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- From: David Brownell <db@eng.sun.com>
- To: Didier PH Martin <martind@netfolder.com>
- Date: Wed, 07 Apr 1999 12:41:39 -0700
Didier PH Martin wrote:
>
> Hi David,
>
> First thank you for the useful info.
>
> Second: Do you have any link for:
> Sun's test case.
For the moment: http://java.sun.com/people/db/suntest.zip
> Add to the list Rick Jelliffe test suite for chinese encoding. I have lost
> the link, but I am sure Rick will be happy to provide the link.
Good reminder; thanks!
- Dave
> Regards
> Didier PH Martin
> mailto:martind@netfolder.com
> http://www.netfolder.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk [mailto:owner-xml-dev@ic.ac.uk]On Behalf Of
> David Brownell
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 1999 2:10 PM
> To: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Cc: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: XML Torture Test: Parsers Fail
>
> Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> >
> > I think what this whole mess is showing, given the widely varying problems
> > with so many parsers, is that validation is not nearly as simple as it
> > seems, especially when the validators are asked to handle large files.
>
> Actually, the IE5 bug doesn't relate to validation ... :-)
>
> I think this really reflects a general need for better conformance
> testing. I know that Sun has invested a considerable amount of
> effort in complying with the XML 1.0 specification. When we run
> other parsers through our test suite the results don't always look
> very good at all.
>
> That is one of the problems that led us to write our own XML processor:
> the others did not conform well enough to the specification, which
> quickly leads to interoperabilty problems, undermining XML as an open
> platform level standard.
>
> At this time I know of four sets of test cases for evaluating
> conformance with the XML 1.0 specification. The OASIS working
> group on XML conformance is integrating these:
>
> - Of course, James Clark's XMLTEST suite ... good basic
> coverage for well-formedness, and some output tests;
>
> - Fuji Xerox test cases ... for vendors who want to handle
> the Japanese market, some characters and encodings are key;
>
> - Sun's test cases ... primarily to test validation, but
> there are a bunch of other cases that are covered;
>
> - OASIS tests ... good coverage of a number of grammar
> rules, not yet generally available.
>
> Does anyone know of any other generally available sets of test
> cases? Or have any tests cases they'd like to make generally
> available? If so, please contact me!
>
> - Dave
>
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