On 9/27/11 11:42 AM, Darran Lofthouse wrote:
The topic of how to validate the XML parsers or the schemas crops up
every now and again.
I have been having a couple of ideas of how we could at some point look
into this: -
http://community.jboss.org/docs/DOC-17243
The proposed idea actually covers two parts: -
- A wrapper around the existing API that allows the parsers to just
request the elements / attributes they require and leave the wrapper to
handle all the error handling we currently have distributed across the
parsers.
- This then allows us during testing to validate that the calls match
the structure defined in the schema.
I may try prototyping something other the weekend but thought I would
put this out there and see if anyone has any thoughts / comments.
Hmm while I like the idea of better error reporting, I worry that the
mechanism to test schema correctness is going to be very involved.
Are you sure it's not easier to just write a few test cases for each parser?
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Jason T. Greene
JBoss AS Lead / EAP Platform Architect
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