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RE: XML test documents

• To: "John Cowan" <cowan@c...>
• Subject: RE: XML test documents
• From: "Paul Sumner Downey" <Paul.Downey@w...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 20:27:46 -0000
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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• In-reply-to: <20040226124500.GF31068@c...>

Thanks John,

exactly what i was looking for - i'll see if i've covered any issues in my
own test or following Joe's suggestion to Google, and submit them.

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cowan [mailto:cowan@c...]
Sent: 26 February 2004 12:45
To: Paul Sumner Downey
Cc: xml-dev@l...
Subject: Re:  XML test documents


Paul Sumner Downey scripsit:

> I'm currently developing a XML pretty-printer Perl module which i'd like
to
> test before releasing as Open Source. I wondered if there was a good
> collection of XML documents for exercising XML processors which i could
use
> in addition to my own feeble tests ?

The W3C maintains an XML test suite: see http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/ .
You will probably wish to ignore the XML 1.1 tests as well as the
not-well-formed tests.  There are two types of tests: binary (pass/fail)
and output (where the processor+printer must recreate a specific output).

Note: the intro material claims that the tests are only for Second Edition
XML 1.0; this is incorrect.  There are tests for both the obsolete Second
and the current Third Edition.

> I'm particularly looking for documents which exhibit a good range of DTD,
> characters, predefined entities and any common trip-ups which i might have
> missed.

We've got lots.  And if you want to donate your existing tests to the
W3C (under a BSD-ish license), you can do that too.

--
Unless it was by accident that I had            John Cowan
offended someone, I never apologized.           jcowan@r...
        --Quentin Crisp                         http://www.ccil.org/~cowan

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