Re: [docbook-apps] ANNOUNCE: DocBook XSL-NS Stylesheets 1.74.2 released

[Tony Graham <Tony.Graham@MenteithConsulting.com>]

On Fri, Feb 20 2009 15:19:49 +0000, davep@dpawson.co.uk wrote:
> Tony Graham wrote:
>
>> There are many open source tools available for testing, as you well
>> know.  Even the FO processing can be tested [2].  I don't know of any
>> open source continuous-integration tools, but they probably exist, and
>> at least one of the commercial tools is free for open source [1].
>
> do you have any experience with jetbrains Tony?
> It's not something I've come across at all.

I did my first TeamCity configuration just this morning, which is why it
was on my mind.

> The other side of this is the applicability to XSLT? It is an odd beast :-)

You would set up something like it such that whenever the stylesheets
changed, the build tool checks out the latest version, builds whatever
needs building, then runs the tests associated with the code.

That sort of thing works best when the build tool and testing framework
are well-known enough that the continuous integration tool has hooks to
work well with them and be smart about using their output.  Your
favourite, Ant, and JUnit are possibly the best known and most widely
supported, but there are other options.

And there are XSLT testing frameworks that work with JUnit.  Juxy [3] is
one, which is how I got onto TeamCity, since Juxy is included in the
TeamCity demo site and I had Juxy ownership thrust upon me after I
submitted an XML format for Juxy tests.

Regards,


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>> [1] http://www.jetbrains.com/teamcity/buy/buy.jsp#openSource
>> [2] http://xmlroff.org/wiki/TestingModule

[3] http://juxy.tigris.org/