On Tue, Jun 28, 2011 at 6:41 PM, Jeffrey Pfau <jp...@apple.com> wrote: > See responses inline: > > On Jun 28, 2011, at 6:26 PM, Adam Barth wrote: > >> A question and a comment: >> >> 1) Will this let us to remove the code for both the libxml2 and the >> QtXml parsers? I'd certainly much rather have one XML parser than >> three. > > This won't replace libxslt or QtXmlPatterns for XSL-T, as they depend on the > respective XML libraries. The goal for this XML parser is to be able to > replace the core XML parser itself. XSL-T support would have to come later. > >> 2) One thing we found very helpful in working on the HTML parser was a >> good test suite. Presumably there are existing XML parsing test >> suites. You might consider landing one (or more) of these test suites >> as a first step. >> >> Adam > > I know that W3C provides a test suite, but it's probably not that > comprehensive. I can try to find more online; I'm sure that some of the open > source projects like libxml2 provide some.
Actually, the XML test suite [1] is quite good and provides about 3058 tests (just checked). It is maintained by the XML Core working group. If you find something insufficient, I suggest you contact them or post on the mailing list for the test suite. Having written an XML parser before, I'd be happy to help in your endeavor. I had started to look into this myself but got distracted by other things. [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/ -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
