Re: [Perlunit-users] Fw: Re: Generate HTML reports from unit test results

[Roger D. <rog...@gl...>]

As a lightweight alternative - and the easiest way forward - you can 
assoiciate a Cascading Style Sheet with an XML document and achieve the 
same result in most modern browsers.

OTOH, using the Perl Document Object Model API for XML documents will give 
you a tool which doesn't mean learning a whole new language. See the 
XML::DOM package 
http://search.cpan.org/~tjmather/XML-DOM-1.44/lib/XML/DOM.pm comes as 
standard with the ActiveState Perl and http://www.w3.org/DOM/.

Having used it a couple of times, I would regard the XSLT route as a last 
resort. I've heard that XSLT2 is even more of a pain to learn and use than 
XSTL1. Unless you are going to be doing XSLT full-time that is, for small 
projects scripting I think is best. Client-side xslt, the last I looked 
and this was a while ago, contained the vagaries of all browsers, and just 
as much hackery to cope with different implementations of XSLT parsers.

XSL subsumes XSLT, but is far more complex. Unless you're using this stuff 
for proper desktop publishing, I'd be very wary.

Roger

At 07/05/2006 00:28:27, per...@li... wrote:
>Somebody asked off-list about generating HTML reports from unit test
>results, possibly using Test::Unit::Runner::XML.  Here's the main part
>of my reply, in case it's of use to anyone else.
>
>[...]
>
>The two routes that spring to mind are
>
>- write XSL to transform the XML output to HTML
>
>- use the T:U:Runner::XML module as a template to generate HTML
>instead
>
>I suspect XSL would be easier if you were familiar with both XSL and
>Perl, and anyway it's a handy tool to know.  From Perl, you can run
>xsltproc as a subprocess or go via XML::XSLT.  Another route would be
>to get the web browser to do the XSLT for you - that would be the
>neatest solution.
>
>http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=client-side+xslt looks promising but
>the w3schools link advocates use of ActiveX.  I would try
>http://www.digital-web.com/articles/client_side_xslt/ .
>
>This route probably needs less maintenance and also you may find parts
>of the Ant(?) project already have something because some of the Java
>folks are keen on XSL too.
>
>Then again if you just want to hack something together and make it
>work it may be easier to start with Andrew's perl module.
>
>[...]
>
>I guess either solution is about the hundred lines of code mark...
>
>[...]
>
>
>Matthew  #8-)
>
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