Re: [xsl] Friday challenge: XSLT thats creates XPaths for meaningfully equivalent comparisons of XML files

["bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx>]

>  There are even such people, according to whom the following are different:
>
>     <someElement/>
>
> and
>
>     <someElement></someElement>

Yes, I've ran into my share but it seems to me, from the XML spec,
that they are wrong.

> 2. What is even more important, even if all issues described in 1.
> above have been solved/agreed-upon, the fact that the result of an
> XSLT 2.0 transformation is the same as the result of an XSLT 1.0
> transformation of a given document *does not guarantee* that the two
> transformations will have the same result when applied on another xml
> document.
>
> To put it in other words, the proposed tool will be effective in
> showing that two transformations do not produce the same results, but
> it cannot be used in ascertaining that two transformations will always
> produce the same result.


I guess what one needs is the following:

1. a suite of test instances

2. a bayesian reasoner that tells us what the chance is of a transform
1 and transform 2 outputting the same output from the same input.


Cheers,
Bryan Rasmussen