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RE: Parser compliance

• From: Robin Cover <robin@i...>
• To: Mary Brady <mbrady@n...>
• Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 09:51:14 -0600 (CST)

I try to keep some links updated in:

  "XML Conformance"

  http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/xmlConformance.html

- robin

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On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Mary Brady wrote:

> The OASIS XML Conformance Subcommittee released a draft
> test suite last July.  It contains over 1000 XML tests
> that can be used to test conformance to the XML 1.0
> Recommendation.  These tests are publicly available
> from
> 	http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/xmltest/testsuite.htm
> 
> Dave Brownell took this test suite, developed a driver that ran the
> tests through a variety of current parsers, and published the results
> on XML.COM.  I don't have the url handy (XML.COM seems to be down
> at the moment), but if you go to XML.COM and
> search for "conformance", you can find the article.  It gives both
> and summary and detailed info on many different xml processors.
> 
> With a little effort, his driver could be extended to cover
> additional processors.
> 
> In addition, the test suite is also pointed to from the NIST web
> site,
> 	http://www.nist.gov/xml/
> 
> NIST has also developed a set of DOM Level 1 tests for the
> ECMAScript binding.  Tests are currently available for
> ECMAScript Fundamental and Extended, and within the week,
> will be available for HTML.  In all, there will be close
> to 1000 tests here as well.  This test suite currently
> runs in IE5, and we are working on getting it to run in
> Mozilla M10.  We are also developing an equivalent set of
> tests for the Java binding.
> 
> Both test suites are publicly available.  Feel free to use them
> to test your implementations.  If you have any additional tests
> to add to the test suite, please let us know.
> 
> Mary Brady
> mbrady@n...
> NIST, Conformance Testing
> Chair, OASIS XML Conformance Subcommittee
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of
> James Duncan Davidson
> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 2:44 AM
> To: David Megginson
> Cc: xml-dev@i...
> Subject: Re: Parser compliance
> 
> 
> 
> 
> > Likewise, David
> > Brownell is pretty fierce about conformance, so I imagine that Sun's
> > XML library (which he wrote before he left Sun) is pretty much on the
> > money.
> 
> And the folks working on the Sun parser are still fierce about
> conformance as I've been finding out. :) Even as we move to working more
> and more with the xml.apache.org project, we'll continue to be fierce
> about it.
> 
> .duncan
> 
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