RE: Question about the various Test Suite archives

Thanks for the reply.

Well, given your comments below, do you have any more explicit
suggestions how to test, or what specific tests to use, to test complex
xsd structural relationships?

Elisha

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> schema-testsuite-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Henry S. Thompson
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> Subject: Re: Question about the various Test Suite archives
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> Elisha Berns" writes:
> 
> > There seems to be some overlap between two archives for the XML
Schema
> > Test Suites found at difference location on the W3C web site:
> >
> > xsts-2002-01-16.tar.gz
> > 	This file seems to include tests for both data types and
> > structural 	components.
> 
> This is the correct one, from [1].
> 
> > XSTC20020116.tar.gz
> > 	This file seems to include only the files for the structural
> > components.
> 
> Don't know where you're getting this from, so can't comment.
> 
> > So is there a significant (or any) difference regarding these tests
for
> > the structural components in the two archives?  Which archive should
I
> > be using to conduct tests?
> 
> See above.
> 
> > And since the tests for structural components are found only under
> > the Microsoft directories
> 
> There are also tests for 'structural components' from Sun in the
distro.
> > does this mean that they are Microsoft specific, or can they be used
> > with any processor?  The gist of that last question is whether
> > Microsoft has a unique interpretation, and hence implementation, of
> > any XSD schema structural constructs?
> 
> No more unique than anyone else's -- many people have found these
> tests useful for a range of processors.
> 
> > I need a test suite that provides tests for complex structural
> > relationships within XSD files.  Structural relationships include
type
> > complexity for xsd definitions such as simpleType, complexType,
group,
> > attributeGroup, etc.  I don't know if the W3C XML TS files really
> > provide adequate complexity for structural relationships, so some
> > feedback here would be very appreciated.
> 
> They make a start.  We could use more tests.  Contributions welcome.
> 
> ht
> 
> [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/2004/xml-schema-test-suite/xmlschema2002-01-
> 16/xsts-2002-01-16.tar.gz
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