- From: fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>
- Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 14:29:15 -0700
- To: Peter Linss <peter.linss@hp.com>
- CC: Aryeh Gregor <ayg@aryeh.name>, "public-css-testsuite@w3.org" <public-css-testsuite@w3.org>
On 04/18/2012 12:34 PM, Peter Linss wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 11:38 AM, fantasai wrote:
>
>> On 04/18/2012 08:05 AM, Linss, Peter wrote:
>>>
>>> {snip}
>>>
>>> It occurred to me that for markup parsing tests we need to be able to flag the test source in such a way that the build process will simply copy the source file as is. It can copy all the metadata (including any metadata it needs to inject) into a sidecar file (.meta). Any suggestions for the name of that flag?
>>
>> I'd make it a per-testsuite option. None of the CSS tests should ever
>> need that flag. But some of the HTML ones would.
>>
>> ~fantasai
>
> But test suites will soon be generated based on spec links. So if it's external to the test file then we need to specify the option on a per spec link basis.
>
> Even then, some test may refer to parsing sections of other specs as secondary links and may not really have a 'don't re-serialize me' requirement.
>
> Since we really only need it for tests that are deliberately non-well formed (or otherwise stress a markup parser), I'd like to have it a per-test option.
Okay, but there shouldn't be any such tests in the CSS test suites.
~fantasai
Received on Wednesday, 18 April 2012 21:29:48 UTC