test suite

["Lauren Wood" <lauren@textuality.com>]

On 28 Jun 2004 Adam Di Carlo wrote:

> 
> I feel pretty strongly that before we push further for standardization
> of the catalog specification we need a test/validation suite.  I mean,
> even if its just textual rather than code, such as, 'given catalog
> entry like this: XXX', entity resolution logic able to resolve this
> reference'.

I think this sounds like a good idea. Do you have some cycles for it? 

> I think we could use this to deprecate more strongly what Norm pointed
> out, the broken implementations floating around.
> 
> I'm unclear -- are there any pending things in the spec itself which
> we know are ambiguous or incorrect or missing?

Not that I know of. Although if empirically some people are doing the 
wrong thing, then *something* is being misinterpreted. A test suite 
would help here, I agree.

Lauren