Re: clarification (I hope) - using catalog.xml and the other ixml-tests catalogs

Yes, a test output mode that includes both inputs and the output
(and any intermediate steps the developer would like to inspect) is
a handy thing to have, for debugging unexpected results.  Making 
my test harness do that is the next change I will make to it.

Michael

> On 1,Jan2022, at 7:38 AM, Steven Pemberton <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl> wrote:
> 
> > 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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