From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mah@everybody.org (Mark A. Hershberger) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Cbecking xml.el against the Conformance Tests Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 10:30:32 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <877jtd8d87.fsf@weblog.localhost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1089391863 4229 80.91.224.253 (9 Jul 2004 16:51:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:51:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 09 18:50:52 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BiyaJ-0004Pu-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:50:51 +0200 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BiyaJ-00055n-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:50:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BiycU-0007gh-EY for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:53:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiycM-0007gc-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BiycL-0007gQ-SZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:52:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BiycL-0007gN-Nq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:52:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Biya8-0000Tg-2r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 12:50:40 -0400 Original-Received: from root by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Biya4-000313-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:50:38 +0200 Original-Received: from 24.152.207.156 ([24.152.207.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:50:36 +0200 Original-Received: from mah by 24.152.207.156 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 09 Jul 2004 18:50:36 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.152.207.156 X-URL: http://mah.everybody.org/weblog/ User-Agent: Gnus/5.110003 (No Gnus v0.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RDvW84ZaDR6QC+r0zMlLOaYkUPk= X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25560 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25560 In order to get something closer to a true XML parser in xml.el, I'm testing xml.el against the XML Conformance Tests (http://www.w3.org/XML/Test/). The first order of business was getting xml.el to understand entity declarations in the DOCTYPE as these are used extensively in the Conformance Tests. If you are interested in the development of xml.el, could you help me check these code changes? I've already shaken out quite a few bugs. Mark. -- A choice between one man and a shovel, or a dozen men with teaspoons is clear to me, and I'm sure it is clear to you also. -- Zimran Ahmed