[xslt-conformance] Spreading the Work

[Lofton Henderson <lofton@rockynet.com>]

Ken et al,

Some background and a question...

Background.

Lest you or some other TC members start to get questions about the TC work 
from unexpected directions, I should let you know that I have been 
evangelizing.  Well, not exactly ... but wearing my W3C QA hat, I have been 
both working towards a conformance framework "primer" document, and 
advising at least one group about how to get started on its test suite project.

In the latter category is UAAG.  In both cases, I consider our genericized 
XSLT processes and framework to be one of a very few good approaches -- 
comprehensive, end-to-end, and reasonably automatable -- that can be looked 
at and even picked up (in parts or in whole) by others.

Question.

The question was asked, "can we borrow from the XSLT work?"  My opinion 
was, "not a problem".  This seems implied by section 2.1 on our home page 
(which btw has a dead link on "completed products").

But I said that I'd verify that the XSLT TC has no problems with it.  I 
have indicated that a first "pilot" public release is pending (I hope this 
was also okay), aimed at progressing toward the assembly of the XSLT suite.

Btw, one thing that is particularly appealing to UAAG is our handling of 
discretion.  UAAG 1.0 (CR draft) has a conformance space where optionality 
or discretion is pervasive, for how UAs may meet 
checkpoints/guidelines.  Therefore, they were pretty keen on the concept of 
per-UA customizable suites, to match the particular accessability solutions 
chosen by the individual UAs.

-Lofton.

Bit of exchange with Ian, W3C team contact for UAAG...

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>Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2001 16:12:18 -0400
>From: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>
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>Lofton Henderson wrote:
> >
> > [...] I intend to email the TC and inform them of my ad-hoc
> > speaking on the TC work.  I'll invite any comments about others borrowing
> > the work. -LH.
>
>Tell them we intend to steal heavily from them. ;)
>
>  _ Ian
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