RE: early version of the XML Query Test Suite

There is no serialization mandated that can produce such a result. The
way to test for the type of the result is to use instance of.

Best regards
Michael

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of
> Xavier Franc
> Sent: Monday, August 15, 2005 2:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: Andrew Eisenberg; [email protected]
> Subject: Re: early version of the XML Query Test Suite
> 
> 
> I welcome this initiative; this sounds a very desirable and useful
tool.
> 
> 
> However I am a bit concerned by what seems to me a defect of the
suite:
> The expected result items are apparently not typed (except when they
are
> nodes).
> 
> A consequence is that checking results can be imprecise:
> For example, a test like
>   (XQuery/Expressions/FLWORExpr/ForExprType/ForExprType010.xq)
> 
> for $num as xs:decimal in ...
> return $num
> 
> has a corresponding result file looking like this:
> 
> -100000000000000000 -10000000000000000 -1000000000000000 ...
> 
> Then how can we be sure whether the type of items
> is actually xs:decimal and not for example xs:integer ?
> This is just an example, there are probably many possibilities
> of ambiguity.
> 
> I think it would be better if results were presented in a form like
> hereafter,
> where each result item is labelled with its expected type.
> 
> <result-items>
> <item type="xs:decimal">-100000000000000000</item>
> <item type="xs:decimal">-10000000000000000</item>
> <item type="xs:decimal">-1000000000000000</item>
> ...
> </result-items>
> 
> 
> This is probably not needed for all tests, but there could be an
> additional "comparator" that would take this kind of format as input.
> 
> 
> 
> >The XML Query Working Group and the XSL Working Group would like to
> >announce the availability of an early version of the XML Query Test
Suite
> >(XQTS) at http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/.
> >
> >
> >
>