- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2001 15:36:53 -0400
- To: "Markus Mielke" <mmielke@microsoft.com>
- Cc: <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
>I think the issue being addressed here is that tests shouldn't expect >elements in any particular order Watch out for terminology, since "element" is a key word when discussing XML... A test should certainly expect Elements to be in a particular order, since that's semantically meaningful and well-specified. There are specific kinds of Nodes that are not considered to be ordered, Attrs being the most obvious, and a test for those specific cases should confirm that the right things are appearing but not enforce order. >web based issue (bug) tracking system Apache's started using Bugzilla again, now that some security and configuration concerns have been dealt with. I have no opinion on it versus other tools, but so far it seems to work and some folks may already be familiar with it. >The number of returned attributes is dependent on the DTD of the given >platform. I don't think I understand this issue... The DTD's default attributes do get included in the result, certainly. But the DTD should be specified as part of the testcase, so that shouldn't be an issue. If you may be running against multiple DTDs (eg for HTML), either specify which one much be used for this test or enumerate what the results should be for each. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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