Correspondence re: XPath test suite

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

Hello all,

Please find below correspondence from Bob McWhirter who is interested in a 
suite of XPath tests outside the context of XSLT.  So far in our thinking 
we've only addressed XPath tests within XSLT ... let's talk at our next 
meeting about how we might accommodate stand-alone XPath processors.

.............. Ken

>Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2000 18:17:07 -0400 (EDT)
>From: bob <bob@accurev.com>
>Subject: XPath conformance testsuite?
>:
>:
>I'm curently working on (about 90% done) an XPath processor for the JDOM
>(www.jdom.org) package.
>
>If you're interested:
>
>   http://code.werken.com/xpath/
>
>My main question is, does there currently exist, in any form, a partial
>or complete conformance testsuite for XPath processors?  I guess I'm
>looking for input .xml files, xpath-exprs, and suspected output to
>compare against.
>
>I'd rather not spend money (werken.xpath is BSD/Apache licensed, so I'm
>not making any money on it), but if need be, I reckon I could join Oasis,
>or whatever is needed, in order to access it.
>
>         Thanks for your time and information,
>
>         -Bob McWhirter


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