Re: kofficetests validation

On Tuesday 09 November 2010, Jos van den Oever wrote:
> To be clear, Chanis mail was not about the fact that koffice saves files as
> invalid ODF in about 5% of the cases.
Ok.

> The question was, what to do about
> the fact that many of the files in kofficetests seem to be invalid ODF. Do
> we want to fix them? Chani is currently roundtripping files with ODFKit
> from zip to flat back to zip and checking that the files do not lose
> information or become invalid. Since many are invalid to begin with the
> size of the useful pool of documents is smaller than it could be.
I am not sure if I follow you here... Why is loading an invalid document a 
problem ? (or testing loading such a document) Unless you are interested in a 
set of documents where you could check "load document_A; save document_B; test 
document_A == document_B" ?

But then we could just have two categories, valid document, invalid. I am just 
saying that because, my understanding is that kofficetests countains many 
"real world" document. If it is documents crafted to test a specific 
bug/feature, then making the document valid might be a good thing (unless you 
are interested in a bug that appears with invalid document), but transforming 
a "real world" document to be valid seems wrong to me.

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Cyrille Berger Skott