Re: Re: PULL Parser in PHP

Alek,

perhaps we could use a list of parser position descriptions as a simple
conformance test?

Best,
Stefan


Aleksander Slominski wrote:
 > Luis Argerich wrote:
 >
 >
 >>Do you have a textual description or somilar so I can
 >>translate the test cases to PHP ?
 >
 >
 > hi,
 >
 > the idea behind junit conformance tests for XMLPULL API
 > is to check that different implementations of API will produce
 > the same results - when they pass tests we document it on the webpage:
 > http://www.xmlpull.org/impls.shtml - it gives user some assurance
 > that they can switch to different implementation and their code
 > will still work.
 >
 > unfortunately test code itself is the only documentation but i believe
 > it should be easy to read and has this advantage that there is only
 > one representation to maintain (no need to keep test documentation
 > in sync and if it gets out of sync it is even worse than no 
documentation).
 > anyway let me know if you  have doubts and i will try to help you.
 >
 >
 >
 >>I'm fixing the first bug of the unreleased parser :-)
 >>it's nice.
 >
 >
 > the real nice thing about unit testing that you can do modifications
 > to your implementation and run tests to verify that this change had
 > no visible side effects :-)
 >
 > alek
 >
 >


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