Re: clarification (I hope) - using catalog.xml and the other ixml-tests catalogs from Steven Pemberton on 2022-01-01 (public-ixml@w3.org from January 2022)

From: Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2022 14:38:09 +0000
To: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>, ixml <public-ixml@w3.org>
Cc: "C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@blackmesatech.com>
Message-Id: <1640974535072.1625369877.1789586562@cwi.nl>

 > I initially imagined making catalogs that could be added pointing at
 > SP's tests, without changing anything else. But the *.req files in
 > tests.zip and syntaxtests.zip are not XML documents, and the test
 > catalogs need to point at XML documents as the expected output. And
 > doubtless other things went wrong. My apologies for the ensuing
 > confusion.
I could easily make the req files XML files, no problem. Originally they 
were just the XML output, but then I realised when doing regression tests 
that I was too often searching for why the output was different when the 
grammar or input was the actual culprit.

Steven

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