RE: New EARL tool in Xforms

I added the ability to put in a comment (as an earl:message property).

(One task off the todo list...)

cheers


Chaals

On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:

>
>There is an earl:message property that would allow adding such an
>explanation.
>
>Real tools and people test against a number of sub-criteria - if I had a lot
>of time I could add stuff so that you could have degrees of failed, and finer
>grained information as well as just a message.
>
>I'll put the emssage bit on the todo list - anyne else is welcome to hack
>further, of course...
>
>cheers
>
>Chaals
>
>On Thu, 3 Jul 2003, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote:
>
>>
>>what i would miss in such a report is some reasoning why a certain
>>checkpoint failed. but again, i guess this information might only be
>>interesting for site developers.
>>
>>it would be great if the validation tools could provide such a complete
>>and consistent report of the conducted tests...
>>
>>best,
>>  shadi
>>
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: w3c-wai-er-ig-request@w3.org
>>> [mailto:w3c-wai-er-ig-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Charles
>>> McCathieNevile
>>> Sent: Mittwoch, 02. Juli 2003 18:59
>>> To: WAI ER group
>>> Subject: New EARL tool in Xforms
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Hi ERT group,
>>>
>>> I have produced an Xform that allows people to do an
>>> evaluation of a document
>>> against WCAG 1.0 and generate EARL according to the 1.0 spec
>>> (plus some
>>> dublin core and and foaf for things that aren't in the
>>> schema, and in my
>>> opinion don't need to be).
>>>
>>> It's online at
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/axform> s/earlform.xml
>>> -
>>> but at the moment it will store the result
>>> on the W3C site, if you have a
>>> password to put it there (otherwise it won't work).
>>>
>>> You can download the relevant parts and run them locally -
>>> there are four
>>> files in a package at
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/axforms/package.tgz
>>>
>>> To make it work you need an Xforms-capable browser. I have
>>> been using Xsmiles
>>> 0.8 - http://www.xsmiles.org - on a macintosh and it works
>>> fine, but feedback
>>> and bug reports are welcome. (Trying to install this system
>>> on Windows needed
>>> java, which turned out to be a pain, so I ahven't tested it
>>> there yet).
>>>
>>> My plans for this are to make it post the results to the
>>> EARL/Annotea server,
>>> but I need to change a namespace setting there first.
>>>
>>> More documentation coming soon - the form itself has a brief
>>> to-do list which
>>> should give some idea owhat I hope it will do.
>>>
>>> Don't forget that your effort in getting Xforms-capable will
>>> be repaid by
>>> also being able to generate foaf/codepiction data using the
>>> materials at
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/foaflang/xfoaf.tgz - see
>>> http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/Europe/200305/foaflang for some
>>> idea of how this
>>> information can be used.
>>>
>>> enjoy...
>>>
>>> Charles
>>>
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>>
>
>

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