Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-07 Thread Sam Ruby
Karl Dubost wrote: Sam, Le 6 déc. 2006 à 23:13, Sam Ruby a écrit : My original interest was to write a replacement for Python's SGMLLIB, i.e., one that was not based on the theoretical ideal of how SGML vocabularies work, but one based on the practical notion of how HTML actually is parsed.

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread James Graham
Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. If you could get together with the other people writing parsers and come up with a standard

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Sam Ruby
James Graham wrote: Ian Hickson wrote: On Tue, 5 Dec 2006, James Graham wrote: As someone in the process of implementing a HTML5 parser from the spec, my _only_ complaint so far is that there aren't (yet) any testcases. If you could get together with the other people writing parsers and

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread James Graham
Sam Ruby wrote: Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://code.google.com/p/html5lib/ I have no interest in participating in a project without test cases. You are entirely right that we have a serious lack of testcases at the moment. This is intended to be a temporary situation, hence my interest

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Le 6 déc. 2006 à 21:33, James Graham a écrit : Did you have a list for implementers somewhere? I think it would be a very worthwhile effort to come up with a set of implementation independent, self-describing (i.e. where the testcase itself contains the expected parse tree in some form),

Re: [whatwg] Test cases for parsing spec (Was: Re: Provding Better Tools)

2006-12-06 Thread Karl Dubost
Sam, Le 6 déc. 2006 à 23:13, Sam Ruby a écrit : My original interest was to write a replacement for Python's SGMLLIB, i.e., one that was not based on the theoretical ideal of how SGML vocabularies work, but one based on the practical notion of how HTML actually is parsed. I'm not sure