Stefan - I took a look at your source code, and it looks like you are off to a good start. I was thinking that I might contribute to this regarding some particular tasks that I have been looking into relating to keywords. However I am a little concerned about your use of regex as the basis for locating elements in xml strings. The code is definitely not “self-documenting” - I think I am not alone in finding regex cryptic - and I wonder how easy it will be to test this, and to maintain it as the schema of the REST xml evolves. (There have already been some changes from previous versions.)
I understand that you want to build a client with no dependencies, but would it really be that much of a burden to use an xml parser? (I agree it is good to have a client that does not depend on Geoserver + Geotools).
I am not very experienced at programming, so maybe regex is often used in dealing with xml, I don’t know. Perhaps I just need to get better at decoding regex 
Tara
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