Re: Does the new structure include the same text conte

Hi everyone,

I am working on a project to convert several thousand SGML files (S1000D 1.7) into a more recent XML version (S1000D 4.1). My finished XSLT style sheet does the job that is expected. B However during the development I did run into a problem where an error in the stylesheet allowed the output to pass schema validation but by omitting some content! For me thatbs very bad news and I was lucky to notice it. B Ultimately the final output will be verified by the subject matter experts, but I really donbt want to give them any reason to doubt the reliability of the conversion.

This got me thinking about ways to verify the output text content against the input despite significantly different structure. Is there an established way to do that? If so what is it called and how well does it work?

Perhaps itbs something that I should build into the XSLT as it is written? Or perhaps it could be run as a post process batch comparison operation?

My initial thought is to output normalized text from input and output and compare the resulting text filesb&

Ibve searched the archives, but I probably donbt know the correct terminology to get any useful resultsb&

Thanks in advance for all responses.

Ian

Ian Proudfoot

Bembridge

Isle of Wight

United Kingdom