RE: Question on running the tests in the test suite

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, paul.downey@bt.com wrote:

>
> Hi Ed,
>
> We use a Java tool to compare the received XML infoset with
> the one sent at the infoset level, the tool is aware of types
> such as floating point - the source is available
> from the report directory:

Just to clarify, we are not using Java floats to compare floats, but 
double, to avoid Java-specific rounding errors. So the tools knows the 
type it needs to compare but tries to avoid Java specific type definition 
limitations.
Cheers,

>
> http://www.w3.org/2002/ws/databinding/edcopy/report/
>
> Obviously we'd love to add the results of running your tool to
> our interoperability reports - Yves is a good direct contact for the
> comparison tool.
>
> Regards,
> Paul
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-xsd-databinding-request@w3.org on behalf of Ed Day
> Sent: Tue 7/3/2007 4:21 PM
> To: public-xsd-databinding@w3.org
> Subject: Question on running the tests in the test suite
>
>
> We are trying to run tests in the test suite with our XBinder data
> binding tool and are struggling to determine what constitutes a
> successful test.  Note that our tool is primarily an XML schema binding
> tool and does not have the capability to handle the WSDL files as
> defined in the suite at this time.  However, it appears that you have
> provided XSD files and XML instances for all tests which is what we are
> trying to use.
>
> Where we are running into difficulty is comparing the XML instances we
> generate with the original input instances.  Our process is to create a
> read/write driver with our data binding tool for each test schema.  This
> driver reads in an instance, decodes it into data variables, and then
> re-encodes to form a new instance.  We then compare the input to the
> output.  The problem is that what comes out does not match what goes in
> for a variety of reasons - mostly because the input instances contain
> extra namespace declarations that are not needed and therefore dropped
> when the data is re-encoded. Therefore, the output instances are
> equivalent to the input instances, but don't match exactly.
>
> So the question is how to compare input with output?  Do the patterns
> you have specified help with this in any way?  Or is there some kind of
> XML differencing tool that you can recommend that can cope with
> differences like this? (we have not been able to find any).  Or are we
> totally off base as to how to run the tests?
>
> Regards,
>
>

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         ~~Yves

Received on Wednesday, 4 July 2007 07:24:07 UTC