RE: Some draft code for mobileOK Basic Tests RI

> From: Dominique Hazael-Massieux [mailto:dom@w3.org]
> Sent: 06 February 2007 13:30
> 
> Le mardi 06 février 2007 à 08:20 -0500, Jo Rabin a écrit :
> > Am I reading too much into what you are saying? Are you suggesting that
> > there is a pre-processing step that consists of:
> 
> > a) Tidy-ing the HTML and recording the errors from that tidy.
> > b) Tidy-ing the CSS, recording the errors and transforming to some sort
> > of CSS-XML
> > c) [Tidy-ing the HTTP headers] Transforming to some kind of HTTP-XML
> > (noting the work on HTTP in RDF).
> > d) combine as a new input document.
> 
> Right, and possibly other pre-processing (images validation and
> analysis, etc). That said, I think I was only paraphrasing what James
> was proposing, rather than making a whole new proposition - but maybe
> *I* read too much in what James was saying :)
> 
> > In this case I think James's idea ref XPath would work, perhaps in the
> > context of an XSLT.
> >
> > So I guess a question is: could one define the mobileOK reference
> > implementation as an XSLT, given sufficiently strict definition of the
> > preceding steps?
> 
> Probably so, indeed; but I don't know if it is really that much cheaper
> or easier to define "sufficiently strictly the preceding steps" than to
> define sufficiently strictly a mobileOK reference implementation.

Well, most of what is suggested here as pre-processing needs to be done however you actually execute the tests, surely?

Jo

Received on Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:39:18 UTC