==> 1.5 release, abi/api compatible, will be released in a few months * ssl layer abstraction, openssl/gnutls build option * integrade python binding from pardus into the main tree * parser: Ӓ and ꉟ like entities must be unescaped. * xml pretty printer * file stream based xml printer ==> 2.0 release, minor abi/api changes, hopefully in 2009 :) * rewrite sax parser for better performance and correctness * offer a high level jabber api for managing connection details * input/output modules for encodings (utf8/16), compression (zlib,bzip2), and source (file, memory, network stream). ==> ideas * packet filter or a generic xml filter? something like a simplified xpath? * a separate utf8 validator function can be useful * utf8 <-> utf16 conversion functions can be useful anything else? :-)