- From: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
- Date: 22 Mar 2001 12:48:12 -0600
- To: www-dom-ts@w3.org
- Cc: perl-xml@activestate.com
Dimitris Dimitriadis <dimitris.dimitriadis@improve.se> writes: > [Stanley Guan <Stanley.Guan@oracle.com> writes:] > > [Ken MacLeod writes:] > > >In all respects, a conforming Perl DOM lite implementation, via an OMG > > >IDL wrapper, should be a conforming DOM implementation. Mostly it's a > > >difference in presentation. > > > > Has this point of view been taken into consideration? > As indicated in a previous mail, we have indeed thought about > this. If would be a great thing if we could describe the tests in a > language-neutral way and automatically generate tests for a > particular language. In Perl there could be two levels of conformance testing, one at the "full DOM API" level using an OMG IDL wrapper and the standard tests, but also a level that tests what Perl considers the "lite DOM API"[1], which, for reference, is currently only in draft. That may be the thinking behind the original question. We should be able to work out what the crossover is. > However, as we've ancountered some difficulties, I'd personally like > to see a thread on this mailing list to discuss this. > > The objectives are: > 1. Describe tests in IDL terms > 2. Generate tests for particular languages > 3. Point to relevant part of the specification For interested perl-xml folks, the mail list is www-dom-ts@w3.org[2], and you can subscribe by sending a message to www-dom-ts-request@w3.org with the word 'subscribe' in the subject of the mail message. -- Ken [1] <http://Casbah.org/~kmacleod/orchard/perlish-dom-draft> [2] <http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom-ts/>
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