Hey Paul, did all of this get integrated?  If not, would you send a
unidiff which illustrates what changes are still missing?

Thanks, Dan


Paul Libbrecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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...

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