Extracting conformance requirements from specifications

[bcc to www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org FYI]

Hello QA IG,

While reviewing the Last Call version of XInclude [1], I thought that
the markup conventions used in the text were good enough that I could
extract the relevant conformance information using an XSLT; and indeed:
http://www.w3.org/2004/04/xinclude-confreq.xsl allows to extract the
said information:
http://www.w3.org/2000/06/webdata/xslt?xslfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2004%2F04%2Fxinclude-confreq.xsl&xmlfile=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2FTR%2F2003%2FWD-xinclude-20031110%2F&transform=Submit

This is just food for thoughts on the topic of marking up conformance
requirements in specification to allow easier reviewing of their
contents and evaluation of their test suites; FWIW, I have at least 2
other recent examples of equivalent tools:
"""
I built a quick XSLT that
allows to extract the conformance requirements from our GL docs, relying
on our markup conventions; the XSLT is at:
http://www.w3.org/QA/WG/2004/02/extract-cr-from-gl.xsl
"""
Conformance requirements extracted from Ops and Spec 
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux 
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-qa-wg/2004Feb/0054.html

and 

"""
 I've
extracted from the document the list of constraints/principle/good
practices (attached as text) - using a simplistic xslt also attached.
"""
Webarch conformance model (LC comments on the Architecture of the WWW)
Dominique Hazaël-Massieux <dom@w3.org>
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2004
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webarch-comments/2004Feb/0023.html

Dom

1. http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xinclude-20031110/
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