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 I've been considering a unit testing approach for my Regular Fragmentations processor [1], trying to figure out what kinds of unit testing make sense for a SAX filter [2]. I've looked at things like JUnit [3], JXUnit [4], XSLTUnit[5], and XMLUnit[6], and I think I'm now more confused than when I started. In testing a filter, I need to be able to test component pieces, some of which are plain old objects and some of which are representations of those objects as SAX events and/or XML. I've had a number of cases involving shallow copying (finally fixed) where the objects looked great at the time of their creation but morphed by the time they reached the XML output, so I really need to be able to test these things in a variety of situations. So far, I've been using a set of test cases and my own eyeballs. It's worked pretty well as far as figuring out high-level pass/fail, but does very little to help me track down where the pass/fail came from. I doubt I'm the only person dealing with these kinds of issues on xml-dev, but I still wonder if anyone's really explored how unit testing and XML fit together. Validation is something that comes naturally to XML, but it's a different kind of testing than the finer-grained object unit testing approach I'm looking for. Simon St.Laurent Associate Editor O'Reilly & Associates http://simonstl.com [1] http://simonstl.com/projects/fragment/docs/ [2] http://www.megginson.com/SAX/Java/filters.html [3] http://junit.org [4] http://quickutil.sourceforge.net/view/Main/JXUnit [5] http://xsltunit.org [6] http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmlunit/ 
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