Re: locating subject of test results in EARL

> I read through the list threads you suggested but I'm still not sure how
> your fuzzy pointer system works. Could you provide a short description and
> perhaps an example or two?

Yep. I agree.

However, I have some arguments regarding the "normalisation" process of
HTML documents that was discussed in the threads previously suggested (in
particular:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-annotation/2002JanJun/0156).

I assume that we are trying to assess not only the structure (and
partially the content) as I initially thought. Our aim is to produce a
more general and generic set of procedures that is able to locate
*everything*, from structure-related problems to content ones (e.g. even
mispelling errors).

Of course this is not the case of HTML test suite, but I guess we should
keep it in mind anyway (I beg your pardon if I initially underestimated
this).

However, on the other hand, if some people promote the normalisation
process of an HTML (to an XML document in order to produce fuzzy
xpointers), I want to raise some doubts about it, which could hopefully
lead me to a better understanding of the issue.

If we are indeed concerned about locating some content, I may agree this
solution would perfectly work. However, if our aim is to provide users
with information regarding errors or problems in the source and
specifically in HTML tags, normalisation could introduce further errors
IMHO.

In particular, I'd like to know if you had thought about a strategy of
presenting the results to the users. If a document gets normalised, what
information about the structure do you intend to present: the original or
the normalised one? Do you get my point now?

Ciao,
-Gabriele

Received on Monday, 14 March 2005 15:37:29 UTC