TODO in sdl4r-0.9.8 vs TODO in sdl4r-0.9.9

@@ -71,22 +71,24 @@
     ["attr"] <=> attribute("attr")
     ["ns:attr"] <=> attribute("ns", "attr") (should we allow this?)
     ["ns", "attr"] <=> attribute("ns", "attr")
     Should we allow attribute("ns:attr")?
     ==> Mmmm, but it could also mean "get child with that name". Let's wait.
-[ ] IDEA: marshaller? easy object <=> SDL read/write?
+[x] IDEA: marshaller? easy object <=> SDL read/write?
+    SEE SPECS @ Ikayzo: http://www.ikayzo.org/confluence/display/SDL/Draft+-+Serialization+with+SDL
 [ ] Check the coverage and make the tests better.
     ==> Might be better to use some other tool than
 [ ] IDEA: add an option to the XML export allowing to write anonymous nodes as XML tag content?
 [ ] IDEA: add an option to the XML export allowing to export without formatting?
 [x] BUG: line continuation is not handled properly (skipping chars etc).
 [ ] BUG: the rake task 'gen_rubyforge' doesn't work under 1.9 (only 1.8.7)
     ==> when Hanna is not installed the CHANGELOG HTML file must have a different name.
 [ ] Look into performances, compared to YAML or XML parsers
 [ ] Future: SDL + ERB to have dynamic config templates
     see http://github.com/binarylogic/settingslogic
-[ ] Future: object dump/load as YAML does
+[x] Future: object dump/load as YAML does
+    SEE SPECS @ Ikayzo: http://www.ikayzo.org/confluence/display/SDL/Draft+-+Serialization+with+SDL
     - add to_sdl(4r) to Object
 
     - for each object:
         - if it is an array => export values
             - what if one of the values is a basic object? scan once first? series of anonymous tags with one value?
@@ -146,7 +148,12 @@
         }
     while this is not
         vegetable {}
 
     ==> It seems this is not supported by the Java parser. Is it invalid/valid syntax?
-        It will be in the next version of SDL.
-[x] BUG: '$' is a valid identifier character and it is not accepted.
+    ==> It will be in the next version of SDL.
+[x] BUG: '$' is a valid identifier character and it is not accepted.
+====================================================================================================
+[x] Check that if you write 2 values, a date and a timespan, you get both normally when you load.
+    ==> Considered as a bug in the language spec by Dan.
+[x] BUG: negative years seem not to be supported in dates (somehow mistaken for integers: -4712/01/01)
+[ ] Allow Symbols as attribute/child names
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