On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Dominique Hazael-Massieux wrote: > > FWIW, I wrote this morning a dead-simple XSLT that does the extraction > (in the context of the to-be-chartered Device APIs and Policy WG), and > have been looking at widlproc [1] as a way to do XML-based analysis > among WebIDLs files; if using XML-stack tools to accomplish the above is > acceptable, I could certainly look into setting such a system up. > > What kind of consistency checks should it do?
I think the most important one would just be syntax checking -- making sure the snippets are syntactically correct. If you could make this accessible as a Web service, I would totally hook this into my checkin script so that it could automatically verify my IDL blocks at the same time as I check the HTML markup, cross-references, etc. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
