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[XSL-LIST Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: xslt test automation
 As an XProc implementer, I have found the XProc Test Suite format
(http://tests.xproc.org) very useful for XSLT testing. By writing a simple
XProc pipeline (consisting of a single p:xslt step) you can easily create
tests that apply your stylesheet with different input data, different
parameters, or different initial mode/template. Stylesheets that produce
multiple output documents (via xsl:document) are also supported.
The test format allows you to compare the result of the pipeline with the
expected output. Obviously, you can also further inspect/manipulate the XSLT
input/output with XProc if you want.
The main limitation of this approach is that it only works with XML data. If
your stylesheet produces results that are not well-formed XML, processing
those may be quite challenging in XProc.
The example test below should give you an idea of how this looks like (you can
see more examples at http://tests.xproc.org/testsuite/):
<t:test xmlns:t="http://xproc.org/ns/testsuite"
xmlns:p="http://www.w3.org/ns/xproc">
<t:title>Test xslt-001</t:title>
<t:input port="source">
<document>
<title>Some Title</title>
<para>Some paragraph.</para>
</document>
</t:input>
<t:input port="style">
<t:document href="style.xsl"/>
</t:input>
<t:pipeline>
<p:pipeline version="1.0" name="pipeline">
<p:input port="style"/>
<p:xslt>
<p:input port="stylesheet">
<p:pipe step="pipeline" port="style"/>
</p:input>
</p:xslt>
</p:pipeline>
</t:pipeline>
<t:output port="result">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Some Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Some Title</h1>
<p>Some paragraph.</p>
</body>
</html>
</t:output>
</t:test>
Regards,
Vojtech
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Vojtech Toman
Consultant Software Engineer
EMC | Information Intelligence Group
vojtech.toman@xxxxxxx
http://developer.emc.com/xmltech
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