- From: Joseph Kesselman <keshlam@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2001 11:18:14 -0500
- To: Ken MacLeod <ken@bitsko.slc.ut.us>
- Cc: www-dom-ts@w3.org
>I'd say it's Perl-specific at this point. Yep. The DOM test suite will test for compliance against the DOM spec. If you fail tests, you aren't compliant. If you deliberately don't implement all the DOM behaviors, you should be able to predict exactly what tests you're going to fail. (Note that passing a test suite never proves compliance since it's impossible to test every possible case, but failing it -- assuming the test is correct -- definitely establishes a point of noncompliance.) If you want to discuss whether the DOM might define specific subsets and compliance to those subsets, that's a topic for the IG list rather than this one. Start by reading the open issues list (level_3_issues.html), specifically the section titled "Lightweight DOM"; we _have_ considered the issue before but it's unlikely to fly unless there is a subset whose exact boundaries are widely agreed upon (meaning cross-langage and cross-implementation) and which defines a fairly sharp functional/semantic boundary. For example, the "read-only DOM tree" proposal passes the second test but so far has failed the first despite several attempts. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
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