substitution-groups.testSet and DTDs from Michael Kay on 2010-06-21 (public-xml-schema-testsuite@w3.org from June 2010)

From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 10:40:54 +0100
To: public-xml-schema-testsuite@w3.org
Message-ID: <4C1F33A6.6010606@saxonica.com>

I noticed a significant delay while running the new 
substitution-groups.testSet through my test driver. On analysis, this is 
caused by the reference to 
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-basic11.dtd contained in 
./ancillary/xhtml-for-annotation.dtd.

The problem of fetching DTDs from the W3C site is of course well known, 
and the circumventions well-documented. But people implementing XSD test 
drivers have got better things to do than writing catalog files to 
reduce W3C web traffic. I wonder if it's really necessary for the 
testSet file to use a DTD, and if so, whether it's really necessary for 
it to be remote?

Michael Kay
Saxonica

Received on Monday, 21 June 2010 09:41:24 UTC