- From: olivier Thereaux <ot@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:02:41 -0400
- To: public-unicorn@w3.org
Hi all, I don't this the current work on unicorn has been discussed here recently - active development of Unicorn has started again, as Jean- Gui is working with two students who joined us for an internship. They will be following the work plan drafted at: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tools/Unicorn/roadmap.html Looking at the roadmap today, I wonder if we could be a little more ambitious in the "Simplifying the file formats" area. One of the things that the roadmap lists is to make the "observer's output format" easier. I think that's good, but I'd actually suggest we go one step further and give Unicorn some extra code to understand other formats, such as some EARL observations and the validator XML output used by Henri's validator.nu, which could also be adopted in some form or other by the W3C Markup validator. Making this change would make it possible, at the expense of a bit of extra code, to plug unicorn with any online tool with an existing XML- based output. The service description (WADL) can be done by either the maintainers of the observer if they want, or by us. So I suggest we look into making importers for unicorn. Either Java code to grok the formats directly, or (for a start perhaps, as a proof of concept) XSLT transformations into something Unicorn already understands. How does this sound? -- olivier
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