RE: [xml] libxml questions

["Jain, Nilesh" <nilesh jain intel com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 3:07 PM
> To: Jain, Nilesh
> Cc: xml gnome org
> Subject: Re: [xml] libxml questions
>
> On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:34:08AM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Daniel Veillard [mailto:veillard redhat com]
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 02:34:48PM -0700, Jain, Nilesh wrote:
> > > > No, I got it.. its working.. but the oldest tarball I see there is
> > > > 2.6.20 so having problem running against the libxml2 which is
> > currently
> > > > shipped with the distro, most of them are still on 2.6.17... and
no
> > test
> > > > tarball available for that..  Are these test forward compatible I
> > mean
> > > > can I run 2.6.17 test against 2.6.22 libxml2?
> > >
> > >  it probably won't work:
> > >    - because the API extended
> > >    - because testing schemas regression tests on older releases
won't
> > >      work either.
> >
> > Can you help me understand why schemas regression tests won't work on
> > older release. Is it because of schema change.. or something else.
>
>  Incredibly hard to implement fully.

Is there any design/architecture document on external/internal
regression test cases.. I would like to understand the what
functionality these test cases test? if it is something we should have
for distro to confirm the ABI.. then want to understand the
architecture/structure so that I will be able to integrate with LSB
runtime test suite.

Thanks,
Nilesh