On 17/07/11 19:16, Brion Vibber wrote: > Output comparisons can be a tricky business, but it'll be an important > component. I've started on a CLI batch testing framework for the > JavaScript parser class (using node.js; in ParserPlayground/tests) that > can read through a Wikipedia XML dump and run round-tripping checks; > moving on to run HTML output and comparing against output from current > MediaWiki parser will be very valuable (though doing comparisons on HTML > is tricky!) > > -- brion
There's a rough script for comparing parsers in maintenance folder, but having one parser in php and the other in javascript, it can be hard to do well. Spawning a process for each article would be slow... Perhaps using the spidermonkey pecl extension [1]? 1- http://pecl.php.net/package/spidermonkey _______________________________________________ Wikitext-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitext-l
