Re: [openvrml-develop] request for comments : a perl module foropenvrml

[Braden M. <br...@en...>]

On Fri, 2001-09-28 at 01:35, Clayton Cottingham aka drfrog wrote:
> 
> this is true xml and vrml parsing are way different
>  but i should be able to give designers
> a way to test their code against openvrml for syntax errors without
> nessicarily having openvrml running on their machine
> -or for testing aganst diff versions!
> -or maybe for running/autmoating against nist tests for instance?

Well, as I've said, OpenVRML just emits its errors to stderr. A CGI
script should be able to intercept this and put it on a Web page.

Since the NIST tests tend to require visual inspection, I don't think
they can be automated.

> cool basically at this point if i could get yay
> or error line X 
> or illegall node / field yadda
> id be happy!

You have that in the stderr output. Except that there is currently a bug
with our line number reporting.

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