OASIS (the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information
Standards) has a number of technical committees, currently under the
direction of the CTO Norbert Mikula of DataChannel.
One of the technical committees is XML Conformance, chaired by Mary Brady
of NIST (who brought the XML Conformance Test Suite to reality).
At the OASIS meetings co-located with the X-Tech conference in San Jose,
there will be a meeting of a new subcommittee under the XML Conformance
technical committee looking at XSLT conformance. The venue is probably
going to be Wednesday afternoon March 1 at the Hilton.
Input from the XSLT user community is being sought:
(1) - do you have a set of XSLT test files that can be included in the
test suite? (if used, the test files are identified in the suite as being
yours)
(2) - can you articulate any specific needs you have from an XSLT
conformance test methodology and suite of test files?
(3) - if you are an employee of an OASIS member company, can you directly
participate in the committee work? (if so, please find your OASIS
representative and let them know, and please let us know if you plan to
attend the meeting in San Jose)
The objectives of this first meeting are to examine the inputs available
from the community, determine needs and objectives, establish a list of
deliverables from the subcommittee, assign roles and responsibilities to
subcommittee members, and initially explore approaches to meeting the
deliverables.
The XML conformance committee work in the past, a joint effort by NIST and
OASIS (particularly with a lot of input from OASIS member Sun
Microsystems), resulted in the publication of the "XML Conformance Test
Suite" including over a thousand test files from different sources
catalogued and documented. NIST and Sun separately developed a test
harness, outside the purview of OASIS, for utilizing the test suite.
I anticipate a similar situation for XSLT: a report separate from an
example testing harness (this way the report can be used stand-alone or in
conjunction with test harnesses developed by others).
Short submissions can be sent to me by email using:
xsltconf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Long submissions can be sent to me by FTP using a write-only public
directory (please also notify us through the above address that something
is available, as the directory is not often checked):
ftp://ftp.CraneSoftwrights.com/incoming
We can't do as good a job without *your* input ... we look forward to
hearing from you!
............. Ken
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G. Ken Holman
Crane Softwrights Ltd.
OASIS Contributor Member
http://www.oasis-open.org
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