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Re: More test suite problems

From: Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 3 Jun 2002 21:22:39 +0100 (BST)
Message-Id: <200206032022.VAA10208@rhymer.cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
To: Paul Grosso <pgrosso@arbortext.com>, "Glenn Marcy" <gmarcy@us.ibm.com>, public-xml-testsuite@w3.org
Cc: w3c-xml-core-wg@w3.org

> Unless we want to change the Infoset spec and break the
> ability to do proper catalog resolution, I think we should
> leave things as is and have a note that says that people who 
> use a tool that uses the broken SAX API will get different
> results.

I agree that the test suite should not be changed.

This isn't a parser API test, nor is it an infoset implementation
test.  The test suite requires a particular format, and the fact
that it doesn't match what SAX returns merely means that the SAX
test harness has to do some extra work.

-- Richard
Received on Monday, 3 June 2002 16:23:44 GMT

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