Broaden the scope:

• Have another look at layout in FOP HEAD.
• Check for some bug fixes in the maintenance branch

The interesting stuff

• Take another stab to get the XInclude processor into XML commons. It wouldn't hurt to make an XNI wrapper and perhaps a real Xerces plugin configuration. This requires some more XNI study, I guess. Lift some code from the Cocoon XIncluder. Target: 2003-8
• Get some work done on a validation SAX filter.
• Make the Spell checker a sourceforge project. Ask people for lexicon contributions
• Initial upmark of the lexicon
• Build the lexicon management application
• Get the Eclipse spell checking plugin ready: Target: 2003-6
• Get the POS classification into the dictionary
• Add hyphenation
• Port patgen.web to Java+Unicode
• Streamline the FOP hyphenator and factor out some code to be used from elsewhere. Ask whether Jakarta Commons would house a text utility module.
• Get the word parser ready for production. Add to the spell checker. Target: 2003-7
• Take another look at NL parsers. Target: much later

OK, fixes for keep-related bugs and marker probles are scratched for now. The concept for improvements of error messages by providing document locations seems to need some rework for HEAD.

• Exceptions are underutilized. Should this be changed?
• The back pointer for areas to generating FO needs to be set consistently. How to check for this?

FOP is near a new release milestone.
Todo:

• Use the Locator to get source file positions, extend exceptions and log messages to use this.
• Check for more keep related bugs.
• Fix potential marker problems.