Re: [Xmlunit-general] XMLUnit2 Updates

[Stefan B. <bo...@ap...>]

On 2009-06-08, Maxim Filimonov <tpa...@gm...> wrote:

> Hi Stefan.I'm thinking more about xslt processors there a couple of them,
> but for validation huh.

Currently I don't plan to do more WRT XSLT than providing the inut
builder method that applies a transformation to a different source.

> Ok can you give me you next planned steps to be clear what i can
> start to implement?

API-wise I'd probably look at XPath next since the difference engine
is a complex beast and I'd like to feel my way around it first.

>From the implementation POV validation isn't really done, yet.  The
"old" XMLUnit validation code can do a few tricks we don't support in
XMLUnit2 for now:

* user specified resolvers for entities and/or URIs.  This is
  important IMHO, we need to figure out a nice API for it, though.  A
  setter or two might be enough, not sure.

* validation against a DTD for documents with no DOCTYPE declaration
  at all or even against a different DTD than the one of the DOCTYPE.
  Not sure how many people use the feature, but I'd like to at least
  keep the DOCTYPE-less use-case.

* tests

* some minor API details like the type of exception we want to throw
  if the user uses validateSchema on a DTD (we don't know how to do
  that).

Stefan