[icedtea-web] RFC: add unit tests for the jnlp parser

[Omair Majid]

>>> How is the NanoXML issue progressing?  It would be good to have a status update
>>> on things and the progress towards the various releases of IcedTea-Web now 1.0
>>> is done.
>>>
>>
>> Sorry, I must have forgotten to make a note of this. Generally I try and
>> keep http://icedtea.classpath.org/wiki/IcedTea-Web#Release_Plans
>> updated.
>
> I don't check the wiki regularly anyway. I'd expect stuff to be discussed on the
> mailing list then documented on the wiki.
>
>> Anyway, it's mostly done. I wrote these parser unit tests to
>> test that my NanoXML changes did not break anything. I will clean up
>> that patch and post it after these unit tests are committed (so we can
>> see any regressions). Assuming Deepak is fine with it, it can go in
>> before 1.1 is released.
>>
>
> Yeah I think we (mainly Deepak as maintainer) need to define clearly where we draw
> a line under 1.1.
>

I was testing the remove-NanoXML patch when I discovered some potential 
issues. One in particular is how comments in the beginning of the file 
before the <?xml?> declaration are not allowed by the XML standard, but 
used in some jnlp files. Using a DOM-based parser causes exceptions 
parsing those jnlp files. Since this is a regression, I will not do it 
now. Perhaps after or around the same time as tagsoup support.

Cheers,
Omair