Re: [staf-users] extending stax DTD or otherwise having stax coexist with other XML tags

[Sharon L. <lu...@us...>]

As you noted, the <function-prolog>, <function-epilog>, descriptions for 
function arguments, etc elements are there so that you can create fully 
documented testcases using the STAXDoc tool. 

However, you can also write STAX service extensions to define additional 
elements.  This is described in the STAX Extensions Developer's Guide at 
http://staf.sourceforge.net/current/staxdg.html.  This document describes 
how you create extensions for STAX.  Extensions to the STAX service can be 
written which define new elements that can be used in a STAX xml file. 
STAX service extensions are specified when registering the STAX service 
and the STAX DTD is dynamically generated when the STAX service is 
registered such that it includes the new elements.

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Sharon Lucas
IBM Austin,   lu...@us...
(512) 838-8347 or Tieline 678-8347




Nathan Parrish <npa...@sp...> 
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[staf-users] extending stax DTD or otherwise having stax coexist with 
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I am in the fantastic position of starting from a greenfield to build out 
test infrastructure, and am pretty excited about what I can do with 
STAF/STAX (I evaluated it a year back at a previous position, but 
transitioning from the extant (crap) infrastructure was infeasible).  I 
would love to be able to integrate STAF/STAX with testcase management, 
including things like having automated testruns automatically recording 
pass-fail results into a database.  automatic recording of results seems 
indubitably doable, but I'd like to go one further and actually have 
testcase definition and implementation coupled into a single entity, i.e. 
an XML document which contains both a description of the testcase 
(coverage, hardware requirements, other classification) and the actual 
test definition in terms of a stax task. 
my question is whether there is an existing way to embed additional tags 
into a stax xml file (I know I could just hide stuff in a <!-- --> 
comment, but that creates problems sending the file through a standard XML 
processor).  it seems like the <function-prolog> and staxdoc stuff points 
in the direction I want to go, but really I'd like to define an entity 
under, say <testcase>.  another thought is creating a larger document that 
incorporates both the descriptive element and the stax element, and write 
some wrapper that extracts the stax element before submitting it. 
thanks in advance for any ideas or pointers in the right direction,
nathan

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