- From: Xavier Franc <xfranc@online.fr>
- Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:41:43 +0100
- CC: Andrew Eisenberg <andrew.eisenberg@us.ibm.com>, www-ql@w3.org
I welcome this initiative; this sounds a very desirable and useful tool. However I am a bit concerned by what seems to me a defect of the suite: The expected result items are apparently not typed (except when they are nodes). A consequence is that checking results can be imprecise: For example, a test like (XQuery/Expressions/FLWORExpr/ForExprType/ForExprType010.xq) for $num as xs:decimal in ... return $num has a corresponding result file looking like this: -100000000000000000 -10000000000000000 -1000000000000000 ... Then how can we be sure whether the type of items is actually xs:decimal and not for example xs:integer ? This is just an example, there are probably many possibilities of ambiguity. I think it would be better if results were presented in a form like hereafter, where each result item is labelled with its expected type. <result-items> <item type="xs:decimal">-100000000000000000</item> <item type="xs:decimal">-10000000000000000</item> <item type="xs:decimal">-1000000000000000</item> ... </result-items> This is probably not needed for all tests, but there could be an additional "comparator" that would take this kind of format as input. >The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group would like to >announce the availability of an early version of the XML Query Test Suite >(XQTS) at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/. > > >
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