Re: [oiic-formation-discuss] Deliverable: odf-diff?

[Sander Marechal <s.marechal@jejik.com>]

marbux wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Sander Marechal wrote:
>> It would help ODF application and tool developers
>> to get better conformance and interop. We'd be able to check if two
>> applications produce the same document (given the same data). We could
>> integrate it into an application's automated regression test suite.
>> Etcetera.
> 
> At least with elements attributes, just about every conformance is
> already tested by validation against the schema after all foreign
> elements are removed. The only thing remaining that doesn't have a
> test is the small bits of the conformance section relating to the
> processing of foreign elements and attributes in specific situations.

This thread is about testing if two documents are the same. It's not
about testing conformance to the spec. There's a huge gap between the two.

-- 
Sander Marechal