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Didier PH Martin wrote: > > Hi David, > > First thank you for the useful info. > > Second: Do you have any link for: > Sun's test case. For the moment: http://java.sun.com/people/db/suntest.zip > Add to the list Rick Jelliffe test suite for chinese encoding. I have lost > the link, but I am sure Rick will be happy to provide the link. Good reminder; thanks! - Dave > Regards > Didier PH Martin > mailto:martind@n... > http://www.netfolder.com > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-xml-dev@i... [mailto:owner-xml-dev@i...]On Behalf Of > David Brownell > Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:10 PM > To: Elliotte Rusty Harold > Cc: xml-dev@i... > Subject: Re: XML Torture Test: Parsers Fail > > Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > > > > I think what this whole mess is showing, given the widely varying problems > > with so many parsers, is that validation is not nearly as simple as it > > seems, especially when the validators are asked to handle large files. > > Actually, the IE5 bug doesn't relate to validation ... :-) > > I think this really reflects a general need for better conformance > testing. I know that Sun has invested a considerable amount of > effort in complying with the XML 1.0 specification. When we run > other parsers through our test suite the results don't always look > very good at all. > > That is one of the problems that led us to write our own XML processor: > the others did not conform well enough to the specification, which > quickly leads to interoperabilty problems, undermining XML as an open > platform level standard. > > At this time I know of four sets of test cases for evaluating > conformance with the XML 1.0 specification. The OASIS working > group on XML conformance is integrating these: > > - Of course, James Clark's XMLTEST suite ... good basic > coverage for well-formedness, and some output tests; > > - Fuji Xerox test cases ... for vendors who want to handle > the Japanese market, some characters and encodings are key; > > - Sun's test cases ... primarily to test validation, but > there are a bunch of other cases that are covered; > > - OASIS tests ... good coverage of a number of grammar > rules, not yet generally available. > > Does anyone know of any other generally available sets of test > cases? Or have any tests cases they'd like to make generally > available? If so, please contact me! > > - Dave > > 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN > 981-02-3594-1 > 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...) > > 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 > 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...) 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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