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At 98/11/15 05:04 -0800, Dave Winer wrote on the XML-DEV mailing list: >There still is no definitive test suite of XML files they have to parse. If >we're serious about having compatibility and offering users real choices, >we can probably still fix this, but soon, the cat will be out of the bag, >as they say, and it'll be too late. > >No individual commercial vendor has the credibility or motivation to >establish this test suite. The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS - http://www.oasis-open.org) has established the XML Conformance subcommittee of its technical committee to address this issue. An industry consortium of users, vendors and invited experts, OASIS members volunteer to collaborate in the development of resources to contribute to the community at large. When complete, said resources are made available to the entire community without constraints ... it is a benefit of membership in the consortium to be involved in the development of technical reports. I am currently chairing this volunteer group which has, due to constraints on the available time of contributing members, not been very visible. The first deliverable from the subcommittee will be a report on XML Conformance, complete with a suite of test files. These test files do not include the tests from James Clark, so the community will have hundreds of additional test files than what is available today. During the XML Conference in Chicago last week, impromptu meetings with members resulted in new and renewed commitments to the effort which should produce results more quickly than in the past. Of note, the subcommittee has the valuable contribution from NIST of expertise directly related to conformance testing that has been committed to the effort, and I have begun sharing the subcommittee chair duties with Mary Brady who was instrumental in the development of the VRML Conformance work. I will report to this group on the availability of results of the work of the committee, and how the committee decides to solicit input from the community on any draft work that may be released. Any contributions of test files made without any strings attached will be gratefully considered by the committee for inclusion in the report, and any such materials that are included in the final report will be attributed. We on the committee are interested to receive comments on your own perspectives regarding XML Conformance ... if you are employed by an OASIS member company, please find your representative and make your feelings known; if you deal with an OASIS member company, you can forward your comments through them; you are welcome to send me your comments, and we are temporarily using my FTP site ftp://ftp.CraneSoftwrights.com for any contributions. Thank you! .......... Ken -- G. Ken Holman mailto:gkholman@C... Crane Softwrights Ltd. http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ Box 266, V: +1(613)489-0999 Kars, Ontario CANADA K0A-2E0 F: +1(613)489-0995 Training: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/schedule.htm Resources: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/resources.htm Shareware: http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/shareware.htm xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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