Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors

Hi Dimitris,

The link that Manos provided is the link to the
files -- they are all contained in a subdirectory --
if you unzip them into tests/level1/core/files --
you'll be able to see them.

--Mary

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dimitris Dimitriadis" <dimitris@ontologicon.com>
To: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
Cc: "Mary Brady" <mbrady@nist.gov>; <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors


> Thanks Manos
>
> We don't have an area for upload, so I think the best would be if you
> sent the zipped file to interested parties (I am one).
>
> /Dimitris
>
> On Monday, March 11, 2002, at 11:21 , Manos Batsis wrote:
>
> > Where can I upload or send this? I can't just post it to the list; I've
> > used the directory structure as found in [1], ended up with 2.2 MB
> > (unzipped).
> >
> > [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml-m12n-
> > schema-20011219/xhtml-m12n-schema.zip
> >
> > Manos
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Mary Brady [mailto:mbrady@nist.gov]
> >> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 3:00 PM
> >> To: Manos Batsis
> >> Cc: www-dom-ts@w3.org
> >> Subject: Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors
> >>
> >>
> >> Can you take a look at the existing files, under
> >> /level1/core/files and give it a try?
> >>
> >> --Mary
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
> >> To: "Mary Brady" <mbrady@nist.gov>
> >> Cc: <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
> >> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 7:49 AM
> >> Subject: RE: Using existing staff.xml based tests with HTML processors
> >>
> >>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> From: Mary Brady [mailto:mbrady@nist.gov]
> >>>
> >>>> Would this approach require that all processors would
> >> have to support
> >>>> XHTML Modularization?
> >>>
> >>> XHTML m12n is not something that a processor supports
> >> explicitly; as with
> >> any XML vocabulary, it depends on your needs.
> >>>
> >>> A browser for example can display an extended XHTML
> >> document by treating
> >> known XHTML elements as usual while determining the display
> >> of the rest
> >> based on style (CSS) or some default handling rules (i.e.
> >> display the text
> >> contained in them). Validation is not mandatory.
> >>>
> >>> Something more critical can validate such a document using
> >> a DTD or Schema
> >> that contains the XHTML modules along with the custom modules.
> >>>
> >>> With m12n, you can use one file to perform HTML dependent tests (for
> >> example using HTML specific collections such as
> >> document.forms) or raw XML
> >> tests to non XHTML elements included in such a file while the
> >> file is valid
> >> (either as XML or XHTML).
> >>>
> >>> Kindest regards,
> >>>
> >>> Manos
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>
> >>>> --Mary
> >>>>
> >>>> ----- Original Message -----
> >>>> From: "Manos Batsis" <m.batsis@bsnet.gr>
> >>>> To: <bv@opera.no>; "Arnold, Curt" <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com>
> >>>> Cc: <www-dom-ts@w3.org>
> >>>> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 6:48 AM
> >>>> Subject: RE: Using existing staff.xml based tests with
> >> HTML processors
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> XHTML test files must be valid to be XHTML in the first
> >>>> place; technically
> >>>> speaking though, there is a way to have valid XHTML just
> >> by adding a
> >>>> 'wrapper'[1] to the existing files while using XHTML
> >>>> Modularization (either
> >>>> in XML Schema [1] or DTD [2]). I would be very interested
> >> to help if
> >>>> something like that is chosen, especially if XML Schema
> >> is involved.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [1] like
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <!DOCTYPE  bla>
> >>>>> <html xmlns="myDomain/bla">
> >>>>>    <head>
> >>>>>       <title>
> >>>>>          Untitled
> >>>>>       </title>
> >>>>>    </head>
> >>>>>    <body>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> <!-- existing XML content -->
> >>>>>
> >>>>>    </body>
> >>>>> </html>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xhtml-m12n-schema-20011219/
> >>>>> [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-modularization/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Kindest regards,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Manos
> >>>>>
> >>>>>> -----Original Message-----
> >>>>>> From: Bjψrn Vermo [mailto:bv@opera.no]
> >>>>>> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 1:40 PM
> >>>>>> To: 'www-dom-ts@w3.org'; Arnold, Curt
> >>>>>> Subject: Re: Using existing staff.xml based tests with
> >>>> HTML processors
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> 2002-03-06 18:36:21, "Arnold, Curt"
> >>>> <Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> I was thinking that you could produce an close [X]HTML
> >>>>>> analogue of staff.xml
> >>>>>>> by doing a direct translation of each element in staff to a
> >>>>>> distinct [X]HTML
> >>>>>>> element with a similar content model.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Most of the elements simply contain PCDATA and have no
> >>>>>> attributes, so you
> >>>>>>> could make <employeeId> to <code> and <salary> to <pre>, etc
> >>>>>> and could
> >>>>>>> change <address domestic="">something</address> to <a
> >>>>>> href="">something</a>,
> >>>>>>> <employee> could go to <p>.  The only structural change
> >>>> that would be
> >>>>>>> changing <staff> to <html><body>.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I believe it would be more useful to use constructs like <div
> >>>>>> class="employeeid"> and <a class="domestic" href=2xx">
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> --
> >>>>>> Bjψrn Vermo
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>

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