RE: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-18 Thread Matthias Fischer
. Matthias Fischer -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:49 AM To: Matthias Fischer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents) [...] In the meantime, I'd encourage users that find

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-18 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Tuesday 18 December 2001 09:59, Matthias Fischer wrote: Right now, I have a pice of code I would contribute. It would be useful, if there were an alternative e-mail address to that of the list, to collect the submitted code segments. ok, right now we don't have an alternative address

RE: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-18 Thread Matthias Fischer
(big fat list vs. live test documents) ok, right now we don't have an alternative address available. I suggest that you post your code to the list, inline (not as an attachment) with [TESTDOC] in the subject line (I hope I'm not breaking an existing convention here). We can then find it easily

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-17 Thread Keiron Liddle
visited the site. Matthias -Original Message- From: Carmelo Montanez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 8:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matthias Fischer Subject: Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents) Hi all

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Monday 17 December 2001 09:07, Matthias Fischer wrote: What are _your_ plans with regard to the material offered by W3C/Carmelo? As mentioned by Keiron (see http://xml.apache.org/fop/testing.html), the current FOP tests are based on automatically comparing the ouput of two FOP revisions.

RE: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-17 Thread Matthias Fischer
Thank you, Bertrand. -Original Message- From: Bertrand Delacretaz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 9:49 AM To: Matthias Fischer; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents) [...] In the meantime, I'd encourage users

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-14 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Friday 14 December 2001 10:05, Matthias Fischer wrote: However, you won't escape big maintenance so easily: Right - maintaining such a test suite is not light work. The advantage over pure documentation, however, is that both users and developers directly benefit from having strong test

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-14 Thread Carmelo Montanez
Hi all: Regarding the FO test suite. We at NIST in conjunction with the W3C Developed a test suite for FO. The site is: www.w3.org/Style/XSL/TestSuite/ We are also working on expanding that work to include ALL of the basic aspects of the language. We expect to have close to 5000 tests

Re: Basic aspects (big fat list vs. live test documents)

2001-12-13 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
On Thursday 13 December 2001 15:35, Matthias Fischer wrote: . . . My whish to Santa Clause this year: A big fat list containing all major graphic formats and the FO/FOP-related aspects that concern them. . . . I'm skeptical: to me big fat list means big maintenance work and usually