers
would consider including it in the XML-RPC distribution.
http://www.activemath.org/~ilo/revisions/xmlrpc/
Thangs.
Paul
PS: the "ASCII" value for the encoding when no character over 127 is
found is not very precise... that may need some workings
PPS: our tests seem to indicate that this is working...
