Test Suit Specs - Pointers and RefPointers

Hi Leroy,

We talked a bit about the test output for pointers last Friday. Sorry about the delay sending the example to the list.

The examples from the test suite:

locnote2htmloutput.txt
/html/body[1]/section[2]/span[1]           locNoteType="description"         locNotePointer="A division by 0 was going to be computed."

In the cases of pointers maybe we can just resolve the pointer and show the value as plain locNote. We don't care to much that it's from a pointer, just that the value is correct.

/html/body[1]/section[2]/span[1]           locNote="A division by 0 was going to be computed."  locNoteType="description"


Locnote4htmloutput.txt
/html/body[1]/p[1]/span[1]       locNoteType="description"         locNoteRefPointer=""                title="Comments.html#FileNotFound"

locnote4xmloutput.txt
/dataFile/body[1]/string[1]path=/data[1]            locNoteType="description"         locNoteRefPointer=""                noteFile="Comments.html#FileNotFound"

[Fyi, In the cases of refPointers the html and xml examples shows different format title vs. noteFile]

Perhaps we can follow the same logic of the pointers in the example above and resolve them and not show the title/noteFile so instead something simpler like:

/html/body[1]/p[1]/span[1]       locNoteRef="Comments.html#FileNotFound"                 locNoteType="description"
and
/dataFile/body[1]/string[1]/data[1]        locNoteRef="Comments.html#FileNotFound" locNoteType="description"

or

/html/body[1]/p[1]/span[1]       locNote="REF:Comments.html#FileNotFound"               locNoteType="description"
and
/dataFile/body[1]/string[1]/data[1]        locNote="REF:Comments.html#FileNotFound"               locNoteType="description"


On a side note, does it make sense for implementers to update the testresult files on GitHub at will or do you prefer us to wait until after Dec 4th. Just as a random example \locale1htmloutput.txt I think it's missing the following two lines (unless we're ignoring meta):

/html/head[1]/meta[1]
/html/head[1]/meta[1]/@charset

I'm asking because I know you're working on the files so I don't want to cause any inconvenience by introducing unexpected changes if you're in the middle of something. Perhaps you prefer us to report any findings on a file per file basis to approve the change first?

Thanks,
Fredrik