Hi Joseph,
Thanks for your thoughts.
I hope to work on doing the activity of writing Xalan-J W3C XPath 3.1
test suite driver.
I'll share the details about this, on this list when I've made
progress on this activity.
On Sun, May 24, 2026 at 11:34 PM Joseph Kesselman via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> The old test driver uses a mix of ways to invoke tests, since some of it
> tests the language (with input samples and expected output) and some of it
> tests our APIs. It also has hooks intended to allow running it against other
> processors. When we started work on it we were one of the first groups to
> write an XSLT regression test suite; I think we had one before the
> recommendation committee did.
>
> I haven't looked at what they've done for 3.1; I don't know how hard it would
> be to drop that into our framework.
>
> NOTE: Our current framework relies on being driven by Ant, and has a lot of
> ad-hoc code, including using Tidy as a basic HTML parser for
> serializer-sensitive tests which should be compared semantically rather than
> byte for byte. It does the job but as part of keeping it portable to other
> processors (including those written in other languages) it is moderately
> ugly. Writing a new test driver might be worth considering, but we would need
> to establish whether and how testing other implementations is still required.
> It wouldn't be a huge task, probably less than my Maven effort, but doing it
> right is nontrivial. If you are going to consider a new test driver, you
> might want to spend some time resolving that, and at least understanding what
> concerns went into xalan-test so you don't repeat some of the mistakes we
> made along the way.
>
> If we *can* make a portable test suite Someone Else's Problem, pointing them
> to an unmaintained copy of the old xalan-test, that might let us simplify
> things substantially.
>
>
> --
> Joe (Typo'ed on my phone.)
>
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--
Regards,
Mukul Gandhi
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