- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 16:56:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: > > > As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my > > > _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. > > > > If you could get together with the other people writing parsers and > > come up with a standard format for test cases, that would be really > > helpful. I have a few tests I could contribute, but I'd need a format > > to provide them in (they're currently not in a form that would be > > useful to you). > > Did you have a list for implementers somewhere? I think it would be a > very worthwhile effort to come up with a set of implementation > independent, self-describing (i.e. where the testcase itself contains > the expected parse tree in some form), testcases - but I think the > discussion should be on a separate list. implementors at whatwg.org is now open for business: http://whatwg.org/mailing-list I'll monitor the list for feedback, but I might miss it, so please send any spec feedback to whatwg at whatwg.org still. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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