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+<p> This page describes some of the changes which should be expected
+in Expat 3. These are intended as notes made by the developers as
+things get thought through; these can change at any time. This is
+<em>not</em> a projected feature list for Expat 3; to learn about the
+target features, please read the <cite><a href="roadmap.html">Expat
+Development Roadmap</a></cite>. The changes described here are much
+more focused on the details of Expat 3, and no attempt has been made
+to balance the description of small changes with major new feature
+development. </p>
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+<p> This list is not complete; we'll add to this as we think of things
+and have time to write about them. </p>
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+<ul>
+ <li> All structural event callback functions will return an
+ <code>XML_Status</code> value that the parser will check. This will
+ allow an application to stop or suspend processing without having to
+ use <code>setjmp()</code>/<code>longjmp()</code> hackery. </li>
+
+ <li> The parser will support suspension of parsing to allow an
+ application to pause parsing temporarily. A new
+ <code>XML_Status</code> value, <code>XML_STATUS_SUSPEND</code>, can
+ be returned by the event callbacks to indicate that Expat should
+ suspend parsing; the parser will then return from
+ <code>XML_Parse()</code>, returning <code>XML_STATUS_SUSPEND</code>.
+ Applications can resume parsing by calling
+ <code>XML_ParseResume()</code>. </li>
+</ul>
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