Re: Test suite output format

Hi Yves, all,

thanks for the feedback.

2012/8/31 Yves Savourel <ysavourel@enlaso.com>

> Hi Felix, all,
>
> Yes, you assumed right. Your example is what I had in mind.
>
> I think a tab-delimited output would be easier to compare with simple diff
> tools. It would allows implementers to use the same files for their unit
> tests, making the validation enforced automatically at each build.
>
> We would also need to sort the entries of the attribute items I think. XML
> parsers have no requirement to present attribute in a specific order and
> they do it differently. We could sort alphabetically for example.
>
> When a data category has several pieces of information, we should always
> output them in the same order, even when absent/empty.
>
>
> > Some questions are:
> > - would the output be written with ITS namespaces, e.g.
> its:translate="yes" vs. "translate="yes"
>

then let's go for the version with the prefix. We just need to be sure that
it has a prefix in each case, no matter if the information is created by a
local "its:translate" attribute, a global "translateRule" which has
"translate" attribute with no prefix, or by HTML "translate" which is again
in no prefix.

I think no matter what the information comes from, the  output should
always be the same.


>
> Either way would be fine.
>
>
> > - do we need the other information in XML file, e.g. "new value global"
> etc? I'd say no, just asking
>
> +100. I think not having outputType in that format would also help *a lot*.
> I was going to post an email about it :)
> That information is actually not useful in production. It may help
> debugging, but production tools may be designed to optimize the tree
> decoration to allow for larger documents, and not have this available. A

fter all outputType doesn't test the result, but how you obtained the
> result.
>


Good :)

Leroy or others working on the test suite - is above description enough for
you to change the test suite output? Could you also add a small description
of how the result files look like to the test suite main page?

Both items are not critical for the W3C staff Tuesday meeting on testing  -
if you just let me know whether there are any general issues, that's OK.

Best,

Felix


>
> Cheers,
> -yves
>
>
>
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-- 
Felix Sasaki
DFKI / W3C Fellow