Re: Tin Man Design Question 10 - more thoughts

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

At 01/02/06 21:39 -0500, David_Marston@lotus.com wrote:
>Here is one of the issues identified in my message titled "Test Case
>Markup & Cataloging, Tin Man edition" that I sent to this list on
>12/1/2000:
>10. Extent to which we specify how to set external
>     parameters, when applicable
>
>We decided to hold this one in a state of suspension at our 1/9
>meeting. The Iron Man document will reflect the ideas below just to
>have something in there, but I don't want you to think that I'm
>decding this unilaterally.
>
>"The most flexibility is achieved by requiring a separate file that has
>name/type/value entries, like an old .INI file with enhancements. It
>would be up to the test lab, possibly with OASIS guidance, to determine
>how to extract the values from the file and present them to each XSLT
>processor." We'll presume a file named <Source>.ini for the time being.

Can we use an XML file for this information?

>This will be an extra file to be marshalled prior to running the test,
>hence it will be an entry in the input-file element.

Sounds like an XSLT script with method="text" customized by the lab for the 
environment they are using.  We could supply an example for their 
customization.

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


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