XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Wolfgang Hoschek <whoschek AT lbl.gov>]

On Aug 23, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Elliotte Harold wrote:


> Wolfgang Hoschek wrote:
>
>
> > Interesting. I encourage you to take this further. For example,  
> > have  you plugged this into some kind of test driver? For example,  
> > take a  few thousand weird documents from all sorts of publicly  
> > downloadable  testsuites, run them through both your Stax Builder  
> > and the normal  XOM Builder, produce canonical XML from them, and  
> > compare results for  equality. See what happens...
>
> I don't think you'd even need to bother with canonical XML.  
> XOMTestCase should be able to compare the documents directly, and  
> might even pick up a few bits canonical XML throws away  
> (particularly the DOCTYPE declaration). The results should be  
> illuminating.

Fine.

BTW, Dan, if you're interested, here are some downloadable test  
document collections to get started:

- XML conformance test suite http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/#releases
- XInclude conformance test suite http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/XInclude/ 
#releases
- XML Query Test Suite (XQTS) http://www.w3.org/XML/Query/test-suite/.
- XOM test suite http://www.xom.nu/
- Apache Batik (SVG) http://xml.apache.org/batik/
- XBIS http://xbis.sourceforge.net/
- Nux http://dsd.lbl.gov/nux/

Wolfgang.