Re: Make testsuite usable for non browser applications

Hi Paul,

Paul Libbrecht schrieb:
>>> The XHTML files have proper namespaces: e.g.:
>>>  http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/build/main/Presentation/GeneralLayout/mfrac/mfrac7-simple.xhtml
>>> or  http://www.w3.org/Math/testsuite/build/main/Presentation/GeneralLayout/mfrac/mfrac7-plain.xhtml
>>
>> Those will fail in Apache OpenOffice because of the wrong root element.
>
> Is XHTML wrong inside OpenOffice? Maybe for some tests...

Apache OpenOffice does not work on the node-tree, but has its own model. 
Therefore it has import and export filters.

You are right about this special XHTML files. Apache OpenOffice opens 
them in the Formula module, imports the MathML fragment and skips all 
surrounding elements. LibreOffice has a different file type detection 
and you need to explicitly choose the MathML import filter. But either 
way it is possible to test the MathML import using the XHTML files. I 
was not aware that the parser has this feature.

There exists no filter to show the whole XHTML-file as a browser would 
do, but you can only import the file as source code.

[..]
>
> So… is all you need an archive of the files?
> Just ask what kind of archive you need and I'll create it for you.
> I assume you want an archive with the .mml and the .png files. Is that right? Are the xhtml files with the comments not useful too for a human to validate?

Yes, the XHTML files are useful too, so that I can use the browser to 
show the comments and see the rendering in the browser.

>
> Unfortunately, the way we publish on the web at the WG makes it a bit bad-style to put several archives on the web-site on a regular basis. Thus, I'd bake the archive your request and make it available on my personal site.
>

A common archive type would be good, a kind that 7-Zip can handle. A 
.zip will work and a .tar.gz as well.

I would be delighted if you could produce such an archive. Am I the 
first who is looking for an archive?

Kind regards
Regina

Received on Saturday, 27 December 2014 15:07:15 UTC