RE: [xml-dev] Doing QA on an XML parser

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> But with those tests or not, I'd say the coverage could be a 
> lot more useful, but that applies to a lot of public test suites.

One of the problems with the W3C test suites is that there's constant
pressure to remove from them any tests where the result is to any degree
implementation-defined or -dependent. For XML that might mean no tests for
encodings other than those which a parser is obliged to accept. In practice
that means a real parser will have large areas that the W3C test suite
doesn't cover.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/